Heh, have to agree with everything here. God, Robots was awful. I hated Cars, too. I mean, hello? Story?

Square Enix was just Square before this failure. After the movie bombed they closed up thier Hawaii studio and it almost put their company under until Enix decided that they were still viable enough to merge with.

Your job it horrible - there isnt enough scotch, miller lite and weed to get me to watch more than two minutes of Shark Tales. What you do for your job is amazing.

Shrek: By the third movie, Shrek had become the very same formulaic excuse for supporting a merchandising bonanza that the first film railed against. I'd say Disney won that war.

Dinosaur: I once had aspirations of being a paleontologist, and I know how badly Hollywood fares when it comes to anything scientific, but watching how this movie raped science with a broken bottle was just too much for me.

You should have made a Top 15 list. Then you would have had to make judgement calls on Ice Age 2, Dougal, or Hoodwinked.

You're wrong about Shrek being Dreamworks' first CG movie. Antz came first in 1998.

I agree on how Final Fantasy is dull. Not sure about the other FF that followed.

I quite liked Shrek 2, the story was getting lost, but it was entertaining. The 3rd one fell really, really hard though.
Dinosaur was absolutely awful...I have no idea what they were thinking on that one...and THANK YOU for including Final Fantasy Spirits Within!
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to see Wall-E.

Snoodle: Wall-E was so fucking brilliant it almost made me forget I'd ever seen any of these turds.

I really think Doogal should have been high on the list considering what a hoo ha they made over changing voice talent and pushing the crap out of it only to have what I personally think is the worst thing ever committed to celluoid.

Disney isn't done failing yet, get an eyeload of this shit sandwich they're going to be feeding the bastard youth of this dying country.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoNDp03udhg

Fuck independence day.

Also, Wall-e was basically the tits.

Shrek? Are you kidding me? Shrek totally ROCKED!

JT
http://www.Ultimate-Anonymity.com

You are CRAZY!
Final Fantasy: Advent Children is a #1!!!
The storyline, the CG, the emotions, the characters...

Am I the only one who liked Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within? All over the internet I see people bashing it but I didn't think it was that bad. Far better then some (hell, MOST) other crap that becomes a movie today.

While I agree that Cars is not a good movie and easily the worst of the Pixar films, it doesn't belong anywhere near the 10 worst CG movies. Even if you don't count the lower budget films (of which there are many that are far worse than Cars) Pixar's worst still defeats the best of most other studios.

im surprised that jimmy neutron didnt make the list

I'm surprised you didn't mention that Shark Tale borrowed heavily from Goodfellas and other gangster movies, but since most kids haven't seen those movies (hopefully) there wasn't really anything for them to relate to plot wise.

Great write up!

What about Barnyard, that was pretty bad also.

No Madagascar, Everyone's Hero, Open Season, Surf's Up or Valiant on the list?

Bee Movie anyone? That movies was just as bad as sharktale if not worse.

It had everything that he says make CG movies bad.
Celebs, pop culture references, bad story, Jokes about the Bee version of different shit. It is terrible.

Thank you - I was stunned to not see Barnyard on this list. I disliked Cars and Pixar deserves to be called out for that clunker but I really think Barnyard deserved to be near the top of this list. The similarly unloveable Open Season and, yes, Madagascar deserve spots, too, but it is hard to argue for the removal of any of them. Shark Tale is an excellent choice for #1. It is unwatchable.

And, actually, I thought Shrek 2 was much funnier than the original Shrek - mainly thanks to Jennifer Saunders and Antonio Banderas - although the dreadful third one rightfully deserves a spot on this list.

Wow. You hate a bunch of movies made for kids. Good job. Except for Final Fantasy (which I liked). I'm suprised you didn't include Open Season, which was terrible but my children enjoyed very much. I guess you have to stomp on the money makers.

Are you suggesting that if Hoodwinked had a bigger budget it would have made this list? Sry bro, but Hoodwinked is a gem among crap, despite its sub par animation(or maybe because of it)

F-U all you chodes are dill holes....any animation made is for kids...Polar Express was bad only becuase of the crappy dork voice....the rest are fun for what they are...cartoons....each of need to chill out and STFU....bunch of dickheads

Yes, Cars was a disappointing release from Pixar, but it still at a level far above the rest of the listed movies.

If anything, it should be bumped off by Monster House. Seriously, watching Monster House was like pulling teeth and gargling with lemon juice.

How exactly did that wretched dancing penguin movie not make this list? That was one of the worst pieces of crap I've ever had to sit through, dressed up with a faux soul hokey soundtrack aimed right at the drooling American Idol-watching masses. That was way worse than Cars ever was.

I nominate The Ant Bully.

Seriously: has there ever been a higher celebrity-voice-who-is-not-known-for-being-a-voice-actor—to—original-concept ratio in an animated movie? Who would have recognized Nicholas Cage or Julia Roberts if their names weren't plastered all over it? Could they possibly have been worth the money? And exactly how many CG bug movies do we have to see before we can conclude the genre has been adequately explored?

"they’re also building an entire theme park section at Disney’s California Adventure called Carsland."

Well the tin foil hat wearer in me would say this a great way to teach our young that automobiles are as natural as air and water and to get them used to the fact your life is going to revolve around 4 tires and hydrocarbons. In the US it's almost as if a car is an entitlement, something owed to you... I've never understood it, but then again I choose not to drive. How (sadly) atypical.

wow when i saw the title of this article, i assumed it would be about the animation itself, not the plot of an animated film. wow good job! every childrens movie has a lame plot!? seriously?! you mean adults are not the target audience for family movies? wow. i assumed cars and sharks tale would have been extremely deep dramas with amazing character development not campy movies that are fun for the whole family. wow! i am being sarcastic. you suck. if you are going to write an article about cg movies, perhaps you should actually critique the animation instead of acting surprised that you weren't moved by a movie targeted at a very young audience.

wow when i saw the title of this article, i assumed it would be about the animation itself, not the plot of an animated film. wow good job! every childrens movie has a lame plot!? seriously?! you mean adults are not the target audience for family movies? wow. i assumed cars and sharks tale would have been extremely deep dramas with amazing character development not campy movies that are fun for the whole family. wow! i am being sarcastic. you suck. if you are going to write an article about cg movies, perhaps you should actually critique the animation instead of acting surprised that you weren't moved by a movie targeted at a very young audience.

milsorgen,

How nice it must be to be so much better than the rest of us.

