Totally forgot about Monster House. Somehow, I can't remember much from my early to mid-teenage years when it comes to film. Here are some opinions about what I think about animation:
- Stuff like Dinosaur, Chicken Little, and Home on the Range aren't that bad compared to the animated films we mostly talked about here, but the reason why they were terrible was because they were made by Disney, and by Disney's standards, they are horrible. Even the six packaged films during the 1940's were better.
- Between Oliver & Company (1988) and The Emperor's New Groove (2000), nearly every theatrical animated film not made by Disney, Pixar, or Dreamworks sucks. In fact, these are usually at the bottom of the barrel of animation.
- From 2001 to 2005, the only animated film I can name that was very, very, very bad was Shark Tale.
- From 2006 to 2009, the only good animated films and average animated films were made by Pixar, Dreamworks, and Disney. There are some exceptions, but very rare.
- Since 2011, there has been at least one animated film that was very, very, very bad each year. This year, the Emoji Movie is that movie.
- The majority of direct-to-video animated films (especially those Disney ones) were stupid.
Above all, animation has gotten a lot better when it came to film, with non-Disney animation improving after 1999, Disney animation improving after 2008, and most animation improving after 2009.