Best Highest Grossing G Rated Movie Of The Year (2008-1982)

now this is a fucking poll

wall-e
finding nemo
toy story
lion king
homeward bound
aladdin
beauty and the beast
little mermaid

^^cannot choose

101 dalmations is the live action glenn close version btw.

have only seen 5.

Chicken Run over WALL-E

Can't choose between the Toy Story movies and Wall-E.

Also, I forgot all about The Smurfs and The Magic Flute! I was 9 at the time, but I'm pretty sure I saw it in the theater anyway.

I voted for The Lion King just for its stunning animation. I believe they were using computer assistance at the time, but it looks traditionally animated, unlike Hercules and later Disneys.

im gonna watch so many of these when this semester ends

WALL-E, Toy Story 2 and The Muppets Take Manhattan are the only three choices here for me. I'll go with the Muppets.

monsters inc./beauty and the beast. i can only vouch for the muppets take manhattan viewmaster edition

Between Toy Story 2 and Muppets here. But haven't seen Muppets in 20 years, it might actually be terrible. How to choose?

fuck i love "finding nemo" so much but it's gotta be "toy story"

wow "lion king"

wall-e is good but it's so overrated on our borad

otm.

i have a soft spot for the Rescuers.

also:
http://www.popcorn.co.uk/static/mermaid3.jpg :)

Monsters Inc
Finding Nemo
WALL-E

The Secret of NIMH? Is it about Neutral Milk Hotel?

You need to fix the gaping hole in your Secret of NIMH knowledge.

xxp; Damn dude, in my just-waking-up sleepy haze, for a second I thought that Sebastian was tattooed on someone's breast.

WALL-E (2008)
Ratatouille (2007)
Chicken Little (2005)
Monsters, Inc. (2001)
An American Tail (1986)
The Secret of NIMH (1982)

Is what I'm feeling by the way.

I wish The Departed had been confined to a Viewmaster edition.

Oh, G Rated. I kinda misread and actually thought that most of these could have been pr0n titles :-/

i must have seen the smurfs movie at least a dozen times because they would always show it at the kids cinema in ikea when i was little. cant bring myself to vote for it though.

went for Toy Story but Beauty and the Beast sooooo close. The Polar Express was higher grossing than The Incredibles, really?

I haven't heard of Benji the Hunted or The Secret of NIMH. Am I missing anything?

its funny cuz there are more good movies here than on the r-rated list but the bad shit on this list is so much worse than the bad shit on the r list

Wall-E x 1000

wall-e

also, pixar went 8 for 9 on this list.

how did more people see The Polar Express than Incredibles?

That's incredib(oh ok, I'm sorry)

I haven't heard of Benji the Hunted or The Secret of NIMH. Am I missing anything?

I don't know about Benji, but you should mos def check out NIMH. It's probably the darkest movie on here. It never would've gotten a G these days.

I was just gonna say, how the hell did NIMH get a G, that movie SCARED me.

i think i may have read the book to NIMH? in any case, it was over ten years ago, but i know i loved it. maybe it was the movie, if there's not a book

Pixar pwns this.

Chicken Run over WALL-E

i am a devotee of everything aardman but this is, sans doubte, the worst work to ever emerge from that studio.

were it not for wall-e, b&tb might be in the running here.

The Incredibles isn't on this list because it was rated PG (Pixar's first, maybe only?).

Lots of love for Nimh but I haven't seen it in probably ten years, should rewatch it someday. Predictable vote for WALL-E here.

there's a "damn", a rat STABBING, and BLOOD in the Secret of NIMH. not to mention an all-around kinda heavy subject matter. shoulda been PG no doubt.

it's a good one though.

Smurfs + Magic Flute????

Did anyone see this?

my inner marc loi wants to vote beauty and the beast, but ratatouille made me cry like a m'fer so it might have to be that. have not seen wall-e

the first time i watched ratatouille, that part near the end with the critic totally socked me in the gut.

yes i'm voting ratatouille too, best animated i've ever seen style and execution wise

A lot of good stuff in this poll. Wall-E for me.

It's maybe not the best movie on the list, but I'm picking Secret of NIMH because it is the one movie on the list that I loved as a kid and saw multiple times.

It was pretty spooky though...

bump

Secret of NIMH is incredible. One of the films I loved from my childhood that I actually think I like/appreciate MUCH MORE as an adult. Terrifying in places, one of the most memorable scores, probably the best comedic relief sidekick (Dom DeLuise should have done WAAAAY more cartoon voice work) of any children's film too.

That said I'm probably voting for Wall-E, probably my favorite ever animated film (except I guess for Iron Giant which wasn't very popular, was it?).

except I guess for Iron Giant which wasn't very popular, was it?

I don't think so, but it should've been.

NIMH all the way.

i'm voting for smurfs and the magic flute because it was one of the very first movies i saw and the thought of seeing it again (unlike anything else here) is actually kind of intriguing. the smurfs are barely even in it, actually -- it's mostly about those two guys (forget their names) running around a castle or something trying to recover a magic flute. weird that it's on this list as i've never met anyone else who's even heard of it, let alone seen it.

i can see the good things about it in retrospect, but as a kid i always thought nimh was pretty boring.

there is a trilogy of cgi smurf movies in the works

I saw Smurfs and the Magic Flute in the theater and I didn't like it much. I think I was four years old.

the first time i watched ratatouille, that part near the end with the critic totally socked me in the gut.