Incidentally, we in the US like cars. We don't feel they're owed to us; we work hard to get them. Why? Because they represent freedom and independence to go wherever we want, whenever and however we want. Choosing not to drive is a fine personal decision; but don't snidely deny me the choice to discover Route 66 for myself just because you feel it's more important we only go where there's a convenient emission-free train line.

I think your forgetting the movie Hoodwinked. The CG in this movie was deplorable.

As someone who worked for 2 years on the Final Fantasy film...

yes..it was a horrible movie..I said the script was awful the day I read it...

but your information regarding Square Enix making the film and the timing and motivation behind the project are completely wrong.

shrek 2 wasn't bad, neither was ice age (cid was funny) But I think you missed a couple that were really horrible, "everyone's hero" was just terrible and "monster house" which was nothing but boring.

hmmm critics...

FF was not about the story, it was a visual experiment where the first properly made CG human was introduced, and considering the technology available at the time it was a good job. shark tale the worst?? you haven't seen happily n'ever after apparently.

Shrek 2 and 3 cant be classified on the same level.

Pedantic, I know, but Carnotaurs are real:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnotaurus

Ice Age does not belong in this list. The animation and humor was brilliant. I've watched it a dozen times and I still find it funny.

Ahh yet another set of comments from the guys who few of these films are aimed at. They're KIDS FILMS with something for the bored parents in the theatre. My four year old is a Cars expert and trust me dudes...don't mess with him, if he says its awesome, I'm not arguing with him. I spent my teens to mid thirties cynical like you guys but after one kid I started to see the magic in just laughing at the stupidest thing. My son says your all wrong. I say yeah, Polar Express sucked along with a couple of the Dino movies but come on guys Robots...its a small town guy makes good classic?

I....hate.....hate....for the love of all things made of chocolate HATE sharks tale!! It's a freakkin stereotype! And i say this now i do, will smith is mainly the reason why, even if i dissregard the fact that he always plays the same character [ie cool dudde thats manly cool cuz he's africanamerican, i honestly don't think he uses a script, they just write "BLACK THING" and he acts away], cuz keanu does it too with that one sentiment expression he has, it's the retardedness and staleness of the jokes, and extremly not likeable characters that stop my mostly regular bowels from moving, thus making them retreat in shame...

I know u covered the bashing of this thing but this is the net and apart from the porn bashing flicks is all we have :)

you forgot "bee movie"...the story of a bee that falls in love with a human woman...just awful

Mostly a good list, but I must take issue with 2: First off, Dinosaur was a pretty good movie-lots of pretty visuals, characters that evolved (no pun intended) and an attempt to actually tell a dramatic story, rather than the warmed over "comedy" that you rightfully decry through the rest of the article. Second, Advent Children over Spirits Within? Ummm...what? Spirits Within, though lacking swords, was a really interesting movie that was well acted and had a lot of good twists and turns. Advent Children, well...never have such utterly gorgeous visuals been wasted on such an utter lack of writing. THAT movie should have made this list.

OMG this has to be one of the funniest reviews I have ever read!!! Everything here was so true, these do suck balls! Good work on writing this.

Antz...I rest my case

I thoroughly liked Final Fantasy. The animation was very well done, considering it included almost life-like humans. The story was also interesting, yet confusing the first time around. Definitely a movie for grown-ups. I've never played any FF game so I didn't bother with the lack of connection. I watched a more game-accurate FF movie after that (I don't remember which one) and it was a disaster. No story and purpose what-so-ever.

Cheers

Everyone's Hero should be #1 on this list. I can only assume the reviewer hasn't seen it yet. Do yourself the disservice of checking it out.

Final Fantasy:The Spirits within does NOT belong anywhere near a list like this, Jackass! (I don't just say this because I have that Maxim Hot 100 poster on the wall behind my computer monitor). Cars was pretty damn good too. What the fuck has anything to do with Doc Hollywood? Ok, your 15 minutes of fame as a hack reviewer with a self-important opinion are over.

I had forgotten Everyone's hero- as we all should. Even my kids hated it. Except for FF, I've seen them all, and some rightfully make the list- Shark Tales, Polar Express, Dinosaur and Shrek 3 come screaming to mind. I mentioned this article to my kids and they couldn't believe you bagged on Robots, Shrek 2 and alas Shark Tales. Guess you have to know your target market.

I had forgotten Everyone's hero- as we all should. Even my kids hated it. Except for FF, I've seen them all, and some rightfully make the list- Shark Tales, Polar Express, Dinosaur and Shrek 3 come screaming to mind. I mentioned this article to my kids and they couldn't believe you bagged on Robots, Shrek 2 and alas Shark Tales. Guess you have to know your target market.

What a stupid and completely arbitrary list. Obviously half of these films are on here only to get people to show up and post comments, which generates money for you. How lame.

Most of the movies on your list are made for young children, not adults. It's no wonder you thought the script or story line were too simple. My 3 year old nephew loves CGI movies. Are you going to review the top 10 worst Pokemon next?

The only thing I have to disagree with is that Kung Fu Panda... is not a good movie. Its terribly lame...

I wasn't going to post, but this comment needed responding to:
"any animation made is for kids"

Definitely absolutely not true. Maybe most animation in the US is geared toward kids (note the word "geared")... but outside of the US, notably Japan, people of all ages enjoy animation and a lot of what they release is geared exclusively for adults.

And since I posted that, I figure some broader comments regarding the article would not be out of line...

