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Best Animation Movies of the 2000s

Animation films released 2000–2009, ranked by TMDB rating among titles with at least 500 votes.

📊 A century of movies in numbers 187 titlesavg ★ 6.86 avg 82 min Animation Family Comedy Adventure

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#1 Spirited Away (2001) · ★ 8.5 · 18,950 votes · 2h 5m · fantasy, animation, family
A young girl, Chihiro, becomes trapped in a strange new world of spirits. When her parents undergo a mysterious transformation, she must call upon the courage she never knew she ha…
#2 Howl's Moving Castle (2004) · ★ 8.4 · 11,504 votes · 1h 59m · fantasy, adventure, animation
Sophie, a young milliner, is turned into an elderly woman by a witch who enters her shop and curses her. She encounters a wizard named Howl and gets caught up in his resistance to…
#3 WALL·E (2008) · ★ 8.1 · 20,936 votes · 1h 38m · science-fiction, animation, family
After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E— a robot designed to clean up the earth—discovers a new purpose in life when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EV…
#4 Up (2009) · ★ 8.0 · 22,197 votes · 1h 36m · comedy, adventure, animation
Carl Fredricksen spent his entire life dreaming of exploring the globe and experiencing life to its fullest. But at age 78, life seems to have passed him by, until a twist of fate…
#5 Monsters, Inc. (2001) · ★ 7.9 · 20,280 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, fantasy, animation
Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wan…
#6 Coraline (2009) · ★ 7.9 · 9,460 votes · 1h 40m · fantasy, horror, animation
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy,…
#7 Mary and Max (2009) · ★ 7.9 · 2,343 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, drama, animation
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man livin…
#8 Persepolis (2007) · ★ 7.9 · 2,255 votes · 1h 35m · drama, animation
In 1970s Iran, Marjane 'Marji' Satrapi watches events through her young eyes and her idealistic family of a long dream being fulfilled of the hated Shah's defeat in the Iranian Rev…
#9 Tokyo Godfathers (2003) · ★ 7.9 · 1,575 votes · 1h 32m · comedy, drama, animation
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.…
#10 Millennium Actress (2002) · ★ 7.9 · 1,084 votes · 1h 27m · romance, drama, animation
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a ke…
#11 Finding Nemo (2003) · ★ 7.8 · 20,919 votes · 1h 40m · adventure, animation, family
Nemo, an adventurous young clownfish, is unexpectedly taken from his Great Barrier Reef home to a dentist's office aquarium. It's up to his worrisome father Marlin and a friendly b…
#12 Shrek (2001) · ★ 7.8 · 19,294 votes · 1h 30m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a mission to retrieve a gorgeous princess from the clutches of a fire-breathing dra…
#13 Ratatouille (2007) · ★ 7.8 · 19,003 votes · 1h 51m · comedy, fantasy, animation
In one of Paris's finest restaurants, Remy, a determined young rat, dreams of becoming a renowned French chef. Torn between his family's wishes and his true calling, Remy and his p…
#14 Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) · ★ 7.8 · 6,314 votes · 1h 27m · comedy, adventure, animation
The Fantastic Mr. Fox, bored with his current life, plans a heist against the three local farmers. The farmers, tired of sharing their chickens with the sly fox, seek revenge again…
#15 Ponyo (2008) · ★ 7.8 · 4,984 votes · 1h 40m · fantasy, animation, family
When Sosuke, a young boy who lives on a clifftop overlooking the sea, rescues a stranded goldfish named Ponyo, he discovers more than he bargained for. Ponyo is a curious, energeti…
#16 Paprika (2006) · ★ 7.8 · 3,001 votes · 1h 30m · thriller, science-fiction, animation
Dr. Atsuko Chiba is a research psychologist who uses a device called the DC Mini to enter her patients' dreams, wherein she adopts the alter-ego "Paprika". When the device is stole…
#17 The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006) · ★ 7.8 · 2,270 votes · 1h 38m · fantasy, drama, science-fiction
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to 'leap' backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon…
#18 Presto (2008) · ★ 7.8 · 1,109 votes · 0h 5m · comedy, animation, family
Dignity. Poise. Mystery. We expect nothing less from the great turn-of-the-century magician, Presto. But when Presto neglects to feed his rabbit one too many times, the magician fi…
#19 Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2009) · ★ 7.8 · 1,042 votes · 1h 52m · action, drama, science-fiction
Under constant attack by monstrous creatures called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind, U.N. Special Agency NERV introduces two new EVA pilots to help defend the city of Tokyo…
#20 Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003) · ★ 7.8 · 545 votes · 1h 8m · adventure, science-fiction, animation
Four talented alien musicians are kidnapped by a record producer who disguises them as humans. Shep, a space pilot in love with bass player Stella, follows them to Earth. Reprogram…