Yeah, totally. I think that scene puts it just ahead of WALL-E and Lion King for me.

kinda inclined to think that even the weakest of the OG muppet movies is better than all the CGI shit

NIMH is really really good, but I always thought it was weaker than the book (lolz I was a child pedant)

leaving the early 80s stuff out tho, WALL-E in a walk and I didn't even really like it that much

I think Hannah Montana had the best opening weekend of a live action G rated movie ever, 'ccording to the NYT

NIMH is really really good, but I always thought it was weaker than the book (lolz I was a child pedant)

total truth, although I still think the movie is super badass

The Lion King, narrowly from Toy Story, with the caveat that I'm yet to see Ratatouille

NAAAAAAAAAAAAA SAVENNNNNIAAAAA BABADEETSABOBOOOOOOOOOOO

Nants ingonyama bagithi Baba [Here comes a lion, Father]
Sithi uhm ingonyama [Oh yes, it's a lion]
Siyo Nqoba [We're going to conquer]
Ingonyama nengw' enamabala [A lion and a leopard come to this open place]

deep

NIMH all the way.

― Trip Maker, Monday, April 13, 2009 1:26 PM (5 hours ago)

Monsters Inc, but i couldn't choose btwn so may on the list after that.

the quality control on this list is on another planet to the 'R' ratings

That which does not bugger children makes us stronger.at buggering children.

straight over my head with that one.

^^^ national motto of west meath

Withdrawn. Am really fucking munted.

Is "munted" british for fucked up/drunk?

a 'munter' is an ugly person. i can't extrapolate tbh

No "Milo & Otis" = No Cred

homeward bound is a great, great kids movie

The Secret of NIMH!!!

I loved it as a kid and I watched it was a free On Demand movie maybe a year ago and it is still totally awesome. I was struck by how dark it is as well.

To be fair, though, I've only seen maybe eight of these movies.

An American Tail (1986)
Toy Story (1995)
Ratatouille (2007)

still haven't seen wall-e, so i'm voting nimh.

I've seen Wall-E so there's about 20 on that list I'd vote ahead of it.

Anything but Tom Hanks' Magical Christmas Moustache basically.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

CHICKEN RUN

The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie, but Chicken Run still beats it.

Beauty and the Beast vs. Wall*E

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

do not get the Wall-E love. I mean it was okay but... really? An cutesy anti-consumerist screed from Disney?

it was superb until the humans arrived, which is ironic

I'd have voted for either of the top two, but I voted for the losing one.

who's the pinko fag who voted for cars?

_Cars_, the newest one from Pixar

^^^rare instance where me and ethan agreed about something

it's no...

cars was aiiight (wall-e was aiiiiight)

this kind of trouncing requires an explanation from the walle boosters srsly. i'd give it 'most beautiful' honors maybe

+ who wants to leave the house to look at cockroaches wtf i honestly expected some kind of viewer backlash

The roach was one of my favorite aspects of the movie!

Wall-E was very good, lovely even, but I did think it lost a tiny bit of steam towards the end (before regaining it right AT the end with the mosaic montage). It didn't feel like a proper movie experience so much as an awesome display of visual imagination. The Lion King, Toy Story, and others, although (marginally) less spectacular, are full-on cheer-to-the-rafters story-driven fantasy, which is what I kinda want from my kids' movies. Mind you, Wall-E's commitment to fully realising its technological conceits and not shirking complexity in favour of patness is to be thoroughly applauded. I don't feel enormous attachment to it, but I admire it deeply as a film-making achievement. And yeah, <3 the roach, obv.

some of us can watch roaches without leaving the house, thank very much, but yeah he was a legend.

I mean, Wall-E DID feel a bit "do you SEE" at times, whereas TLK and TS just get on with it like the escapist thrillrides they are. And they have better scripts. Not that Wall-E has much of a script, but you know. They have AWESOME scripts.

Will never in my life understand the appeal of Lion King.

oh I just can't wait to be kiiiiing

I KILLED MUFASA

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01184/arts-graphics-2008_1184583a.jpg

eric, it's to die for

worth it just for the panning shot towards simba's face when he sees the wildebeest stampede tbh

the fuss that was made over those wildebeest at the time

wait am i thinking of the SNES game tho?

no no, the wildebeest were pretty much cutting-edge CGI-animation splicing and they made a huge fucken deal of it...then Pixar come along and squelch them :D

TLK still looks magnificent, mind

only me and one other person for beauty and the beast? for shame ILE

the lion king is no aladdin, tho. maybe not even beauty and the best, which trounces it for songs.

xp i may not have voted but if i did it may have been me *bros*

muppets take manhattan ROBBED by trendy parent-friendly bollocks.

maybe if u were talkin the great muppet caper ian - i voted walle - complete utter classic

i voted wall-e. i don't get the lion king stuff either. it was always kinda weak and obvious and the music sucks balls, though it wasn't necessarily a terrible film.

i think the lion king (possibly toy story too) is way more popular in britain than in america, especially for people about my age...what can i say, social conditioning

the people have spoken, the bastards.

still think wall-e doesn't touch monsters inc as a total package.

I would've voted for Muppets, had I noticed this poll before it finished. Wall-E second, NIMH third, Little Mermaid 4th.

imho Aladdin is a much better film than either Mermaid or Lion Ling.