#79

Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs

Released: 2009

Runtime: 1 hour 30 minutes

Rating: PG

Animation Style: highly stylized CG

Studio: Sony Pictures Animation

This is a movie I never saw until it came out on DVD and I was surprised how this was as entertaining as I found it.

Voice cast:  Bill Hader, Anna Faris, James Caan, Andy Samberg, Bruce Campbell, Mr. T, Benjamin Bratt, Al Roker, Will Forte, and Neil Patrick Harris.

#80

Rio

Released: April 15, 2011

Runtime: 96 minutes

Rating: G

Animation Style: hyper-realistic 3D computer animation

Studio: Blue Sky Studios

Voice cast:  Anne Hathaway, Jesse Eisenberg, Jemaine Clement, Leslie Mann, Carlos Ponce, Jake T. Austin, George Lopez, Wanda Sykes, Jane Lynch, Will.i.am, and Jamie Foxx.

#81

The Peanuts Movie

Released: November 6, 2015

Runtime: 1 hour, 28 minutes

Rating: G

Animation Style: hybrid style that brings Charles M. Schulz’s 2D comic strips to life in 3D CGI

Company: Blue Sky Studios/20th Century Fox

The classic Charles M. Schulz comic strip came to life in the Peanuts Movie. Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy etc. are iconic characters that worked in the movie.

Voice Cast: Noah Schnapp, Hadley Belle Miller, Marial Sheets, Bill Melendez, Francesca Capaldi, Alexander Garfin, Rebecca Bloom, Kristin Chenoweth, Noah Johnston, and Venus Schultheis

#82

Luca

Released: June 2021

Runtime: 95 minutes

Rating: PG

Animation Style: stylized, 2D-inspired, and painterly aesthetic

Company: Pixar/Disney

Luca is an underrated Pixar movie that was released on Disney + during the pandemic. Luca was forgotten by a lot of people but I think it deserved a better fate. Luca is a young sea monster who can change into a boy and come on land and meets some friends.

Voice cast:  Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, Emma Berman, Saverio Raimondo, Maya Rudolph, Marco Barricelli, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sandy Martin, Jim Gaffigan, and Peter Sohn.

#83

Monster House

Released: 2006

Runtime: 91 minutes

Rating: PG

Animation Style: live-action motion capture (performance capture) combined with 3D computer animation and included “path tracing” (a 3D software process used to make realistic shadows and lighting)

Studio: Sony Pictures Imageworks

The Halloween based movie was a lot of fun and filled with some excellent design.

Voice cast: Mitchell Musso, Sam Lerner, Spencer Locke, Steve Buscemi, Kathleen Turner, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kevin James, Nick Cannon, Jon Heder, Jason Lee, Fred Willard, Catherine O’Hara, and Ryan Whitney.

#84

K-Pop Demon Hunters

Released: June 20, 2025

Run time: 95 minutes

Rating: PG

Animation Style: stylized 2D/3D hybrid animation that blends anime aesthetics, Spider-Verse-style dynamic framerates, and real-life K-pop choreography.

I would not have guessed that this was a film that I would care about, let alone have on my Top 100 animated films of all time, but K-Pop Demon Hunters was surprisingly enjoyable and turned into a worldwide phenomenon on Netflix.

Voice cast: Arden Cho, May Hong, Ji-young Yoo, Ahn Hyo-seop, Yunjin Kim, Ken Jeong, Daniel Dae Kim, Lee Byung-hun, and SungWon Cho.

#85

Yellow Submarine

Released: November 13, 1968

Run Time: 90 minutes

Rating: G

Animation Style: psychedelic 1960s Pop Art- included a mix of traditional 2D cell animation, live-action photography, 3D cutout sequences, and kaleidoscopic rotoscoping.

The psychedelic Beatles classic from the 1960s based on their iconic song.

Voice Cast: Paul Angelis, John Clive, Dick Emery, Geoffrey Hughes, Lance Percival, The Beatles

#86

Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons

Released: October 18, 2022

Runtime: 80 minutes

Rating: PG-13

Animation Style: CGI-animation

The DC animated movies had been very successful over the years, though recently, they have not been as good the last few years. However, this one, featuring Jonathan Kent and Damian Wayne, is one of the best.

