This was supposed to be a supplementary piece when I was ranking all the Disney movies, but I fell behind on that and didn’t get to this. The other day I caught the back half of Ratatouille and it made me want to finish this up. Ranking Pixar’s catalogue is tough, because with one exception they are all great films. The difference between the best Pixar movie and the third worst is razor thin. It largely comes down to personal preference rather than any intrinsic strengths or weaknesses in any of these movies.

14. Cars 2: This is widely accepted as the worst film Pixar has made. I saw it for the first time not too long ago and it is not as bad as its reputation would suggest. It is okay. In terms of Pixar movies is pretty bad, but compared to the wide world of animated movies is still worth watching. The biggest problem with Cars 2 is that it stars Mater and Mater is not a strong enough character to carry a movie. He is fine in smaller doses, like in the first Cars, but here there is just too much of him.

13. Cars: This movie is head and shoulders above its sequel, but it is still one of the weaker Pixar films. The world of Cars doesn’t hold up to even the most rudimentary scrutiny. It is a strange, unbelievable world. Otherwise, its big problem is that its focus is not quite as universal as most of their films. Nostalgia for Route 66 does not have as wide of an appeal as Finding Nemo’s focus on fatherhood.

12. A Bug’s Life: The Seven Samurai with bugs. It is fun but forgettable. As in, I forgot to put it on the list the first time I made it. I like it, but I’m not a too big a fan of any of the characters.

11. Finding Nemo: I expect most people have this one much higher on the list than I do. I see why so many people absolutely love it, but while I like it, it is far from my favorite. Mostly that is because of Dory. I find her incredibly annoying; I simply hate that character. Otherwise, it is a great movie.

10. Brave: This feels like Pixar makes a Disney movie, and they did it better than Disney had for more than a decade. I still haven’t seen Frozen to know if Disney has topped them. Brave has a few rough patches, but it shines through them anyway.

9. Toy Story 2: This is easily the weakest of the Toy Story trilogy. There is nothing really wrong with it, it just feels slightly superfluous. It is a perfectly fine movie, but it doesn’t add a whole lot.  Other than Jessie, I guess.   That is a pretty worthwhile addition.

8. Monsters University: Another sequel and this one is a little better. I liked seeing the Monsters, Inc characters again, though the main focus of this film seems to be to make an animated Animal House.  I think we really needed an animated Animal House.

7. Ratatouille: Rats in the kitchen. It is hard to get past that, even if it is in service of a story about struggling to realize your dreams no matter the obstacles. That may be the lesson of nearly every animated movie, but Ratatouille does it better than anyone else.

6. Toy Story: This is the movie that started it all and it holds up. Not the animation so much, which does look rather rough now. But at the time it was a revelation. The story, though, absolutely holds up. Woody and Buzz are some great characters.

5. Toy Story 3: The most striking part of the 3^rd Toy Story is how adult its subject matter is. Yes, it is still a movie about talking toys, but it is also about growing old. A quite poignant take on that subject, as well. It is just a really very good movie.

4. Monsters, Inc: This may just be Pixar’s most fun outing. The world of Monsters, Inc lends itself really well to jokes and Mike and Sully are a fun duo. It lacks a little of the emotional side that many of their other output, but it is so enjoyable it is easy to ignore the lack.

3. Up: The opening scene in this is simply touching. The rest of the movie isn’t half bad either. This movie combines touching moments with comedy better than most.

2. Wall-E: The first half of this movie is absolutely amazing. The second half is a big step down, but it is still strong. It is simply charming. The love story between Wall-E and EVE is one of the most touching I’ve seen in an animated film. This is a great sci-fi movie.

1. The Incredibles: This might be the best superhero movie ever made. It is just so perfect. Mr. Incredible is a great character. He is powerful and heroic, but also fallible and relatable. The rest of the family is great too. The scene when they return to the city in the van is one of my absolute favorite scenes in any movie. While I prefer that Pixar doing new things, if they are doing sequels as sequel to The Incredibles should be at the top of the list.

Going in, I fully expected X-Men: Days of Future Past to a mess. The X-Men movie franchise has been a mess for more than a decade at this point. X-Men 3 was garbage, though I am something a defended of it I still can’t call it anything close to good, and the first Wolverine movie was no better. It was so bad that I made no effort to see the next Wolverine. First Class was a fine movie, but it was still messy. It straddled the line between prequel and reboot. Some elements of it didn’t really jive with the earlier X-Men films, but it went out of its way to not outright contradict them. It worked fine on its own, but it place in the larger scheme of things was hard to ascertain.

