For many families, watching cartoons is an indispensable attribute of the New Year holidays. Fortunately, both Russian and foreign cinema can offer magnificent animated films that will make both adults and children laugh and cry in front of the TV. And most importantly - they give the feeling of a miracle that we have been waiting for a whole year. We present you the best New Year cartoons according to Kinopoisk.ru.Recommended: Best New Year movies, Forbes rating.
20. Penguins from Madagascar in Christmas adventures
The first in the New Year's Top 20 are the fun adventures of the cheerful and inventive penguins living in the Central Zoo.
Having discovered that the polar bear is sad on New Year's Eve, the young Private soldier secretly gets out of the zoo and goes in search of gifts. However, he himself is mistaken for a toy and Private soldier falls into the hands of a granny and her evil poodle. Can a Skipper and a team leave a fellow in trouble?
19. Snowman
A touching story about the friendship of a boy and a snowman made by him. And while adults sleep in their beds, young friends are waiting for funny adventures, dancing to funny music, festive crackers and even flying above the ground.
There are no dialogs in this cartoon, but they are not needed, they are replaced by facial expressions of heroes and music by Howard Blake.
18. Christmas story
In the soul of old Ebenezer Scrooge there is no place for joy and love. The pleasant excitement of the New Year holidays is alien to him, all that concerns Scrooge is money. However, when the three spirits of Christmas (past, present and future) come to the evil hunks, he rethinks his whole life.
This animated movie with amazing effects and no less amazing music by Alan Silvestri gives the audience both sad and joyful feelings. It shows that even in the very callousness of the heart, deeply, deeply, lives a boy who is hungry for a miracle and ready to do good.
17. Once upon a time in Tokyo
Life is not equally favorable to everyone. Three vagabonds - Jin, Hana, and Miyuki - do not expect anything good from her. But once on Christmas Eve they find a newborn girl on the street and become for her a kind of "guardian angels without a fixed place of residence." Perhaps this child is their chance to have a normal life. Peppy music, excellent animation, numerous references to Western religious subjects and a heart-rending plot distinguish this cartoon from a huge variety of other New Year's animated films.
16. Christmas story of Mickey
All major Disney characters (except Pluto) participate in this Christmas story. Even Mickey Mouse, who had not appeared on the screen for 30 years, was charged with the spirit of Christmas and played a major role in the film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous story, entitled “Christmas Song”.
15. Keepers of Dreams
This serious and funny, romantic and eventful cartoon will be interesting not only for children, but also for an adult audience.
When frosty patterns appear on the windows - this is the work of Ice Jack. He, as well as the Northerner (Santa Claus), Easter Bunny, Sandman and Tooth Fairy protect children's dreams and dreams. However, the gloomy Kromeshnik is very angry that people do not believe in him, and he is going to avenge this for all the children in the world.
14. The Nutcracker
The animated embodiment of the Hoffmann tale amazes not only with delightfully painted characters, but also with the fabulously beautiful, truly New Year’s music of P. I. Tchaikovsky.
In the center of the plot is a girl who accidentally finds a Nutcracker figurine for nuts under a Christmas tree. Suddenly, a revived hero told the girl that in fact he was a prince, bewitched by the evil mouse Queen.
Compassion, courage, kindness - these are the basic values that the young audience of the Nutcracker will learn.
13. Dragons: Gift of the Night Fury
In the Viking village, a holiday has come that is known as "crimping", and is very reminiscent of the New Year. However, dragons suddenly leave their friends and fly away somewhere. And while Astrid is trying to save the holiday, Icking finds out where Toothless and the company went.
12. Life with Louis: A Christmas Surprise for Miss Stillman
The cartoon plunges us into the memories of Louis Anderson about his childhood and the events of Christmas 1961. All around were filled with a festive spirit, except for the grouchy, but kind father of the family. The Christmas tree and gifts are expensive, and then the wife intended to surprise the old neighbor ...
According to the viewers, this cartoon embodies what the New Year and Christmas are loved all over the world: goodwill, willingness to help one's neighbor, homeliness and the opportunity to be with the whole family.
11. The night before Christmas
The first, but not the only cartoon in our collection with that name. Moreover, the plots of the foreign and Russian cartoons are different. In this case, we are waiting for a film adaptation of one of Gogol’s stories from the series “Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka”. Beautiful Ukraine with its carols and folk dances, devilry, love and repentance in pride - all this is in the delightful “Night before Christmas”.
