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Animation Mania

Animated Movies

Though <a class="edS-cl" href="https://www.ranker.com/list/best-disney-animated-movies/ranker-film?ref=internalCrossLinking_keyword">Disney animated films</a> dominated&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ranker.com/list/the-highest-grossing-90s-movies/all-genre-movies-lists" target="_blank">the '90s box office</a>, the best non-Disney films from that era reveal&nbsp;a renaissance&nbsp;for animated content. Nearly every studio in Hollywood cashed&nbsp;in on the public's renewed interest in animated fare. Several&nbsp;invested in the Don Bluth business; the Land Before Time&nbsp;auteur directed&nbsp;four films in the decade, including Thumbelina&nbsp;for Warner Bros., and&nbsp;the well-received&nbsp;Anastasia&nbsp;for Fox. Meanwhile, An American Tail:&nbsp;An American Tail: Fivel Goes West, produced by Steven Spielberg, marked&nbsp;the first entry from Spielberg's Amblimation&nbsp;studio, a short-lived company responsible for&nbsp;We're Back: A Dinosaur's&nbsp;Story&nbsp;and&nbsp;Balto;&nbsp;it eventually folded into DreamWorks&nbsp;Animation by the end of the decade. DreamWorks Animation, founded in 1997, is the only non-Disney success story of the '90s, releasing hits Antz&nbsp;and&nbsp;The Prince of Egypt&nbsp;in 1998, and laying the foundation for their reputation as the cheekier alternative to Disney's&nbsp;Pixar juggernaut.The most revered&nbsp;non-Disney animated feature of the '90s, Warner Bros.' exciting and heartbreaking&nbsp;The Iron Giant, served&nbsp;as a cautionary tale that explains the entire decade in non-Disney animated films.&nbsp;Despite unanimous critical praise, without the Disney branding&nbsp;The Iron Giant&nbsp;flopped at the box office. A massive failure that, along with the failures of&nbsp;Osmosis Jones&nbsp;and&nbsp;Looney Tunes: Back in Action,&nbsp;stopped&nbsp;Warner Bros. Animation from making another&nbsp;movie for over a decade. Though they&nbsp;never matching the box office success, and rarely the critical success, of their Disney counterparts, <a href="http://www.ranker.com/crowdranked-list/top-50-greatest-animated-films-of-all-time" target="_blank">animated films</a> from the '90s not by Disney now hold a legacy of their own, and paved the way for films like Despicable Me, Kung Fu Panda, and Happy Feet.

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