My Top 10 Disney Animated Movies

When you were a kid or an older kid, you would want to watch your favorite animated movies repeatedly until your mom, dad, older sibling or relatives get tired of listening to the same dialogue and songs. But, you know what, so what? Most of these animated movies are timeless classics and will last a long time if preserved correctly and carefully for future generations to endure and enjoy what the animators put through. I mean, it's a time-consuming, long but reward process to make an animated feature.

Well, since Disney are going to adapt Cinderella into a live-action feature from a cartoon, it would be appropriate to post my favorite 10 animated Disney films (not including Pixar)...

HONORABLE MENTIONS (5 runners-up):

Fantasia

Dumbo

The Fox and the Hound

The Little Mermaid

Aladdin

READ AFTER THE TOP 10 for a little surprise.

10. Pocahontas

It does not have a great villain, but its main heroine and its songs and its visuals of the trees and wildlife sold me.

9. Frozen

I have watched it recently and undoubtedly, it holds up. The songs are still memorable and I have not seen this much of a buildup of merchandising from a film in a very long time. Yeah, I think it is on the way to become a potential Disney classic. Olaf is still also one of the most memorable characters in the canon of memorable characters of Disney.

8. Tarzan

This is a movie I still remember a lot because this is one of my first movies I saw in the theatre and despite a scary death of a character, it is a very enjoyable movie with some fun and more humor than you think. Plus, there are a few good songs from Phil Collins.

7. The Hunchback of Notre Dame

It is the most underrated film on this list because it has a great storyline accompanied by some of the best detailed visuals I've seen from an animated film ever and some good songs. Although it is a dark film for most of the movie, it is still fun. I would not recommend it to very little kids, though.

6. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

The very first Disney animated film and it is still a classic, no doubt. There are some shots of the film that are visually rich that I cannot imagine what the audience was feeling the very first time they saw it back in 1937.

5. Peter Pan

This is the funnest and probably funniest movie out of the whole list. Even if you're 40 or 80, you cannot help but laugh at the scene when Tick-Tock tries to eat Hook...

(THE QUALITY IS TERRIBLE...Sorry about that, it's not mine.)

4. Pinocchio

I love the premise, a doll who wants to become a boy but also the telling of a lie when Pinocchio does not tell the truth, his nose grows. This is a fantastic movie.

3. Bambi

It is a visually stunning movie with again, the theme of nature and also man itself and life itself. It has a few memorable characters, including Thumper. But, of course, you know, the infamous scene where a hunter shoots Bambi's mother off-screen and Bambi does not know what happened to her even though, the audience knows what happened. Very sad.

Here's a little message from Thumper...

2. Beauty and the Beast

This is the most beautiful Disney animated movie ever, I think because of all the detailed and visual looks of the palace, the characters and even the expressions from Belle and other human characters. But, most particularly, the Beast. I never get tired of watching this movie even if it is a princess movie. I mean, who cares? It's a classic.

1. The Lion King

This is the movie I watch over and over again, but #1-3 was very tight and even if you looked at my top 100, Beauty and the Beast and this movie are tied. The story is sharp but sad, the songs are great, the characters are hilarious and memorable and the jungle setting is quite great. You can laugh and sing one minute and then be sad the next. This movie tells the tale quite beautifully anchoring the great score by Hans Zimmer.

I said that there was a surprise: What about my 10 favorite Disney songs, let's make it 12? I'll just put them below in no particular order but the only numerated will be the first one that is just below:

1. Under the Sea (No Duh! It's fun and catchy!)