The only one I seriously disagree with is Cars. Worst Pixar CG? Probably. But as others have noted, having this on the list above a movie like Bee Movie is a crime against humanity.

I haven't seen Chicken Little, but feel like it should get a pass for having one of the funniest trailers known to man... it was a spoof on Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy... that first aired, well, as a trailer before Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Had me laughing more than the actual HHGttG movie.

Are you an adult judging childrens movies? Yeah these movies are terrible if your intelligent enough to know what a plot is. Otherwise, they're great for kids. Especially if you do not want said kids to be bothering you for an hour and a half to two hours.

The idea that an entire genre of film must be for kids, and therefore excuses it from any form of critique, or even the subtlest of personal opinion, annoys me to no end.

For one thing, good storytelling is good storytelling is good storytelling. If Dr. Suess was shite, I doubt people would apologize for his inability by saying, "Well, it's for kids, so what do you expect?"

Fact is, brilliant feature animation does exist. Just as with any form of entertainment or art, why not separate the trash from the sublime as has been done here? If you want to enjoy your own kid's response to a notably poor film, that's fine. The fact that a child can be entertained by something is, in and of itself, just dandy.

But just because you view animation as a kids-centric form of entertainment does automatically limit it to that self-contained category. Those very same bone-headed attitudes are what drive studios to excrete the crap that makes up the entirety of this list.

I'm glad we have Pixar. Without Pixar, America wouldn't have the good fortune to know what an animated film can be without the limitations of a narrow-minded, preconceived notion of "cartoons". Pixar shrugged off that indifferent attitude of their very own audiences and made something that was better. They didn't kowtow to the excuse that if it's targeted toward children, you get a free pass on doing your job poorly. They made films that relied on brilliant storytelling and well-crafted visuals. They realized that animation, be it geared toward children or not, doesn't have to be derivative garbage in order to make a quick buck. Then again, I think they have the good sense to view animation as the art that it can be rather than churn out diversions for the popcorn-munching masses.

I'm certainly glad we've had smarter people than the minority of cranky commentors here, such as the guys toiling away in Termite Terrace in the 40's and 50's to make the amazing Warner cartoons, or the genius minds that made the classic Disney features in their Golden Age. If it were left to the few cynics, animation would be made up of nothing more than the dull cartoons that are featured on this list. Sure, it's great that your kid likes it. I'm glad to hear it. But don't reduce animation to that. Great animation is no less deserving of its artistic value than traditional film making, fine art, literature or anything else that can be created.I

"Yeah these movies are terrible if your intelligent enough to know what a plot is."

Ever see that "Your retarded" t-shirt? I think you should wear it.

Hehe...great list.

Why are we content feeding our kids crap? I firmly believe that studios can make kid-friendly animation without succumbing to the "Oh...the plot is dragging...better throw in a fart joke!" trap. If we train our kids to think that movies like Meet the Robinsons are "good," then we're raising a generation that's going to put more travesties like Fantastic Four and Made of Honor out where people can find them. It's like making you and your spouse lobster but frying the kids up some hot dogs so they won't have to stretch themselves and learn to appreciate quality.

Oh, and to the parents who want their kid to be quiet for 2 1/2 hours? Option A: Give the kid a soccerball and send him outside to play. Option B: This one is a little trickier. You're going to help your kid look for something that's about the size of a DVD case, maybe a little bigger. It's a little thicker and doesn't rattle around when you shake it. You're going to open it the way you would a DVD case, but you're going to slowly turn the little pieces of paper that are bound inside and teach your kid to look at the symbols and pictures printed on each of these papers. Guess what? There will be a STORY on these pages! Awesome!

I didn't read all the above comments (so I guess I can't expect too many people to read this), but a couple of things:

1. Some really funny writing up there. Great job.

2. Madagascar was mentioned in the intro, but wasn't included on the list? It's a much worse movie than Ice Age, Cars, Robots, or even that Final Fantasy thing.

3. Great choice for #1. I've only seen snippets, but good god. Fish Tits!

4. I'm pretty sure Antz was indeed Dreamworks/PDI's first animated CGI movie, and it was also pretty bad and pretty awful looking. Again, worse than the four movies mentioned above.

5. Bee Movie was also much worse than those four movies.

6. What's with the Blue Sky hate? I thought the backgrounds were actually really nice in Ice Age, and in fact, I think that Blue Sky generally makes better-looking stuff than Dreamworks. (I actually know something about this - that ain't what student work looks like.) The stories are often pretty lacking, though, I agree.

I have to disagree with alot of what you've stated. Only one i agree with is Shrek The Third.
I've seen all of these and I've enjoyed all of them, I personally miss the days when films were around to be enjoyed, nowadays though we're stuck with people constantly compairing different films together in a Gladiators event.

Just Enjoy The Movie People!

Dinosaur is like The Godfather to little kids(3-5 years old). I put that movie on and my screaming nephews and neices shut the hell up for a few moments and there is peace.

Movies that even kids suck include that penguin surfer movie and that penguin dancing movie.

I can not understand how Barnyard didn't make this list.
Two words;

Male
Cows

?!?!?!?!!?

Shrek 3 is the worst movie ever marketed to kids - the very fact that the "hero" saved the day by whining is just the most pathetic thing I have ever seen. I kept waiting for that stupid prince to nut up, but all he did was bitch and moan. Talk about designing a character for the masses.

The worst CG film of all time is Disney's Meet The Robinsons. One or two sight gags and a hapless mashup of Back To The Future for a plot - pure dreck!

The worst CG film of all time is Disney's Meet The Robinsons. One or two sight gags and a hapless mashup of Back To The Future for a plot - pure dreck!

HAPPY FEET!

I have only gotten close to walking out of one movie that I took my girl to see - including some of these awful things.

Happy Feet was it. The whole thing was so mindnumbingly predictable and preachy.

Wrap all that 'comedians who want to be taken seriously' sermon in animasturbation (stupid scenes that have nothing to do with the plot just made to keep the animators happy showing off to their friends).

