Bolding my faves to make an easy list.
Cool to see another
Wall-E fan, loved that one.
Other than the Cars movies (and really, Cars 1 was pretty good), I love
Pixar's entire catalog. Awesome stuff. They get it. I feel like Pixar now is what Disney was back in the day.
Having been a kid at the time, I of course love
the 90s animation renaissance. The run of movies from The Little Mermaid (actually, I'd argue Oliver and Company, that movie was fun as hell) through The Lion King are legit classics, with The Lion King making my personal list of best movies of all time.
I grew up with the
Herbie movies, so I have a major soft spot for those. The new Lohan one was all right for the most part, but there were a couple details that really bugged me (mostly animating Herbie with some really weird, out of character CG... digitally downsizing Lohan was a bummer too, for very different reasons
).
TRON rules. The new one is decent, but the original is so much more fun and adventurous. It's dated and dorky in the most charming, endearing ways, ways that absolutely fail to detract from it's digital bad-assery.
I think my sister and I are/were more into
Bedknobs and Broomsticks than Mary Poppins. Must be the satanic undertones
Disney's Robin Hood is my favorite version of the story by a mile. Sorry Errol Flynn, you've been... outfoxed. (puts on shades).
Fantasia is a work of art, and in my mind one of the best and most important pieces of animation ever.
I love
Lambert the Sheepish Lion and
Mickey and the Beanstalk. As a kid I really felt for Lambert, and seeing him get a chance to prove himself is super heartwarming. And Mickey, Donald and Goofy having to split up see-through slices of bread and a single bean is one of the most hilariously depressing (or is that depressingly hilarious?) things I've ever seen. And seeing them sing and dance and jump gleefully in giant food gets an emotional response out of me not unlike when Lambert finally gets his due. Sterling Holloway version forever, please.
Flight of the Navigator rules. I grew up on that one, and still love it dearly to this day. I... might prefer it over E.T. E.T. might be a better movie, but I know which one I watched more, and I know which one starred a bad-______ ______-Wee Herman voiced space ship, and which one starred a big ugly screaming turd.
A Goofy Movie lives up to it's name and is absolutely an underrated gem. I vividly remember seeing this in the theater with my Mom, and it knocked my socks off. Big laughs, a lot of heart, and it really fleshed out Goofy and made him a full character instead of just a comic doofus. Goof Troop was a great show, but the movie blew it away. Powerline is one of my friend's favorite musicians. Really.
Alice in Wonderland is pure magic. That just transports me back to being 5 and watching this on our old taped-off-TV VHS. It's also a trippy, awesome movie, inspired by a great story. Love it.
The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh has a similar effect as Alice. It just takes me back to a pure state of childhood fun. It's so mellow and easy-going, and I think rings true to anyone that had fun goofing around the backyard by themselves as a kid. The overabundance of cash-in sequels is a bit of a bummer, but the original will always be a classic.
Does
Nightmare Before Christmas count? If so, TOTALLY that. It's getting a little overplayed with merchandise cash-ins and lame pseudo-goths swarming it, but it's an awesome movie for about a dozen different reasons. So fun to see the Christmas specials we all grew up with inverted.
There's probably more that I haven't remembered, but this is a good jumping-off point.
EDIT: HA! The word filter doesn't like me talking about Paul Reubens' signature character!
