Which animated movie has the best food scenes?

Bowls of ramen, festival stalls, pans of eggs and one impossible dessert. Animators spend months on meals nobody will ever taste.

1

Spirited Away

Ghibli's 2001 film, where a spirit-world banquet and a single rice ball carry the whole story.

2

Ratatouille

Pixar's 2007 film about a rat cooking in Paris, ending with a dish that sends a critic back to childhood.

3

Howl's Moving Castle

Ghibli's 2004 fantasy, with a bacon-and-eggs breakfast fried over a fire demon.

4

Ponyo

Miyazaki's 2008 seaside tale, remembered for a bowl of ramen with ham eaten during a storm.

5

Kiki's Delivery Service

Ghibli's 1989 story of a young witch, built around a bakery and a herring pumpkin pie.

6

My Neighbor Totoro

Ghibli's 1988 classic, where hand-packed bentos and a shared cucumber mark ordinary family life.

7

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Sony's 2009 comedy in which a machine makes weather out of cheeseburgers and spaghetti twisters.

8

Beauty and the Beast

Disney's 1991 musical, whose 'Be Our Guest' turns an entire dinner service into a floor show.

9

The Princess and the Frog

Disney's 2009 New Orleans film, driven by gumbo, beignets and a cook chasing her own restaurant.

10

Lady and the Tramp

Disney's 1955 romance, holder of the most famous shared plate of spaghetti in cinema.

11

Kung Fu Panda

DreamWorks' 2008 film, where a noodle shop and a secret ingredient soup frame the hero's arc.

12

Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Aardman's 2005 feature, a stop-motion comedy of cheese, giant vegetables and a rabbit-sized appetite.

13

Coco

Pixar's 2017 Día de Muertos story, with an ofrenda of tamales and pan de muerto at its centre.

14

Luca

Pixar's 2021 Ligurian summer, built on trenette al pesto and endless gelato.

15

Encanto

Disney's 2021 Colombian musical, where arepas con queso hold a fracturing family together.

16

Turning Red

Pixar's 2022 Toronto comedy, with a dumpling-heavy household and a mother's relentless lunchbox.

17

Isle of Dogs

Wes Anderson's 2018 stop-motion film, whose sushi preparation sequence is a short film in itself.

18

Weathering with You

Makoto Shinkai's 2019 Tokyo romance, where instant ramen and fast food are rendered like fine dining.

19

Chicken Run

Aardman's 2000 prison-break comedy, shadowed by a pie machine that turns hens into dinner.

20

Grave of the Fireflies

Takahata's 1988 Ghibli tragedy, where a tin of fruit drops becomes the most painful food in animation.