All-Star Casts in Animated Films.
- Any animated movie by Disney, Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Blue Sky Studios, or Illumination, really. DreamWorks, especially.
- Disney:
- Aladdin has Scott Weinger, Linda Larkin, Robin Williams, Jonathan Freeman, and Douglas Seale.
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire has Michael J. Fox, James Garner, Claudia Christian, Leonard Nimoy, John Mahoney, David Ogden Stiers, and Jim Varney in his final film role, save for Princess Kida Nedakh, who is voiced by veteran voice actor Cree Summer.
- Bolt has John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Greg Germann, Malcolm McDowell, Diedrich Bader, Nick Swardson, Randy Savage, Ronn Moss, and Brian Stepanek.
- Brother Bear is subtle with this, but it's still present, as the film's cast consists of Joaquin Phoenix, Rick Moranis, Dave Thomas, Estelle Harris, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Greg Proops.
- Chicken Little, as the studio's first overall CGI-animated film, has a decent list of cast members that consists of Zach Braff, Joan Cusack, Steve Zahn, Garry Marshall, Don Knotts, Amy Sedaris, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Wallace Shawn, Patrick Stewart, Patrick Warburton, and Adam West.
- The Emperor's New Groove has David Spade, John Goodman, Eartha Kitt, Patrick Warburton, and Wendie Malick.
- Encanto has Stephanie Beatriz, Diane Guerrero, John Leguizamo, Adassa, Wilmer Valderrama, Rhenzy Feliz, and Maluma.
- Frozen has Kristen Bell, Idina Menzel, Jonathan Groff, Josh Gad, Santino Fontana, Alan Tudyk, Jesse Corti, Ciarán Hinds, Edie McClurg, and Katie Lowes.
- Home on the Range has Roseanne Barr, Judi Dench, Jennifer Tilly, Cuba Gooding Jr., Randy Quaid, and Steve Buscemi.
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame has Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline, Tony Jay, David Ogden Stiers, Jason Alexander, Mary Wickes, and Charles Kimbrough.
- Lilo & Stitch has Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, David Ogden Stiers, Kevin McDonald, Ving Rhames, Jason Scott Lee, Amy Hill, and Zoe Caldwell.
- The Lion King has Matthew Broderick, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Guillaume, Moira Kelly, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Cheech Marin, Nathan Lane, Madge Sinclair, Rowan Atkinson and Ernie Sabella. Jim Cummings is an exemption since he's a veteran voice actor.
- Meet the Robinsons is more conservative when it comes to its cast, but the case is still present, in which its cast members include Angela Bassett, Laurie Metcalf, Adam West, Harland Williams, Nicole Sullivan, and even Tom Selleck.
- Moana has Dwayne Johnson, Temuera Morrison, Nicole Scherzinger, Rachel House, Jemaine Clement, and Alan Tudyk.
- Pocahontas has Mel Gibson, Christian Bale, David Ogden Stiers, Billy Connolly, John Kassir, and Linda Hunt.
- The Princess and the Frog has Anika Noni Rose, Keith David, John Goodman, Oprah Winfrey, Terrence Howard, and Jenifer Lewis.
- Tangled has Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, Donna Murphy, Ron Perlman, Brad Garrett, and Jeffrey Tambor.
- Treasure Planet's cast consists of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bill Murray, David Hyde Pierce, Emma Thompson, Laurie Metcalf, Michael Wincott, Roscoe Lee Browne, and Martin Short, while Tony Jay plays as The Narrator.
- Wreck-It Ralph has John C. Reilly, Sarah Silverman, Jack McBrayer, Jane Lynch, Alan Tudyk, Mindy Kaling, Ed O'Neill, Dennis Haysbert, Edie McClurg, Adam Carolla, Horatio Sanz, Rachael Harris, Stefanie Scott, Katie Lowes, and Skylar Astin.
- Zootopia has Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, Nate Torrence, Jenny Slate, J. K. Simmons, Shakira, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Tiny Lister, Tommy Chong, Octavia Spencer, Alan Tudyk, Katie Lowes, and Kristen Bell.