Voice Cast: Jack Dylan Grazer, Jack Griffo, Laura Bailey, Troy Baker, Darin De Paul, Tom Kenney, Nolan North, Zeno Robinson, Myrna Velasco, and Travis Willingham.

#87

Robin Hood

Release: November 21, 1973

Runtime: 83 minutes

Rating: G

Animation Style: xerography (xerox) animation style

It has been a long time since I have seen this movie, but I might go out on a line and say that this is the best version of Robin Hood ever to make the big screen. It was the first Disney animated film made after the death of Walt Disney.

Voice cast: Brian Bedford, Phil Harris, Peter Ustinov, Pat Buttram, Monica Evans, Terry-Thomas, Roger Miller, Carole Shelley, George Lindsey, Andy Devine, Ken Curtis, and (uncredited) Mel Blanc.

#88

Porco Rosso

Released: July 18, 1992

Runtime: 119 minutes

Rating: PG

Animation Style: hand-drawn 2D

Here is the first film from the EYG Hall of Fame studio, Studio Ghibli, from EYG HoF director Hayao Miyazaki. It is a story of a pilot in World War I who has been cursed by being turned into an anthropomorphic pig. Yup, a pig. It is surprisingly more deeper than you would think.

Voice cast: (English dubbing)- Michael Keaton, Cary Elwes, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Susan Egan, David Ogden Stiers, Tom Kenny, Brad Garrett, Bill Fagerbakke, Kevin Michael Richardson, and Frank Welker.

#89

Treasure Planet

Released: 2002

Runtime: 95 minutes

Rating: PG

Animation Style: 70% of the movie is traditional hand-drawn art, and 30% is computer animation.

Treasure Planet is one of the hidden Disney classics that many people have not seen. It flopped at the box office, but it is a tremendous film. Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, Treasure Island, the film featured characters based on Jim Hawkins and John Silver.

Voice cast: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brian Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson, Martin Short, Roscoe Lee Browne, Laurie Metcalf, Tony Jay, Peter Cullen, Jane Carr and Mike McShane.

#90

Flow

Released: November 22, 2024

Runtime: 85 minutes

Rating: PG

Animation Style: painterly 3D environments with stylized, expressive animal characters.

Academy Award winner that followed a black cat and a group of other animals trying to survive a flood. It is a beautiful movie that came out of nowhere.

Voice cast: None

#91

Soul

Released: December 2020

Rating: PG

Runtime: 100 minutes

Animation style: photorealistic details with abstract, 2D-inspired designs

Soul was a Pixar film that debuted on the streaming service, Disney +. during the heart of the pandemic. Soul is a two-time Academy Award winning film.

Voice cast: Jamie Foxx, Tina Fey, Graham Norton, Rachel House, Richard Ayoade, Alice Braga, Phylicia Rashad, Questlove, Donnell Rawlings, Angela Bassett, Daveed Diggs, and Margo Hall.

#92

Bambi

Released: August 13, 1942

Runtime: 70 minutes

Rating: G

Animation style: hand-drawn; blends strict anatomical realism with exaggerated, expressive cartoon features

I can remember watching a matinee on Bambi in the Voy Theater when I was young and being sad when the hunter shot Bambi’s mother at the beginning of the film. It was one of those traumatic death scenes in an animated movie that required some explanation from parents.

Voice cast: Donnie Dunagan, Peter Behn, Paula Winslowe, Stan Alexander, Will Wright, Cammie King, Fred Shields, Margaret Lee, Mary Lansing, Perce Pierce, Thelma Boardman, Tim Davis and Sam Edwards.

#93

Charlotte’s Web

Released: February 22, 1973

Runtime: 94 minutes

Rating: G

Animation Style: traditional, hand-drawn 2D cel animation

Produced by EYG Hall of Famers Hanna-Barbera, Charlotte’s Web is a film I have not seen for literal decades, but it was one of my favorite films as a child so when I was compiling this list, there was no way I was leaving this movie off. I was a fan of Paul Lynde, who was one of the voices (Templeton the Rat) and his work drew me to the movie.

Voice cast: Debbie Reynolds, Paul Lynde, Henry Gibson, Martha Scott, Danny Bonaduce, Agnes Morehead, Rex Allen, Dave Madden, Herb Vigran, and Pamelyn Ferdin.