Animation Dad

Yeah, it's imperfect. Ultimately these things are just about discovery. There's a few here I haven't seen. Don't read the comments. They just get into the weeds about the rules.

(2) Having said that, All the movies on the list are excellent. It’s a great resource to fill out missing gaps you might have.

Top 250 Animated Films As of February 23, 2026. Curated by Rahat Ahmed, extracted from here. This list ranks animated feature films by average member rating. Changes from the latest update: In: Snoopy, Come Home (at #172) O...

Letterboxd top 250 animated films isn’t THAT far off my top 100 (which I might need to redo one day). It is a little silly though and reveals the limitations of film bro Letterboxd which favours current and more trendy films. Disney and Pixar may be untrendy, but their underrepresentation is silly…

YouTube video by Bill Plympton's Plymptoons 25 Ways to Quit Smoking (1989) - Short Film

(5) Finally at 1 I have 25 ways to quit smoking. This is what Plympton does best. The constant momentum of creativity. The sketchy animation. The dry monotonous narration. It’s a great short. youtu.be/LqiJTgORBLc

YouTube video by Bill Plympton's Plymptoons Santa The Fascist Years (2008) - Short Film

(4) at 2 I have Santa the Fascist Years. The premise has been repeated so many times over the years it’s a cliche in 2026, but the newsreal approach and the art keeps it fresh. youtu.be/XgRC427hpTU

YouTube video by Bill Plympton's Plymptoons Your Face (1987) | Academy Award®–Nominated Animated Short Film

(3) At 3 I have his first short Your Face. I think Plympton is at his best when he takes a simple premise and explores it in surreal ways. This is why he struggles with features. I do think his early work owes a lot to Svankmajer. This is a breezy short film. youtu.be/WVfKyWmrQZQ

YouTube video by Bill Plympton's Plymptoons Horn Dog (Short Film 2009)

(2) At 4 I have Horn Dog. Plympton would make 4 short films with his dog protagonist. Horn Dog is basically Fixed with 25% more boundary pushing and way more unexpected tangents. youtu.be/egfERFk5Lhk

YouTube video by Bill Plympton's Plymptoons Sex and Violence(1997) - Short Film [CENSORED]

My list this week is top 5 animated shorts by Bill Plympton, ranked. Often juvenile and pushing the boundaries of taste, Plympton’s sketchy independent animation is best experienced in short form. At 5 I have the properly titled Sex and Violence. (Censored version) youtu.be/SCyNNlBzQ1s

Script writers too.

It’s almost like there is a treasure trove of great stories and characters they could adapt, rather than whatever they were trying to do. Decades of storytelling.

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(1) Who else would be the greatest animated pig? He's the archetype and the best straight man ever. Porky is the king of animated pigs. I know I missed a few and even have some I am regretting as I type this. Porky would be #1 on all my lists.

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(2) Hamm. All right. I guess technically Hamm and Piglet are toys more than pigs, but they are such great characters I will let it slide.

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(3) Porco Rosso. Marked down because except for a few puns he's not really a pig, he just looks like one. Pretty cool dude, and these days it's important to remember it's better to be a pig than a fascist.

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(4) Piglet. Pooh's best bud. He might not be my favourite in the hundred acre woods, but he's still adorable.

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Good day for distractions, and I just found out today is national Pigs day, so off the top of the dome here are my top 5 animated pigs...
(5) Peter Porker (Spider Ham). Comic relief in Into the Spider Verse, and woefully underused in Beyond. How does he not have his own show?

Angels Egg now streaming on HBO Max in the states. I haven’t checked where it’s streaming in Canada where I live. This is wild and great considering the hoops I had to go through the see it the 1st time.

I wish they made the movie they were once planning.

I wonder if they kept the Mission Accomplished banner

I loved Kids on the Slope, especially the 2nd half. Beck is very of its time, but I liked most of it. Blue Giant was pretty good, but the plot is predictable and a little cliche. I haven’t seen Sound Euphonium.

When i started made in Abyss that’s what I thought it was going to be. Needless to say I was wrong.

Poupelle in Chimney Town?

I looooove that movie

My list so far is Belle, The Colours Within, Bocchi the Rock, Carol and Tuesday, and the Josie and the Pussycats movie (which is live action, but very cartoony live action)

Yes! I had The Colours Within and not K-on on my list. The other 2 are on there.

My friend says her 14 year old daughter loves KPop Demon Hunters and plays guitar in a band. She asked me for animation recommendations. I have a short list. I thought I’d open it up and see what people suggest. I’ll post the long list this week.

Cheadle is obviously a great actor, but Howard has a relaxed energy and Cheadle has a wired energy. Both play off RDJ very differently. They also clearly don’t know what to do with him as the movies progress.

YouTube video by MHDX The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (1981) - English audio

Every weekend I post an animated project available on the internet. This week it is a classic anime Unico (1981). It looks cute but goes to some surprisingly dark areas. If your kid can handle The Secret of Nimh they could handle this. youtu.be/LAkXAMhAYqA?...

As an aside I kind of forgot why Gwyneth Paltrow was such a star. She might not remember filming them, but her scenes with Downey are effortless and charming. They have more charisma in 2 lines than Kirby and Pascal manage in the entire film. Some of that is script, but a lot is just chemistry.

… I know these aren’t super original thoughts and it permeates a lot of genre films, but watching these 2 movies back to back the issues are so glaringly obvious. It’s also why I am more excited for Gunns DC movies than Marvel right now.

… The Fantastic Four though, is mid tier Marvel but top tier post Endgame, is just setup and quip. The characters act in ways that are nonsensical. Pascal (a good actor overall) is disastrous casting while obviously RDJ is inspired casting...

I watched with my kid the new Fantastic Four movie and the original Iron Man movie in the last few days and the differences are very telling on a script level. Iron Man had character arcs and differences among the characters. You could read a line of dialogue and know which character was saying it…

He just wanna lifetime achievement award (the Windsor McKay award) at the Annies. I can’t believe no one will fund another film from him.