Every Stop Motion Animated Movie Ranked

[@livmendel]

looking back on this video a year later i've realized just how many movies i have left out due to my "they have to be on a streaming service" rule. it's kind of unfair to do that since there are so many from overseas that have yet to receive a proper release in the states and i want to help shed light on them, like i did for the miracle maker, a town called panic, and the tower. however, i was laid off from my old job while i made this video so i couldn't exactly go crazy and rent/buy a bunch of movies. but it was also because i thought 35 was a good enough number to get the ones people would actually "care about." i've been thinking about it for months and i plan to do an updated version of this ranking later down the line that will include many more movies from overseas, including bringing down the runtime threshold from 60 minutes to 40, which according to the oscars is what counts as feature length. i'm not going to make it anytime soon since watching the movies to uploading the video took *6 months* with school and such and i want to wait when i'm a bit older to see if my taste has changed on any of them. also laika has 2 upcoming movies and wildwood is coming out in 2025 so i at least want to wait for that. in the meantime, if there was a movie you wished made an appearance, let me know so i can keep an eye out for it and add it to my list!

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

My name is Joaquin Valeri and you will like my animation worksike Falklands War Animation Film

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

And wish me good luck

[@Raxele]

I binge watched through most of this ranking list. In x2 speed. Cuz x1 is way too slow. and x2 has double the frames per second.

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

@@Raxele what?

[@AndUhHalf]

definitely check out: The Pied Piper (1986) Faust (1994) $9.99 (2008) Kooky (2010) Consuming Spirits (2012) Junk Head (2017) No Dogs or Italians Allowed (2022) Stopmotion (2023)

[@anonimni1288]

Stop motion is such an underrater medium of animation

[@livmendel]

definitely!

[@Immuffim]

Fr

[@Nicol3c87]

Stop motion claymation is my favorite medium and as an adult I’m sad it’s taken me so long to realize it! 😭 I kinda like that it’s underrated bc then it doesn’t become saturated with not so good movies more often AND the passion projects would get lost in the…stream of not so good movies 😂 Sorry for ranting so much just to agree with you 😅😂

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

You will like my traditional animation style works

[@mcuunofficial7499]

Honestly the movie that made me love Stop-Motion was Tim Burton’s Nightmare Before Christmas and also probably one of the best Stop-Motion film of all time. At least that’s how I see it.

[@Sermalla]

I would also put Nightmare at #1 for its brilliant animation but also for its unforgettable soundtrack.

[@lc355]

reminder henry selik directed that film

[@raghvendrarao3182]

How about Junk Head

[@ferbfletcher3151]

Found you through Awesomemay’s community tab and I’m so glad! Currently binging your channel! Amazing Video!!!

[@livmendel]

that’s awesome, i was wondering who all these new people were!! thanks so much! :))

[@afilmbee]

ahh yes, the best form (or my _personal_ favorite) of animation finally getting it's due respect from non other than liv mendel✨ 30:42 i've only heard of the tower recently and i've yet to watch it but heck yeah, i will eat up any middle eastern cinema (thanks for the recommendation in a way) great ranking, love to see the laika, aardman and indie animation appreciations !! great ranking and editing, another hit from you once more :) also THE PIRATES IN AN ADVENTURE WITH SCIENTISTS SUPREMACYYY !!

[@livmendel]

thank you 💘💝💓💞💗💖💕

[@random88667]

Fantastic mr fox, the nightmare before christmas, corpse bride and coraline might be the best motion animated movies ive ever watch.

[@AcidicFuzzAnimations]

When I watch a movie at home, the popcorn is usually gone within the first twenty minutes because I sometimes have a hard time paying attention to the movie. When I watched Kubo and the Two Strings for the first time, the popcorn bowl was about 3/4 full by the end because I was so spellbound by the film that I couldn't do anything else. I was thrilled to see it at the top of your list, and while I haven't seen all the films on this list (yet!), I'm sure it would be at the top of mine too! I will never pass up a chance to recommend it to people as it is just criminally underrated, and it's always nice to see it being given the love it deserves. This was a great video and now I have a long list of cool stop motion movies to watch! (Also you really should watch Arthur Christmas; it's a really well-written movie and a seasonal favorite of mine.)

