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Animation Movies Audiences Rated Higher Than Critics
43 animation films in our catalog have at least 10,000 IMDb votes and a score that is higher with audiences than with critics by 15 points or more. The widest gap: Pokémon the Movie 2000 (1999), 6.1 on IMDb against 28 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pokémon the Movie 2000 '1999 | Fantasy / Animation / Sci-Fi | 6.1 | - | 28 | 6.8 | Kunihiko Yuyama | +33 |
| 2 | An American Tail '1986 | Animation / Comedy / Drama | 6.9 | 76% | 38 | 6.8 | Don Bluth | +31 |
| 3 | Pokémon: The First Movie '1998 | Animation / Fantasy / Action | 6.4 | 17% | 35 | 7.0 | Kunihiko Yuyama | +29 |
| 4 | The Transformers: The Movie '1986 | Animation / Sci-Fi / Action | 7.2 | 64% | 43 | 7.1 | Nelson Shin | +29 |
| 5 | The Super Mario Galaxy Movie '2026 | Comedy / Fantasy / Animation | 6.3 | 42% | 37 | 8.2 | Aaron Horvath | +26 |
| 6 | The Garfield Movie '2024 | Animation / Comedy | 5.7 | 36% | 31 | 6.9 | Mark Dindal | +26 |
| 7 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars '2008 | Animation / Action / Sci-Fi | 6.0 | 18% | 35 | 6.2 | Dave Filoni | +25 |
| 8 | The Super Mario Bros. Movie '2023 | Comedy / Fantasy / Animation | 7.0 | 58% | 46 | 7.6 | Michael Jelenic | +24 |
| 9 | Sing 2 '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Musical | 7.3 | 72% | 49 | 7.8 | Garth Jennings | +24 |
| 10 | Hotel Transylvania '2012 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 7.1 | 45% | 47 | 7.0 | Genndy Tartakovsky | +24 |
| 11 | The Smurfs '2011 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 5.4 | 21% | 30 | 5.8 | Raja Gosnell | +24 |
| 12 | Ice Age: Collision Course '2016 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 5.7 | 18% | 34 | 6.1 | Michael Thurmeier | +23 |
| 13 | The Emoji Movie '2017 | Animation / Comedy | 3.5 | 6% | 12 | 5.4 | Tony Leondis | +23 |
| 14 | Hotel Transylvania 2 '2015 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.6 | 58% | 44 | 6.8 | Genndy Tartakovsky | +22 |
| 15 | Cool World '1992 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 4.9 | 4% | 27 | 5.7 | Ralph Bakshi | +22 |
| 16 | Tom & Jerry '2021 | Comedy / Animation | 5.3 | 29% | 32 | 6.7 | Tim Story | +21 |
| 17 | Brother Bear '2003 | Animation | 6.9 | 38% | 48 | 7.3 | Aaron Blaise | +21 |
| 18 | Arthur and the Invisibles '2006 | Fantasy / Animation | 6.0 | 21% | 39 | 6.4 | Luc Besson | +21 |
| 19 | Planet 51 '2009 | Animation / Comedy / Sci-Fi | 6.0 | 23% | 39 | 5.9 | Jorge Blanco | +21 |
| 20 | The Angry Birds Movie '2016 | Animation / Comedy | 6.3 | 44% | 43 | 6.3 | Clay Kaytis | +20 |
| 21 | Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron '2002 | Animation / Drama / Western | 7.2 | 69% | 52 | 7.7 | Kelly Asbury | +20 |
| 22 | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas '2003 | Action / Animation / Fantasy | 6.8 | 44% | 48 | 7.1 | Tim Johnson | +20 |
| 23 | Hoodwinked! '2005 | Animation / Comedy / Crime / Mystery | 6.5 | 46% | 45 | 6.3 | Cory Edwards | +20 |
| 24 | Fire and Ice '1983 | Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi | 6.5 | 60% | 45 | 6.7 | Ralph Bakshi | +20 |
| 25 | The Boss Baby: Family Business '2021 | Animation / Comedy | 5.8 | 47% | 39 | 7.3 | Tom McGrath | +19 |
| 26 | Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs '2009 | Animation / Comedy | 6.9 | 46% | 50 | 6.8 | Carlos Saldanha | +19 |
| 27 | The Lorax '2012 | Animation | 6.4 | - | 46 | 6.5 | Chris Renaud | +18 |
| 28 | Dragon Ball Super: Broly '2018 | Action / Sci-Fi / Animation | 7.7 | 84% | 59 | 8.0 | Tatsuya Nagamine | +18 |
| 29 | The Road to El Dorado '2000 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.9 | 49% | 51 | 7.3 | Bibo Bergeron | +18 |
| 30 | All Dogs Go to Heaven '1989 | Drama / Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.8 | 48% | 50 | 6.8 | Don Bluth | +18 |
| 31 | Robin Hood '1973 | Animation | 7.5 | 56% | 57 | 7.3 | Wolfgang Reitherman | +18 |
| 32 | Pete's Dragon '1977 | Fantasy / Animation / Comedy | 6.4 | 56% | 46 | 6.3 | Don Chaffey | +18 |
| 33 | Luck '2022 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.5 | 48% | 48 | 7.8 | Peggy Holmes | +17 |
| 34 | The Addams Family 2 '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy | 5.4 | 28% | 37 | 6.9 | Greg Tiernan | +17 |
| 35 | Klaus '2019 | Animation / Comedy | 8.2 | 95% | 65 | 8.2 | Sergio Pablos | +17 |
| 36 | Atlantis: The Lost Empire '2001 | Animation / Sci-Fi | 6.9 | 48% | 52 | 7.1 | Gary Trousdale | +17 |
| 37 | A Goofy Movie '1995 | Comedy / Romance / Animation | 7.0 | 64% | 53 | 7.0 | Kevin Lima | +17 |
| 38 | Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Infinity Castle '2025 | Animation / Action / Fantasy | 8.3 | 98% | 67 | 8.8 | Haruo Sotozaki | +16 |
| 39 | Swapped '2026 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.2 | 69% | 56 | 8.8 | Nathan Greno | +16 |
| 40 | Ice Age: Continental Drift '2012 | Animation / Comedy | 6.5 | 37% | 49 | 6.4 | Steve Martino | +16 |
| 41 | The Croods '2013 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | 71% | 55 | 7.0 | Kirk DeMicco | +16 |
| 42 | Heavy Metal '1981 | Animation / Sci-Fi / Fantasy / Musical | 6.6 | 66% | 51 | 6.5 | Gerald Potterton | +15 |
| 43 | Song of the South '1946 | Animation | 6.9 | 50% | 54 | 6.5 | Harve Foster | +15 |
Gap is IMDb score times 10 minus Metacritic score, in points. Only films with at least 10,000 IMDb votes and both scores are included, and only gaps of 15 points or more. This list is ordered by the size of the gap, not by quality. Scores shown are the raw ones.
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