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

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i didn't include disney's reissues.

Poll Results

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WALL-E (2008) 20
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984) 9
The Secret of NIMH (1982) 9
The Lion King (1994) 7
Toy Story (1995) 5
Aladdin (1992) 5
Ratatouille (2007) 5
Chicken Run (2000) 5
The Little Mermaid (1989) 3
Finding Nemo (2003) 3
Monsters, Inc. (2001) 3
Beauty and the Beast (1991) 2
An American Tail (1986) 2
The Polar Express (2004) 1
Toy Story 2 (1999) 1
Cars (2006) 1
The Care Bears Movie (1985) 1
Benji the Hunted (1987) 0
The Smurfs and the Magic Flute (1983) 0
Oliver & Company (1988) 0
The Rescuers Down Under (1990) 0
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (1993) 0
101 Dalmatians (1996) 0
Hercules (1997) 0
A Bug's Life (1998) 0
The Santa Clause 2 (2002) 0
Chicken Little (2005) 0


abanana, Saturday, 11 April 2009 05:34 (sixteen years ago)

now this is a fucking poll

k3vin k., Saturday, 11 April 2009 05:36 (sixteen years ago)

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

^^cannot choose

k3vin k., Saturday, 11 April 2009 05:37 (sixteen years ago)

101 dalmations is the live action glenn close version btw.

abanana, Saturday, 11 April 2009 05:43 (sixteen years ago)

have only seen 5.

Chicken Run over WALL-E

Dr Morbius, Saturday, 11 April 2009 05:49 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Johnny Fever, Saturday, 11 April 2009 05:50 (sixteen years ago)

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.

abanana, Saturday, 11 April 2009 05:59 (sixteen years ago)

im gonna watch so many of these when this semester ends

k3vin k., Saturday, 11 April 2009 06:04 (sixteen years ago)

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

Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Saturday, 11 April 2009 06:35 (sixteen years ago)

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

attitude in spades (tremendoid), Saturday, 11 April 2009 06:45 (sixteen years ago)

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

Bostin' Legal (sic), Saturday, 11 April 2009 07:50 (sixteen years ago)

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

J0rdan S., Saturday, 11 April 2009 08:24 (sixteen years ago)

wow "lion king"

J0rdan S., Saturday, 11 April 2009 08:25 (sixteen years ago)

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

J0rdan S., Saturday, 11 April 2009 08:25 (sixteen years ago)

otm.

i have a soft spot for the Rescuers.

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

Ludo, Saturday, 11 April 2009 08:31 (sixteen years ago)

Monsters Inc
Finding Nemo
WALL-E

Orin Boyd (jel --), Saturday, 11 April 2009 08:53 (sixteen years ago)

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

Orin Boyd (jel --), Saturday, 11 April 2009 08:54 (sixteen years ago)

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.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 11 April 2009 09:35 (sixteen years ago)

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.

kingkongvsgodzilla, Saturday, 11 April 2009 09:38 (sixteen years ago)

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

Dr Morbius, Saturday, 11 April 2009 12:38 (sixteen years ago)

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

StanM, Saturday, 11 April 2009 13:01 (sixteen years ago)

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.

, Saturday, 11 April 2009 13:40 (sixteen years ago)

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?

Ralph, Waldo, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Merdeyeux), Saturday, 11 April 2009 13:45 (sixteen years ago)

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

rip dom passantino 3/5/09 never forget (max), Saturday, 11 April 2009 13:51 (sixteen years ago)

Wall-E x 1000

Imaginary Dead Baseball Players Live in My Cornfield (Pillbox), Saturday, 11 April 2009 14:12 (sixteen years ago)

wall-e

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 11 April 2009 14:57 (sixteen years ago)

also, pixar went 8 for 9 on this list.

how did more people see The Polar Express than Incredibles?

Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 11 April 2009 14:58 (sixteen years ago)

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

StanM, Saturday, 11 April 2009 15:01 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Manuel Doritos (Deric W. Haircare), Saturday, 11 April 2009 17:47 (sixteen years ago)

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

If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play? (Dr. Superman), Saturday, 11 April 2009 17:52 (sixteen years ago)

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

banned like this (k3vin k.), Saturday, 11 April 2009 17:55 (sixteen years ago)

Pixar pwns this.

Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Saturday, 11 April 2009 17:58 (sixteen years ago)

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.

N1ck (Upt0eleven), Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:02 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Nhex, Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:08 (sixteen years ago)

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.

buttslam is a pretty good move (circa1916), Saturday, 11 April 2009 18:18 (sixteen years ago)

Smurfs + Magic Flute????

Did anyone see this?

Veteran of the Psychic Wars (Abbott), Saturday, 11 April 2009 20:48 (sixteen years ago)

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

goole, Saturday, 11 April 2009 21:09 (sixteen years ago)

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

buttslam is a pretty good move (circa1916), Saturday, 11 April 2009 21:23 (sixteen years ago)

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

sonderangerbot, Saturday, 11 April 2009 21:28 (sixteen years ago)

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

WmC, Saturday, 11 April 2009 21:36 (sixteen years ago)

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...

Moodles, Saturday, 11 April 2009 21:37 (sixteen years ago)

bump

abanana, Monday, 13 April 2009 19:09 (sixteen years ago)

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?).

bread will never maybe attack your brain again (nickalicious), Monday, 13 April 2009 19:43 (sixteen years ago)

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

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

Johnny Fever, Monday, 13 April 2009 19:44 (sixteen years ago)

NIMH all the way.

