Top 10 Most Expensive Animated Movies

What are the Most Expensive Animated Movies of all Time?

Even if it is animated, even if it is for kids, even if others judge it as "boring animation", the budget for this movies is not a joke!

Here is the list of the some most expensive animated movies, including their budget and worldwide total gross.

The Top 10

10. Treasure Planet (2002)

With a rating of 6.8/10, Treasure Planet got the 10th slot of our top 10 most expensive animated movies. The movie has the estimated budget of $140million, and was the first film to be released simultaneously in regular and IMAX theaters.Earning the total gross worldwide of $110million, it was nominated for the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
Treasure Planet follows the story of restless teen Jim Hawkins on a fantastic journey across the universe as cabin boy aboard a majestic space galleon. Befriended by the ship's charismatic cyborg cook, John Silver, Jim blossoms under his guidance and shows the makings of a fine shipmate as he and the alien crew battle a supernova, a black hole, and a ferocious space storm.

9. Bolt (2008)

Bolt Movie is one of the expensive animated movie with a estimated budget of $150million. The movie earned for a worldwide total gross of $309million.  The film was produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, and is its 48th animated feature and distributed in Disney Digital 3-D in the theaters.

It is the story of the canine star of a fictional sci-fi/action show that believes his powers are real embarks on a cross country trek to save his co-star from a threat he believes is just as real. Giving 88% of positive reviews from critics based on 178 reviews, of Rotten Tomatoes and under the category of "generally favorable reviews".

8. Shrek the Third (2007)

6.0/10 in rating, Shrek the Third is one of the most expensive animated movie of all time. With a estimated budget of $160 million, Shrek the Third makes a commercial success with a grossed of $798million. It wons the People's Choice Awards for Favourite Family movie and Kids Choice Awards for Favorite Voice From an Animated Movie. 

The story of Shrek, when King Harold his new father-in-law, falls ill, and he looked to become the heir to the land of Far, Far Away. Shrek recruits his friends Donkey and Puss in Boots to install the rebellious Artie as the new king. Princess Fiona, however, rallies a band of royal girlfriends to fend off a coup d'etat by the jilted Prince Charming.

7. How to Train your Dragon (2010)

The story of a hapless young Viking who aspires to hunt dragons becomes the unlikely friend of a young dragon himself, and learns there may be more to the creatures than he assumed.
Rated 8.2/10 by IMDB, How to Train your Dragon is American's 3D computer-animated fantasy film by DreamWorks Animation with estimated budget of $165million and worldwide total gross of $494million.
The movie also won ten Annie Awards, including Best Animated Feature.

  The fifth highest-grossing animated film of 2010 and the 10th highest-grossing movie of 2010.

6. Up (2009)

Rated 8.3/10 by IMDB, with a movie with budget of $175million, the movie earn the gross of $731million total worldwide! the 6th highest-grossing film of 2009 and the 4th highest-grossing opening for Pixar. Also the 7th highest-grossing 3D film. It won the Academy Award for Best Original Score, the Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack Album, the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Score, and the 2010 BAFTA Award for Best Film Music.

The story of 78-year-old Carl sets out to fulfill his lifelong dream to see the wilds of South America, by tying thousands of balloons to his home. Russell, on the other hand, a wilderness explorer 70 years younger, inadvertently becomes a stowaway.

5.  Monsters Vs. Aliens (2009)

With a rating of 6.6/10, The animated movie Monster Vs. Alien 2009 won the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film, on June 24, 2009. With a estimating budget of $175million and gross of $381million total worldwide. The film received generally favorable reviews based on 209 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes.

The movie is a story about a woman who transformed into a giant after she is struck by a meteorite on her wedding day and becomes a part of the team of monsters sent in by the U.S. government to defeat an alien mastermind trying to take over Earth. 

4. Wall-E (2008)

An animated movie with a story of a small waste collecting robot that inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind. Gathering many positive reviews from critics, the movie with a budget of $180 million, earned the the gross of $521.3 million total worldwide. 

Also it won the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Animated Feature Film, the 2009 Hugo Awar d for Best Dramatic Presentation, Long Form, the final Nebula Award for Best Script, the Saturn Award for Best Animated Film, and the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature as well as being nominated for five other Academy Awards at the 81st Academy Awards. WALL-E ranks first in TIME's "Best Movies of the Decade".

 

3. Toy Story 3 (2010)

Rated 8.5/10 by IMDB, Toy Story 3 is one of the most expensive animated movie of all time, with estimated budget of $200 million, earned $415,004,880 in North America, and $648,167,031 in other countries, totaling $1,063,171,911 worldwide. the 10th highest-grossing film of 2010.

The story of the toys who are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead in the attic before Andy leaves home for college, and it's up to Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home. Toy Story 3 was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, and Best Sound Editing and  won the awards for Best Animated Feature and Best Original Song.

2.  Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)

With a rating of 6.7/10 rated by the IMDb, A Christmas Carol Animated movie has estimated budget of $200 million and grossing of $318 million total worldwide.

A Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold-hearted, tightfisted, frugal man, who despises Christmas and all things which engender happiness, who was awakes by spirits on Christmas eve, and reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.

1. Tangled  (2010)

 
Rated 7.8/10 by IMDB, the most expensive animated movie of 2010, and the second most expensive movie of all time. Produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Pictures, Tangled is an animated musical fantasy-comedy film. With a budget of  $260 million, the film earned $590 million in worldwide box office revenue, $200 million of which was earned in the United States and Canada. Tangled was nominated for a number of awards, including Best Original Song at the 83rd Academy Awards.

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