I liked your list. I would add an "insiders" comment to Final Fantasy...
I work in the animation industry. "We" were SUPER dissapointed it sucked so bad, because EVERYONE in the industry was looking forward to going to Hawaii to work at the state-of-the-art studio they built there for FF. But since it tanked SO hard they quickly closed it. I still havent gotten over how cool that would've been.

o/` o/` o/`

A million miles from nowhere,
Dragon lance burns hot,
By the fire of a horse's ghost,
The Minnow would be lost.
Cha-cha-cha changes,
Mmmm tits,
A fish,
A fish with tits.
Titty fish.

o/` o/` o/`

You mentioned Madagascar but didn't put it in your list, wtf? Don't tell me you liked that turd or that you thought some of the decent movies that happened to make it to your list were worst than that POS. Ice Age should def not be on this list either.

I agree ff spirits within was a horrible movie but the dvd has a hilarious easter egg. the main characters and the phantom beasts doing the thriller dance.

It seems like everyone has forgotten "The Wild"? Maybe it's just everyone here wasn't one of the dozen people that saw it in the theatre or one of the 30 people that bought it on DVD. But, everything I have heard about it was that is was far worse than Madagascar... which would mean it's really really bad.

And I watched shark tales in a doctor's waiting room. I thought it was the worst turd I ever saw. But, I thought maybe I just didn't understand it because it was aimed at an urban audience. Thanks for helping me not feel so racist.

Antz...worst film EVAR

You are ridiculous in your claims, it seems the only one you got right are Shark Tale and Final Fantasy. Although I personally don't like all the other movies, I'm not the target audience, but Ice Age? Shrek? Both are charming, and the Polar Express is a great christmas movie. Instead you should be focusing on such crap as Everyone's Hero, (a talking baseball bat), Antz, Bee Movie (not horrible, but worse than many of these others listed), Hoodwinked, or Disney's Into the Wild. (and the upcoming Fly Me to the Moon looks pretty grim as well). Stop bashing good things just so you can be critical and smart allecky.

I'm surprised more people aren't bashing Happy Feet. With all of the anti-Robin Williams in your Robots review and the anti-songanddance from your Chicken Little, I was fully expecting to see it at number one. God did I hate that movie. Al Gore on ice.

Those movies are made for kids, except for FF of course. The plot and graphics are not for mature audience, so simply put the target audience is children.

Try watching other CGI movies like Vexille, Appleseed, or FF Advent Children unless. If you are a child then surely you are not going to appreciate those kinds. Just my 2 cents dude.

that is the most ridiculous list ever, who ever wrote that is an idiot

No way... Ice Age was great, both the storyline *and* the animation. Like when they were sliding through the ice caves, it looked amazing. And the squirrel chasing the nut sub-plot... good stuff! And not overly frantic like most GC movies. You had time to soak up the details.

Good writing although I will disagree with a few on the list as many have (are). As a father who has watched almost every movie on there at some point I would agree that you left some utterly (udderly for Barnyard?) craptastic. Into the Wild was horrible, Open Season, yes Everyon'e Hero is beyond bad (poor Chris Reeves), Happily N'er After, Bee Movie come to mind.
All animation is for kids? Are you serious? Um South Park anyone?
Oh and I loved Surf's Up, great movie.

I agree with dan.

Surf's Up was a great movie. I enjoyed watching it way more than Ratatouille. It really did something no other animated movie had ever tried.

And what about Bebe's Kids, man that movie sucked.

Shit, I realized just after I posted my last comment that this was about CG movies, so please don't rip me a new hole about how Bebe's Kids was a traditional animated movie.

It's early I wasn't thinking straight.

How in the world could you have left Doogal off the list???? it should be #1.

My issue with Cars is the plausibility of it. They live in a world that looks just like ours with gas stations and stadiums, but completely inhabited by cars. My question is, how did they build all this stuff if they don't have hands?

Any low class slob can sprinkle four letter words throughout his review. It takes someone with class to refrain from lowering himself to that level.

Okay Zac, Did anyone even ask you for your opinion........NO!
So keep it to yourself unless you want me to send over Donkey to kick your sorry ass.

I, for one, liked A Bug's Life and Ice Age. But the true masterpiece is The Incredibles. Robots sucked crock though.

No one here should be dissing Cars!

We should be congratulating them on making a cartoon about nothing but talking cars at least sort of entertaining! Way to go, John Lasseter

You are so right.

Shark Tale, Chicken Little, Robots, Final Fantasy and Ice Age all had me either yelling at the TV (because there was no way I was paying for a movie ticket to see them) or groaning in sickened disillusionment. The other day, a lady at my work told me that Ice Age was her all-time favourite movie, and she had seen it about 6 times. I didn't know how to tell her that it made me want to vomit and smash the TV with my head at the same time.

Cars, The Polar Express and Shrek 2 were less horrifying. They just made me feel a bit sad.
I haven't bothered to go and see Shrek 3. It looked too stupid for words.

Chicken Little creeped me out with all those completely random 80's songs. It was like an amazing 2-CD collection of the most annoying 80's songs ever made. I liked Shrek 2, but it was still terrible. Just a bunch of cliches and pop culture references. Shrek the Third had absolutely no humorous and/or entertaining content whatsoever. Ice age 2 was horrible too.

While I agree that Cars is my least favorite Pixar film, I am SHOCKED that you would think it's among the top 10 worst CG films of all time! Antz, Open Season, Surfs Up, Barnyard, Bee Movie, The Ant Bully, Beowulf (Yeah, I said it, Beowulf SUCKS), Flushed Away, Hoodwinked, Space Chimps...Shall I keep going? And I gotta say, I question your reason for saying some of these suck because of their stories and humor (see Ice Age). I mean, these are made for KIDS, and Ice Age and Madagascar are hysterical for kids! So I maybe agree with half your list...

I liked Hoodwinked and Antz.

Wait, aznsong50, you went to see SPACE CHIMPS?!

