Animated movies made in the 90s

The '90s were truly a golden age for animated films. Disney ruled the box office with an iron fist, leading to a veritable avalanche of animated movies, created in hopes of usurping Disney from the throne. The rise of VHS allowed '90s kids everywhere to enjoy their favorite animated films over and over again, much to the displeasure of their parents. Still, as we grew older, we held onto most of our memories of these films, but there were a few we managed to forget along the way. Sure, every '90s kid remembers the big films like The Lion King and Mulan , but what about the more obscure films we all used to love? Our VHS collections weren't solely dominated by Disney films; there were also plenty of smaller, mostly forgotten films that we all wore out from repeat viewings.

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• The Best '90s Animated Movies That Didn't Come From Disney
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• The Animated Spinoffs That Rebooted ’90s Movies
• The 20 Best ‘90s Halloween Movies to Satisfy Your Nostalgia
• Best '90s Movies
• 10 Cartoons From the ‘90s that Should Make a Comeback
• 21 stars you probably didn't realize voiced characters in your favorite '90s movies

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The Best '90s Animated Movies That Didn't Come From Disney

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World-famous animators pick the best animated movies ever, including Disney and Pixar movies, cult movies, kids movies, stop-motion, anime and more. Now we know which are the best animation movies of all time.

But which are the best Disney movies and which are the best Pixar or Studio Ghibli films? Which are best for kids and families and which are strictly arty, political or edgy? But how many have you seen? Take our poll to find out. Miyazaki proves he has the heart of a child, the eye of a painter and the soul of a poet. Defining moment: The first appearance of the roving cat-bus will have viewers of all ages gasping in delight. Some filmmakers build their great artworks with blood, sweat and toil.

Japanese master Hayao Miyazaki seems to sprout his from seeds, planting them in good earth and patiently watering them until they burst into bloom. My Neighbor Totoro is the gentlest, most unassuming film on this list, a tale of inquisitive children, mischievous dust fairies, magical trees and shy sylvan creatures. But the cumulative effect is unique and utterly all-encompassing, returning us to a world we have all, at one time, lived in—and perhaps will again.

Director: No less than 11 directors slaved on individual sequences, many without credit. By the end of the s, Mickey Mouse, the bedrock character of a growing empire, had declined in popularity. While in postproduction on the short, Disney decided to surround it with similar vignettes scored to other classical compositions, and Fantasia was born. It is filled with many crossroads. Defining moment: Motorcycle gangs tear through the night destroying all in their wake—a scene that would give Mad Max chills.

To the nonfan dragged along for the ride, the movie felt a lot like Blade Runner and Brazil , featuring incredibly vivid details and attention paid to urban decay.

But Akira was also a watershed moment for sci-fi in a larger sense, popularizing ideas of citywide ruination, futuristic rebirth and a distinctly Asian notion of psionic powers that would influence everything from The Matrix to Inception.

The mutable setting of Neo-Tokyo anticipated the larger playground of the Internet, still years off but somehow of a piece with these youthful speed racers. Bill looks out at the water and thinks of all the wonderful things he will do with his life. Defining moment: In the epic finale, a stick hero is reborn into an ageless existence and learns all the secrets of the universe. The result is one of the great outsider artworks of the modern era, at once sympathetic and shocking, beautiful and horrifying, angry and hilarious, uplifting and almost unbearably sad.

Seek it out. Defining moment: A mother runs in terror cradling her child, only to be picked up and flung to the ground by a giant blue hand. No other animated feature looks like this, since planet Ygam and its weirdly wonderful inhabitants are drawn in a deliberately antique fashion, like some illustrated bestiary from before Columbus set sail. Defining moment: Floppy-haired Wiley Wiggins floats high above his suburban neighborhood, a black shape against the blue sky. Friends morph into banks of fluffy, chatting clouds; flirters launch words like love into earholes.

Amateur philosophizing was never so well-supported or flattered by its form. Yet for the most part, all footholds evaporated.

