Top 25 animated films according to Time

The best animated film of all time? I think not

Time magazine film critic Richard Corliss has assembled his list of the 25 best animated films of all time:

1. Pinocchio (1940)
2. WALL-E (2008)
3. The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979)
4. Dumbo (1941)
5. Spirited Away (2001)
6. South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
7. Up (2009)
8. The Triplets of Belleville (2003)
9. Finding Nemo (2003)
10. The Little Mermaid (1989)
11. Toy Story 3 (2010)
12. Toy Story (1995)
13. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
14. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
15. Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)
16. Happy Feet (2006)
17. Akira (1988)
18. The Lion King (1994)
19. Tangled (2010)
20. Paprika (2007)
21. Kung Fu Panda (2008)
22. Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
23. Yellow Submarine (1968)
24. Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
25. Lady and the Tramp (1955)

As you might expect, I have some quibbles. First off: Where the Sam Hill is Ratatouille, Pixar’s masterpiece. I mean pulling off the shear audacity of making a film about rats in the kitchen of a French restaurant puts it any list of this type. In fact, I would have it No. 1. And why is Snow White, the film the great French auteur Jean-Luc Goddard calls the greatest American film of all time, rated so low? I have problems with the racism in Dumbo and Lady and the Tramp, and the South Park film is an unmitigated disaster. And what’s with putting Tangled on the list and leaving Beauty and the Beast, the first animated film nominated for a best picture Oscar, off? I’m also betting few people outside the Corliss household are remotely familiar with The Adventures of Prince Achmed. He’s just showing off with that one. And how can you put Finding Nemo that high and leave Shrek completely off? Finally, the only way anyone can enjoy Yellow Submarine is to be utterly and completely stoned.