The best animated films of the 1990s still hold up today, and it's more than nostalgia behind the enduring joy of films like The Lion King, Ghost in the Shell, and Beauty and the Beast. The best cartoon movies of the '90s took a diverse and often experimental approach to animation, mixing old techniques with emerging CG technology to surprise audiences. It's why the 1990s marked a renaissance, at least for American feature animation.
The Disney animated fairy tale genre that had been so essential to establishing the studio’s animation production profile in the 1930s enjoyed a new surge of popularity with Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and the mythically inclined The Lion King.
