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100 Best Computer-Animated Movies Ranked by Tomatometer
Ever since the 1995 release of Toy Story, when feature animation bounded from paper reams and into the domain of the digital, it’s been to infinity and beyond in creative storytelling. We’ve traveled the sky by house and balloon (Up), crossed dimensions with Spider-Man (Into the Spider-Verse), swam the deepest oceans (Finding Nemo) while learning the value of family along with super glue (The Lego Movie).
In these feats of imagination, Cars rule the world, superheroes and villains can turn their lives around (The Incredibles, Despicable Me), and a squirrel chasing an acorn becomes a Sisyphean myth. It’s where we can believe in fairy tales again (Frozen, Brave)…while having a good laugh at their expense (Shrek). We’ve also witnessed processed meats do some things in Sausage Party we’d rather not speak of again.
A whole industry of is supported by this medium, including the previously mentioned Pixar, Blue Sky Studios (Ice Age), Illumination (The Secret Life of Pets), and Sony Pictures Animation (Hotel Transylvania). And let’s not forget DreamWorks Animation (How to Train Your Dragon), whose latest film Trolls World Tour, which broke streaming records when it went straight to on-demand, skipping theatrical.
Most recently, we’ve added The Wild Robot, Transformers One, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Inside Out 2, and Leo!
Wherever the story takes us from , we’ve ranked the most critically approved films of the genre in our list of the best-reviewed computer-animated movies. Each entry had to reach at least 20 reviews before we put them up for consideration, where we then ranked them by Tomatometer.
#1
Adjusted Score: 108832%
Synopsis: Woody (Tom Hanks) is stolen from his home by toy dealer Al McWhiggin (Wayne Knight), leaving Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen)...
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#2
Adjusted Score: 107121%
Synopsis: Woody (Tom Hanks), a good-hearted cowboy doll who belongs to a young boy named Andy (John Morris), sees his position...
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#3
Adjusted Score: 108690%
Synopsis: Marlin (Albert Brooks), a clown fish, is overly cautious with his son, Nemo (Alexander Gould), who has a foreshortened fin....
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#4
Adjusted Score: 107499%
Synopsis: A misfit Viking teenager sees a chance to change the course of his clan's future when he befriends an injured...
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#5
Adjusted Score: 117253%
Synopsis: Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) is a happy, hockey-loving 11-year-old Midwestern girl, but her world turns upside-down when she and her parents...
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#6
Adjusted Score: 110976%
Synopsis: With their beloved Andy preparing to leave for college, Woody (Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen), Jessie (Joan Cusack), and...
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#7
Adjusted Score: 112301%
Synopsis: From the largest elephant to the smallest shrew, the city of Zootopia is a mammal metropolis where various animals live...
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#8
Up (2009)
98%
90%
Adjusted Score: 110170%
Synopsis: Carl Fredricksen (Ed Asner), a 78-year-old balloon salesman, is about to fulfill a lifelong dream. Tying thousands of balloons to...
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#9
Adjusted Score: 121631%
Synopsis: Woody, Buzz Lightyear and the rest of the gang embark on a road trip with Bonnie and a new toy...
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#10
Adjusted Score: 119419%
Synopsis: Bitten by a radioactive spider in the subway, Brooklyn teenager Miles Morales suddenly develops mysterious powers that transform him into...
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#11
Adjusted Score: 117098%
Synopsis: Despite his family's generations-old ban on music, young Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol Ernesto de...
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#12
Adjusted Score: 105565%
Synopsis: In this lauded Pixar animated film, married superheroes Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson) and Elastigirl (Holly Hunter) are forced to...
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#13
Adjusted Score: 107534%
Synopsis: Young Katie Mitchell embarks on a road trip with her proud parents, younger brother and beloved dog to start her...
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#14
Adjusted Score: 112243%
Synopsis: The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot--ROZZUM unit 7134, "Roz" for short -- that is shipwrecked on an...
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#15
Adjusted Score: 108364%
Synopsis: Emmet (Chris Pratt), an ordinary LEGO figurine who always follows the rules, is mistakenly identified as the Special -- an...
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#16
Adjusted Score: 106296%
Synopsis: Remy (Patton Oswalt), a resident of Paris, appreciates good food and has quite a sophisticated palate. He would love to...
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#17
Adjusted Score: 103257%
Synopsis: Monsters Incorporated is the largest scare factory in the monster world, and James P. Sullivan (John Goodman) is one of...
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#18
Adjusted Score: 117427%
Synopsis: Miles Morales returns for the next chapter of the Oscar®-winning Spider-Verse saga, an epic adventure that will transport Brooklyn's full-time,...
