Here are Cinephile Corner’s picks for the 10 best science fiction animated movies of all time, ranked:
10. Incredibles II (2018)
9. Lilo & Stitch (2002)
8. The Wild Robot (2024)
The overall package of The Wild Robot is ultimately quite honorable and noteworthy. The animated genre offers just a few great movies a year, and The Wild Robot falls into that category. It’s probably the frontrunner for Best Animated Picture at the Academy Awards, and I’d add that we’ve had much worse winners should this take home the prize. It’s sweet and effortlessly likeable, even if you can see the mechanisms of it working behind the scenes.
Read our full review of The Wild Robot
7. Mad God (2021)
6. Robot Dreams (2024)
Suitable for children while also extremely relatable for adults, Robot Dreams is one of the most uncomplicatedly pleasant experiences I’ve had with a movie in 2024. It’s nice to relive an animation style that once was the norm, while also seeing it adapted in prescient and timely ways. Robot Dreams, while small scale and innocent, feels like the much needed break from convention.
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5. The Incredibles (2004)
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023)
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse continues what the first film did so well – feel like something you’ve never seen before. An intense thrill ride that explores carving your own path and not staying constrained to the expectations set before you.
Read our full review of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
3. A Scanner Darkly (2006)
2. Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
1. WALL-E (2008)
Over fifteen years later, I’m not sure Disney Pixar Studios has made a movie nearly as insightful, colorful, and ambitious as WALL-E. As an allegory for corporate greed and environmental neglect, the film operates on such a concise and straightforward manner – Pixar’s strongest thematic statement in their catalogue.