Top 10 Greatest Moments in Animated Film

[LordEd1976]

This was a topic I wanted to present to my film teacher when I spoke to him but alas he is not a huge lover of animation. However since I'm pretty damm sure anyone who is reading this is a lover of animated film, here is my list of the ten moments in the history of animated film I think are the greatest. Please feel free to agreed with, disagree, post your thoughts, or say that my mad scheme will destroy creation as we know it.

Since at least half of them are from anime I'm posting them over here in the anime forums. If I boo-booed then I won't cry if it gets moved. I will apologize in advance for my goof.

10. The Chickens escape (Chicken Run)
9. Ashitaka sees San for the first time (Princess Mononoke)
8. Chun Li vs Vega (Street Fighter II: the animated movie)
7. Optimus Prime charges into Autobot City (Transformers the Movie)
6. Minmei sings "Do You Remember Love" as the SDF-1 and their allies battle Badolza's fleet (Macross: Do You Remember Love?)
5. Batman vs the Joker (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm)
4. Motorcycle Gang Fight (Akira)
3. the Genie appears for the first time (Aladdin)
2. the Ballroom dance (Beauty and the Beast)
1. the Socerer's Apprentice (Fantasia)

[Kirayoshi]

Okay, I'll play! My ten favorites, off the top of my head:

10) The toy nightmare sequence, Akira
9) Rhapsody in Blue, Fantasia 2000
8) The two sisters waiting for the bus with Totoro, My Neighbor Totoro
7) Genie's first appearance, Aladdin
6) Eddie Valliant visits Toontown, Who Framed Roger Rabbit
5) The Oohm(sp?) stampede, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind
4) Chihiro/Sen freeing the river spirit, Spirited Away
3) The evil queen's transformation into a hag, Snow White
2) Woody and the toy army putting the fear of God into Sid, Toy Story
1) The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Fantasia

[Grazzt]

In no particular order:

-"You'll never have a friend like me." Aladdin
-The giant mouse robot fights the cats in "American Tail".
-The evil queen falls to her death, Snow White
-Scarlett O'Hara and James Ray Steam sneak into the main pavillion of the London Exhibition. Steam Boy
-"Night on Bald Mountain" Fantasia
-The riddle contest. Rankin Bass's The Hobbit
-"B-17" Heavy Metal
-The knitting chicken knits herself a noose. Chicken Run
-"Taarna the Taarakian" Heavy Metal
-"I Need a Hero" Shrek 2

[LordEd1976]

-"Taarna the Taarakian" Heavy Metal

Which one was that?

[Sanagi]

Totoro: Bus stop
Spirited Away: Train ride
Grave of the Fireflies: Memorial scenes, funeral
Metropolis: The climactic scene
Macross Plus: Sharon entrances Isamu
Ghost in the Shell: The musical interlude about halfway through
Nausicaa: Under the poison forest
Project A-ko: The big fight
Urusei Yatsura 2, Beautiful Dreamer: The wind chimes

[Siegzon]

Which one was that?

The last short in the end.

[Siegzon]

My Top Ten Favorite Moments subject to continual change:

1.Rekki takes flight --Haibane Renmei
2.Ichigo vs.Renji, 2nd fight (A dog who howls at the moon) --Bleach
3.Leaving the heretical monastery --Noir
4.School Race: Haru trips Kyo while Hana plays poker -Fruits Basket
5.Hana gets Kyo and the Prince to go back to Tohru on New years eve
6.Lain talks to her Dad --Lain
7.Sakurai's friend tells Aki about authentic love --Suzuka
8."I will bear this grudge to the hell" --end of Jigoko Shoujo
9."Babies, Babies," said Washu --Tenchi Muyo!
10. Keitaru defends Shinobu --Epi. 2 of Love Hina

[LordEd1976]

My Top Ten Favorite Moments subject to continual change:

1.Rekki takes flight --Haibane Renmei
2.Ichigo vs.Renji, 2nd fight (A dog who howls at the moon) --Bleach
3.Leaving the heretical monastery --Noir
4.School Race: Haru trips Kyo while Hana plays poker -Fruits Basket
5.Hana gets Kyo and the Prince to go back to Tohru on New years eve
6.Lain talks to her Dad --Lain
7.Sakurai's friend tells Aki about authentic love --Suzuka
8."I will bear this grudge to the hell" --end of Jigoko Shoujo
9."Babies, Babies," said Washu --Tenchi Muyo!
10. Keitaru defends Shinobu --Epi. 2 of Love Hina

Nice list but the topic is films. I see a few series in there

[jabrams007]

What? No Wallace and Gromit love? For shame!

[Sanagi]

What? No Wallace and Gromit love? For shame!
I tend to think of W&G as being in a different category... But good point. The thread topic doesn't say what kind of animation.

[LordEd1976]

I tend to think of W&G as being in a different category... But good point. The thread topic doesn't say what kind of animation.


any animated film is acceptable. It can be traditional cell, computer, clayanimation, or a flipbook movie that some weird art school student sent in to a trippy European filmfest.

[Accacia]

princess mononoke....

ghost in the shell


both are good stuff! ;)

[Arilou]

Film only? (IE: not series)

Optimus attack in Transformers: The Movie.
Ballroom dance Scene (Beauty & The Beast)
Aladdin: The genie appears.
The destruction of the earth (Titan: A.E.)
The training sequence (Múlan)
The "Dragon flight scene" (Sen to Chihiro no Kamakakush)
Scar vs. Simba (Lion King)
(it's in the movie AND the series, so...) Asahina's death, (RahXephon)
Robbing Kolchak's gold-train (Corto Maltese in Siberia)
Thor smacking Hulk through an entire ship (Ultimate Avengers.... Okay, it was the only good part about the entire movie, but still :p)