8 Underrated Animated Movies You Need to Watch This Week. The Last One Made Billions and I Don't Care.

The hits get millions of votes. These got a few thousand, one barely cleared a thousand. Great scores, small crowds. Your week is sorted.

Number one grossed billions. I'm still calling it underrated. Bring receipts.

1. 8
   Spy × Family Code: White (2023)8.4

   Best family movie night anime your group chat skipped.

   8.4 on movie.guru, CinemaScore A, $59.7 million worldwide, yet only 10,113 IMDb votes. The plot is filler-shaped, but the Forger family carries every scene.
2. 7
   Umamusume: Pretty Derby – Beginning of a New Era (2024)8.8

   Horse-girl racing anime beats most sports movies. I said it.

   8.8 on movie.guru and it beats 94% of movies with audiences, on just 1,160 IMDb votes. The premise sounds like a dare. The races hit like real ones.
3. 6
   Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle (2024)8.8

   Volleyball anime that outhypes most superhero finales.

   $100 million worldwide, only $7.07 million domestic. Audiences rank it above 97% of movies. Critics shrugged at 76% on Rotten Tomatoes, and yes, it assumes you watched the show.
4. 5
   Forgotten Island (2026)8.9

   Best studio cartoon of 2026, and almost nobody noticed.

   8.9 on movie.guru, CinemaScore A, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Still just $35.4 million domestic against a reported $80 million budget, and only 6,948 IMDb votes.
5. 4
   Dan Da Dan: Evil Eye (2025)9.5

   Wildest ride here, even if it plays like premium TV.

   9.5 on movie.guru with only 2,422 IMDb votes. My take is a cooler 7.4, because it feels like a binge with a ticket price. Still an absolute blast.
6. 3
   Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom (2026)8.7

   A sheep with zero lines out-acts most of Hollywood.

   99% on Rotten Tomatoes, 80 on Metacritic, 8.7 on movie.guru. Only 1,616 IMDb votes and $3.17 million domestic. Wordless comedy is a hard sell. It shouldn't be.
7. 2
   Look Back (2024)9.6

   Best movie on this list, and barely anyone rated it.

   9.6 on movie.guru, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, 90 on Metacritic, just 24,696 IMDb votes and $2 million domestic. The flaw: it ends before you're ready.
8. 1
   Ne Zha 2 (2025)8.8

   $2.27 billion worldwide and still underrated in America. Fight me.

   Just $23.3 million domestic and 26,220 IMDb votes for an 8.8 on movie.guru. The rest of the planet showed up. The story gets overstuffed, but the action is nuts.

$268.41 says somebody in the comments calls Ne Zha 2 overrated without having watched a single minute of it.

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