🇯🇵 The 20 best anime movies of all-time Written by Trevor Johnston, David Ehrlich, Joshua Rothkoph, Tom Huddleston, Andy Kryza, Guy Lodge, Dave Calhoun, Keith Uhlich, Cath Clarke and Matthew Singer The movies on this list may make you feel like a kid again – but they may also blow your grown-up mind in ways you never expected. In composing this list of the greatest animated movies ever made, we polled Time Out writers and experts including Fantastic Mr Fox ’s Wes Anderson and Wallace and Gromit’ s Nick Park, and the results run the gamut, from from those Disney, Pixar and Ghibli no-brainers to stop-motion nightmares, psychedelic headtrips, illustrated documentaries and bizarre experimental features that are decidedly for adults only. They work on multiple levels, for broad audiences and age groups. It’s a magical experience you get from few other forms of entertainment.īut the best animated movies don’t just appeal to kids, nor childhood nostalgia. Ask any parent about the joys of early child-rearing and they’ll undoubtedly tell you about showing their kids a cartoon they loved as a young’un.

It’s a love most of us never never fully grow out of, either. No matter how highfalutin your taste in movies as an adult, chances are, your first cinematic obsession was an animation – whether it was a classic of Disney’s Golden Age or its ‘90s renaissance period, a Pixar heart-tugger or perhaps even a Studio Ghibli masterpiece. But for most kids, cartoons are where a love of movies often starts.

Cartoons aren’t just for kids, of course.

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