shows a concensus towards Tangled. I would go for The Incredibles.

Best villainess ever...

(and pre-video etc, wasn't Disneytime just wonderful. Christmas dinner had to be scheduled around it to preserve family peace)

It just deals with loss and love better than most other films I have seen. And I always cry even though I know whats happening. The middle is a little bit formula but the first 30 minutes and the end 15 are wonderful.

Out There is in fact my favourite song of all time.. So, now you know.

one of my favourite films fullstop.

But deffo those mentioned from the 70s. Somehow, they got it right then – entertainment for the kids as well as the adults without either being patronised.

Can I throw in "Black Hole" just to go off-topic?

Otherwise, The Jungle Book, for the songs alone.

... is popular in our house, as is "Up" and all three "Toy Story" films.

because watching the Robin Hood clip above I can see how much my 8-10 year old self would adore that. Indeed I believe he would have preferred that to Wall-E. Whereas if you're asking the opinion of this typist there have been 25 animated films released in the last 20 years which are better than almost everything that came before them. If I was looking for the perfect Disney film to satisfy both mes I'd plump for Finding Nemo. Outside of Disney I'd pick The Iron Giant. But there is just so much joyous stuff in the animation category there are very few of these movies I wouldn't love to settle down in front of one more time.

One more thing. The name "Disney" has a somewhat negative connotation for me as their policy of holding back their films from release meant many resentful years of not having seen The Jungle Book or The Aristocats or 101 Dalmations other than in short clips on Screen Test. I mean, I enjoyed Bambi when I finally saw it as a 37 year old but I cursed its makers for denying me the chance to really enjoy it as I might have 30 years earlier...

Gets my vote, but 'Mulan' has an honourable mention

is loving Robin Hood and The Aristocats at the moment, the latter is an absolute hoot. It's been a joy revisiting these films. Anyone else miss BBC 1's annual festive Disney programme from yesteryear? That used to be one of the Christmas highlights along with the Christmas TOTP.

I know that yesterday evening as Pa Bisto supped pints in Manchester all the Bisto girls had a "pizza in their pyjamas" night followed by popcorn and a viewing of a non-Disney animated fave The Polar Express.

So that's a Pa-less pizza, pyjamas, popcorn, polar party!

While daddy got p***ed!!

Pixar? Toy Story
Others? The work Len Lye did for The Post Office Film Unit. Here's 'The Colour Box' (1935), made by painting directly into the film.

...and here's his 1937 advert for Imperial Airways, 'Colour Flight'

The Princess and the Frog. Went to see it with my daughter last year (she was 6 then). She loved the pace, the love story and the princess. Me? I thought the Randy Newman and a soundtrack stuffed with New Orleans Jazz, Cajun and Zydeco was just fine, thanks.
Story by Pixar, apparently, which explained the very high quality. For example:

But, seeing as I'm 40+, it's OBVIOUSLY The Jungle Book.

because a cat's the only cat that knows where it's at

The Aristocats. That's my favourite. My children are all New Disney and love Meet The Robinsons. What do they know? Pesky kids

The Sword In The Stone the first film I ever saw in the cinema. I don't think there were any cuddly spin offs from that one either but I had a Disney comic of the film that I reread many times before I graduated to T H White's The Once and Future King.

I love the classics (Snow White to say Lady And the Tramp). Most of the films for many years after that had poor animation and rotten songs (with some obvious exceptions). They got it back with The Little Mermaid and went into a fair run of good stuff after that.

Favourites
Early - Pinocchio
Middle - Jungle Book (can't be anything else really)
Late - Beauty and the Beast (my very favourite)
Pixar stuff - The Incredibles

Has it all. A classic tale, great, great tunes, and marks the point where celebs (in this case Robin Williams, brilliantly) started taking topline voice credits.

We've been diligently through the whole back catalogue and it's certainly top three material according to 'Wardo Jnr.

Fantasia: You can't deny the music is great. It is a bit boring and serious at times but on the whole it's a stunning achievement.

Alice In Wonderland: I know the story is blanded out a bit and everything, but I think this retains the trippy feel of Lewis Carroll and has great characters and great physical comedy.

Hercules: Gerald Scarfe designs the characters!

I'm one of those people who don't consider Pixar to be in the canon of Disney animation. Otherwise The Incredibles would win.

the elephant.

... no serious competition really, in the "traditional animation" category. Runner up would be the Lion King, which surprisingly hasn't been mentioned yet.

Harder to call it on the Pixar animations - all three Toy Story films are very good, as is the Incredibles.

is that it reused not just characters from Jungle Book (Sir Hiss, obviously and Rusty and Nutsy the buzzards) but whole sequences of animation are lifted wholesale from Jungle Book and other Disney films.

I saw Robin Hood for the first time just two months ago. When I was a lad, I had my tonsils and adenoids removed and was in hospital for what felt like a long time but was probably just a few days. I remember my mum bought me two books; one was a forgottable live action number "The Strongest Man in the World" (which Wikipedia reveals was an early Kurt Russell flick), and the other was Robin Hood. I must have read Hood two or three times during my stay. I clearly remember trying to read it as the general anasthetic kicked in and I always wanted to see it. I never had the chance until this year and not only was I sadly underwhelmed, but so too were my kids.