A few that come to mind:
Princess Mononoke
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Stop-motion counts as animation, right?)
Ghost in the Shell
Whisper of the Heart
James and the Giant Peach
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Iron Giant for sure.
The Iron Giant
South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
Beavis and Butthead Do America
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Cats Don’t Dance
the Thief and the Cobbler
Fivel Goes West
the Rescuers From Down Under
Perfect Blue
Ninja Scroll
We’re Back!
“A Bug’s Life”
“Beavis and Butthead Do America”
“South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut”
“Toy Story”
“Toy Story 2”
And… one of my favorite guilty pleasures; “Bebe’s Kids.”
my favorites:
Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata)
Whisper of the Heart (Yoshifumi Kondo)
Ocean Waves (Tomomi Mochizuki)
The Wolf Brigade (Hiroyuki Okiura)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon)
She and her Cat (Makoto Shinkai)
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki)
most looking forward to:
Spring and Chaos (Shoji Kawamori)
Glassy Ocean (Shigeru Tamura)
Midori (Hiroshi Harada)
Who’s Left Behind (Seiji Arihara)
Princess Mononoke
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Iron Giant
Ghost in the Shell
Perfect Blue
I haven’t seen it, but I have been wanting to check out Kirikou and the Sorceress for a while now.
Also, am I the only person in the world that didn’t really care for the first Toy Story film? It seems that way sometimes.
The Iron Giant is also the first film that came to my mind, and I haven’t even seen it yet. I enjoyed The Rescuers Down Under, but I was 8 when it came out, so maybe child’s eyes or nostalgia factor in. Same goes with Fievel. All Dogs Go to Heaven came out in 1989, but I liked that one a lot.
@Captain: I liked the first Toy Story, but I really didn’t care for Toy Story 3. Oh, and then was apparently diagnosed as having no soul by every member of Facebook.
South Park, Toy Story 1-2, Perfect Blue
Princess Mononoke’s okay. I think they took shortcuts with their plotting. Nobody ever had a plan other than ‘Run into the enemy stronghold headlong and make righteous speeches’. Laaaazy plotting.
I like Toy Story 2-3 a lot more than 1.
Here are some 90s animated films I enjoyed. I’m not a huge fan of 90s Disney stuff, though.
Konec stalinismu v Cechách “The Death of Stalinism in Bohemia” (Jan Svankmajer / UK / 1990)
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (Phil Nibbelink, Simon Wells / USA / 1991)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick / USA / 1993)
Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers (Nick Park / UK / 1993)
Black Ice (Stan Brakhage / USA / 1994)
Der Kaktus (Franz Winzentsen / Germany / 1995)
Kôkaku kidôtai “Ghost in the Shell” (Mamoru Oshii / Japan / 1995)
Mimi wo sumaseba “Whisper of the Heart” (Yoshifumi Kondo / Japan / 1995)
Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave (Nick Park / UK / 1995)
Human Behavioural Case Studies (Adam Benjamin Elliot / Australia / 1996)
I Married a Strange Person! (Bill Plympton / USA / 1997)
Mononoke-hime “Princess Mononoke” (Hayao Miyazaki / Japan / 1997)
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon / Japan / 1997)
Shin seiki Evangelion Gekijô-ban: Shito shinsei “Neon Genesis Evangelion: Death & Rebirth” (Hideaki Anno, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki / Japan / 1997)
Jin-Rô “Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade” (Hiroyuki Okiura / Japan / 1998)
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird / USA / 1999)
I would like to add (if not listed yet):
Aeon Flux (TV)
Duckman (TV)
Whisper of the Heart
Porco Rosso
anything by Bill Plympton
Only Yesterday
Jan Svankmajer’s Faust (mixed)
Wow, totally forgot about Svankmajer. Faust or Conspirators of Pleasure would be fine choices.
Can’t stand Pixar myself. There movies just seem like 1 long chase scene after another.
There’s a LOT of animated 90’s films that I desperately need to watch (specifically certain anime), but out of the films that I’ve seen:
- Beauty And The Beast
- Aladdin
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Thief And The Cobbler
- The Lion King
- A Goofy Movie
- Toy Story
- Beavis And Butt-head Do America
- The Hunchback Of Notre Dame
- James And The Giant Peach
- Cats Don’t Dance
- The Prince Of Eygpt
- The Rugrats Movie
- The Iron Giant
- South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Toy Story 2
A lot of Bluth films have been mentioned so far, but one of my favourites as a child was Anastasia and I think it still holds up till now. Anastasia still is one of the more interesting female characters I’ve seen in animation.
I sorted my ratings by animation and release date on IMDB and ended up with this list of animated 1990-1999 movies I enjoyed.
Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
Fantasia 2000
FernGully: The Last Rainforest
The Iron Giant
James and the Giant Peach
The Junky’s Christmas
Linnea in Monet’s Garden
The Lion King
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Old Man and the Sea
Perfect Blue
Porco Rosso
Princess Mononoke
The Thief and the Cobbler
Wallace & Gromit in The Wrong Trousers
Wallace and Gromit in A Close Shave
Whisper of the Heart
Here are some others I either haven’t seen, but know enjoy a great reputation, or didn’t enjoy as much as the others.
Battle Angel
Jetsons: The Movie (Apparently not many people saw this since it never gets mentioned as one of the movies way too similar to Avatar. Just like people didn’t see Where the Green Ants Dream, which is obviously much better than the Jetsons movie.)
The King and the Mockingbird
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Mulan
It looks like quite a sound decade of animation to me. :)
Cody Hoskins
It’s hard to think of enough 90s cartoons that did that well or have gained a strong cult following other than the Disney films like Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, and The Lion King. Are there any non-Disney films that you really like? The ones that come closest to my mind are Fern Gully, Little Nemo, and The Prince of Egypt.
I feel that animation was really pigeon-held by Disney and Pixar during that decade and every other animated film made outside of that was averagely reviewed or lowly commercial. Films like The Pagemaster, The Swan Princess, Quest for Camelot, Thumbelina, The Pebble and the Penguin, A Troll in Central Park, Balto, and Once Upon A Forest have been sorely underrated and I haven’t watched them in a long time, which I guess shows how they haven’t held up good since my childhood. I personally think it’s because they’re simple kids’ entertainment but not enough that is pleasing for the adults, which is why the Disney films appealed more. They had very well-developed characters, well-paced stories, and good songs that they felt like classic Hollywood films in animation.What are some of your favorites from that era if I missed any?