1. Coraline
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An imaginative and hauntingly beautiful film with vivid stop motion animation. "Coraline" is a film with startling but fantastical, juxtaposed alternative realities. There is prominent eye symbolism both overt and implicit.
2. Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day
Great characters. Remember Winnie the Pooh and Tiger? Animation is wonderful. Whimsical songs. Also, the film features a creepy and psychedelic song from the Heffalumps and the Woozles.
3. Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Little Nemo, a young boy whose dreams have the capability to destroy reality itself. In his world, Slumberland and Nightmareland cannot coexist. Dark visuals are especially well done.
4. Fantasia
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While there are enchanting dancing flowers, hippos, and unicorns, there are also examples of striking visuals and sounds. Out-of-control broomsticks launch a massive flood; ferocious dinosaurs with teeth bared and giant clamping jaws fight a death battle; lightning and thunder introduce death and despair in the guise of skeletons, graves, bats, evil armies, and ghosts.
In my opinion, the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" shows the powerful and beautiful force of music and animation paired together.
5. Spirited Away
A magical, haunting, poignant,and compelling tale of a young girl who gets trapped in a world of spirits. Visually appealing; the background frames are rich in detail. It's chalk full of meaningful symbolism and subtleties that are worth paying attention to.
6. The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
This 1940's film begins with a brief adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's "The Wind in the Willows," and concludes with a spectacular rendition of Washington Irving's The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Ichabod Crane, a cowardly school teacher encounters a headless specter and then disappears forever.