[@TheAnimatorOfOpallyon]

22:48 Hola, aquí un chileno. Thanks for recognizing stop motion and chilean cinema (although if it's chilean TV what we're talking about I highly recommend 31 Minutos)

[@livmendel]

you’re welcome!! i’ll check it out :)

[@TheAnimatorOfOpallyon]

@@livmendel, it's a parody show of news channels and television with muppet-like characters, some episodes I'd encourage anyone to watch if they're interested would be the Christmas special, "31 minutos educativio" and "qué lástima" all episodes are available for free on YT with eng. subs and everything, the writting on the show is top notch with excellent humour and satyre.

[@TheAnonymous189]

I love this list! You did a wonderful job at making this list! I’ll definitely have to check this list out!

[@livmendel]

what’s YOUR favorite stop motion animated movie? and thank you to karsten runquist and jeff borislow for their advice podcast episode on making videos, it was specifically for this one i worked on

[@afilmbee]

fantastic mr fox, the nightmare before christmas, the pirates andd coraline

[@SpaceTreeStudios]

"you know what, fuck you" *4:3's your 16:9 flag*

[@livmendel]

⁠@@SpaceTreeStudios *slaps down uno reverse card* (it’s the nepal flag)

[@bugisbonkers]

Coraline. It’s actually my favorite movie of all time

[@ferbfletcher3151]

The Little Prince!

[@leflstopmotion]

Great job! This video goes on my favorites list! Lots of material for me to use in my videos! thanks!

[@giangeegibb]

Fantastic video! Glad to see some stop motion love!

[@livmendel]

thank you so much!! 🥰🥰

[@Algox]

I'm Peruvian and that Spanish segment got me flabbergasted cuz that pronunciation was spot on! Great video as well!

[@livmendel]

¡gracias! 💖💖

[@PinedaPhoenix]

As awkward as that scene was to witness for you in Anomalisa, at least you didn’t see that in a theater where the row in front of you was a family that probably thought this was a kids movie because it was animated (yes, this is true story of what happened when I saw it a second time….)

[@livmendel]

oh nooo what happened? did they leave?

[@PinedaPhoenix]

@@livmendel they didn’t leave, but I remember distinctly during that scene, the kids who were with the parents put a blanket over their heads during that part so they won’t see. Though one would wonder why parents would take their kids to that movie cause as someone who loves Anomalisa, If I saw it as a kid, I’d probably be bored by it.

[@nickbianchini3967]

You look gorgeous Olivia! I love your makeup and nails!

[@livmendel]

thanks :DD

[@Sermalla]

Yes, agreed! The nails and and those uno reverse earrings!!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@prerna_padma]

Really like your take, and the presentation in the video!!!

[@livmendel]

thank you so much, i’m glad you liked it!!

[@prerna_padma]

I think this video will be in my top lists, cause it's so good! really!!!

[@livmendel]

💞💘💗💝💓💕💖

[@larrymendel9280]

Awesome video. I cut my teeth on the Davy and goliath tv show, but my favorite pick would have to be the original Clash of Titians. Yes it was a live action movie but so much of it was stop motion, I think it qualifies.

[@Ineed-Coffeee]

9:10 "yeah yeah your very smart shut up" 9:21 "who are you?" "An angel" "what's your name" "Satan"

[@Fkamynk]

This was such a good video. My favorites are Coraline and Mary and Max

[@livmendel]

good choices, and thank you so much!! 💞💖💝💓💕

[@RileyShaw-ry7xz]

🎼 22:58 I just 🎵met a girl named 23:01 🎶

[@therewillbefudd]

Great video! Also, the entire Town Called Panic series is available on blu-ray! Also, God will punish you for your Fantastic Planet ranking. Also, great video!!!