Still, Days of Future Past was too intriguing to pass up. Bryan Singer was back directing, and he has only one real miss on his resume. (Superman Returns was just so very wrongheaded in so many ways) It also brought back all of the actors from both the first trilogy and First Class, making for the most star-studded cast in a superhero movie this side of The Avengers. Really, how could one pass up a chance to see Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen on screen again? Plus, Hugh Jackman as Wolverine is simply highly entertaining. Still, while it was great to see all of these characters again, trying to shoehorn all those characters on screen could have been messy. Which is why it is so surprising at how great X-Men Days of Future Past is. Not only is it a highly entertaining film, it also manages to meld all the previous X-Men movies into something that is actually comprehensible. It even manages to treat X-Men 3 with respect while completely erasing it from the timeline.

It opens in the near future, a future where mutants, and much of humanity, have been imprisoned by the powerful robotic Sentinels. Fighting against them are the remnants of the X-Men, mostly consisting of the younger half of surviving X-Men from X-Men 3. They use limited time travel to evade the Sentinels, but their numbers dwindle. They are soon joined by the senior half of the X-Men: Storm, Wolverine, Magneto and Professor X. Together they propose a plan, to send Wolverine’s mind back in time to his younger self to try to prevent the whole Sentinel program from starting in the first place.

This leads to Wolverine going back to team up with remnants of the First Class cast to try to fix things. While he has some trouble convincing the younger versions of the mutant leaders to help him, they soon near place of where everything went wrong. Unfortunately, once they get there, things go wrong in a completely different way. After that, Days of Future Past becomes the first superhero movie in a long time where it is actually unclear what is going to happen next. These things usually go along certain lines, but this one goes so far off the rails that the viewer has no clue what is coming. It is exhilarating.

Most of the movie takes place in the past; for the most part this is First Class 2. Other than Wolverine, the old cast only gets a few minutes apiece to show off. Even the new mutants added to the cast barely get time to have their powers explained. Still, it is great to see them again. Magneto and Xavier get a little more time, but not a lot more. The past crew, reduced to just four characters, gets the most of the action. Again, while it is hard to improve on McKellen and Stewart, Fassbender and McAvoy are great as young Magneto and Xavier. Fassbender plays Magneto with self-assured menace. Even when he is helping the good guys he feels like he is one step away from going full supervillain and seeming almost justified in doing so. McAvoy’s Xavier is not the wise leader that Stewarts is; he is a broken and pathetic. Wolverine’s biggest struggle is to get Xavier back on the right track. Along with those two and Wolverine, the other real star is Jenifer Lawrence as Mystique. She is the one responsible for the world’s downward slide, but it is impossible to not to find her actions at least partly justified.  Lawrence, despite being covered in blue paint, makes you feel her struggle.

This is a movie of characters and situations that are all fundamentally broken. Wolverine has gone from being the broken one to the one that is most together. For once he is trying to pull everyone else together. It is a very character driven film. It is far from lacking in action or spectacle, but that is not the real draw. The real draw is seeing the transformation of Xavier and Mystique. It is not as fun as many of the Marvel Studios movies, but there is more going on than those strictly popcorn affairs.

This last part might get a bit spoilery, but as someone who has been a fan of these movies for going on 15 years now I was astounded at how this left the X-Men movie franchise. I got enjoyment wading through the crap of X-Men 3 to find things I liked. Mostly that consisted of Kelsey Grammar as the Beast and Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde. However, that movie left the series in a terrible place. They had to go back to do a prequel because X-Men 3 left the present scorched earth. Days of Future Past, while largely clearing the deck for future First Class era movies, almost completely eliminated X-Men 3 from existence. It actually gave everyone from those first two completely excellent movies a happy ending. Almost too happy, but actually it is just perfectly heartwarming. Ignoring the impossibility of getting all those cast members back together to do more movies, it is left in such a way that they could do a sequel picking up just about right after this one. I’d prefer this to be the ending for the original X-Men cast. I want to all those characters to get to keep this happy ending. The biggest advantage superhero movies have over the comics is that they have endings. Bruce Wayne got to retire as Batman in The Dark Knight Rises because the movies are allowed to have endings, while the comics are required to go on indefinitely. This is a perfect ending for the X-Men.

