Top 10 Most Underrated Animated Movies of the 2010s

The Top Ten
1 Kubo and the Two Strings

The craftsmanship in this is incredible. People might mistake it for another CG movie, rather than stop-motion. See any of the making-of videos for details you may have missed.

Just saw it a week ago and I LOVED it. Although I feel like only a more mature audience will be able to truly appreciate it for what it is.

This movie, a complete masterpiece, didn't make its production budget. Meanwhile, crap like Ice Age 5 and Emoji Movie make very high amounts.

Beautiful. Just beautiful.
Hands down, it's one of the best movies I've ever seen. The animation is stunning and the storyline is powerful and unforgettable.

2 The Book of Life

Watched this one in my Spanish II class. I wish I saw it earlier because I thought it was a charmingly good movie with a very interesting animation style

My favourite animated movie of all time.

Amazing movie but not talked about

My aunt actually worked on this. I fell in love with it when it came out on Bluray. I only hope Disney can avoid ripping this off when they make Coco.
-KyubeyFuel

3 Megamind

The brain of a villain with the heart of a hero. What's not to like? It was quirky and unusual plus it had great music. I loved Megamind's character. He was the the underdog that was always living in the hero's shadow. He just wanted to be appreciated and noticed and when he wasn't he decided to be a villain. I enjoyed watching his character evolve into a hero. The movie had it all: humor, action, romance, and diabolical dance numbers.

Aside from the cliched unoriginal storytelling, Megamind had some decent jokes, good voice acting, beautiful animation, fantastic action, and an outstanding soundtrack with songs such as Back in Black and Welcome to the Jungle. I was disappointed this movie never got the fame and sequels it's rival Despicable Me got all these years, because it really deserved more than it got.

I was surprised at how clever the humor was in this one. I have to say, this was a lot better than what I expected. It's deserving of a high place on this list, for sure.

Megamind is a funny super villain. This movie is really a good comedy movie.
Especially, I like the song " I'm Bad" at the end, which is the highlight of this movie.
Really, I'm gonna say it, "It is not the under ratings we should care about. It is upto our own ratings that we like the movie or not".

4 Shaun the Sheep Movie

I couldn't care less about the whole 'underrated' criteria a ton of lists have overused on here, though I absolutely loved this movie. Animated comedies nowadays definitely need to take inspiration from this movie's hilarious quirks!

I have ALWAYS loved both Shaun the Sheep Wallace and Gromit. This movie was hilarious and brought me back to my childhood

I don't understand why this movie is so underrated. It is amazing and full of good humor for the whole family to join in on.

I like that Aardman can make a really good movie out of this. It IS funny and creative to me and liked it a lot seeing it in the cinema.

5 The Pirates! Band of Misfits

I like this movie because it is British so that makes everything better. And they could do with pirates increased the possiblites of Aardman animation.

This movie looks hilarious yet heartwarming and beautiful.

6 Paranorman

I like this movie. It is about a boy who can talk to ghost and everyone thinks he is crazy but depend on him to save them all in the end. I think it is a really good animated movie.

Really fun and scary, kept me interested throughout.

7 Pokemon the Movie: Hoopa and the Clash of Ages
8 Rise of the Guardians

Yes! I really enjoyed this movie and I like the fact all our holiday heroes e.g. Santa. Are all one. Like the Nightmare Before Christmas, it was an very good movie and one of the best that year for animation and Dreamworks alike.

I've never seen this movie, but the movie itself is underrated. But with all the Jelsa stuff (Jack Frost and Elsa shippings) is what makes this movie somewhat relevant. This movie looks really good.

It is an underrated classic, I can't believe it hardly gets praised.

One of DreamWorks most beautiful films.

9 Wreck-It Ralph

This movie has one of the most heartbreaking scenes in cinematic history(ok maybe that's a little exaggerated). I just don't feel it's recognised as much as other movies, that aren't even as good.

Wreck It Ralph is so underrated. People should pay more attention to this masterpiece than watch those horrible movies such as Norm of the North and Emoji Movie.

This movie is not underrated

10 Monsters University

I'm surprised people don't hold this movie in high regards like a lot of the other Pixar movies.
I think this is a great prequel that builds upon the relationship of Mike and Sully, shows where Randall's rivalry with Sully began and has a brave but admirable message to it.