- Pixar:
- The Incredibles originally consisted of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Sarah Vowell, Jason Lee, Elizabeth Peña, Wallace Shawn and John Ratzenberger. Incredibles 2 adds Bob Odenkirk, Catherine Keener, Sophia Bush, Jonathan Banks, Adam Rodriguez, Barry Bostwick, Isabella Rossellini, Jere Burns and Usher.
- Inside Out originally has Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Mindy Kaling, Lewis Black, Bill Hader, Richard Kind, Diane Lane, Kyle MacLachlan, Bobby Moynihan, Frank Oz, Flea and John Ratzenberger. Inside Out 2 adds Liza Lapira, Tony Hale, Maya Hawke, Ayo Edebiri, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Paul Walter Hauser, June Squibb, Lilimar Hernandez, Yvette Nicole Brown and Kirk Thatcher.
- The Toy Story franchise deserves a special mention among all Pixar films. The first film alone had Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, Laurie Metcalf, R. Lee Ermey, and Penn Jillette. Toy Story 2 brings all but Jillette back, and adds Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Estelle Harris, and Wayne Knight to the cast. Toy Story 3 loses Potts, Grammer, and Knight, while Varney is replaced by Blake Clark. However, it brings in Ned Beatty, Michael Keaton, Timothy Dalton, Kristen Schaal, Jeff Garlin, Bonnie Hunt, Whoopi Goldberg, Richard Kind, and even a then-unknown Bea Miller. Toy Story 4 loses Ermey, Beatty, Keaton, Goldberg, Kind, and Miller, but makes up for it by bringing back Annie Potts and adding Tony Hale, Keegan-Michael Key, Jordan Peele, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves, and Ally Maki in major roles, while Jay Hernandez, June Squibb, Carl Weathers, Mel Brooks, Carol Burnett, Betty White, Carl Reiner, Alan Oppenheimer, Patricia Arquette, Bill Hader, Flea, Melissa Villaseñor and Rickey Henderson all have minor roles or cameos. Toy Story 5 adds Conan O'Brien, Craig Robinson, Greta Lee, Shelby Rabara, Ernie Hudson, Alan Cumming, Bad Bunny and John Hopkins.
- Turning Red has Sandra Oh, Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, James Hong, Wai Ching Ho, Sherry Cola, Jordan Fisher, Finneas O'Connell and Sasha Roiz.
- DreamWorks:
- Antz includes the likes of Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken, Anne Bancroft, Dan Aykroyd, and Danny Glover.
- Home has Steve Martin, Rihanna, Jennifer Lopez, Jim Parsons, and Brian Stepanek.
- How to Train Your Dragon, as a whole franchise, is notably limited when it comes to casting celebrities, with Jay Baruchel, America Ferrera, Gerard Butler, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Jonah Hill, T.J. Miller, Kristen Wiig, David Tennant, and Ashley Jensen being the original cast members. The sequels further prove this by only adding Cate Blanchett, Djimon Hounsou, Kit Harington, and F. Murray Abraham.
- Kung Fu Panda features the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie, Lucy Liu, Jackie Chan, David Cross, Seth Rogen, Ian McShane, James Hong, Wayne Knight and Michael Clarke Duncan (in the first film alone). The sequels bring in big names like Gary Oldman, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Michelle Yeoh, Danny McBride, Bryan Cranston, J. K. Simmons, Kate Hudson, Awkwafina and Viola Davis.
- Madagascar has Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer and Andy Richter. Subsequent films would add more celebrities, such as Bernie Mac, Alec Baldwin, will.i.am, Jessica Chastain, Frances McDormand, Benedict Cumberbatch, and John Malkovich.
- The Prince of Egypt includes the voice talents of Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer, Sandra Bullock, Jeff Goldblum, Danny Glover, Patrick Stewart, Helen Mirren, Steve Martin, and Martin Short. Phew!
