#5 Home
Most of the success of this movie is in the aliens: the Boov. Both their way of looking at the world and their speech patterns are so entertaining, you can't help but smile at pretty much everything they do.
#4 Lord of the Rings
An acquired taste, perhaps, and overshadowed by Peter Jackson's outstanding trilogy. But there will always be a warm place in my heart for the first film of the Tolkein masterpiece. Again, rotoscoping...oy! The character design is awesome in almost every case, though, and the dialogue sticks more closely to the book than Jackson's. Sure, it's a story without an ending, but we Tolkien fans know how it turns out.
#3 Flushed Away
No one could be more surprised than I at how good this movie is. I've seen the Wallace and Gromit movies, and they're good, but I'm no fan of the Aardman character design. And yet, the character of Roddy has a captivating charm that makes you really want to know how his story will turn out. Lots of funny stuff, and the weirdness doesn't cross the line into 'too weird for me' territory.
#2 Megamind
Why? Why do super-villains do it? This movie answers that question with good humor and lots of super-hero tropes, and yet still manages not to dis the genre I love. And Megamind the character has the power to make us root for the villain, even when he's at his most villainous.
#1 Klaus
This Netflix-Original tale of a Kuzco-esque postman in a town where the residents are too busy feuding to mail a letter doesn't sound like a Christmas movie, but just stick with it and you'll find the connection. Watch it any time, not just at Christmas. It's that good.