[@kelleyceccato7025]

With regard to GDT's Pinocchio and the Oscars, I was most disappointed that it was shut out of a well-deserved Best Adapted Screenplay nomination. Marcel the Shell would also have deserved such a nom. But the Academy seems determined these days to keep animated films locked out of every category except Best Animated Feature -- as if animated films are not, quite frequently, the best films of the years they're released. Thank you for all those Gravity Falls clips! Any little bit of GF makes me smile. I wouldn't put Kubo at the top of my list, but it is indeed a beautiful film whose box-office failure breaks my heart to this day. Why were moviegoers flooding the theater to see Suicide Squad when THIS was out there? I'll never understand it.

[@Hatmonk111]

I’ve started watching stop motion like 2 Shaun the sheep movies, and fantastic Mr fox (my favorite so far) and this has been helpful finding more of these moviws

[@Valley0fDeath]

Another stop motion movie is ‘The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb’ it’s like a more tame version of Mad God, but with sympathetic characters. It also uses a unique animation technique were real humans are animated like stop motion puppets. Also the Gumby Movie

[@micahslaydon7324]

Just to be honest kubo and the two strings is my favorite stop motion film because it’s beautiful funny amazing and the song is really good.

[@wetfart6956]

Anyone remember a movie about a kid trying to resurrect his mom by finding a blue bird man???

[@Brione30]

26:14 Immaculate background Kaguya reference!

[@livmendel]

*chef’s kiss*

[@Sermalla]

Thank you for your rankings. I truly appreciate stop motion more than traditional 2-d/3-d animation, but I honestly skipped to the films I loved till this day. However I saw Chicken Run in the introduction of the video, but I didn't see it in the ranking. Did I miss it? I truly love this film's quirky character designs and the overall message: always strive for freedom (a better life) and don't become complacent. However I agree that Kubo is a beautiful film! Do you think the voice actors should be the same race/nationality of the character? I guess this is one way to respect the culture. It's a topic I never thought about since I care more about the performance. For example Avatar Last Airbender has a diverse cast, and I loved each actor's performance in this show. I wouldn't want to replace anyone.

[@livmendel]

hi! chicken run is #13 :) and i did touch on it, but i do believe kubo should have had more japanese voice actors. i know there’s that argument “it’s just a voice, you can’t see their face,” i kinda believed it too at one point, but it would’ve made the movie more authentic. i mean japan has *schools* for voice acting, they take it so much more seriously than here where major studios just pay celebrities. besides, there’s bound to be many asian americans VAs looking for a job. if i had to see it from laika’s point of view, yeah, it probably would’ve been harder to see them out, but it would’ve been cheaper in the long run. i just think representation is important, whether it’s on or off screen, in front or behind the camera!

[@Sermalla]

@@livmendel Sorry I typed that wrong, I mean "did I miss it?" and I did lol. Thank you for Chicken Run. This film is "Very British" with great cinematography. And now that you mention it, I am in the mode for Chicken Pot Pie too lol. That's very true. Why not hire very talented voice actors who are not as well known...they save money that way. I remember your stance on how celebrities are turning the VA business upside down. Also when there are panels and fan events, it would be nice to see the culture represented behind the scenes too.

[@Brione30]

I’m sure there’s some reason why a movie about Mark Twain features a scene where Satan creates and destroys life in front of some little children… but I think it works better without context

[@vojtechpapp3957]

Just FYI- Czechoslovakia has not existed since '92 when it split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia. So, it's not two different countries with the same flag.

[@Nkanyiso_K]

17:13 it's really disappointing to see how many years he spent trying to get *Shadow King* off the ground with Disney. I think that company doesn't have the patience for Stop Motion especially given their Internal power stuggles (& Stop Motion not being Box Office catnip to begin with)

[@SadKris]

Damn.. I always considered Kubo to be such a niche movie, but it made me really happy to see it at the top of the list. It's absolutely my favorite by all means

[@FrontRoomProductionsanimation]

Fantastic!

