8 Great Animated Movies Under 100 Minutes. Your Bedtime Is Safe, Your Opinions Aren't.

It's Tuesday. You have work tomorrow. These eight animated movies all score high and wrap up under 100 minutes, so you can still pretend you'll sleep.

The #1 pick dethrones a legend, and the comments are going to riot.

1. 8
   Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)8.8

   Volleyball shouldn't be this tense. It legit is.

   Critics shrugged at 76% on Rotten Tomatoes. Fans beat 97% of audience scores and pushed it past $100 million worldwide. Skip the series first and you'll feel lost.
2. 7
   Inside Out 2 (2024)8.7

   Anxiety earned a sequel. Pixar just played it safe.

   $1,698,863,816 worldwide and an A CinemaScore. Still, that 73 Metacritic agrees with me: it's the first movie's blueprint with a new emotion bolted on.
3. 6
   Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (2026)8.5

   The best sight gags on this list belong to a sheep.

   99% on Rotten Tomatoes and an 80 Metacritic. Just $3,169,645 domestic, which means almost nobody reading this saw it. Fix that tonight.
4. 5
   KPop Demon Hunters (2025)8.9

   Songs this catchy should come with a warning label.

   92% on Rotten Tomatoes and 145,054 IMDb votes. The plot runs in a straight line, but nobody walks out humming the plot.
5. 4
   The Iron Giant (1999)9.3

   The best movie nobody paid to see in 1999.

   A reported $48 to $50 million budget, $23,341,896 worldwide, and an A CinemaScore from the few who went. Vin Diesel's finest role is still a giant robot.
6. 3
   Flow (2024)9.5

   One cat, more tension than most thrillers.

   97% on Rotten Tomatoes, an 87 Metacritic, $30.9 million worldwide. The middle drifts a little, and I still forgot my phone existed.
7. 2
   My Neighbor Totoro (1988)9.6

   The coziest movie ever made, and it barely has a plot.

   An 8.1 on IMDb from 441,976 votes, tied for best here. Nothing much happens, and that's exactly why people keep rewatching it.
8. 1
   Look Back (2024)9.6

   It beats Totoro. Yes, I mean it.

   100% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 90 Metacritic, the best critic numbers on this list. Only $2 million domestic, so odds are you skipped it. It hits way harder than its runtime allows.

$83.58 says someone in the comments drags Totoro back to #1 within the hour.

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