Items6The creator’s order
  1. 1The Cat in the Hat (2026)The Cat in the Hat (2026) 6.7/10 on IMDbReleased 31 Oct 2026The 2026 animated film keeps the Cat as an agent of chaos but gives him a job to do: cheer up two siblings who have moved to a new town. The feature's different animation styles are the attraction. A character who can bounce out of ordinary space is much more interesting when the film can change…0
  2. 2Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) 6.9/10 on IMDbReleased 17 Sept 2009Phil Lord and Christopher Miller take the book's idea of food falling from the sky and find a comic reason for it: an inventor who can't resist making his machine do a little more. That makes the changing weather an escalating visual joke, from edible showers to absurdly oversized meals. Pick this…0
  3. 3Horton Hears a Who! (2008)Horton Hears a Who! (2008) 6.8/10 on IMDbReleased 3 Mar 2008A speck that Horton can barely see becomes a whole city once the film cuts inside it. That change in scale gives the 2008 feature a reliable source of gags, especially when the mayor's attempts to warn Whoville sound as ridiculous to his neighbours as Horton sounds to his. The extra characters let…0
  4. 4The Polar Express (2004)The Polar Express (2004) 6.6/10 on IMDbReleased 10 Nov 2004Chris Van Allsburg's snowy journey becomes a series of little train adventures in Robert Zemeckis's feature. Watch for the way the sound of the locomotive and the scale of the North Pole make the trip feel huge without losing its late-night hush. The motion-captured faces can look uncanny, a…0
  5. 5The Boss Baby (2017)The Boss Baby (2017) 6.3/10 on IMDbReleased 23 Mar 2017Marla Frazee's joke about a baby running the household like an executive gets a smart visual partner in Tim, whose fantasies turn sibling rivalry into miniature action scenes. The corporate espionage plot gets busy, but Alec Baldwin's deadpan delivery is funny precisely because he treats a playroom…0
  6. 6The Lorax (2012)The Lorax (2012) 6.4/10 on IMDbReleased 1 Mar 2012The 2012 feature gives the book's environmental warning an invented framing town where trees are plastic and fresh air is sold by the bottle. Its strongest comic idea is how normal this seems to the people who live there. The added chase and songs make the message broader, but the contrast between…0