Best Animated musical films — Page 2

I believe Beauty and the Beast was the first animated movie to be nominated as Best Picture at the Oscars = and rightly so. It stands IMO in a class by itself.. You almost forget you are watching animation. And it's timeless - it's just as special now as it was when it first came out.

Lion King & Aladdin are close ...followed by Tangled, Anastasia & Frozen.

There are a lot of other excellent animated musicals but many do not fully withstand the test of time.

Updated On: 6/3/15 at 07:50 AM

The thing about the Little Mermaid is that in addition to having perfect songs, it is also the perfect length (i think 87 minutes). It doesn't feel short, but it gets you in and gets you out and tells such a lovely version of the tale.

Ever since the whole Frozen phenomenon, I've always been sad that Tangled didn't get that kind of reception. I thought it was a far superior film from every angle: animation, story and especially score. People say "It's the best Disney movie since the renaissance" and I always disagree.

I liked Tangled a decent amount, but I've always thought it would look even better if it was traditionally animated. Frozen is actually the first Disney movie that I thought benefitted from being CGI.

I agree with most of the favorites already mentioned here. I just wanted to throw out some movies that haven't been mentioned yet:

The Nightmare Before Christmas

-a great feat of animation, with some very fun music and a great story

The Corpse Bride

-not as good as Nightmare, but it's underrated in my opinion

Babar: King of the Elephants

-it's a kiddy movie, but it's surprisingly adorable, enjoyable, and full of catchy songs

The Road to El Dorado

-not technically a musical, but it does have original songs that play in the background (like Tarzan). It's a fantastic, hilarious, and beautifully rendered Dreamworks movie.

The Rescuers

-a beautiful, heartwarming movie from the Disney dark-ages. Filled with original background songs like El Dorado and Tarzan.

EDIT: Just noticed that Nightmare has been mentioned a couple times already. Whatever, it's a great movie anyway. It deserves repeating.

Updated On: 6/3/15 at 02:02 PM

Did anyone else watch that livestream with Alan Menken? Regardless of how I rank animated musicals (which is a different question from which movie musicals I think have the best music in them) that man has completely defined my childhood. I could listen to him talk for hours.

1. Anastasia

2. The Prince of Egypt

3. Beauty and the Beast

4. Hecules

5. The Little Mermaid

I'm going to throw one out there that may get me some eye-rolls, but here we go:

The Lorax

I agree about Robin Hood, its a favourite of mine, but ive never really thought of it as a musical. It has some songs, true, but it doesnt feel like a musical in the way others do