Waking Life was—and still is—a surreal invitation to cut loose. Hard to be a collegian feline in the city? Defining moment: Fritz gets handsy in a bathtub with at least three other animals. Bakshi cut his teeth at Paramount Pictures and in advertising for clients like Coca-Cola; he was no fool to the realities of commerce. Still, it took someone familiar with the game to break the rules so completely.

This anime film is a searingly intense mash-up of styles, genres and narrative techniques. Shot by that creep! Then I was sucked up to heaven. The plot starts as typically convoluted gangster fare, before the main characters are plunged Pinocchio-style into the belly of a whale to embark on an utterly bonkers journey of self-discovery. Though little actually happens, the film somehow keeps up a blistering pace, propelled by a string of flashbacks, hallucinations, near-death experiences and other surreal flights of fancy.

Throughout, the animation style shifts in accordance with the mood, even incorporating live actors at points. Disorienting on the first viewing, very funny on the second, and strangely moving on the third, this is bold, almost reckless filmmaking. Defining moment: A machine that allows you to play a game of tennis with a baby. Uncompromisingly experimental, U. Defining moment: Bellying up to the bar at the local saloon, Rango tells a whopper about killing seven outlaws with one bullet.

The sequels made them impossibly rich, yet that spirit of impulsive weirdness was something they wanted to recapture; it thrums through this computer-animated adventure, delightfully scuzzy in its dusty, Sergio Leone—esque locales.

Rango follows the arc of many classic Westerns, and speaks strongly to principles of self-respect and inner heroism. Thompson in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. A grubby New York City, a murderous cast of characters and plenty of off-color jokes—Walt would not approve. Defining moment: A Mafia boss slurps up a forkful of pasta, out of which tiny, helpless figures fall, shaken from the strands. No matter: There was nothing like it at the time. Defining moment: The opening scene moves from a surreal chase sequence to playback of the same dream images now stored on computer.

Soon the very fabric of reality tears when the addled psyches of the scientific team and investigating cop take physical form. Defining moment: The attack at the ford by Rotoscoped Black Riders is truly unnerving. The action scenes are genuinely gripping, especially the climactic battle. And most of all, the visual style is just glorious, from the ornate, convincingly twisted woods of Fangorn to those utterly unique Rotoscoped Ringwraiths.

Defining moment: Alice disappearing down the rabbit hole is only the beginning of the weirdness. It was subsequently a late-night favorite among the herbally assisted. Combining eerie Christian mysticism, awestruck pseudoscience and bleak realism, the book follows two put-upon schoolboys, Giovanni and Campanella, as they board the titular train to the stars and beyond.

But if their intention was to make the story more appealing to youngsters, they were way off. With its meditative pace, unstructured plotting, and rambling, often incomprehensible discourses on morality and mortality, this is about as kid-friendly as a morning in church.

For those with patience, however, it is a beautiful, frequently enlightening trip. It is unlike anything else in the world, ever, which makes this a must-see, though the sheer brutality with which Treeshaker, Stonecrumbler and Ironrubber press through the pit of Hell and back may make this just a bit too heavy-duty for sensitive younger viewers.

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We already have this email. Try another? My Neighbor Totoro Read more. Yellow Submarine The cartoon Beatles rampage through a psychedelic Pop Art dreamscape. Fantasia Akira A one-man masterpiece. Fantastic Planet Surreal social commentary in a Gallic animated sci-fi milestone. Waking Life Conversations swirl in a treatise on the need to stay curious.

Allegro Non Troppo Animation meets classical music in an Italian-style Fantasia. Fritz the Cat Mind Game Heaven and Earth Magic Wonderfully madcap earlys experimental piece. Director: Harry Smith Best quote: This is all about the imagery. Words are too pedestrian, man. Rango Heavy Traffic Paprika The Lord of the Rings Peter Jackson was only 17 when a brave filmmaker tackled Tolkien.