Trip Maker, Monday, 13 April 2009 20:26 (sixteen years ago)

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.

(The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:19 (sixteen years ago)

there is a trilogy of cgi smurf movies in the works

abanana, Monday, 13 April 2009 21:32 (sixteen years ago)

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

Trip Maker, Monday, 13 April 2009 21:36 (sixteen years ago)

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.

maciej recognizing trill, Monday, 13 April 2009 21:46 (sixteen years ago)

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

This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:56 (sixteen years ago)

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

This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

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

This Board is a Prison on Planet Bullshit (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 April 2009 21:57 (sixteen years ago)

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

buttoutofu (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 April 2009 22:01 (sixteen years ago)

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

maybe u should tell that to your laughing vagina (HI DERE), Monday, 13 April 2009 22:23 (sixteen years ago)

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

yes threads (country matters), Monday, 13 April 2009 22:29 (sixteen years ago)

NAAAAAAAAAAAAA SAVENNNNNIAAAAA BABADEETSABOBOOOOOOOOOOO

69, Monday, 13 April 2009 22:31 (sixteen years ago)

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

abanana, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:01 (sixteen years ago)

NIMH all the way.

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

Viceroy, Tuesday, 14 April 2009 02:10 (sixteen years 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

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 01:58 (sixteen years ago)

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

Straight from the Top of My Dom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:10 (sixteen years ago)

straight over my head with that one.

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:19 (sixteen years ago)

^^^ national motto of west meath

Straight from the Top of My Dom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:23 (sixteen years ago)

Withdrawn. Am really fucking munted.

Straight from the Top of My Dom (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:24 (sixteen years ago)

Is "munted" british for fucked up/drunk?

bread will never maybe attack your brain again (nickalicious), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:41 (sixteen years ago)

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

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 02:43 (sixteen years ago)

No "Milo & Otis" = No Cred

Capitaine Jay Vee, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:17 (sixteen years ago)

homeward bound is a great, great kids movie

europeen handball (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 03:20 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Jenny, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 04:10 (sixteen years ago)

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

Mulvaney, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 05:06 (sixteen years ago)

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

would you ask tom petty that? (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 06:56 (sixteen years ago)

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

Passantino Complexion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 07:02 (sixteen years ago)

Anything but Tom Hanks' Magical Christmas Moustache basically.

Passantino Complexion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 07:03 (sixteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

CHICKEN RUN

tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:14 (sixteen years ago)

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

tits akimbo (kenan), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:15 (sixteen years ago)

Beauty and the Beast vs. Wall*E

The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Wednesday, 15 April 2009 23:37 (sixteen years ago)

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

System, Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:01 (sixteen years ago)

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

shit was shocking as fuck back then (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:03 (sixteen years ago)

it was superb until the humans arrived, which is ironic

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:05 (sixteen years ago)

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

Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:11 (sixteen years ago)

who's the pinko fag who voted for cars?

Batsman (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:28 (sixteen years ago)

_Cars_, the newest one from Pixar

shit was shocking as fuck back then (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:34 (sixteen years ago)

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

shit was shocking as fuck back then (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 16 April 2009 23:39 (sixteen years ago)

it's no...

attitude in spades (tremendoid), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:20 (sixteen years ago)

cars was aiiight (wall-e was aiiiiight)

attitude in spades (tremendoid), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:21 (sixteen years ago)

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

attitude in spades (tremendoid), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:24 (sixteen years ago)

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

attitude in spades (tremendoid), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:25 (sixteen years ago)

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

Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:29 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:34 (sixteen years ago)

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

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:35 (sixteen years ago)

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.

Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:36 (sixteen years ago)

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

Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:41 (sixteen years ago)

oh I just can't wait to be kiiiiing

Bo, a 6-month-jackson Portuguese overdrive (Curt1s Stephens), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:45 (sixteen years ago)

I KILLED MUFASA

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

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:46 (sixteen years ago)

eric, it's to die for

Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:47 (sixteen years ago)

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

Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:48 (sixteen years ago)

the fuss that was made over those wildebeest at the time

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)

wait am i thinking of the SNES game tho?

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:55 (sixteen years ago)

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

Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

TLK still looks magnificent, mind

Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 00:57 (sixteen years ago)

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

The Devil's Avocado (Gukbe), Friday, 17 April 2009 01:00 (sixteen years ago)

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

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 17 April 2009 01:01 (sixteen years ago)

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

attitude in spades (tremendoid), Friday, 17 April 2009 01:30 (sixteen years ago)

muppets take manhattan ROBBED by trendy parent-friendly bollocks.

ian, Friday, 17 April 2009 01:44 (sixteen years ago)

Nurse Detrius (Eric H.), Friday, 17 April 2009 01:50 (sixteen years ago)

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

I can dance, shake tambourines, tell jokes... (ice cr?m), Friday, 17 April 2009 01:54 (sixteen years ago)

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.

macarooni (omar little), Friday, 17 April 2009 01:54 (sixteen years ago)

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

Young Chizzy (country matters), Friday, 17 April 2009 01:57 (sixteen years ago)

the people have spoken, the bastards.

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

Old Big 'OOS (AKA the Cupwinner) (darraghmac), Friday, 17 April 2009 01:59 (sixteen years ago)

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

Your heartbeat soun like sasquatch feet (polyphonic), Friday, 17 April 2009 02:07 (sixteen years ago)

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

ian, Friday, 17 April 2009 02:11 (sixteen years ago)


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