10 Animated Movies That No One Remembers but Are Worth Rediscovering

It’s staggering how many films have been made since the dawn of cinema, and many animated features still fly under the radar. Some are lost to time through disasters or simply go unnoticed at release, yet animation’s timelessness means these movies can be picked up years later and still deliver the pleasures they were meant to offer.

The list highlights Bartok the Magnificent (1999), in which an albino con-artist bat must recover Tzar Ivan from the witch Baba Yaga; it stands out as Don Bluth’s only straight-to-video entry and a smaller, brighter fairy tale about inner courage. Dinosaur (2000) follows Aladar the Iguanodon and remains one of the best-looking CGI films of its era, notable for real backgrounds and a stirring James Newton Howard score.

Help! I'm a Fish (2000) sends siblings into an enthralling, at times dark, underwater adventure after they are turned into sea creatures.

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