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#19
Adjusted Score: 116382%
Synopsis: Joe is a middle-school band teacher whose life hasn't quite gone the way he expected. His true passion is jazz...
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#20
Adjusted Score: 108737%
Synopsis: An adventurous teenager sails out on a daring mission to save her people. During her journey, Moana meets the once-mighty...
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#21
Adjusted Score: 109141%
Synopsis: After years of being sheltered from the human world, the Turtle brothers set out to win the hearts of New...
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#22
Adjusted Score: 105626%
Synopsis: WALL-E, short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-class, is the last robot left on Earth. He spends his days tidying...
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#23
Adjusted Score: 105347%
Synopsis: This fall, everyone's favorite leche-loving, swashbuckling, fear-defying feline returns. For the first time in more than a decade, DreamWorks Animation...
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#24
Adjusted Score: 110612%
Synopsis: Dory (Ellen DeGeneres) is a wide-eyed, blue tang fish who suffers from memory loss every 10 seconds or so. The...
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#25
Adjusted Score: 99526%
Synopsis: In an era when terrifying beasts roamed the seas, monster hunters were celebrated heroes -- and none were more beloved...
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#26
Adjusted Score: 114605%
Synopsis: Telecommunications guru Winston Deavor enlists Elastigirl to fight crime and make the public fall in love with superheroes once again....
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#27
Adjusted Score: 108488%
Synopsis: Long ago, in the fantasy world of Kumandra, humans and dragons lived together in harmony. But when sinister monsters known...
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#28
Adjusted Score: 100686%
Synopsis: Five years have passed since Hiccup and Toothless united the dragons and Vikings of Berk. Now, they spend their time...
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#29
Adjusted Score: 98506%
Synopsis: Everyone knows that, each Christmas, Santa Claus delivers presents to every last child on Earth. What everyone doesn't know is...
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#30
Adjusted Score: 97128%
Synopsis: When Ballister Boldheart (Riz Ahmed), a knight in a futuristic medieval world, is framed for a crime he didn't commit,...
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#31
Adjusted Score: 96103%
Synopsis: The Aviator introduces a girl to a world where she rediscovers her childhood and learns that it's human connections that...
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#32
Adjusted Score: 97443%
Synopsis: Flik is an inventive ant who's always messing things up for his colony. His latest mishap was destroying the food...
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#33
Adjusted Score: 97373%
Synopsis: Z the worker ant (Woody Allen) strives to reconcile his own individuality with the communal work-ethic of the ant colony....
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#34
Adjusted Score: 96298%
Synopsis: The thing Orion fears the most is the dark. When the embodiment of his worst fear pays a visit, Dark...
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#35
Adjusted Score: 112030%
Synopsis: The little voices inside Riley's head know her inside and out--but next summer, everything changes when Disney and Pixar's Inside...
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#36
Adjusted Score: 104226%
Synopsis: When the sudden appearance of a female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup...
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#37
Adjusted Score: 97529%
Synopsis: The days of canine superstar Bolt (John Travolta) are filled with danger and intrigue ... until the cameras stop rolling....
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#38
Adjusted Score: 100758%
Synopsis: Robotics prodigy Hiro lives in the city of San Fransokyo. Next to his older brother, Tadashi, Hiro's closest companion is...
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#39
Adjusted Score: 106446%
Synopsis: There are big changes brewing in Gotham, but if Batman (Will Arnett) wants to save the city from the Joker's...
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#40
Adjusted Score: 99293%
Synopsis: TRANSFORMERS ONE is the untold origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron, better known as sworn enemies, but once were...
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#41
Adjusted Score: 100759%
Synopsis: When their kingdom becomes trapped in perpetual winter, fearless Anna (Kristen Bell) joins forces with mountaineer Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and...
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#42
Adjusted Score: 97108%
Synopsis: After returning from their honeymoon and showing home movies to their friends, Shrek and Fiona learn that her parents have...
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#43
Adjusted Score: 98222%
Synopsis: When the kingdom's most-wanted bandit, Flynn Rider (Zachary Levi), hides in a convenient tower, he immediately becomes a captive of...
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#44
Adjusted Score: 108454%
Synopsis: Teenage elf brothers Ian and Barley embark on a magical quest to spend one more day with their late father....
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#45
Adjusted Score: 103181%
Synopsis: Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World...
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#46
Adjusted Score: 97008%
Synopsis: A chameleon (Johnny Depp) who has lived as a sheltered family pet finds himself in the grip of an identity...
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#47
Adjusted Score: 95883%
Synopsis: Once upon a time, in a far away swamp, there lived an ogre named Shrek whose precious solitude is suddenly...