X-Men: Days of Future Past is an excellent movie. It brings back the often wry fun of the first two movies and mixes it with the stylish sexiness of First Class. Whatever direction they choose to take things after this, as long as Singer and one half of this cast are involved I’ll be there. It is shocking at just how well this movie avoids all the pitfalls in its way to deliver a wholly enjoyable movie.

Not since 1954’s Gojira has any movie company managed to portray Godzilla with the majesty that the new Godzilla (which is at least the third movie to bear that one word title) does. Never before has a monster been so breathtaking, so simply awesome. Godzilla makes every one of the monsters rather brief appearances an event. The word gets thrown around to the point of making it meaningless, but Godzilla is truly worthy of being called epic.

Many of the detractors of the new movie tend to reference Pacific Rim as a superior alternative. As someone who also greatly enjoyed that film, I find this comparison to be empty. Pacific Rim is a much more fun film. That film is fun from start to finish. There are somber and serious moments, but they wash by in a deluge cool awesomeness. Pacific Rim is about humanity rising up to defeat a seemingly insurmountable enemy. It is about the power of humanity. Godzilla, though, takes things the opposite way. It is far from being about the power of humanity, it is about humanity being powerless. In Godzilla the seemingly insurmountable enemy actually is. It is like watching a natural disaster; it is awful and horrible and there is nothing you can do to stop it. It does make for a movie that is less strictly fun to watch, but it also makes for a movie that is all the more effecting.

Godzilla starts in Japan, with Joe Brody (Bryan Cranston) futility trying to uncover the source of some seismic anomalies that are affecting the nuclear power plant where he works. His concerns are ignored by the higher ups and the he ends up facing tragedy as things prove worse than even he surmised. All on his birthday. Fifteen years later he is still trying to uncover the cause of that disaster, while his son Ford (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) tries to put it all behind him. When Ford is called back to Japan because his father was arrested trespassing on the site of the accident. He goes to get his father, only to get caught up in the uncovering of the long hidden secret of the disaster.

The title kind of gives away what the source of the disaster is. The stays grounded, shown from the perspective of the people seeing the monsters. Yes monsters, it is not just Godzilla but 3 distinct monsters. Godzilla himself does not appear for quite a long time in the movie. Even when he does, it is just glimpses to start. The movie teases the viewer it quick snippets of Godzilla or two monsters fighting. It is agonizing, but enthralling. Luckily, the human characters are strong enough to carry the other parts of the film. Ford is consumed with a desire to return to his family in San Francisco. Unfortunately for him, his path happens to be the same one the monsters are on. The military does all they can to stop the beasts, but all of their attempts are for not. It gives the movie a ground zero feeling; it puts the viewer on the same level as the characters, looking up at the rampaging monsters.

The majesty of the monsters makes the human characters seem all the more powerless. They have a plan to destroy the monsters, but it is doomed to fail. The last desperate effort they make is not to stop the monsters, but to stop the tragedy they enacted trying to stop the monsters. It really helps that the monsters themselves are solid characters. Godzilla is a bully and a brute. He is the alpha predator of alpha predators and he is on the hunt. The MUTOs, each distinct from the other, are actually quite sympathetic. Sure, they are killing thousands of people and destroying cities, but there isn’t any malice there. They are merely too large to coexist with humanity. Godzilla shows humanities reach exceed its grasp. We push forward with technologies, but awaken forces that we have no hope of controlling. It is not about backing off of scientific discovery, just about realizing that we aren’t necessarily the nature’s masters. There are still things we don’t know and can’t control.

Apparent from the last name of the main characters (Brody, the same as Jaws), this Godzilla takes many cues from the works of Steven Spielberg; most notably Jaws and Jurassic Park. It feels like his work while watching. Not as directly or as heavily as Super 8 did, but more effectively. It feels a little like a throwback, paced more like a movie from a couple of decades ago than a modern blockbuster. It takes its time, not rushing right to the money shots of Godzilla destroying a city. That wait makes the shots worth it. Cheers erupted from the audience when I watched it at two separate moments. Both showed Godzilla at his most awesome. This movie does that well. It may not feature the titular monster quite as much as one would hope, but his time on screen is unforgettable.

