8 Overrated Animated Movies Everyone Pretends to Love. No Matter What You Tell Me, You Can't Change My Mind.

Big vote counts, bigger box office, and movie.guru scores that land right around average. Popular isn't the same as good. Let's go.

Number one made $1.66 billion and still couldn't make a single facial expression.

1. 8
   Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)5.7

   The latest bowl of noodles came out reheated.

   71% on Rotten Tomatoes sounds great until the movie.guru score says 5.7, basically the median movie. Guru's Take: 5.2. Jack Black still brings it. The kick doesn't.
2. 7
   Despicable Me 4 (2024)5.8

   Gru is a guest star in his own franchise now.

   Audiences beat 67% of movies, critics only 34%. That gap is the Minions dragging the plot across the finish line. Guru's Take: 4.6 on $972 million worldwide.
3. 6
   The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026)5.1

   A billion dollars for a level select screen.

   $1.01 billion worldwide and a 37 on Metacritic. Critics beat just 20% of movies. It's fan service on a loop, and the Guru's Take is 4.2.
4. 5
   Moana 2 (2024)6.0

   The sequel nobody can hum a single song from.

   $1.06 billion worldwide and 131,008 IMDb votes, but a 61% on Rotten Tomatoes. The first one gave you anthems. This one gave you a nice boat ride.
5. 4
   The Secret Life of Pets (2016)5.7

   The trailer was the whole movie. Stretched.

   240,113 IMDb votes and $876 million worldwide, for a 5.7 movie.guru score. The pets-alone-at-home bit is genius for one trailer. Then it becomes a chase movie.
6. 3
   Space Jam (1996)5.1

   Nostalgia has been carrying this one for decades.

   46% on Rotten Tomatoes and a 5.1 movie.guru score. Michael Jordan acts like a man counting the minutes until tee time. You loved it as a kid. You were a kid.
7. 2
   Minions (2015)5.0

   Sidekicks are seasoning. This is a bowl of seasoning.

   291,582 IMDb votes, $1.16 billion worldwide, and a 5.0 movie.guru score. Guru's Take: 4.4. Feature-length gibberish is a lot of gibberish, even yellow gibberish.
8. 1
   The Lion King (2019)6.7

   A nature documentary that forgot lions need faces.

   $1.66 billion worldwide on a reported $250 to $260 million budget. Audiences beat 80% of movies, critics 39%. Guru's Take: 4.9. Gorgeous fur, zero feelings.

$247.83 says the first reply argues the 2019 Lion King isn't even animated and the second reply starts a war about it.

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