- Shrek originally just had Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, John Lithgow, and Vincent Cassel, but it would soon add more celebrities for later films, including Antonio Banderas, John Cleese, Julie Andrews, Jennifer Saunders, Rupert Everett, Justin Timberlake, Maya Rudolph, Ian McShane, Amy Sedaris, Amy Poehler, Eric Idle, Jane Lynch, Jon Hamm, Kristen Schaal, Craig Robinson and Lake Bell. Even the Puss in Boots films have this case by including certain celebrities such as Salma Hayek, Zach Galifianakis, Billy Bob Thornton, Florence Pugh, John Mulaney and Harvey Guillén.
- Trolls is quite notable for implementing this trope in their films. Originally, it has Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Christine Baranski, Russell Brand, Jeffrey Tambor, Icona Pop, Ron Funches, Kunal Nayyar, Gwen Stefani, Rhys Darby and Quvenzhané Wallis. Later on, they would add in more celebrities (with a huge chunk of them being music artists), such as Rachel Bloom, Ozzy Osbourne, Anderson .Paak, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Camila Cabello, Amy Schumer, Eric André, Troye Sivan, and Andrew Rannells.
- Blue Sky:
- Epic features Amanda Seyfried as M.K. Bomba, Josh Hutcherson as Nod, Colin Farrell as Ronin, Beyoncé as Queen Tara, Steven Tyler as Nim Galuu, Christoph Waltz as Mandrake, Pitbull as Bufo, Jason Sudeikis as Professor Radcliffe Bomba, and so on.
- Ferdinand has John Cena, Kate McKinnon, Bobby Cannavale, David Tennant, Gina Rodriguez, Anthony Anderson, Jerrod Carmichael, Peyton Manning, Jeremy Sisto, among others.
- Horton Hears a Who! has Jim Carrey, Steve Carell, Carol Burnett, Isla Fisher, Dan Fogler, Will Arnett, Jonah Hill, Amy Poehler, Jesse McCartney, Seth Rogen, Selena Gomez and more.
- Ice Age originally consisted of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Goran Višnjić, Jack Black, Alan Tudyk, Diedrich Bader, Stephen Root, Cedric the Entertainer and Jane Krakowski. Later additions include Queen Latifah, Seann William Scott, Josh Peck, Simon Pegg, Jennifer Lopez, Peter Dinklage, Keke Palmer, Nicki Minaj, Nick Offerman, Stephanie Beatriz, and Jessie J.
- Rio has Jesse Eisenberg, Anne Hathaway, Jamie Foxx, George Lopez, will.i.am, Leslie Mann, Carlos Ponce, and Jemaine Clement.
- Illumination:
- Despicable Me originally has Steve Carell, Russell Brand, Jason Segel, Miranda Cosgrove, Kristen Wiig, Julie Andrews, Will Arnett, and much more. The sequels and spinoffs add more celebrities like Steve Coogan, Benjamin Bratt, Trey Parker, Will Ferrell, Sandra Bullock and Taraji P. Henson.
- The Lorax has Zac Efron, Ed Helms, Danny DeVito, Taylor Swift, Jenny Slate, Rob Riggle, Nasim Pedrad, Betty White, Stephen Tobolowsky, and Danny Cooksey.
- The Secret Life of Pets has Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Jenny Slate, Lake Bell, Kevin Hart, Ellie Kemper, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Albert Brooks, Bobby Moynihan, and Steve Coogan.
- Sing has the likes Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, John C. Reilly, Scarlett Johansson, Tori Kelly, Seth MacFarlane, Taron Egerton, Peter Serafinowicz, Jennifer Hudson, Leslie Jones, and so much more.
- The Super Mario Bros. Movie has Chris Pratt, Jack Black, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Day, Keegan-Michael Key, Fred Armisen, Seth Rogen, and Sebastian Maniscalco.
- Disney:
- The Thief and the Cobbler: Richard Williams, director of the film, went to great lengths to secure not only the greatest voice cast of all time for a cartoon (Vincent Price, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle to name a few) but also the greatest team of animators:
- Himself. Richard not only directed, he drew quite a significant chunk. His crowning scene is Zig-Zag's card shuffling display for the One-Eyes.