10. When the Christmas trees light up
If you like cartoons about Santa Claus, then here he is, one of the best New Year cartoons with this hero. Together with the granddaughter Snegurochka Santa Claus rushing to the tree to the kids, but the evil wolves are building all sorts of intrigues. And the cute toy bunny and bear, accidentally dropped out of the sleigh with gifts, are also rushing to their new owners, because they are waiting for them so!
Despite numerous “tinting” and even re-dubbing, this cartoon, shot in 1950, is not an iota old. And the song "New Year's Eve", written by Sergei Mikhalkov and sounding in the cartoon - is one of the most famous New Year's children's songs.
9. Santa Claus and summer
Having lived all his life at the North Pole, Santa Claus has never seen either green grass or bright-winged butterflies. It’s good that there are children who were able to show grandfather what summer is.
8. Girl with matches
This sad cartoon created by Disney based on the tale of Hans Christian Andersen will make many cry. And at the same time, to feel the joy of the fact that they are together with a loving family in the battle of the New Year chimes, and not as a cartoon heroine - a small, poor girl - wander through the streets of the city, trying to sell matches to passers-by indifferent.
The animators were not afraid to come into conflict with Disney bosses, who insisted on a traditional happy ending for American films and cartoons. However, after creating various “soft” ending options, the Disney leadership lost, considering that you should not spoil the entire cartoon.
7. Snowman-mailer
A snowman molded by the kids to deliver a letter to Santa Claus, and a small dog Druzhok go to a forest full of dangers. They have to defeat the wolf and gather forest residents for the New Year holiday.
6. Santa Claus and the Gray Wolf
Our Santa Claus is not refined Santa Claus, he knows how to ski and is not afraid of wolves. And besides him, in the cartoon there is a beauty Snegurochka, and a hare whom the wolf decided to kidnap along with an insidious crow, and the brave Snowman, the personal driver of Santa Claus.
A kind, naive, but very moving cartoon, which will certainly captivate young viewers, and make large ones smile nostalgically, recalling their childhood.
5. Umka is looking for a friend
The white bear cub Umka does not know what New Year is. He is just looking for his friend, a boy, at the polar station, where Soviet (at the time of the cartoon) workers are celebrating New Year's Eve. And while Umka is looking for a friend, his excited mother is looking for her teddy bear.
4. The Nightmare Before Christmas
Monsters, terrible in the face, but funny inside, also want to feel the spirit of Christmas. And most of all, Jack Skellington is fascinated by Christmas. He finds himself in the city where people live, and sees with what joy both old and small are waiting for Santa Claus. A tricky plan is ripening in Jack’s head: to abduct Santa Claus and fulfill his role.
Perhaps one of the best Christmas cartoons of all time can scare very young children. However, teens and adults are delighted with wonderful songs, charismatic protagonists and excellent puppet animation.
3. The night before Christmas
A very old (1941 "year of birth") cartoon with still popular heroes - Tom and Jerry.
A beautiful Christmas melody, funny cat and mouse under a huge decorated Christmas tree, and Jerry's admiration for beautiful gifts give this short cartoon a wonderful New Year flavor.
2. Last year's snow fell
The protagonist of this “plasticine” cartoon is an unnamed man who went to the forest for the tree “by the will of his wife who sent him.” The greedy and cunning, who will be "not enough", gets into a real theater of the absurd, where he will have wonderful transformations, and he also needs to get a Christmas tree, because without it you can not return home. Memorable music and catchphrases have long made this cartoon one of the indispensable components of the New Year.
1. Winter in Prostokvashino
In the list of the best New Year cartoons, neither domestic nor foreign innovations managed to surpass the good old Soviet cartoon in the audience rating. And he and other episodes of Prostokvashino have long been stolen into quotes that do not lose relevance in our days.
The adventures of the cat Matroskin, the dog Sharik, their owner Uncle Fedor and the harmful postman Pechkin continue even in the New Year. Petty insults of Matroskin and Sharik grow to catastrophic proportions, Uncle Fedor and his father fix the TV, and an unexpected guest is going to come to Prostokvashino for the New Year's holiday.