Wow you all are sure picky when it comes to animated movies. I havent seen more than 5 movies that you havent bashed. Every other post tries to include a new one. I thought they were all ok.

I hardly remember the plot of Final Fantasy, but I enjoyed the Easter Egg and some of the making of bits.

"Polar Express" creeped me out to no end with those dead-eyed characters, but I "Monster House", also motion captured, but then rendered in cartoon style was a lot of fun and deliciously scary.

The rest of the movies I can take or leave. I'll never get over Martin Scorsese as the puffer fish in "Shark Tales", tho. I had no idea the guy could act, even with just his voice.

Alright, I'm going to make you a REAL list right now, because yours is absolute nonsense. Even the suckiest movie by Pixar is STILL higher quality than anything made by any other company. So, here we go.

THE 10 WORST TOP-SHELF CG CARTOON MOVIES EVER MADE

1. Shrek 3
2. Shark Tale
3. Everyone's Hero
4. Bee Movie
5. Doogal
6. Happy Feet
7. Barnyard
8. Open Season
9. Into the Wild
10. Space Chimps

Some runner ups for you in case you just haven't had enough!

Dinosaur, The Ant Bully, and hold on-I'm getting something here...a prediction?! I've been informed that the only movie possible to top Shrek 3 is Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua movie. Faaannntastic.

And yes, these are all children's films, but come on. Do you really think a couple hours of silence from your kids is worth the brain rot and need for cheap merchandise they'll induce?

While reading this article, I had a tube of Aveeno Baby next to my monitor. Out of the corner of my eye it kind of looked like an upright dildo. It's creepy.`

Oh yeah, this article was unnecessary. It's much easier to write, "Ignore All Non-Pixar Disney Films, All Non-Shrek 1 or Kung Fu Panda Dreamworks Films, and all other CG Films other than as They Are All Festering Piles With the Exception of Monster House."
Even the worst Pixar movies, "Cars" and the much worse "Ratatouille", are far superior to all the CG movies that fall into the above category.
And Dinosaur! Fuck Dinosaur! That movie should be dubbed the worst just because it's The Land Before Time (part 1, fuck all the sequels) with the shitty prehistoric creatures you ignored at the history museum to get to the T-Rex and Triceratops. (That old lady triceratops doesn't count.)

One more thing. These Fucking Dreamworks people have to stop putting their mom's record collection into their movies. They're only doing one of two things. Either ruining a good song by turning it into a shitty gag, or making their movie shittier by adding shitty music just for a nonlaugh.

JD who Posted 07/12/2008 at 05:18:25 PM is the fuckiest fuck that ever fucked a fucking fuck.

I stumbled on this quite by accident, and I'm glad I did. As a father of an almost-three year old, I cringe at the majority of kids' films. It's embarrassing enough to have to sit though them in the theaters or at home, but to have my kid pandered to is insulting. We assume that they have to be trite and cheap because they're for kids. Yeah, I know I have ultimate control but it's hard when the pickings are slim.

The best kids films are at the very least watchable by adults. Anyone ever see Spirited Away or Howl's Moving Castle? Good stuff, if not just great storytelling regardless of the targeted demo. It's sad that the kinda pervvy Japanese know how to tell a sophisticated story to children. It can't not leave me feeling a little bit icky.

People who think just because a child is young they deserve to be fed crap on a plate just to get them out of your hair for an hour or so, you deserve to be strapped to a chair with your eyes held open and forced to watch Shark Tales over and over and over again.

If you give your kids dumb sh*t to watch all the time, don't be surprised if they turn out to be dumb sh*ts themselves.

The "idiot box" got it's name for a reason - it's not the "babysit my kids because I'm too freakin' lazy and incompetent to raise them myself box"

I sense much anger here.

How did I miss this list? It's great, but I disagree with you on Ice Age. For some reason it becomes hilarious when watched in Norwegian. I usually hate dubbed films, but this one just made me laugh, even though I'd seen it first in English. I think it has to do with the dialects. Other than that, spot on list!

What was that piece of shit movie with Martin Lawrence as a bear? Just the ad campaign for that one made me want to kill people.

I absolutely hate it when people say, "so what? it's for kids!" As if all children are drooling idiots incapable of understanding a story. Having children as the target audience is no excuse for shitty, incomprehensible plots, overpaid voice-actors, and dumbed-down dialogue. Children are smarter than you give them credit for.

I actually liked "Dinosaurs" the first time I saw it, when it was called "The Land Before Time".

Honestly the fims werent made to be loved by adults. They were made mostly for children. If they were to be made for adults the chidlren would hat them. Thoug hI agree the dialogues is crappy. But its Rate G for a reason >_>

Ok peoples, you all take things way too seriously. So you got stuck watching a crappy movie!!! oh no?!! what will we do? the world is going to end. There are plenty of crappy movies that aren't animated that you see once and say "that was a waste of my money. I guess I won't be buying the dvd." You lost about 10 bucks at the most. Your stock didn't dive. Animation is an art just like painting, filmaking, etc.; a medium for telling a story not a genre. It is not confined to children's stories. I happen to be an animator/ artist/ painter and I enjoy animated films and hold them to the same scrutiny as live-action film. HONESTLY!!! There are far more serious things to be upset about than witch animated film sucked the most.

Take this!!!! I'm an animator and I hated walle. Same reason happy feet sucked. I don't care if you are Pixar, Don't be preachy. America is fat and lazy? Well, Lassiter, you aren't exactly skinny.

am i really the only one that is wondering where the fuck barnyard is on this list?

Speaking of Barnyard, has anyone who saw it realized that the main character is a male cow...once again, A MALE COW, with udders. I'll let that sink in for a minute. Sat with it a second? Good, now for the obviously bad joke...I don't think his "milk" would be all that good to drink.