- Art Babbitt, responsible for Zeus and the Chinese mushrooms in Fantasia, and infamous for organizing the 1941 strike against Walt Disney. For Thief he drew King Nod and the vulture Phido.
- Ken Harris, number one animator in the Chuck Jones unit during production on the original golden-era batch of Warner Brothers cartoons. Ken's animation of the Thief is similar to his work on Wile E. Coyote.
- Emery Hawkins, who worked for every single cartoon studio that existed in Hollywood between the 30s and the 50s. It is not exactly known what he animated on Thief (many animation buffs guess he drew the ogre-prince who isn't in the Recobbled Cut).
- Grim Natwick, responsible for Krazy Kat, Betty Boop, Snow White and Mr. Magoo, and was in fact 90 years old when he tackled the drawings for the Mad Witch.
- For many of these actors and artists, Thief and the Cobbler was their final film; they poured in every ounce of blood and sweat they had left.
- Hoodwinked! has the likes of Anne Hathaway, Xzibit, Glenn Close, Jim Belushi, Patrick Warburton, Anthony Anderson, David Ogden Stiers, and Andy Dick. Hayden Panettiere and Martin Short also appear in the sequel, replacing Hathaway and Belushi.
- Titan A.E.'s out of this world voice talent includes Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, John Leguizamo, Janeane Garofalo, and Nathan Lane.
- Barnyard boasts the udderly amazing voice talents of Kevin James, Courteney Cox, Sam Elliott, Danny Glover, Andie MacDowell, Wanda Sykes, and David Koechner.
- The Curious George movie features Will Ferrell as Ted the Man in the Yellow Hat, along with Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, and Dick Van Dyke.
- The LEGO Movie features Chris Pratt, Elizabeth Banks, Morgan Freeman, Will Arnett, Will Ferrell, Liam Neeson, Alison Brie, Charlie Day, and Nick Offerman in main roles, with cameos by Jonah Hill, Channing Tatum, Cobie Smulders, Will Forte, Dave Franco, Jake Johnson, Keegan-Michael Key, Jorma Taccone, and Shaquille O'Neal As Himself. There are also spoilery cameos from Billy Dee Williams, Anthony Daniels, and a live-action Will Ferrell.
- Strange Frame: Love and Sax may have been an obscure title, but its voice cast includes Claudia Black, Tara Strong, Tim Curry, Ron Glass, and Cree Summer, plus Claudia Christian, Alan Tudyk, and George Takei in smaller roles.
- The Pagemaster has 85% of its cast come from several different incarnations of Star Trek (Mostly TNG and the third movie including the late Leonard Nimoy, but Robert Picardo from VOY was also on the payroll for voicing minor characters), and the remainder that weren't were Macaulay Culkin, Jim Cummings and the late Phil Hartman. And oh, the music was composed by the late James Horner, another Star Trek alumni.
- Sausage Party boasts a cast comprised pretty much exclusively of recognizable comedians and actors: Michael Cera, James Franco, Bill Hader, Salma Hayek, Jonah Hill, Anders Holm, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Danny McBride, Edward Norton, Craig Robinson, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, and Kristen Wiig
- The infamous special Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa.
- Similarly, Foodfight! has the voices of Charlie Sheen, Wayne Brady, Hilary Duff, Eva Longoria, Chris Kattan, and Christopher Lloyd.
- We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story has John Goodman, Walter Cronkite, Jay Leno, Martin Short, Kenneth Mars, and Julia Child.
- Journey Back to Oz has Milton Berle, Herschel Bernardi, Paul Ford (of The Phil Silvers Show), Margaret Hamilton (The original Wicked Witch of the West as Aunt Em), Jack E. Leonard, Paul Lynde, Ethel Merman, Liza Minnelli (daughter of the original Dorothy Gale, Judy Garland), Mickey Rooney, Risë Stevens and Danny Thomas.
