Best 40 Animated Movies of All Time

Animation is a one of the best way to make movie.With animation Filmmakers are not bounded by any physical laws of the Earth, so their characters can do incredible things.Animated movies can show you the worlds that can only be imagined And as technology more advance every day and animated movies are getting easier to make. Many Computer animation movies had made in top 50 best list of IMDb. Pixar first started the whole computer animated movie business with their ground breaking movie in 1995 was Toy Story. So, if you're looking for a movie that you can watch with kids,then you watch some animated movie.
Here our Best 40 Animated Movies of All Time:

1.Zootopia

IMDb Rating: 8/10 (over 504k votes)
Release Year:2016
Duration: 1h 48m
Director: Rich Moore, Byron Howard

Zootopia Is One of the best animated to watch because of all characters is brilliant specially The slow mottion moment,it was so funny I cantstop laughing.Judy Hopps It's a Great Hero that saved an entire city. This movie has such great moments of racism and life lessons. we think it's the best computer animated Disney movie ever.There's nothing like you've ever seen with this amazing heart touching Disney movie.

2.Wall-e

IMDb Rating: 8.4/10 (over 1.1M votes)
Release Year:2008
Duration:1h 38m
Director:Andrew Stanton

WALL-E is the best CGI movie of all time.The movie is about 700 years in the future, Where a city of skyscrapers rises up from the land. A closer view reveals that the skyscrapers are all constructed out of garbage, neatly compacted into squares or bales and piled on top of one another. The movie is about WALL-E, the last of the functioning solar-powered robots. Story of the movie is on whole another level.

3.Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

IMDb Rating: 8.4/10 (over 537k votes)
Release Year:2018
Duration:1h 56m
Director: Peter Ramsey, Bob Persichetti, Rodney Rothman

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse is great animation of Spider-Man with extraodinary comedy,emotions and beautifully delivered the power of friendship and togetherness. The movie has a story line where multiple, parallel universes collide. The great aspect of this film is how it builds an emotional relationship with the audience in very less screen time.

4.Spirited Away

IMDb Rating: 8.6/10 (over 770k votes)
Release Year:2001
Duration:2h 5m
Director:Hayao Miyazaki

Spirited Away is a work of magic that you shouldn’t miss the movie to watch. It is an unforgettable, thrilling and enchanting anime movie.This is one of the best movie watch. Studio Ghibli is from Japan, and there are many movies from it like Howl’s Moving Castle, War Of The Fireflies, Whisper Of The Heart, and My Neighbour Totoro. You will definitely love Spirited Away if you are an anime fan. Even if you hate anime, you need to watch this masterpiece.

5.How to train your Dragon

IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 (over 746k votes)
Release Year:2010
Duration: 1h 38m
Director:Chris Sanders, Dean DeBlois

How to train your Dragon is one of a best movie to watch. It's such a beautiful, fun, heartwarming to watch .The movie has shown soft heart and the biggest empathy for the Dragon that I just can't help but fall in love with, not just the world they built but also, the connection each character has with each other.

6.Ratatouille

IMDb Rating: 7.5/10 (over 749k votes)
Release Year:2016
Duration:1h 55m
Director:Scott Derrickson

Ratatouille is a best animated movie produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. This is a very heartwarming, PG, happy-ending movies that families tend to watch together. This is movie about a young rat named Remy who dreams of becoming a chef.The rat lives in the sewers of Paris with his rat family, but his passion for cooking leads him to venture into the city, where he ends up in the kitchen of a famous restaurant. The movie was a commercial success with collection over $620 million worldwide and also won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2008.

7.Wreck-It Ralph

IMDb Rating: 7.7/10 (over 428k votes)
Release Year:2012
Duration:1h 41m
Director:Rich Moore

Wreck-It Ralph is a fantastic Disney Movie.We love how Ralph the main character is on a quest to prove that he can be good. He wins a medal from another arcade game and uses it to show his coolness but he realizes that he doesn't need a medal to prove he's a good person.

8.Kung Fu Panda

IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 (over 477k votes)
Release Year:2008
Duration:1h 32m
Director:John Stevenson, Mark Osborne

Kung Fu Panda will always be one of everyone favorite animated movies. This movie has it all great story, amazing characters and character arcs. This movie definitely an entertaining and fun and epic animated movie to watch.