I go to the theater with the intention of enjoy whatever movie I plan to see. It is too expensive to go see something that I expect to hate. I’ll experiment with something unknown now and then, or go when someone else is picking the movie. But if I’m not reasonably certain to enjoy something; I tend to wait for a rental or Netflix. The other day, by the time Amazing Spider-Man 2 started I was not ready to enjoy anything. During the previews a large amount of Code Red Mountain Dew ended up out of it cup and into my lap. I kind of wanted to just leave then and there, but I was already in my seat and had paid for my ticket. In the end, I don’t think it made a difference. I all but hated Amazing Spider-Man 2 and even if I weren’t soaking in soda, I doubt I would have enjoyed it. The whole thing was overstuffed and undercooked. It is exactly what people accuse Spider-Man 3 of being, though without even the redeeming features of that movie. ASM2 has many elements of a good movie, but no attempt seems to have been made to make sure any of the pieces actually fit together.

It does some things right. Casting, for instance. Jamie Foxx is great when he has something to do and Emma Stone is simply great. Andrew Garfield brings out the wise-cracking side of Spider-Man that the Raimi movies never even attempted to show. Top to bottom, the cast does really well with the material they had to work with. The special effects are also well done. This is to be expected in superhero movies nowadays, but ASM2 does have some really good looking moments.

Otherwise, though, it is a mess. The relationship between Gwen and Peter is well done, but all movement there is finished after their second scene together. After that it is just rehashing what they’ve already learned. There are some great moments with Aunt May, but they are almost divorced entirely from the rest of the film. The same goes for the mystery of Peter’s parents and exactly what they were up to. It is there, but it doesn’t inform any other part of the movie at all. All it does it set up the rather stupid notion that only Peter could have become Spider-Man, instead of anyone who happened to have been bitten by one of the spiders. Harry shows up and has a completely unearned intimacy with Peter. They are friends that haven’t seen each other for almost half of their lives, but immediately become best friends again.

It is also tonally inconsistent. The film can’t decide if it wants to be a serious drama or a fun goofball hero story. So we get serious drama between Peter and Gwen and Aunt May, and a little with Harry, then we get secret subway car science labs and a man getting electric powers from falling into a vat of electric eels. The problem isn’t any of these things in and of themselves; it is that it appears that no time was spent trying to make these elements fit together. The whole thing feels patchy and cobbled together. It also feels like it is trying to cash in on things from the comic without earning those moments. Why are Harry and Peter friends? Because they were in the comics. Why does BIG SPOILER THING happen? Because it did in the comics. They aren’t afraid to go away from the source material when they want to, but they find their way back for things that haven’t really been established. One last note, I need to say that way SPOILER was handled almost made me laugh in the theater. The grasping hand of Peter’s web as it shot toward its target was one of the most inappropriately ridiculous things I’ve ever seen. They are trying to play that moment for all of its dramatic worth, but it still can’t rise above the level of a cartoon. They attempt ends up feeling pathetic.

So I didn’t like it at all. And the longer I sat in that theater not liking the movie, growing ever more sticky and uncomfortable, the more I didn’t like. This may not be my most fair take on a movie ever. I don’t care. I did not enjoy a single part of my trip to see Amazing Spider-Man 2. While it has moved out of the shadow of Raimi’s Spider-Man movies that engulfed the first of these reboot Spidey movies, it didn’t move anywhere interesting. I would rather have had another pale imitation of a decade old movie than the mess that I watched. Maybe they can buck trends and actually make the inevitable third movie the best of the bunch, but I won’t be seeing it. I think I’ll go watch the old Spider-Man movies to wash this bad taste out of my mouth.

1/2 Star

Okay, this time I’m getting right to the list.  I don’t have any supplementary list ot go on time first.  At the end, after people have read the my top 6, I have some small amount of analysis comparing my list to other take on these films.  Grand Finale time.

6. Dumbo is unquestionably the simplest film of Disney’s Golden Age (Pre WWII), both in animation and story.  The animation doesn’t have the splendor of Pinocchio or Bambi, and the story is about as simple as it can get.  Still, Dumbo is also completely charming and wholly tender.  It is the story of a mother’s love for her child and a child’s love of its mother.  It also features flying elephants, because why not?