[@ashkannayyeri1011]

Very good video! I have so much in common with your ranking such as fantastic mr fox and pinocchio, Although I love Alice and all of the Svankmajer movies. And I recommend you to watch "Toys in the attic" 2009. Maybe it's a most creative stop-motion animation that I've ever seen.

[@gorewitchblackmetal]

I love stop motion and all, but I think the film Mad God was crazy, even crazyer, the film took 30 YEARS to make.

[@I_l0vemybesties]

OML THANK YOU!!! I COULDENT REMEBER KUBO!! IVE BEEN TRYING SO HARD TO REMEBER WHHAT THAT MOVIE WAS CALLED😭🙏🙏🙏

[@MaxineLuvsDirt]

Hi this is ensemble member #1 of nightmare please for the love of god do not watch it im begging you all

[@livmendel]

noooo stop it shhhhhh

[@livmendel]

oh wait i thought you meant my video HA i want people to find it i dare them

[@noveltea9593]

I clicked on this video because my sister's name is Olivia Maendel and she loves stop motion 😳

[@livmendel]

ooh creepy! i once went to school with someone with the exact name as me, except the very last letter was a z instead of an l 🥴

[@DragonQueen-ox8dk]

7:03 soooo, basically American McGee's Alice/ Alice madness returns but in movie form?

[@MaxineLuvsDirt]

shoutout to my earrings I made someone pay me

[@livmendel]

yayyyyy!!!

[@dandelves]

Will watch anything stop-motion Laika produce and will be buying tickets for Wildwood in 2025 and The Night Gardener. My personnel favourite is also Kubo followed by Coraline

[@christofrip1723]

What?!? No ''The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix'' you clearly missed out on the greatest

[@livmendel]

i’ve been wanting to watch that one for years but it’s not streaming anywhere sorryyyy 😫😫

[@ThSkBj]

For shame

[@pamela-623]

love love stop motion, think my love for it started with the nightmare before christmas and right now my favorite is pinocchio, a town called panic is at the top of my "to watch later" list, not a movie but im also excited to watch frankeldas book of spooks

[@Ryuaza]

Awesomemay Viewers waiting for awesomemay mario movie review here☝☝

[@luluxiee]

hiii

[@livmendel]

i only now saw his community post, which explains this PFFF THANK YOU

[@MrHangman56]

Havent seen a lot of these movies but i really need to. As for fantastic mr fox, i watched it a few days ago, i didnt mind the first half, but after the scene of the toast, it got a bit too wacky and random for me, especially with the dancing while they steal everything. It dragged on really long

[@minecraftbar8321]

I’m glad andymations sent me here 😊

[@livmendel]

sweet, thanks for coming!

[@vidverbic]

for me i am not a big fan of titanic but i respect that your used your own opinion

[@medicinemaaan]

Labeling the chapters instead of numbering them would have been very helpful. I understand you want people to watch all the way through but even in the description you have it numbered and it shows viewership is more important than the viewers who are watching.

[@VonGehenna]

THANK YOU Soo Much!!! I didn't know there was a stop-motion Film about Palestine, it was SO GOOD!!

[@jonhinson5701]

As far as Paranormal is concerned, people these days would go bat shit crazy that the muscle guy has a boyfriend.

[@dsw-2898]

Damn fantastic planet being ranked last and yellow submarine slander all in the first ranking is pretty crazy Also I really don't agree with the rankings besides kubo being number 1 since that's also my number 1👊

[@livmendel]

me out here with these hot takes 🔥 glad we can agree on #1 tho!!