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#48
Adjusted Score: 97054%
Synopsis: In the new action comedy from DreamWorks Animation, based on the New York Times best-selling book series, a crackerjack criminal...
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#49
Adjusted Score: 96361%
Synopsis: Life always seems complicated for good ol' Charlie Brown (Noah Schnapp), the boy who always tries his best against seemingly...
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#50
Adjusted Score: 95949%
Synopsis: Arcade-game character Wreck-It Ralph is tired of always being the bad guy and losing to his good guy opponent, Fix-It...
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#51
Adjusted Score: 94618%
Synopsis: Po the panda (Jack Black) works in his family's noodle shop and dreams of becoming a kung-fu master. His dream...
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#52
Adjusted Score: 94014%
Synopsis: George Beard and Harold Hutchins are two overly imaginative pranksters who spend hours in a treehouse creating comic books. When...
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#53
Adjusted Score: 95191%
Synopsis: Living large and loving life, Po (Jack Black) realizes that he has a lot to learn if he's going to...
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#54
Adjusted Score: 91836%
Synopsis: Long before meeting Shrek, Puss in Boots, just named a hero for saving a woman from a charging bull, is...
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#55
Adjusted Score: 90803%
Synopsis: From Netflix and Sony Pictures AnimaFrom Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation -- the studio that brought you Oscar winner Spider-Man:...
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#56
Adjusted Score: 90338%
Synopsis: When hard times hit Swallow Falls, its townspeople can only afford to eat sardines. Flint Lockwood, a failed inventor, thinks...
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#57
Adjusted Score: 88416%
Synopsis: With Tokyo under siege from rising monster attacks, baseball star Ken Sato reluctantly returns home to take on the mantle...
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#58
Leo (2023)
84%
90%
Adjusted Score: 87386%
Synopsis: Actor and comedian Adam Sandler (Hotel Transylvania, The Wedding Singer) delivers signature laughs in this coming-of-age animated musical comedy about...
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#59
Adjusted Score: 99791%
Synopsis: The citizens of Bricksburg face a dangerous new threat when LEGO DUPLO invaders from outer space start to wreck everything...
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#60
Adjusted Score: 88526%
Synopsis: In the Mexican town of San Angel, Manolo (Diego Luna), Maria (Zoë Saldana) and Joaquin (Channing Tatum) have been friends...
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#61
Adjusted Score: 91458%
Synopsis: After discovering a Yeti on the roof of her apartment building, teenage Yi and her two friends embark on an...
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#62
Adjusted Score: 93167%
Synopsis: Life is good for all the food items that occupy the shelves at the local supermarket. Frank (Seth Rogen) the...
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#63
Adjusted Score: 89311%
Synopsis: Now known as the Dragon Warrior, Po (Jack Black) protects the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung...
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#64
Adjusted Score: 87096%
Synopsis: Mr. Peabody (Ty Burrell), the most accomplished canine in the world, and his boy, Sherman (Max Charles), use a time...
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#65
Adjusted Score: 88091%
Synopsis: Supervillain Gru, a man who delights in all things wicked, hatches a plan to steal the moon. Surrounded by an...
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#66
Adjusted Score: 89166%
Synopsis: Ever since he was a kid monster, Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) has dreamed of becoming a Scarer. To make his...
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#67
Adjusted Score: 84060%
Synopsis: Animated elephant Horton (Jim Carrey) finds a speck of dust floating in the Jungle of Nool. Upon investigation of the...
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#68
Adjusted Score: 84616%
Synopsis: Surfing means everything to teenage penguin Cody Maverick (Shia LaBeouf). Followed by a documentary film crew, he leaves his home...
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#69
Adjusted Score: 90231%
Synopsis: Merida (Kelly Macdonald), the impetuous but courageous daughter of Scottish King Fergus (Billy Connolly) and Queen Elinor (Emma Thompson), is...
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#70
Adjusted Score: 83876%
Synopsis: Animal pals Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer) and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) are still trying to...
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#71
Adjusted Score: 82538%
Synopsis: Twenty-thousand years ago, Earth is a wondrous, prehistoric world filled with great danger, not the least of which is the...
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#72
Adjusted Score: 82803%
Synopsis: Mumble (Elijah Wood), a young emperor penguin, lives in Antarctica. Like others of his kind, he needs to be able...
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#73
Adjusted Score: 84707%
Synopsis: Searching for a safer habitat, the prehistoric Crood family discovers an idyllic, walled-in paradise that meets all of its needs....
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#74
Adjusted Score: 82591%
Synopsis: Migo is a friendly Yeti whose world gets turned upside down when he discovers something that he didn't know existed...