Cars: Never seen it, never will

Robots: Saw it twice. both times I thought it mediocre

Ice Age: There's far worse

Polar Express: I seem to lack the terror that everyone has of the designs, but the movie dragged SO badly, but it was a good Christmas movie, and I wouldn't be completely against seeing it again during the Christmas season

Shrek 2/3: Didn't mind 2, but with 3, I watched it and knew I was wasting my time

Dinosaur: DAMMIT I ALMOST FORGOT ABOUT THAT LAND BEFORE TIME RIPOFF

The Spirits Within: Recorded it off SPACE, watched it and was confused why it had nothing to do with Advent Children or any of the characters in it, I didn't get the same fan-rage as others, never played FF, despite those failings, and it had the best "realistic without uncanny valley" computer animation I've seen.

Chicken Little: Almost watched it, luckly the burned DVD broke. I knew it was going to be crap, but I was with family so yeah...

Shark Tale: For one lame evening I liked it, looking back on it, sucked major dong

You really got to make a longer list (More of the Worst CG Cartoon movies made?) of the more crap CG cartoons, like Monster House, Open Season, Surf's Up, Happy Feet, Bee Movie, Everyone's Hero, and ESPECIALLY Madagascar

@ Dude, obviously you're the kind of person who'll sit their kid (if you have any) in front of AKIRA or Watership Down and expect C8 violence, cartoon animals, fart jokes, and family friendly themes. I hate people like you who think anything non-live action is for children, wake up man, just because there is children's books, doesn't mean all books are for children same thing applies to cartoons.

And to all these people who say "OH WHY ARE YOU WHINING ABOUT KIDS MOVIES"
kids movies aren't supposed to have awful, mindless, story lines; for every 10 greasy booger eating brats there's at least one kid who will ask about the plot holes in movies and find the movie crappy. @ hoosengoing, many kids like cartoons that also have jokes for adults, take the classic Warner Bros cartoons, or hell, even the cartoons from the mid 1990s.

this is scary,"Tom Hanks and his magic train which he uses to travel around and collect unsuspecting children in order to deliver them to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus" sounds like the child catching scene in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
kids don't anywhere with strangers unless you are a accompanied by a responsible family member.

Damnnn - I LIKED all of these movies except for 'Chicken Little' (it was a pretty lame story) and 'Final Fantasy', because I never actually saw it :) !!

Well yeah, 'The Polar Express' was a bit creepy.. I know a few mothers whose children wanted out of the theater after the first five minutes: "Mommy, their faces are scaring me, I want to go home!"

I agree with nearly everything on this list except for Robots and Polar Express, those being two of my favorites when it comes to the genre.

First of all, a quick thing. People here claim that cartoon movies are meant purely for kids. Strictly speaking this is untrue. There's a shitton of movies that could be targeted towards an older audience. Similarly there's a LOT of kids' Disney movies which are enjoyable by adults. The Beauty and the Beast, for example, was an artistic masterpiece, and probably one of the grandest Disney movies made. It was lauded and applauded by adults just as much as it was by children, for its visuals, its dialogue, its superb songs, and its plot. It's a fairy tale story for kids, and yet it has a mature, powerful story. Same with Aladdin, I can't believe how much pop culture satire that movie has (even if it is a bit on the racist side). And probably most of all, the LION KING. Christ, people, is there any bigger movie that is still enjoyable today in cartoon format, as it was as a kid? This movie had more artistic merit, humor, story, and character in it than any movie of the time look at Wall-E, that was the biggest social commentary on pollution and human incompetence I've ever seen. All in cartoon format.

Then you have utter shit like Shark Tale, which panders to fucking morons, and Bee Movie, which is basically there for stupid gags. One thing that I remember from going to these movies as a kid (I'm about 20 years old) is that they taught something in addition to entertaining. Beauty and the Beast talked about the virtue of learning, of books, of love and laughter. Aladdin talked about the importance of freedom, valuing even the lowest person, and the Lion King talked about valuing who you are as a person and fighting against injustice and corruption. What the fuck does Shark Tale talk about? What the fuck does Bee Movie have to discuss? They don't even serve as good guides to learn from, let alone have any entertainment value.

Nowadays, parents want to go to the movies in order to take their kids somewhere to shut up for 3 hours. They take no time to put any thought into the development of their children, mentally as well as physically. Studios have stopped producing movies full of quality on a regular basis as they used to, and instead only a few good animated movies churn out every five or so years. Thirty years from now, nobody will give a shit about "Meet the Robinsons" if it has no artistic merit. Nobody will give a flying fuck about "Shark Tale" or "Chicken Little."

As for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, it wasn't the movie's quality that made it tank. It was the sheer lack of interest of the American consumers. It wasn't received poorly by critics either, it actually has a pretty mixed rating AFAIK. It possesses a lot of the elements of Final Fantasy that we are used to - spirits, Gaia, a party of characters on a quest with different abilities, ships, and a concrete goal. I thought the plot was fun, personally. The problem was that it was only made to appeal to two kinds of people - video gamers who drooled over SquEnix products, and people who are into the whole mystic Japanese Gaia thing. That's why it tanked, because the rest of America hadn't a fucking clue what it was about.

Its a crime to put the first Ice Age movie on this list. Blue Sky for relatively low budget pulled off an amazing feat at a very EARLY time in the development of CG. It was their best film until "Horton Hears a Who."

Bee Movie was a steaming piece of crap that deserves to be high on the list. It was absolute torture to sit thru that thing.

Happy Feet was a bore with every cliche in the animation biz.

How did this list not include Toy Soldiers?

I agree with you on Dinosaur, Shark Tale (which got an equally shitty video game based on it), and Shrek 2 and 3, but here's the question: where are Happily N'Ever After, Happy Feet, Surf's Up, Open Season, The Wild, and Barnyard?

Why are you guys ripping on Madagascar and Madagascar 2? Sure, Madagascar wasn't the wittiest of films, but it was okay for what it was. Madagascar 2 was alright, but felt like a huge Lion King rip-off. I seriously expected a parody of TLK... actually, come to think of it, that might have driven it just far enough over the edge to be funny in a rediculous way. The Wild, however, was a rip-off of Madagascar and was worse in my opinion. Far worse.

