Oscars: Ranking Every Best Animated Feature Film

20. Happy Feet

In a year where the genuinely frightening Monster House shook audiences with its scary thrills and gloomy aesthetic, the Academy opted to vote Happy Feet the best animated film, despite its messy story and heavy-handed messages.

Though not by any stretch a bad movie, Happy Feet's desire to be at once a fluffy, talking-animal adventure and an environmental fable about global warming leave it wildly unfocussed and even a bit confusing for the younger audiences it's clearly aiming for.

Worse still, some of the animation - which strangely incorporates motion capture - feels a touch too uncanny in parts. There's some great laughs here and there, and the voice work of Robin Williams in particular shines through, but Oscar worthy? Not quite, especially given the competition.