The 100 best animated movies: the best funny movies

A wooden puppet yearns to be a real boy; he must prove himself worthy.

Cowboy or spaceman – which is Andy’s favorite plaything? And how do these secretly alive toys feel about that?

A superheroic family tries to blend into their quiet suburban lifestyle, but realises that their skills are nothing to be ashamed of.

It ain’t easy being gray in one of Disney’s most simple, cute and memorable tales.

Not the first animated feature, but the start of the Disney empire.

The film that made Christmas creepy.

An idiosyncratic auteur gets animated with this stop-motion take on Roald Dahl’s children’s novel.

A one-man masterpiece.

An eccentric inventor and his loyal canine companion hunt a mutant bunny.

A live-action gumshoe must prove that a cartoon rabbit has been wrongly accused of murder.

Pixar was at the height of its powers when it made this Paris-set tale of a rat with immense cooking talent.

An oldster saves her kidnapped grandson with the help of three peculiar singers.

Disney’s most stylish baddie concocts a devilish plan.

The film that makes little kids (and grown adults) cry.

Freed from the constraints of network TV, prepubescent paper-cut terrors go on the rampage.

Disney gets with the ’60s.

It’s an emotional reunion as Pixar gets the old gang back together.

Pixar’s beloved shaggy-fish story hooked the box office.

Pixar scored a hat trick – in 3D – with the third film of its signature franchise.

Aardman’s first feature applied their signature style to a tale of farmed chickens trying to break free.

How the Vikings learned to stop warring and love dragons.

A wise, funny Claymation tale of lives lived on the edge of society.

Pixar’s purple patch spawns another monster smash.

Animation meets classical music in an Italian-style Fantasia.

Miyazaki’s first feature is an affectionate, fun-filled take on ’60s spy capers.

This politically charged family adventure effortlessly transcends its toy-exploiting roots.

Hard to be a collegian feline in the city? Not really, especially when there’s so much sex and pot to be had.

Three Japanese vagabonds attempt to find the parents of an abandoned baby during Christmastime.

This anime film is a searingly intense mash-up of styles, genres and narrative techniques.

The thuggish villain of a classic arcade game gets tired of being bad and breaks out of his cage.

An unfilmed Jacques Tati script is realised with gentle wit and piercing melancholy.

An animation giant plunders classic kids’ lit for this tale of a resourceful young witch.

Disney’s comeback was assured when this lively romp made millions.

A talking chameleon, used to blending in, must take a bold stand as a Western town’s new sheriff.

‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ director Selick’s follow-up is altogether more unsettling.

It may be mainstream, but this all-action chopsocky film has wit, charm and guts.

The easiest and breeziest of all the classic Disney cartoons.

A controversial satire on race relations from ’70s animation outlaw Bakshi.

The world’s first feature-length stop-motion animation... and one of the greatest.

This compilation of classic Looney Tunes cartoons deserves to be far better known.

A French children’s publishing phenomenon is brought to handmade life in this story of friendship across species.

Fun for the whole family – with ghosts and booger-green zombies.

Part art piece, part gross-out comedy, part apocalyptic epic, all indescribable.

Jonathan Swift is adapted in the first feature from Disney’s closest rivals.

Roald Dahl’s beloved but trippy children’s book – about escape, adventure and the company of giant insects – meets its creative match.

Hungarian folktales go psychedelic… and then some.