Valiant and cars were alright. But nothing compares to the sheer amazingness of WALL-E. That movie, my friends, was the shit.

What no dishonourable mentioning of the Dragonlance movie?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TwwRR6H0FM

Sure, no A-list movie, but still, just looking at that clip alone is enough to make me cringe with disgust.

i think "Transmorphers" (No, not Transformers), but "Transmorphers" needs to be the WORST movie ever. but.. it's not all CG.

The worst film series was Balto, Balto 2, and Balto 3!
Because of the films and it's two low budget films, it was a three big phooey!

cars was the worse film ever. it will always be remebered as the 1st blu ray i watched on my hdtv that cost me £££s
http://www.hdtvprices.co.uk/1080p.html

Cars and Spirits Within? No. Try again.

Replace both of those with The Incredibles and Advent Children and then this list would be much better.

Also, you neglected to put Hoodwinked, Valiant, and Over-The-Hedge on this list, which makes this list woefully incomplete.

And since then, there's also Resident Evil: Degeneration which is probably the biggest piece of shit out of all of them.

I disagree to all comments although they must really polish humor in these animations its quite a joy for me to have more choices of cg films in fact i loved polar because of its Christmas feel i show it to my family every year if you can be able to entertain kids parents will follow its a joy to the heart.

blquk

I agree with all of your choices, but...yeah, Barnyard should have been on that list. It's the most stunningly AWFUL CG film ever. Horrible characters and a horrible script. And what's weird is, the TV show it's based on isn't too bad at all...if you can get past the boy-cows with big pink floppy udders part. Eccchh.

As for Chicken Little...yeah, a lot of the jokes don't work, but...I don't know...there was a sweetness in it that made me like it a little.

But Robots, Cars, and (gag) Shark Tale...yeah...it's amazing CGI hasn't self-destructed as an art form thanks to crappy films like those...

rueka

I just wish they'd stop casting familiar celebrities for voice talent, and start casting actual voice actors, or unknowns. I am getting sick of seeing CG animated movies that focus more on the fact that Such-And-Such celebrity is in it than focusing on the plot, animation, or originality.

Also, they need to stop making the whole point of the film be for the misfit protagonist to realize "he has a style all his own" and that "he's special in his own way", because seriously, that shit has been pounded right down the middle of every single one of these CG movies. From Toy Story to Shrek, from Antz to Cars, from Robots to Ratatouille; It's always there.

And finally, if Smashmouth is ever used for ANY movie, let alone an animated one, EVER again, I'll have to kick someone in the balls.

I tried to watch Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within at least 3 times. It took me until the third time to stay awake during the whole thing. When I finally stayed awake through the end, I still thought it sucked. And I also lamented the fact (you hit the nail on the head) that it was essentially a terribly bland sci-fi movie with the Final Fantasy name slapped on it that had no connection to the games whatsoever. Boo.

I liked Advent Children, but it kind of makes me sad that that Square Enix is endlessly pumping out games/movies/toys/etc of spin-offs/sequels/prequels to Final Fantasy VII. At least most of them are at decent, but none of them really capture the feeling of the original. What I really wish they would do is a true re-release of Final Fantasy VII with updated graphics. A girl can dream, right?

What, people don't like Zach Braff now? What did he do?

Wow, really? I couldn't disagree more with this list. I've been trolling this site all afternoon and you were doing so well.

I gotta ask? Are you all adults bashing movie's basically made for children?

Yeah! Fuck Zach Braff! LOL.

He's on the list of actors you'd want to punch in the face based on their acting performances. (signalling what kind of douche they really may be)

Like Bill Pullman.

I'm sorry...I have to say it....Wall*E should've been on here. It was just....terribly boring...no real plot, and that annoying goddamn SONG!!!! It was like the anti-terminator...earth is a wasteland, people are mostly dead, robots rule...and they do nothing but collect trash. It was just awful.

Cars sucked too...glad to know I"m not the only one who didn't like it. If UP isn't any good...and it looks like it won't be....I'm done with Pixar after their last two turds.

You know what...let's make that 3 turds...I forgot about Finding Nemo...the movie that was so saccharine even for a Disney movie that it made me a diabetic.

Shrek 3 can stay, but Shrek 2 doesn't belong here. It had some pretty funny stuff and Andonia Bandaras as the cool Puss in Boots. 3 was just an unfunny waste (those damn ogre babies!).

And...where's Happy Feet?

It should be somewhere on this list. Even you could stomach its moral/message about being an individual against comformity (which is made moot by the fact that PENGUINS ALL LOOK ALIKE!), the enviromental message that pops up late in is just obnoxious and almost random (funny, they don't look or act like they're suffering from a famine). How Cars (which I liked) lost the Oscar to this song & dance crap is beyond me.

And that excuse about a bunch of these being made for kids just doesn't work. Just because it's being made for children doesn't mean it can't be of good qaulity. Other countries see animation as a great way to tell a story by doing things that would be a lot of work if you tried to do it in live action, but too many Americans see it as children's entertainment to get them to shut up for a while while we grown ups get wrapped up in ourselves. It's a vicious cycle: a lot of kids like whatever mindless, soulless, artless crap that's put on the screen in front of them because grown ups THINK they'll atomatically like it and they like it because it's the main kind of entertainment they're given. We bought it on ourselves.

OK. I agree with what everyone here is saying. These are family movies. Adults who waste their time criticising them is just pathetic. If your kid/family enjoy a saturday night watching a nice CG movie that sucks balls then let them. I REALLY have to disagree with Ice age despite what i just said. The first was the best. The backgrounds are supposed to be like that cos it is Earth before man went all industrial on her ass e.g. no buildings. Zach Braff isn't that bad. Scrubs wouldn't be funny without him. I also agree wiht everyone elses views about what ISN'T on this list. Toy Story is the best CG movie. no. 2 sucked. Dunno about 3. To be honest, besides Pokemon and a few others, Anime is the best form of animation cos it just rocks. Good plots and character develpoment and fantastic entertainment. Romance, humour and tension/fear/horror etc. all rolled into one. Bleach is my personal favourite. Also, I love the original cartoons: Disney, looney tunes and tom and jerry. Just so funny. I also think that Disney features were great until Monsters Inc. and finding Nemo which sucked more than a black hole.
I will now leave you to pointlessly and pathetically spend 10 - 15 mins criticising and nitpicking my comment.
see you losers!