[@dsw-2898]

@@livmendel ✌️

[@maurycyoseka1057]

31: The Missing Link 3/10 30: Even Mice Go to Heaven 3/10 29: Shaun the Sheep: The Movie 4/10 28: Shaun the Sheep: Farmaggedon 4/10 27: James and the Giant Peach 4/10 26: Wendell & Wild 4/10 25: Early Man 5/10 24: Mary and Max 5/10 23: Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget 5/10 22: Frankenweenie 5/10 21: The House 6/10 20: Animal Comforts 6/10 19: Wallace & Gromit in The Angry Trousers 6/10 18: Wallace & Grmoti in A Close Shave 6/10 17: Corpse Bride 6/10 16: Adventure of Mark Twain 6/10 15: Isle of the Dogs 7/10 14: Wallace & Gromit in A Matter of Loaf and Death 7/10 13: Gulimero Del Toro's Pinocchio 7/10 12: Kubo and the Two Strings 7/10 11: Wallace & Gromit in A Great Day Out 8/10 10: Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit 8/10 9: Boxtrolls 8/10 8: Chicken Run 8/10 7: My Name is Zucchini 9/10 6: ParaNorman 9/10 5: Robin Robin 9/10 4: Pirates: A Band of Misfits 9/10 3: Fantastic Mr. Fox 9/10 2: Nightmare Before Christmas 9/10 1: Coraline 10/10

[@Nick_V]

Really interesting video and loved seeing some from Czechoslovakia. About that I think you'd find Pat & Mat interesting. If you search it up you'll most likely see the show but they also have a film. There's also no talking which means that pretty much anyone can follow the story🙂 Also it's stop motion👍🏻

[@livmendel]

sweet, thank you!! i’ll check it out

[@The_Non-One]

Anyone watch “The Inventor” when it was in theaters this year? Awesome movie, hope it gets a blu ray

[@livmendel]

i saw it last month, i was the only one in the auditorium cause i saw on a monday just after noon 🥴 i’d personally put it at #22 in between the house and corpse bride

[@nuggettheory3409]

*le gasp* Prince Achmed the tiger lover himself has a movie?!

[@missaliceoliphant]

The Fantastic Planet hate im gonna SCREAM

[@missaliceoliphant]

AND MAD GOD ?!?!>!?>?X!??!?!?>C!?C!?!J!>!>!?!?!?

[@missaliceoliphant]

A N D ALICE GIRL IM GONNA PASS OUT

[@livmendel]

i warned you

[@missaliceoliphant]

@@livmendel (rlyrly great video btw heehoo :)

[@livmendel]

@@missaliceoliphant thank you thank you 💖💝💕💞💘💗💓

[@williampulfer-melville8536]

Mary an Max is a great stop motion movie from my Country Australia

[@appleseed7906]

To call Laika's films stop motion is to ignore the extent to which they use CGI.

[@prerna_padma]

Subscribedd !!!

[@livmendel]

yayyy!! 🥰

[@odenoki9571]

Alot of your criticisms for these movies are very bad and unconstructive. I get its more your personal taste but im thinking you're just illequipped to understand alot of the symbolism, plot points and subtext in these movies Its just very surface level critiques for someone that eagerly wants to portay themselves as a movie critic

[@esjaybee5555]

Meow! Bitchy. What was the name of your channel? I would love to check it out. Especially if you have the correct equipment. 🦄

[@CartoonsEveryone]

I agree, and some of the movies she rushes through and hardly say anything about them like James and the Giant Peach as an example.

[@blueshattrick]

The Wallace and Gromit shorts are better than most of the films listed here, btw..

[@damianrivers3772]

Waaaaaaaay too low for The Fantastic Mister Fox! That’s an awesome stop motion flick. Hella funny!

[@rheneastheorangetankengine8727]

Rank all stip motion series like crosgrove hall and aardman

[@vidverbic]

mine top 5 5. early man 4.fantastic planet 3.old man the movie 2.boxtrolls 1.coraline

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

And when i grow up i will become a famous film director of animation and is made in Argentina and they will be a animated film center on Falklands War and will be a War Animated Film

[@MilleniumGairbrush]

My favourite hard to find stop motion was mad monster party true classic

[@SpaceTreeStudios]

you're welcome

[@livmendel]

alexa play you’re welcome from moana

[@Katia_Targaryen]

Ohhh. That Perfect Blue sueter is perfect. 💜🖤💜🖤

[@usmaanilyas8639]

Theres also Mad Monster Party (1967)

[@livmendel]

i missed a full length rankis/bass movie oh noooo

[@SpaceTreeStudios]

@@livmendel I can make it worse. It just got a brand new blu-ray from Umbrella down in Australia.

