An all-time great year for feature cartooning.
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Even last winter it was obvious that this year would be stacked with new animated feature classics.
Feel free to skip those in your end-of-year catch-up.
Watch the best animated movies of the year instead.
10.The Super Mario Bros. Movie
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The Chris Prattled movie has made nearly 40 times what the notorious live-actionSuper Mario Bros.flop did 30 years ago.
Its spins throughMariogame mainstays like the Mushroom Kingdom, the Jungle Kingdom, and Rainbow Road are all delightful.
We call that anOkey dokey!
9.The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart
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The newVenture Bros.film might take you a couple of sittings to get through.
Its also a story with many intentional misdirects, red herrings, and undercuts of the audiences expectations.
8.Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget
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7.Unicorn Wars
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The Care BearsmeetsApocalypse Now label this movies gotten isnt an exaggeration.
6.Blue Giant
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Blue Giantwill convince you jazz is capable of space travel if you needed convincing, that is.
The setup is nothing groundbreaking, but the performance sequences are out of this world, literally.
You might get caught up in it, too.
5.Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
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4.Nimona
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3.Suzume
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2.Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
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In fact, its a more complete movie than most superhero fare dares to be these days.
And stylistically, its self-evidently one of the most visually complex and inspired films of the decade.
1.The Boy and the Heron
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LikeSpirited AwayandPrincess Mononokebefore it, the latest gem by the animation maestro conveys character through illustrated action whenever possible.
Many of those selections appear above in our top ten.
Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken
Incomprehensibly, this was the years best mermaid movie.
Elemental
Pixars 2023 effort may have been the summers biggest animation surprise.
Foldes then uses that premise to weave more of Murakamis stories into the narrative.
(Suzume, coincidentally, was inspired by the sameJapanese myths.)
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