9.Up

IMDb Rating: 8.3/10 (over 1M votes)
Release Year:2009
Duration:1h 36m
Director: Pete Docter

This movie was one of my favorites when I was growing up.In this movie two lovebirds getting married, and The Wife dying. Carl is such an amazing character, who would do absolutely anything to fulfill his dream of going to paradise falls with his wife Ellie. They were unfortunately unable to do that together due to real life problems, such as bills, car wrecks, Injuries and House replacement. During those life problems, they thought they are going to be pregnant with their first child, but after a few months,she is suffering a miscarriage and then we learned that she was now infertile. She falls into a deep depression soon after, so Carl shows his wife her old Adventure Book, reminding her of the promise that first brought them together, and they begin to plan a trip to Paradise Falls, as they had always wanted.

10.Despicable Me

IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 (over 552k votes)
Release Year:2010
Duration:1h 35m
Director:Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud

Despicable Me is not just a movie but a work of art and a masterpiece. The way the Gru, goes from a cold-hearted loner to a loving, caring father who would put his life on the line for his girls truly captures what life is all about that is family. In our opinion, Gru is the greatest character, not only in film but in fiction itself.

11.Frozen

IMDb Rating: 7.4/10 (over 630k votes)
Release Year:2013
Duration: 1h 42m
Director: Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee

Frozen is based on the fairy tale “The Snow Queen” by Hans Christian Anderson. This is one of the best musicals animated movie created by Disney.The casting and song is perfect as all the main character.

12.Big Hero 6

IMDb Rating: 7.8/10 (over 467k votes)
Release Year:2014
Duration: 1h 42m
Director:Chris Williams, Don Hall

Big Hero 6 great movie to watch with visuals and animation are absolutely stunning. The movie really feels you in for the first hour with the two brothers and an amazing showcase of technology and science. It has a great combination of humor and technology throughout the film that makes it a great to watch with family .

13.Inside Out

IMDb Rating: 8.2/10 (over 720k votes)
Release Year:2015
Duration:1h 35m
Director:Pete Docter

Inside Out idea behind the movie is amazing.In the movie has shown emotions of an eleven year-old girl named Riley are brought to life inside her head as they move from Minnesota to San Francisco. The voice casting in this film is amazing with Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Bill Hader and Mindy Kaling are terrific as Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust respectively.

14.Coco

IMDb Rating: 8.4/10 (over 515k votes)
Release Year:2017
Duration:1h 45m
Director:Adrian Molina, Lee Unkrich

Coco is a wonderful movie. I really love the message about bringing people together through music and family.Miguel and Mama Coco were able to bring music back because they realize that if they want to be a good family, they have to be good listeners.

15.The Croods

IMDb Rating: 7.2/10 (over 218k votes)
Release Year:2013
Duration: 1h 38m
Director:Kirk DeMicco, Chris Sanders

The Croods is incredibly funny animated movie with very heartfelt, sincere, and presents a very moralistic view about goals and braveness. belt, the sloth, was without a doubt a funny character to see and he's in fact a great wingman to eep and guy.

16.Toy Story

IMDb Rating: 8.3/10 (over 1M votes)
Release Year:1995
Duration:1h 21m
Director:John Lasseter

This movie is an absolute masterpiece. The humor in Toy Story is absolutely perfect. Comedic timing always on point and jokes that never get old every time you watch the movie.

17.The Incredibles

IMDb Rating: 8/10 (over 744k votes)
Release Year: 2004
Duration: 1h 55m
Director:Brad Bird

The Incredibles is one of favorite Pixar movies many grew up with.The story plot was splendid with lots of action, an incredible voice cast, and an incredible music score performed by Michael Giaachino.

18.Monsters, Inc

IMDb Rating: 8.1/10 (over 915k votes)
Release Year:2001
Duration:1h 32m
Director:Pete Docter

Monsters, Inc is one of favorite movies to watch because I was so entranced by all of the colorful monsters in the amazing monster world known as Monstropolis. The characters, the musical score, the song in the end, the story, the feelings, the intensity, the laughs, the truth behind the huge business of the whole city, everything about this film amazing. Mike and Sulley are yet another one of the most incredible and fearless pairs of best friends I've ever seen, sure they may seem a bit hesitant about a few new things they come across but they still march through them because they're best friends

19.Megamind

IMDb Rating: 7.3/10 (over 268k votes)
Release Year:2010
Duration: 1h 35m
Director:Tom McGrath

Megamind is one of best Suprhero/Sci-fi animated moovie of all time. In a storyline where the villain goes good, the former good guy usually becomes bad. But Metro Man is just tired of playing something he never wanted to be and quit. While it’s admittedly selfish it’s understandable, and you cannot fault him for finally thinking for himself.