[@JorgeRodriguez-qx9kj]

What about "The Tale of the Fox" (1937) ? It is a very good one too.

[@a15yearold]

Your underrated

[@silly_lily6241]

you missed one of my personal favorite stop motion movies. 9

[@livmendel]

that’s computer animated, though i do need to check it out at some point!

[@raghvendrarao3182]

Watched Junk head and gonna watch Mad God. Tell mee more

[@cyrusthevirus9878]

I do believe you forgot the movie 9

[@CartoonsEveryone]

9 is computer animated

[@thomasbrown8468]

My favorite art form. Just trying to learn more about it. I watched coroline with my then future wife about 309 times. 99 percent of the time we were eating farm fresh mushrooms from Al we were living like hippies in the woods and coroline is it Caroline. Slipped the matrix sorry

[@TurtleVicking45]

What she say 24:04

[@tiogumpa]

22:50 Aquí hay un Chileno✌🏼

[@creepygoobers]

Mad god was awesome ngl

[@kristenleichty2813]

where is flushed away

[@mizusaki_alienalien]

Bro she said that flushed away isn’t eligible, sorry.

[@ShirubaGin]

It's CGI

[@livmendel]

yep, it was originally going to be in stop motion, it being an aardman production and all, but since the setting revolves so much around water and you can’t control it frame by frame, they decided to have it computer animated instead

[@tanjirokamado1031]

I really didn't like Mad God and no not because it was "too dark". Doom 2016 and Doom Eternal were amazing. I hated the movie because the story was lame and there was no artistic integration for the gore and blood. I get it took 30 years but Food Fight took over 10 and look how that turned out. Nobody has the nerve to talk good about Food Fight yet Mad God gets a pass because it has "good symbolism"?

[@traceypickett2688]

Okay so theres no fantastic mr fox😢

[@livmendel]

it’s #10??

[@michaelbaker4921]

Monster house?????

[@CartoonsEveryone]

That's computer animated

[@BobCorby]

You forgot 9.

[@livmendel]

tim burton may have produced it, but it’s entirely cgi. still need to check it out though

[@yobanda1680]

Video was so much longer than it should have been... U were cute thou

[@thomasbrown8468]

Hey. I never seen the yellow submarine you. Youuuu. lol. I have the little hot wheel yellow submarine

[@Elblus69]

Where is Hell and Back? I know is a god awful movie but is still a stop motion movie.

[@gabrielcastro2460]

What about hell and back i know this movie was shit but it was stop motion

[@livmendel]

i couldn’t find it a n y w h e r e. kind of feels like lost media now. but i watched the trailer and that was more than enough for me

[@Max-ub6xu]

I love the Kubo as number 1! Extremely well deserved

[@martinruiz6879]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@thomasbrown8468]

Y

[@joaquinvaleri7022]

I don't like 2023 because that year was disappointed and i don't interesed that pinocchio stop motion and sorry

[@J.A.H.A.A.M.F]

ME TOO KUBO IS GOOD

[@TFniqqa]

When you put "Fantastic Planet" on the last list, which is first isn't even a stop-motion, second you said you won't include South Park because it's a paper cut out animation, yet you said Fantastic planet is also the same, which makes your review very inconsistent and a flop. and third you don't understand the story i guess lol, that's a top tier, you have bad taste or don't know how to give a review. Lol

[@esjaybee5555]

You didn't hear it correctly. I believe she explained that some of early Southpark {the tv show which wouldn't have been eligible anyway} used the paper cut technique. I have always loved Fantastic Planet, and I too was disappointed in its ranking on this list. It would be dumb to dismiss the entire list and video because of that though, don't you think?