5. Wreck it Ralph.  This feels somewhat like Disney made a Pixar movie, a feeling heightened by the fact that the Pixar movie of the same year, Brave, felt more like a Disney movie. Wreck-it Ralph is enjoyably original.  There really aren’t any movies quite like it.  It is often compared to Toy Story, but with video games, but other than the conceit that they both come to life when people aren’t looking the two don’t have much in common.  Its got a wholly likeable protagonist, who is justified in his displeasure just as much as he is unable to correct the problems, a great supporting cast and a villain that starts silly and manages to become truly menacing.

4. The Little Mermaid.  This movie does everything right, except that the only truly memorable character in the thing is the villain Ursula.  Still, it has some great songs and is just generally enjoyable.  This is the films that kickstarted what is known as the Disney Renaissance, and if it weren’t for the films that immediately followed it, The Little Mermaid would also be just about the best the company has ever produced.

3. Aladdin.  I love this movie.  The Genie is one of the few times I’ve found Robin Williams truly delightful rather than a touch overbearing.  He is funny and shows off some fun animation.  Aladdin, Jafar and Jasmine are all really interesting.  Jafar believes he is so much better, so much smarter than everyone else.  Jasmine may be the first Disney Princess™ to suggest that maybe being a princess isn’t all that great.  And Aladdin is just a poor boy who wants a better life.  It is some compelling drama.  And for my money, this film has the best songs.

2. Beauty and the Beast.  I didn’t expect to put this one so high.  It came out when I was the perfect age for it, along with other childhood favorites like Aladdin and the Lion King, but I never really cared for Beauty and the Beast.  Then I watched it again on DVD for this list. I was shocked at how much I enjoyed it.  It is a great movie.  All the things to other Renaissance movies do well, like songs and animation, are done well here. I guess I could go on and on layering superlatives in Beauty and the Beast, but all that needs to be said is that this film is nearly perfect.

1. The Sword in the Stone. When I started this, I had hoped to not let nostalgia cloud my judgement.  I managed to force Robin Hood, a childhood favorite, down to 17.  Then I watched The Sword in the Stone, and realized that I truly think this is a great film.  I can’t possibly discount the idea that nostalgia has blinded me; many, even most, lists have this one near the bottom or just floating somewhere in the lower half, but the more I watched this movie, the more I decided it was simply great.  The look is the best of that era of scratchy looking movies.  Merlin is electric.  Wart is a solidly sympathetic protagonist, a boy whose present day wants do not really lead him to the future that Merlin knows is coming. Plus, he turns into all kinds of animals. It is the best.

Using Rotten Tomatoes, not a perfect source but a highly convenient aggregator, I’ve compared my rankings to the both the critical and audience takes on these movies.  There were some surprises.  I knew I had Atlantis and Sword in the Stone higher than normal, but 35 and 31 places respectively?  I didn’t expect that.  I did expect a big difference with Cinderella, which I had 33 spots lower than the critics did.  The biggest surprise was that I placed Bolt 19 spots lower than both the critics and the audience. From word of mouth I thought I was being rather generous with it.  Other than that it was what I expected.  I rated the Silver Age (Cinderella to The Jungle Book) higher at the expense of the Golden Age (Snow White to Bambi), which I knew I did.  I simply like those Silver Age movies better.

I had a lot of fun watching these movies and making this list.  For a company that has been constantly putting out movies for more than 75 years, it is amazing how few misses they have. There are only a handful of movies that I would call bad, and only one which I would say is irredeemably bad.

Links to the rest of the list:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

It is time for part 3 of my look at all the Disney Animated movies.  Today I am also listing my ten favorite heroines, a list that was harder to make than the list of heroes simply because there are more good ones to choose from.

10: Rapunzel Tangled. She is often naive, but also forceful.  She has something she wants and she isn’t going let her mother’s emotional manipulations or the dangers in front of her stop her.

9: Eilonwy The Black Cauldron.  If shoe got more to do in her movie she would be even higher on the list.  She is the one who actually begins Taran’s breakout from The Horned King’s castle.

8: Jane Porter Tarzan.  She is charming and the intellectual impetuous for her groups journey to the jungle.

7: Esmerelda The Hunchback of Notre Dame.  She gets big points for being basically the only decent person in the film.

6: Wendy Peter Pan.  I really like how at the start she is the one clinging to her childhood, but her time in Neverland kind of proves to her that she is ready to leave it behind.  She is already more grown up than she realizes.