20.Finding Nemo

IMDb Rating: 8.2/10 (over 1M votes)
Release Year:2003
Duration:1h 40m
Director:Andrew Stanton

Finding Nemo is one of the best 20 animated movie to watch. Marlin, a nervous and neurotic clownfish is heavily overprotective of his son Nemo, who only wants to explore the sea in its entirety. When Nemo gets caught by a scuba diver and taken away, it is up to Marlin to swallow his own fears and find Nemo. The ensuing search and rescue organized by the him is a mass effort by swimming and flying creatures of all sizes and personalities, such as a threesome of vegetarian sharks, a fish with short term memory and an aged turtle, all helping him realise the error of his ways in restricting himself to just his home.

21.The Boss Baby

IMDb Rating: 6.3/10 (over 129k votes)
Release Year: 2017
Duration:1h 37m
Director:Tom McGrath

The plot of this movie is not that great but the characters are outstanding. Boss Baby is everyone favorite character in the movie.

22.Hotel Transylvania

IMDb Rating: 7/10 (over 260k votes)
Release Year: 2012
Duration: 1h 31m
Director:Genndy Tartakovsky

Hotel Transylvania is a great animated movie to watch. The plot of this movie is average but the characters are amazing. Dracula accent is funny, Mavis has nice hair I guess but Johnny is the main character.

23.Monsters University

IMDb Rating: 7.2/10 (over 364k votes)
Release Year: 2013
Duration: 1h 44m
Director:Dan Scanlon

Pixar movies had produce many amazing animated movie,one of then is monsters university. This movie shows how Mike and sulley first met and it also shows their friends that they had in the past. This movie tells us a lot of things and it gave us a huge lesson to learn just like toy story would do.

24.Meet the Robinsons

IMDb Rating: 6,8/10 (over 102k votes)
Release Year: 2007
Duration:1h 35m
Director:Stephen John Anderson

Meet the Robinsons is another one of the greatest Disney movies ever made. This is a family movie. My favorite character in the entire Robinson family is Lazlo mostly because I just find him very charming and rather creative since he doesn't seem to touch the ground most of the time, but everyone else in the entire Robinson family I love so much and they even remind me of my family quite a bit.

25.Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

IMDb Rating: 6.9/10 (over 237k votes)
Release Year:2009
Duration: 1h 30m
Director:Phil Lord, Chris Miller

Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs is a great movie with unique storyline.This movie is based on the book of the same name by Judi & Ron Barrett, this underrated gem is the most tastingly delicious, zany, fast-paced food movie ever. I know Sony Pictures Animation isn't that great of a studio, but here they just proved that they can be as great as both Disney & Pixar . The idea of food falling down from the sky like rain is EXTREMELY wonderful, the characters are lovable.

26.Brave

IMDb Rating: 7.1/10 (over 416k votes)
Release Year:2012
Duration:1h 33m
Director: Brenda Chapman, Mark Andrews

Brave is One of a best animated movie to watch.The movie follows the adventurous journey of a young princess named Merida, who defies an ancient rule and unleashes chaos in her kingdom. Merida must use her bravery and archery skills to undo a beastly curse before it's too late. This movie won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature in 2013. Brave is great movie to watch in free time.

27.A Bug's Life

IMDb Rating: 7.2/10 (over 296k votes)
Release Year:1998
Duration: 1h 35m
Director: John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton

Bug's Life is amazing animated movie from last 1990s. The animation is one of new from that era, and love the story about Flick the ant living in a colony and constantly messing everything up, and all he wants to do is show the colony about what he wants to do to help.

28.Cars

IMDb Rating: 7.2/10 (over 428k votes)
Release Year:2006
Duration:1h 57m
Director:John Lasseter

Cars is yet another Disney masterpiece and deserves all the credit and appreciation that any Disney film should get, with everything this film has to offer with the characters, musical score, great songs including my favorite one from this film Life is a Highway, story, animation and amazing message about how there are more important things in life than winning.

