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4 Animated Films That Are Way Better Than The Blockbusters
4 Animated Films That Are Way Better Than The Blockbusters

4 Animated Films That Are Way Better Than The Blockbusters

Forget the mainstream. These hand-drawn and stop-motion gems offer incredible visuals, deep stories, and respect your intelligence.

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Ponyo
#1

Ponyo

2008★ 7.8

When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energetic young creature who yearns to be human, but even as she causes chaos around the house, her father, a powerful sorcerer, schemes to return Ponyo to the sea.

Ernest & Celestine
#2

Ernest & Celestine

2012★ 7.8

Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.

Fantastic Planet
#3

Fantastic Planet

1973★ 7.6

On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.

Mary and Max
#4

Mary and Max

2009★ 7.9

A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York.