*Toy Story* forward: the rendered era, and its best work.
first fully computer-animated feature
the rare sequel that deepens the first
Pixar's most emotionally efficient
the first Best Animated Feature Oscar
Pixar's most purely pleasurable
funnier and better constructed than the original
Pixar's best-structured film
Best Animated Feature, and the tap sequences
Pixar's most adult
DreamWorks' best-directed film
the first 40 minutes are silent-cinema-grade
Lord and Miller's origin point
the first ten minutes
the animation phenomenon of its decade
DreamWorks' one masterpiece
overlooked in theaters, re-canonized by the internet
the film that saved Disney animation
the incinerator
Disney's smartest premise in years
the most-watched animated film ever made, by most measures
the most underrated Disney film of the decade
darker, bigger, and it earns it
should have been an ad; wasn't
Pixar's best idea
a CG adaptation that respects the drawings
the best songs Disney has commissioned this century
the jukebox animated musical, done with real charm
a kids' film about systemic bias that actually works
Pixar's most emotionally direct
fourteen years later, and it holds
changed what animation could look like
the unnecessary sequel that justifies itself
Pixar's most philosophical
the songs became inescapable for a reason
Pixar's smallest and sunniest
the funniest animated film in years
a sequel nobody wanted that redefined DreamWorks' look
animation with no visual rules
briefly the biggest animated film ever made
the best-looking mainstream animation in years
a billion dollars, and the series still isn't done