I'm going to be honest and say I found this underrated. It's a good origin story. Not Pixar at their best but it's not at its worst like people say

I honestly thought this was a great movie and way more developed than the two previous Pixar movies Brave and Cars 2.

Finally number 10, this movie is one of my Top 10 Pixar Movies, it shows a sense of friendship and how Mike and Sulley became friends.

The Contenders
11 Frankenweenie

Underrated as hell man. Not talked about enough because I found it better than Shrek and Shrek 2. I found it amazing.

This is a great film but a bit scary for younger kids

12 Epic

I like this movie a lot. Everyone was fearing it'd be the same thing as FernGully and Avatar, but it isn't; there's no environmental message, no man vs. nature story, just a chance to be a fun little fantasy adventure about seeing the world from the perspective of borrower-esque beings. The animation is gorgeous, the best to come out of Blue Sky thus far, the writing is great, the voice actors all fit their roles, some quiet sympathetic moments, creative visuals, and surprisingly good pacing for a movie that takes place over the course of one day. 7/10

Blue Sky's creativity went through the roof with this to me. I really enjoyed and wish it did better than Ice Age 4 and Rio 2. I found it better and people missed a chance with this.

It was okay, I guess it is too generic. (That three-legged pug though.)

This movie was horrible

13 The Peanuts Movie
14 The Good Dinosaur

From Pixar, this movie has actually been forgetten. I like more than Dinosaur is a very good movie and I like it a lot.

I actually kinda liked this movie. Granted, it's far from Pixar's best but it wasn't bad at all.

The story was just bland to me, I guess it just wasn't something people were looking for.

I think this movie is popular and underrated too.

15 Rango

This may have been made by Nickelodeon (the company that brought us The Thundermans, Sanjay & Craig, Deadtime Stories, The Mighty B., Nick Jr., the Fred Figglehorn franchise, Fanboy & Chum-Chum, Barnyard, the recent Dan Schneider Nickcoms like Sam & Cat, Henry Danger, Zoey 101 and Game Shakers), but Rango takes place in the Old West and does not pander to little kids like genders are COMPLETELY different from each other.

This movie is really funny, and I do think it's underrated because barely anyone mentions it these days

Easily one of the best animated films in decades. The animation in particular is outstanding.

Haha! I remember watching this as a kid.

16 It's Such a Beautiful Day

This whole movie is such a beautiful day! - The Ultimate Daredevil

Amazing and beautiful movie

17 Mr. Peabody & Sherman

This movie deserves better.

18 The Croods

Croods! Need I say more? This movie deserves better too.

Holy...this is the most underrated. The story was outstanding and wasnt kidsy like Minions.

19 Arthur Christmas

A great Christmas movie, this is great Christmas movie and I like the fact it is catching with modern times and like it for that fact

Great movie and one of Aardman's best. Funny, charming and very Christmasy, this feel-great film should hopefully become a festive favourite in the future.

20 Minions

Terrible movie that deserved it's hate to be honest. What was so good about this movie to people, I don't know. And don't tell me it was "funny", because I was uterrly bored watching this

Minions is too overrated to be honest. I still like it though.

Amazing film I love it when little gru comes

21 The Secret World of Arrietty

I feel so sorry for AniMat if he was hated for having positive opinions on Wreck-It Ralph, Arrietty, stop-motion, the Madagascar trilogy, Pixar and not loving Hotel Transylvania duology, The Lorax (2012) or the second half of the Ice Age sequels.

I really enjoyed this movie and really actually would reccomand it and I really like it.

Not the best Studio Ghibli movie but still worth checking out.

Female stereotypes everywhere, hated it

22 The Wind Rises

Pretty good film. And I think it was better than that bad When Marnie was there and mediocre Kaguya.

23 Wolf Children
24 The Boxtrolls

I like the fact that most of my animated movies on this list as Stop-Motion animation. It is great and creative movie throughout and give it a watch.

One of the most overrated movies of 2014. Whenever someone says that they don't like The Boxtrolls in favor of Big Hero 6, they get thumbed down. >:(

25 Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva

This came out in 2009! IDIOT! 1

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