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Best Animation Movies of the 2010s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
72 animation films from the 2010s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018), at 8.4 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.4. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Hotel Transylvania, 7.1 on IMDb against 47 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse '2018 | Animation / Action / Sci-Fi | 8.4 | 97% | 87 | 8.4 | Bob Persichetti |
| 2 | Coco '2017 | Animation / Musical | 8.4 | 97% | 81 | 8.2 | Lee Unkrich |
| 3 | Toy Story 3 '2010 | Animation / Comedy | 8.3 | 98% | 92 | 7.8 | Lee Unkrich |
| 4 | Your Name. '2016 | Animation / Romance / Drama | 8.4 | 98% | 81 | 8.5 | Makoto Shinkai |
| 5 | Inside Out '2015 | Animation / Drama / Comedy | 8.1 | 98% | 94 | 7.9 | Pete Docter |
| 6 | How to Train Your Dragon '2010 | Fantasy / Animation | 8.1 | 99% | 75 | 7.9 | Chris Sanders |
| 7 | Zootopia '2016 | Animation / Comedy | 8.0 | 98% | 78 | 7.8 | Byron Howard |
| 8 | Klaus '2019 | Animation / Comedy | 8.2 | 95% | 65 | 8.2 | Sergio Pablos |
| 9 | Big Hero 6 '2014 | Animation / Action / Comedy | 7.8 | 90% | 74 | 7.7 | Chris Williams |
| 10 | How to Train Your Dragon 2 '2014 | Fantasy / Action / Animation | 7.8 | 92% | 77 | 7.7 | Dean DeBlois |
| 11 | Tangled '2010 | Animation | 7.7 | 89% | 71 | 7.6 | Byron Howard |
| 12 | Wreck-It Ralph '2012 | Animation / Comedy | 7.7 | 87% | 72 | 7.4 | Rich Moore |
| 13 | A Silent Voice: The Movie '2016 | Animation / Drama / Romance | 8.2 | - | 78 | 8.4 | Naoko Yamada |
| 14 | The Lego Movie '2014 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.7 | 96% | 83 | 7.4 | Phil Lord |
| 15 | Despicable Me '2010 | Animation / Comedy / Crime / Sci-Fi | 7.6 | 80% | 72 | 7.3 | Pierre Coffin |
| 16 | Moana '2016 | Comedy / Animation | 7.6 | 96% | 81 | 7.6 | John Musker |
| 17 | Isle of Dogs '2018 | Comedy / Animation | 7.8 | 90% | 82 | 7.8 | Wes Anderson |
| 18 | Toy Story 4 '2019 | Comedy / Animation | 7.6 | 96% | 84 | 7.5 | Josh Cooley |
| 19 | Incredibles 2 '2018 | Action / Animation | 7.5 | 93% | 80 | 7.5 | Brad Bird |
| 20 | Frozen '2013 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.4 | 89% | 75 | 7.2 | Chris Buck |
| 21 | Kubo and the Two Strings '2016 | Animation | 7.7 | 97% | 84 | 7.7 | Travis Knight |
| 22 | Despicable Me 2 '2013 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 75% | 62 | 7.0 | Pierre Coffin |
| 23 | The Wind Rises '2013 | Animation / Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 89% | 83 | 7.8 | Hayao Miyazaki |
| 24 | Megamind '2010 | Animation / Action / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.3 | 73% | 63 | 7.0 | Tom McGrath |
| 25 | Kung Fu Panda 2 '2011 | Animation / Comedy / Action | 7.3 | 82% | 67 | 7.1 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson |
| 26 | How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World '2019 | Animation | 7.4 | 90% | 71 | 7.7 | Dean DeBlois |
| 27 | Rango '2011 | Animation / Comedy / Western | 7.3 | 88% | 75 | 6.9 | Gore Verbinski |
| 28 | Arrietty '2010 | Fantasy / Animation | 7.6 | 94% | 80 | 7.7 | Hiromasa Yonebayashi |
| 29 | Finding Dory '2016 | Animation | 7.2 | 94% | 77 | 7.0 | Andrew Stanton |
| 30 | Rise of the Guardians '2012 | Action / Animation / Fantasy | 7.2 | 74% | 58 | 7.4 | Peter Ramsey |
| 31 | Monsters University '2013 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.2 | 80% | 65 | 7.1 | Dan Scanlon |
| 32 | The Adventures of Tintin '2011 | Animation / Mystery | 7.3 | 75% | 68 | 6.9 | Steven Spielberg |
| 33 | Brave '2012 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.1 | 78% | 69 | 7.0 | Mark Andrews |
| 34 | The Lego Batman Movie '2017 | Animation / Action / Comedy | 7.3 | 89% | 75 | 7.3 | Chris McKay |
| 35 | Hotel Transylvania '2012 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.1 | 45% | 47 | 7.0 | Genndy Tartakovsky |
| 36 | Kung Fu Panda 3 '2016 | Animation / Action / Comedy | 7.1 | 87% | 66 | 6.9 | Jennifer Yuh Nelson |
| 37 | Sing '2016 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.1 | 71% | 59 | 7.1 | Garth Jennings |
| 38 | The Croods '2013 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | 71% | 55 | 7.0 | Kirk DeMicco |
| 39 | Frankenweenie '2012 | Animation / Comedy / Horror / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 87% | 74 | 7.0 | Tim Burton |
| 40 | Dragon Ball Super: Broly '2018 | Action / Sci-Fi / Animation | 7.7 | 84% | 59 | 8.0 | Tatsuya Nagamine |
| 41 | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted '2012 | Animation / Comedy | 6.8 | 78% | 60 | 6.7 | Eric Darnell |
| 42 | Ralph Breaks the Internet '2018 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.0 | 88% | 71 | 7.1 | Rich Moore |
| 43 | Rio '2011 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | 72% | 63 | 6.8 | Carlos Saldanha |
| 44 | Frozen II '2019 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.8 | 77% | 64 | 7.2 | Jennifer Lee |
| 45 | The Lion King '2019 | Drama / Animation | 6.8 | 52% | 55 | 7.1 | Jon Favreau |
| 46 | Penguins of Madagascar '2014 | Animation / Comedy | 6.7 | 74% | 53 | 6.6 | Simon J. Smith |
| 47 | The Good Dinosaur '2015 | Animation | 6.7 | 76% | 66 | 6.8 | Peter Sohn |
| 48 | The Lorax '2012 | Animation | 6.4 | - | 46 | 6.5 | Chris Renaud |
| 49 | Ferdinand '2017 | Animation / Comedy | 6.7 | 71% | 58 | 7.2 | Carlos Saldanha |
| 50 | Ice Age: Continental Drift '2012 | Animation / Comedy | 6.5 | 37% | 49 | 6.4 | Steve Martino |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
Pete Docter Dean DeBlois Phil Lord Pierre Coffin Wes Anderson Brad Bird Hayao Miyazaki Tom McGrath Gore Verbinski Andrew Stanton Steven Spielberg Tim Burton
Actors on this list
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