Animated movies I've seen

An enchanting, dazzling and utterly uplifting fantasy which will transport everyone, young and old, through the looking glass and into it's powerful, magical seemingly perfect world. I didn't want it to end.

With the some of the best first five minutes in cinematic history, it's easy to forget the rest of the movie is also a heart warming, thrilling and hilarious adventure movie which is arguably the highlight of Pixar's filmography.

Not so much a sequel as a hilarious, dazzling, action packed roller coaster ride smashing through all the contending animated studios, this is better than the first (only just though) with great action, wonderful characters and a touching, terrific storyline.

The first ever CGI feature length movie remains one of the best. This is visually gob smacking and endlessly eye popping, but what takes this to infinity and beyond is the wit, depth and charm of the screenplay.

Spooky, hilarious, thrilling and ingenious this disgustingly underrated animated masterpiece may have been forgotten by almost everyone and lost the Oscar to a film full of dancing penguins but it still stands high and tall above most animated films of the 2000s.

Heroic and heart warming, The Incredibles is another bravura animation from Pixar which takes an old genre and gives it heart, punch and brains. Absolutely, positively incredible.

A delightfully eccentric, endlessly funny and surprisingly touching burst of clay-mation gold, TCOTWR boasts great set pieces, wonderful humour and cinema's greatest dog.

Everything is awesome. Everything. No I mean everything. Every character is awesome. Every action scene is awesome. Every plot point is awesome. Every thoughtful and sweet moment is awesome. Every single tiny little thing is awesome.

Proving simple black and white images can be just as effective as any kind of animation, Persepolis is a powerful, gripping, almost superhuman autobiographical masterwork which never lets you go.

Monstrously good fun with endless heaps of charm, warmth, thrills and tear jerking moments which takes an ingenious premise and turns it up to 11. The result is an ace which is great enough to define a childhood.

With mind blowing visuals and an epic, stirring story, Princess Mononoke puts most American animators in their place and has enough energy, emotion and power to light up the Las Vegas strip.

It's sad that Hayao Miyazaki is retiring, but his swansong is unhampered by the excessive length and is deeply moving, visually magical and genuinely astounding in terms of story, writing and artistic merit.

A rich, stirring, emotionally devastating, musically brilliant and visually stunning animated masterwork from Disney. Fun fact: it's based on Hamlet, so it's also one of the best Shakespeare movies of all time.

With ingenious slapstick, awesome action scenes and a fun story this is just as good as Wallace & Gromit and an utterly delightful movie for the whole family.

Scary, relentlessly thrilling and utterly stunning on a visual level, Coraline is a vivid, twisted and deliciously dark showcase of Neil Gaiman's imagination.

The sea has never looked better than in this stunningly animated and emotionally resonant adventure which also has plenty of big laughs and thrills.

The heroine may be flat, but otherwise this musical, endearing, endlessly uplifting animated landmark is near impossible to dislike.

Although you know where it's going, this shows how powerful and magical animation can be, and it boasts a memorable and touching story as well.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker's big-screen treatment of their brilliant TV show is very successful overall thanks to the endlessly brilliant gags and wonderful satire. It's also probably one of the best musicals of recent times. Who'd have thought?

Although slighter than other Ghibli movies, this utterly magical movie will bring a smile to even the hardest of cynics with its enchanting visuals and various dazzling sequences of fantasy fun.

While not Pixar's best film thanks to a rushed story progression, it is an extremely powerful adult drama with all of its elements in the right place. It's not a brilliant family film, but it is quite a brilliant film.

Red Riding Hood Rashomon style has animation so bad it looks like a badly animated computer game at times, but it's ingenious, inventive, sharp, hilarious and boasts a great voice cast. As if that wasn't enough, it also contains cinema's greatest goat.

Not enough people have seen this original, wonderfully clever and endlessly amusing stop motion gem. A truly underrated film which needs to get the attention it deserves. It produces Aardman levels of laughter. Yes actually.

Although it can feel like a video game and doesn't measure up to the comics, Steven Spielberg's brilliant direction, amazing animation and a fun screenplay add up to an entertaining adventure that nails the right tone.

A mostly strong sequel which captures what everyone loved about the original film and serves up another satisfying mix of family drama and superhero action. It isn't as good as its predecessor, but it would be a miracle to be as good as that.

It has plenty of annoying characters but yellow has never looked cooler than it does in this hilarious, smart and thrilling comedy which is one of the better movies based on a TV show.

The success of Wes Anderson's live action fare successfully translates to stop motion, and it actually improves on Roald Dahl's novel. That's saying something.

Managing to survive its clichéd framework and awful marketing campaign, Tangled is visually stunning and combines heart and humour with surprising ease.

A soaring, stupendous Disney dream which is in many ways another Disney film but has great music, awesome visuals and enough heart and excitement to ensure no-one will fall asleep when watching it.

Dreamworks' best movie. This monster smash may be seen as slight by some, but it's an endlessly entertaining example of everything which makes animated movies so popular turned up to 11.

It doesn't do a lot to distinguish itself, but this deeply underrated movie manages to make sewers, rats, slugs and frogs likable and it deserves praise for that alone.