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The 's are widely considered the golden age for Disney animation, spawning classics like "The Lion King" and "Beauty and the Beast. At its best, "Pocahontas" is a pretty but uninspired addition to the Disney canon. At its worst, it's a distressingly misguided take on a historical conflict that borrows a few too many pages from "Dances With Wolves. Who would have thought that this follow-up to the animated series "Goof Troop" would out-class "Pocahontas" in ?

The Animated Spinoffs That Rebooted ’90s Movies

What the New Hollywood era did for movies, the Renaissance Age did for animation. Encompassing the late s and the s, the Renaissance Age of Animation had the medium see a significant increase in technical quality and finally returned to a point of artistic respect it had not seen since the Golden Age. The Renaissance age is usually considered to begin in the 80s , but it must be noted that for much of that decade, Western animation was still strangled by the Ghetto , plagued by a lack of artistic vision and pathetic budgets. Joe , My Little Pony , Jem , and ThunderCats ruled 80s television animation and had parents' groups up in arms about children watching glorified toy commercials, which were also strictly separated into shows for boys and shows for girls. That said, these colorful and often action-packed shows were nevertheless a major change of pace from the dull offerings of The Dark Age of Animation and were entertaining to their target demographics, which is demonstrated by the fact that several of them became major pop culture phenomena that are fondly remembered to this day. Less enduring but more common in 80s TV cartoons was the tendency to give live-action franchises Animated Adaptations. The Disney Animated Canon came close to ending for good when The Black Cauldron , intended to be the stunning debut of a new generation of animators, didn't impress just-arrived company executives, Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg. They recut it without the director's consent, and it proceeded to tank at the box office.

The 20 Best ‘90s Halloween Movies to Satisfy Your Nostalgia

The s were filled with animated movies from various studios, but these select films are either the best or the worst from the decade. Animated movies took perhaps their biggest technological leap in history in the s, as Pixar pioneered computer animation and produced Toy Story, the first ever fully computer-animated movie. The decade brought both undeniable masterpieces and shameful duds. The movie features the talent of Jennifer Aniston and Vin Diesel. Then, DreamWorks made Antz, a passable rip-off.

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Given how drugs alter the fabric of reality itself, animation may just be the perfect form to represent the effects they exert over the human mind. Needless to say, the singing and dancing animals that dominated the period which we now refer to as the golden age of cartoons constituted only the first attempt at figuring out what this new medium was truly capable of. In the decades that followed, animators from all over the globe devoted their careers, lives and, in some extreme cases, sanity to pushing its boundaries. Along the way, they naturally came up with sights normally reserved for those under the influence of some or other narcotic. Here are some of them. Fritz is an anthropomorphic feline and a pseudo-intellectual who goes to NYU with the pretension of becoming a poet, though he mostly spends his days looking for young women to seduce.

21 stars you probably didn't realize voiced characters in your favorite '90s movies

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Between movies like Ghost in the Shell and Perfect Blue, the 90s produced an incredible number of classic anime movies. Below, we have picked the best 90s anime movies in no particular order. If you feel like we got it wrong or missed one, let us know in the comments! When a fierce demon boar attacks Emishi village, Prince Ashitaka defends his tribe and pays the price.

My sister and I hoarded plastic dinosaurs like nothing else. We owned the first 10 movies and watched the TV series. I stan Littlefoot. It's my go-to feel-good film when I'm sad. Although I can quote most of the lines by heart, I truly appreciate and love El Dorado every time I watch it. Not to mention the music by Tim Rice and Elton John is phenomenal! My sister and I were obsessed with this movie as kids and watched it constantly.

There are still a few Disney classics, modern surrealist flicks from France, and existential shorts to suit every taste. Here are your best animated movie options currently streaming on Netflix. Lupin and his loyal sidekick Daisuke Jigen investigate the source of expertly crafted counterfeit money, a fictional European duchy that just so happens to be mired in its own drama involving an aristocratic villain bent on forcing a marriage to secure his inheritance of the throne. Woman respecter that he is, Lupin figures he can help out the princess while making off with as much of Cagliostro's fortune as he can.