#21 The Incredibles (2004) · ★ 7.7 · 19,352 votes · 1h 55m · action, adventure, animation
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia. But when he receives a myst…
#22 Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002) · ★ 7.7 · 5,016 votes · 1h 23m · comedy, adventure, romance
A captured mustang remains determined to return to his herd no matter what.…
#23 Partly Cloudy (2009) · ★ 7.7 · 1,133 votes · 0h 6m · comedy, fantasy, animation
Everyone knows that the stork delivers babies, but where do the storks get the babies from? The answer lies up in the stratosphere, where cloud people sculpt babies from clouds and…
#24 Waltz with Bashir (2008) · ★ 7.7 · 1,089 votes · 1h 30m · drama, animation, war
A film director from Israel interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.…
#25 Cowboy Bebop: The Movie (2001) · ★ 7.7 · 1,044 votes · 1h 55m · action, science-fiction, animation
The year is 2071. Following a terrorist bombing, a deadly virus is released on the populace of Mars and the government has issued the largest bounty in history, for the capture of…
#26 Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (2001) · ★ 7.7 · 857 votes · 1h 43m · action, fantasy, adventure
Legendary dhampir D competes with a motley family of bounty hunters to track down Charlotte Elbourne, a young woman seemingly abducted by undead nobleman Meier Link.…
#27 Azur & Asmar: The Princes' Quest (2006) · ★ 7.7 · 674 votes · 1h 39m · animation, family
Raised on tales of a Djinn fairy princess, Azur, a young Frenchman goes to North Africa in search of the sprite, only to discover that his close childhood friend, Asmar, an Arab yo…
#28 Corpse Bride (2005) · ★ 7.6 · 10,438 votes · 1h 17m · fantasy, romance, animation
In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the…
#29 The Emperor's New Groove (2000) · ★ 7.6 · 7,482 votes · 1h 18m · comedy, fantasy, adventure
When the self‑absorbed Emperor Kuzco is accidentally transformed into a llama, he must rely on a humble villager to survive the jungle and reclaim his throne.…
#30 Lilo & Stitch (2002) · ★ 7.6 · 7,251 votes · 1h 25m · comedy, science-fiction, animation
As Stitch, a runaway genetic experiment from a faraway planet, wreaks havoc on the Hawaiian Islands, he becomes the mischievous adopted alien "puppy" of an independent little girl…
#31 Treasure Planet (2002) · ★ 7.6 · 4,744 votes · 1h 36m · fantasy, adventure, science-fiction
When space galleon cabin boy Jim Hawkins discovers a map to an intergalactic "loot of a thousand worlds," a cyborg cook named John Silver teaches him to battle supernovas and space…
#32 Barbie in the 12 Dancing Princesses (2006) · ★ 7.6 · 1,271 votes · 1h 23m · animation, family
King Randolph sends for his cousin, Duchess Rowena, to help turn his daughters, Princess Genevieve and her eleven sisters, into royal material. But the Duchess strips the sisters o…
#33 Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007) · ★ 7.6 · 1,128 votes · 1h 41m · action, drama, science-fiction
After the Second Impact, Tokyo-3 is being attacked by giant monsters called Angels that seek to eradicate humankind. The child Shinji’s objective is to fight the Angels by piloting…
#34 Barbie as The Princess & the Pauper (2004) · ★ 7.5 · 1,555 votes · 1h 26m · comedy, animation, family
In her first animated musical featuring seven original songs, Barbie comes to life in this modern re-telling of a classic tale of mistaken identity and the power of friendship. Bas…
#35 For the Birds (2000) · ★ 7.5 · 1,348 votes · 0h 4m · comedy, animation, family
One by one, a flock of small birds perches on a telephone wire. Sitting close together has problems enough, and then comes along a large dopey bird that tries to join them. The bir…
#36 Summer Wars (2009) · ★ 7.5 · 1,070 votes · 1h 54m · science-fiction, animation
Teenage math whiz Kenji Koiso agrees to take a summer job at the Nagano hometown of his crush, Natsuki. When he arrives, he finds that her family have reunited to celebrate the 90t…
#37 Waking Life (2001) · ★ 7.5 · 986 votes · 1h 41m · fantasy, drama, animation
Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussio…
#38 Lifted (2006) · ★ 7.5 · 846 votes · 0h 5m · comedy, science-fiction, animation
When an overconfident teen alien gets behind the controls of a spaceship, he must attempt to abduct a slumbering farmer under the watchful eye of a critical instructor. But abducti…
#39 BURN·E (2008) · ★ 7.5 · 831 votes · 0h 8m · comedy, science-fiction, animation
What lengths will a robot undergo to do his job? BURN·E is a dedicated hard working robot who finds himself locked out of his ship. BURN·E quickly learns that completing a simple t…
#40 Redline (2009) · ★ 7.5 · 577 votes · 1h 42m · action, science-fiction, animation
A daredevil driver is determined to compete in Redline, the most popular race in the galaxy. The race only occurs every five years, but in order to participate he must overcome the…

Questions

What is the best animation movie of the 2000s?

Spirited Away (2001) tops the decade with 8.5/10 on TMDB, ahead of Howl's Moving Castle (2004).