Favorite animated films that aren't from Disney

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Animal Farm.

4 legs good two legs bad.

I'd have to say a lot of the works of Termite Terrace. NYEEEEEEEEEH...WHAT'S UP, DOC?

Also, the Shrek series. It's really funny.

I think Woody Woodpecker is also intruiging, from my viewing of Pantry Panic.

And also, MEESTUH FOX. The fantastic one, mind you.

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
Titan AE

Shrek
Shrek 2
How To Train Your Dragon
South Park Bigger Longer And Uncut
Wallace And Gromit In The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit
The Simpsons Movie
Chicken Run
Kung Fu Panda
Ice Age
Batman Mask Of The Phantasm
Transformers The Movie
And Many More

I finally got around to seeing "Cats Dont Dance" recently and can now add it to this list!
I also forgot to add How to Train Your Dragon, The Land Before Time, An American Tail, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

I'm surprised this hasn't been mentioned...

The Road to El Dorado

I've heard a fair bit of griping from other parents about it. I don't altogether consider it a kid's movie, though. The themes alone definitely suggest an older audience. And it's one of my favorites.

I like most anything from Studio Ghibli and Aardman, respectively, and I like Coraline and Corpse Bride (though I could do without so much singing in the latter). Monster House was pretty good.

But Watership Down, now... I was allowed to watch it when I was six or seven, and images that I saw there have haunted me for years. For a long time, I just remembered it as the movie with all the sad rabbits watching another strangling in a snare while his neck bled from the tightness of it. It's hard to let that go in favor of whatever good might be in it. The thought of it still make s me feel ill. I came across the song from it (Bright Eyes - Art Garfunkel) a few years ago by another route and was horrified by it, not only the very dark lyrics but something about it that frightened me and made me feel as if a dementor had hold of me (sorry, Harry Potter reference for those unfamiliar, and it fits) and only later did I find out it was from Watership Down and it made sense after that. Somewhere deep down, I think I remembered that song. I'm too afraid to listen to it again. Really.

Justice League: New Frontier

Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (uncut/unrated)

Green Lantern: First Flight

Return of the Joker is indeed a classic. What I love so much about it is--IMO--it shows that Terry McGinnis is able to do something Bruce Wayne was never able to: defeat the Joker.

Not only does he stop the Joker's plan, but he literally defeats him mentally...and the whole time explaining why Bruce never could. And he does it in 20 minutes to boot.

It's so intense it actually brings tears to my eyes

Terry defeated the Joker in 20 mins and Bruce fought him half his life. I never thought of it that way before. Then again Bruce has always defeated Joker on many occassions, but he always escaped from Arkham and Terry destroyed that microchip.

The Animatrix shorts are just amazing, especially the Second Renaissance. However, I wouldn't categorize them as "films" per se, but as a sort of supplement to watching the Matrix series and understanding the workings of the Matrix.

That's because Bruce Wayne and Joker have this sick, codependent thing going...


He was just another wack-job to Terry.

I love how flustered Terry made Joker (by not playing the straight man). By the end, Joker was just screaming "YOU'RE NOT BATMAN! YOU'RE NOT BATMAN!"

Bruce captured the Joker, but he never defeated him. That was the whole point.

Terry did, though.

- South Park Bigger, Longer & Uncut
- Beavis & Butthead Do America
- Spongebob Squarepants movie
- Blinky Bill movie

Technically it wasn't the real Joker. He was killed by Tim Drake and that Joker Terry fought was a little microchip wiith Joker's thoughts and memories inside it and was implanted on Drake.

Yes, but that same Joker defeated Tim Drake. Tim Drake killed him, but still lost to him.

So technically, it still was the Joker, just with Tim Drake's knowledge.

True but In many other incarnations of Batman his battle with Mr J is never gonna end.