29.The Lion King

IMDb Rating: 8.5/10 (over 1M votes)
Release Year:1994
Duration: 1h 27m
Director:Rob Minkoff, Roger Allers

The Lion King has been one favorite Disney animated movies of all time. This animated movie has best characters,story,music,plot,voice.This is a also family friendly movie.

30.Tangled

IMDb Rating: 7.7/10 (over 459k votes)
Release Year:2010
Duration: 1h 40m
Director:Nathan Greno, Byron Howard

Many believe Tangled is one of the greatest animated movies till date. The plot is an interesting, unique take on the original Grimm tale and blends a beautiful mix of fantasy, comedy, romance, horror, and realism together into an original fairytale. The voice actors are well-picked and did an great job delivering each character's personality and emotions properly.

31.Madagascar

IMDb Rating: 6.9/10 (over 409k votes)
Release Year:2005
Duration:1h 26m
Director: Tom McGrath, Eric Darnell

Madagascar is animated animal Zoo story movie from Madagascar. This movie has such nice characters like Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman who lived in their peaceful homes in Central Park Zoo. The animation, the music and the characters are fantastic for the whole family to enjoy.

32.Epic

IMDb Rating: 6.6/10 (over 106k votes)
Release Year:2013
Duration:1h 42m
Director:Chris Wedge

Epic is really an epic movie with epic characters.This movie has great message about that the natural world is extremely important and that it really is essential because it supplies us with all the natural resources we need to survive. The natural world produces the oxygen we need to survive which is the number one material we need to survive.

33.Moana

IMDb Rating: 7.6/10 (over 341k votes)
Release Year: 2016
Duration:1h 47m
Director: Ron Clements, John Musker

Moana is a phenomenal animated movie about a young girl that breaks the stereotypes and limitations of her culture and parents’ desires for her life in order to save her tribe. The movie follows her as she slowly gains the confidence to leave on a long journey across the sea to Te Fiti in order to save her people. On her journey, she ends up meeting Maui, a demi-god.

34.Storks

IMDb Rating: 6.8/10 (over 63k votes)
Release Year:2016
Duration: 1h 27m
Director:Doug Sweetland, Nicholas Stoller

Storks is one of a cuttest and funny animated movie. Storks is child's perspective friendly and family movie.

35.Onward

IMDb Rating: 7.4/10 (over 152k votes)
Release Year: 2020
Duration:1h 42m
Director: Dan Scanlon

Onward is a very special movie with beautiful message that everybody has lost someone in their lives but always has others to look up to.Amazing to see that creator has put more meaning into the movie by bringing people together instead of blowing things up. Chris and Tom did astounding in their roles because of similarities found between their characters and their own lives.

36.The Good Dinosaur

IMDb Rating: 6.7/10 (over 118k votes)
Release Year:2015
Duration:1h 33m
Director:Peter Sohn

The Good Dinosaur is great movie to watch with families. The visuals of the film are better than anything to ever come on animated films.

37.Soul

IMDb Rating: 8/10 (over 334k votes)
Release Year:2020
Duration:1h 40m
Director:Pete Docter

The message of the Soul animated movie is about how to appreciate yourself and to be happy about all the little moments in your life. Also do not hold a bad relationships and truly appreciate the gift of life that life is not about talent, it's about perseverance.Director puts more meaning into the movie by bringing people together instead of blowing them up.

38.Luca

IMDb Rating: 7.4/10 (over 166k votes)
Release Year:2021
Duration:1h 35m
Director: Enrico Casarosa

Luca is really enjoyble animated movie for all. It will took you back to the carefree days of your youth.

39.Turning Red

IMDb Rating: 7/10 (over 125k votes)
Release Year:2022
Duration:1h 40m
Director:Domee Shi

Turning Red is one of best recent animated movie to watch. The characters are some of the best written characters ever. The animation in the movie is the best in history and every movie should look like this.

40.Sing

IMDb Rating: 7.1/10 (over 174k votes)
Release Year:2016
Duration: 1h 50m
Director: Garth Jennings

Sing is a masterpiece,the characters interact. It shows many different points of view which causes young watchers and listens to be able to have better speech with people around that, also they can understand what people are saying easier.