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#75
Adjusted Score: 86519%
Synopsis: Luckily for young Arlo, his parents (Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand) and his two siblings, the mighty dinosaurs were not wiped...
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#76
Adjusted Score: 83317%
Synopsis: After the Bergens invade Troll Village, Poppy (Anna Kendrick), the happiest Troll ever born, and the overly-cautious, curmudgeonly Branch (Justin...
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#77
Adjusted Score: 83404%
Synopsis: Now that Gru has forsaken a life of crime to raise Margo, Agnes and Edith, he's trying to figure out...
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#78
Adjusted Score: 81895%
Synopsis: When Verne (Garry Shandling) and fellow woodland friends awake from winter's hibernation, they find they have some new neighbors: humans,...
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#79
Adjusted Score: 82334%
Synopsis: Generation after generation, immortal Guardians like Santa Claus (Alec Baldwin), the Easter Bunny (Hugh Jackman) and the Tooth Fairy (Isla...
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#80
Adjusted Score: 84411%
Synopsis: While shopping at an outdoor market, young reporter Tintin (Jamie Bell), accompanied by his faithful dog, Snowy, buys a model...
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#81
Adjusted Score: 80387%
Synopsis: No adults believe three youths' (Mitchel Musso, Spencer Locke, Sam Lerner) assertion that a neighboring residence is a living creature...
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#82
Adjusted Score: 91815%
Synopsis: Legendary space ranger Buzz Lightyear embarks on an intergalactic adventure alongside ambitious recruits Izzy, Mo, Darby, and his robot companion,...
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#83
Adjusted Score: 82326%
Synopsis: While traveling to California to race The King and Chick Hicks in the Piston Cup Championship, Lightning McQueen falls out...
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#84
Adjusted Score: 87978%
Synopsis: Disney and Pixar's "Elemental," an all-new, original feature film set in Element City, where fire-, water-, land- and air-residents live...
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#85
Adjusted Score: 77325%
Synopsis: After an ignoble landing in Ratropolis, a pampered rodent (Hugh Jackman) enlists the help of a sewer scavenger (Kate Winslet)...
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#86
Adjusted Score: 82270%
Synopsis: Max (Louis C.K.) is a spoiled terrier who enjoys a comfortable life in a New York building until his owner...
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#87
Adjusted Score: 84536%
Synopsis: Raoul and Emile accidentally release a monster from an eccentric scientist's greenhouse and vow to track it down. They soon...
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#88
Adjusted Score: 78957%
Synopsis: Plucky penguins Skipper (Tom McGrath), Kowalski (Chris Miller), Rico (Conrad Vernon) and Private (Christopher Knights) -- the most elite spies...
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#89
Adjusted Score: 81754%
Synopsis: When a meteor full of space gunk transforms Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) into a giant, the government renames her Ginormica...
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#90
Adjusted Score: 80142%
Synopsis: Though he is the most-brilliant supervillain the world has known, Megamind (Will Ferrell) is the least-successful. Thwarted time and again...
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#91
Adjusted Score: 78130%
Synopsis: This holiday season, Illumination, creators of the blockbuster Minions, Despicable Me, Sing and The Secret Life of Pets comedies, invites...
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#92
Adjusted Score: 74999%
Synopsis: Maurice is a streetwise ginger cat who comes up with a money-making scam by befriending a group of talking rats....
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#93
Adjusted Score: 77101%
Synopsis: Red, Chuck, Bomb and the rest of their feathered friends are surprised when a green pig suggests that they put...
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#94
Rio (2011)
72%
71%
Adjusted Score: 77657%
Synopsis: Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu (Jesse Eisenberg) never learned to fly and...
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#95
Adjusted Score: 80878%
Synopsis: Walt Disney Animation Studios' original action-packed adventure "Strange World" introduces a legendary family of explorers, the Clades, as they attempt...
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#96
Adjusted Score: 80836%
Synopsis: Poppy and Branch discover that there are six different troll tribes scattered over six different lands. Each tribe is also...
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#97
Adjusted Score: 77252%
Synopsis: His genius finally recognized by his idol Chester V, inventor Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader) gets to join Chester's company, where...
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#98
Adjusted Score: 77218%
Synopsis: Prehistoric family the Croods live in a particularly dangerous moment in time. Patriarch Grug (Nicolas Cage), his mate, Ugga (Catherine...
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#99
Adjusted Score: 81293%
Synopsis: After three death-defying adventures defeating world-class villains with his unmatched courage and mad martial arts skills, Po, the Dragon Warrior...
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#100
Adjusted Score: 79602%
Synopsis: Dapper Koala Buster Moon presides over a once-grand theater that has fallen on hard times. An eternal optimist, and a...
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