I agree with the posting that the FF movie was more an experiment than a real attempt at a movie. I enjoyed it for what it was and don't think it belongs here. Similarly, the work and passion involved in Cars sets it apart from most other things on this list. But I get how you wanted to be semi-controversial and add a Pixar movie to the list. All in all, a fun list, a fun waste of time. Thank you.

Every single one of those movies must be destroyed in the most effective way possible.

i was agreeing with you right up until you mentioned beowulf. you compared that movie to a kids film. what you failed to remember when bitching about these films was that they are aimed at kids not adults if you want an adult cartoon watch south park the movie. you should also note that there rarely is a good storyline to an animated film. its just simple humour for kids which sometimes may throw in a joke or two that an adult would find funny.

Finally, an article that covered all the gripes I've had with computer-animated films for the past decade. Bravo sir! Bravo!

It should also be noted that the utter (and utterly predictable by...anyone, really) failure of Spirits Within and the resulting hemorrhage of cash from Squaresoft was at the time pointed to as the reason that they then shuttered their United States division, slapped a "done" on a painfully unfinished Final Fantasy X and rushed it out the door in an effort to recoup their losses. I recall very distinctly receiving the call that the game, not originally due out for some time, was available for pickup. And I recall how utterly and completely the plot fell apart at the end, how much of the game was horribly unpolished and unfinished, and how it all culminated in the Worst Ending Ever and Worst Final Boss Ever (Floating Cockroach and the Stone Pillars, which someday I will name a band after.)

So the failure stretched far beyond the film itself.

I can agree with everything you said except for Ice Age! I have that on bly-ray and can watch it anytime with my nephew and still be entertained!

Awesome list, I lol'd. No matter what anyone says in defense of these movies, you can't deny the entertainment value in bashing them mercilessly.

@Kay: So I gather that you didn't like FFX, but from where do you gather that it was "painfully unfinished"? Most games are indeed a bit rushed and in some part unfinished (perhaps especially FF games), but you make FFX sound like FFVII. Which is in its own league of rushed unfinished-ness. :/

"[Lasseter] also hasn't explained why in the hell a movie about a race car getting to know small town life is fucking two and a half hours long"

Wait... you're asking why a movie whose central theme is to SLOW DOWN and not rush through life isn't FASTER?

--R.J.

I've never seen a the writer of an article on here bashed as much as you have been. As others here have said, anything Pixar poops out is better than average, male cows should be number 1, dancing or surfing, the penguins are turds in a bowl, and most importantly if talking about worst cg cartoon movies made, take a class on animation or at least read a book to actually discuss the animation. Talk to your boss, tell him you quit, ask to have your article removed off the most popular list (your insulting the actual writers that are on this site), go home and smash your keyboard, and fill out an application at the big M. I'll take fries with that Zac, thanks!

....i kinda liked dinosaur...

Um, Dinosaur wasn't a box office flop, it just didn't do gangbusters. It made 137m, enough to cover production costs, and made a profit on DVD.

Some of these movies are actually good. Wall-e lost it's flair after the first 6 months of being out and about, and looking through the CG movies I own, I'm surprised you didn't make reference to Monsters Inc. or Happy Feet? Honestly I liked Disney moves back before CG or even before 2000. It went to crap after 1994 honestly.

Hey! Robots was pretty bad, and Dinosaurs was just weird, and I didn't like Shark Tale much... but DON'T TRASH THE POLAR EXPRESS! D=

uh dude you're basing your judging off kids movies, duh, theyre gonna suck to us, all of them, with the exception of the final fantasy movie, are based towards children, what youre doing is like having a christian judge muslim made movies, of course theyre not gonna like em, if you were to ask what kids thought of these movies, with the exception of FF, they would probably love them, because 9 of them have elements that children love, dinosaurs, animals ,cars, and robots, what little kid doesnt love those things?

Shows how much you know about dinosaurs, Carnotaurs are an actual species.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnotaurus

Disney just picked them out to do something different then the obvious T-Rex choice for a villainous predator.

Way to reading the Foreword of the list everyone.... Pfft...

Look, this list is pretty damn true, there are CGI classics and there are somewhat decent CGI movies that are mistaken as instant classics- The first Shrek was a humble comedy with fair emphasis on pop reference without crossing the line. the second shrek was the borderline average debacle while the third was a tremendous debacle. Why is JT in a kid movie?

I remember seeing dinosaur and thinking it was an eduation film instead of an ACTUAL MOVIE KIDS WANT TO SEE. Cute, but too desperate to be considered good.

I don't know why I seen cars but the ideal was albeit slightly interesting, but only slightly enough till the plot slowed down and became more or less a rambling story.

Shark Tale was just plain cheating out of being original, but the thing is, Finding Nemo was already released before, so what do we have? Racially biased fish.

What makes horrible CGI movies horrible are politically Biased movies, or just them being cheap-ass PSA messages used to develop half of the plots surroundings. Wall-E is a major case of bored-money being pushed outwards for the sole purpose of making the obese people of america feel stupid and make the ones who feel healthy embarased and shamed to live in a free country. Ice age 2 capitalized on being Al Gore's subliminal bullshit Tyraid. Bee Movie made no sense talking about the lack of Bee populace, and Madagascar was a dead and rotted PSA of animal freedom.

Wow. The saying is true. "Arguing on the Internet is like competing in the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded."

Good list overall, but seriously, fuck you for dissing Shrek 2.

what about bolt? - a dead rip off of toy story