5: Alice Alice in Wonderland.  Her reactions to all the nonsense around her kind of makes the movie.  She constantly goes from excited and interested in the strange goings on to fed up with how little sense everyone makes.

4: Megara Hercules.  She appears cynical and tough, but not heartless.

3: Jasmine Aladdin.  She is the only person not snowed by Aladdin’s Prince Ali act. She is hopeful and stubborn enough to not just give in to her Dad.

2: Belle Beauty and the Beast.  She is both brave and smart, willing to sacrifice her freedom for her fathers, but not willing to give up the fight even after.

1: Mulan Mulan.  She is one of the few Disney heroines that gets to do all the adventuring herself.  Plus, she is legitimately awesome.

I’m pretty happy with that list.  There are a lot that I could have put on the list, and a lot of movement I could have made with the ones on it.  I did tend to favor characters from the movies I already like.  Fancy that, huh?

26: Tangled.  Each of Disney’s 3D features has improved on the one before it.  Chicken Little was awful, Meet the Robinsons was okay if uneven, and Bolt was actually kind of good.  Tangled actually feels like a classic Disney movie.  This is a film that would have fit right in in the Renaissance.  My only real problem with it is that I didn’t care much for the songs. They aren’t bad, just not particularly memorable.

25: Fantasia.  This is movie is in many ways an amazing film, but other than recognizing the artistry of its animation I don’t really care for it.  Despite all of its real artistic achievement, it still has the pretensions of being more.  Laudable as those pretensions are, it doesn’t make having Deems Taylor come in and explain how artistic and important each sequence is entertaining.  Still, everyone should watch this at least once.

24: Emperor’s New Groove.  This one is a pure comedy, and a good one.  It is much like a saturday morning cartoon in some ways. Kuzco starts from a place very far away from most of Disney protagonists, and his redemption is almost believable.  Also, another great villain, with Yzma and her lackey Kronk stealing nearly all of their scenes.

23: One Hundred and One Dalmatians.  This movie is a big change in the animation style from those before it.  It doesn’t look quite as good, but I like it.  I also like the villain.  Cruella de Vil is one of the great villains, both cruel and petty.  There are a lot more dogs that characterization, but Pongo and Perdita are well defined and interesting.  At least until the movie forces them to disappear for big chunk.

22: Winnie the Pooh.  The second Winnie the Pooh movie is not as good as the first, but it is still very entertaining. What else is there to say?  Its Winnie the Pooh.

21: The Jungle Book. There aren’t many songs in this movie, but the ones that are there are certainly memorable.  Just thinking about the movie makes me hum “Bear Necessities.” It’s characters are also very memorable, from the fun loving Baloo to the sneaky Kaa.

20: Pinocchio.  Pinocchio is kind of an awful little boy, and Jiminy Cricket is a useless conscience.  The movie looks great, and there are a lot of great sequences.  One could argue that this is one of Walt Disney’s absolute masterpieces, and I wouldn’t argue.  I just don’t especially like it that much.

19: The Great Mouse Detective.  Yet another movie with a standout villain.  Ratigan is excellent.  His transformation near the end, when he drops the cultured facade and becomes the monster that he is is downright frightening for a Disney movie.  The rest of its not bad either.

18: Alice in Wonderland. This is a hard film to critique since it is so forcefully absurd.  As I said above, I really like Alice.  She is alternately intrigued and annoyed by the nonsense of Wonderland.  Really, this film is just delightfully weird.  So many fun characters and scenes it is easy to forget that there really isn’t anything tying it all together.

17: Robin Hood.  This movie’s placement has a lot of nostalgia behind it.  I’ll cop to it.  I still think it is very good, but it was my second favorite as a child.  It is hard to forget that.  I’ve seen the videos online that show how much of its animation was lifted wholesale from previous Disney films.  I don’t care.  Robin is great, as is his camaraderie with Little John and his romance with Maid Marian.  Robin Hood is character that is easy to get right.  Unless you are Kevin Costner.  Still, this one does it very right.  They play Prince John as completely inept, which works since he has a couple of fun henchmen to play off of.  Sir Hiss is great as his put upon advisor and the Sheriff of Nottingham is suitably intimidating when he needs to be.  The more I think about it, the more I think I should have left this one higher.

The next ten come tomorrow, along with my top 10 Disney villains.

Links to the rest of the list:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 4, Part 5