- The Justice League × RWBY: Super Heroes & Huntsmen duology:
- Both parts have Jeannie Tirado as Green Lantern, Tru Valentino as Cyborg and Kilg%re, and Ozioma Akagha as Vixen.
- Part 1, to reflect the degaged Justice League, sees Chandler Riggs as Superman, Nat Wolff as Batman, Natalie Alyn Lind as Wonder Woman, and David Errigo Jr. as the Flash. Errigo also voices Rolf.
- Part 2 sees, to reflect the Trinity and Flash at their true ages, Riggs, Wolff, Lind, and Errigo swapped out with Travis Willingham, Troy Baker, Laura Bailey, and David Dastmalchian, respectively with Willingham and Baker also respectively voicing Weather Wizard and Mirror Master. It also has Jamie Chung as Black Canary, MJF as Killer Croc, J. Michael Tatum return as Klein, and and Christopher Sabat as a not-quite-dead Dr. Watts.
- Disney's and GKIDS' Studio Ghibli dubs cast well-known Hollywood actors to do the voices, most likely to increase a film's marquee value:
- Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind has Shia LaBeouf, Uma Thurman, Patrick Stewart.
- Castle in the Sky has Mark Hamill, Anna Paquin, James Van Der Beek and Cloris Leachman (who also appears in Ponyo).
- My Neighbor Totoro has sisters Dakota and Elle Fanning as the main sisters with their mom voiced by Lea Salonga.
- Kiki's Delivery Service has Kirsten Dunst as the titular character with her sidekick Jiji voiced by Phil Hartman. Debbie Reynolds also appears.
- Only Yesterday has Daisy Ridley and Dev Patel.
- Porco Rosso has Michael Keaton as the lead.
- Pom Poko has Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Clancy Brown and J. K. Simmons.
- Whisper of the Heart has Brittany Snow, Ashley Tisdale and Cary Elwes (who was also in Porco Rosso).
- Princess Mononoke has quite a lot of notable names with Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Keith David, Minnie Driver, Jada Pinkett Smith, Billy Bob Thornton and Gillian Anderson (who also appears in From Up on Poppy Hill).
- My Neighbors the Yamadas has Jim Belushi and Molly Shannon.
- Spirited Away has Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette, Susan Egan (who was also in Porco Rosso), David Ogden Stiers (who has also appeared in several Ghibli films prior) and even Pixar's good luck charm, John Ratzenberger.
- The Cat Returns has Anne Hathaway, Tim Curry and Cary Elwes reprising his role as The Baron from Whisper of the Heart.
- Howl's Moving Castle has plenty of noteworthy names with Christian Bale as the titular character alongside Jean Simmons, Emily Mortimer, Josh Hutcherson, Billy Crystal and Lauren Bacall. Oh and Crispin Freeman also appears near the end too.
- Tales from Earthsea has Timothy Dalton and Willem Dafoe.
- Ponyo has the likes of Tina Fey, Matt Damon, Liam Neeson, Cate Blanchett and Betty White with the titular character voiced by Noah Cyrus.
- The Secret World of Arrietty has Bridgit Mendler, Will Arnett, Amy Poehler and Carol Burnett. The British dub by StudioCanal has Saoirse Ronan, Olivia Colman, Mark Strong and Tom Holland (which could also act as a Retroactive Recognition for him).
- From Up on Poppy Hill has Anton Yelchin, Jamie Lee Curtis, Christina Hendricks and Aubrey Plaza.
- The Wind Rises has a large portion of the cast voiced by notable actors such as Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Martin Short, William H. Macy, Stanley Tucci, Mae Whitman and Elijah Wood.
- The Tale of the Princess Kaguya has Chloë Grace Moretz, Darren Criss, James Caan, Mary Steenburgen, Lucy Liu and James Marsden.
- When Marnie Was There has Hailee Steinfeld, Geena Davis, John C. Reilly and Catherine O'Hara.
- The Boy and the Heron has actors returning from other Ghibli films such as Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe and Mark Hamill in addition to also having Robert Pattinson, Gemma Chan, Karen Fukuhara, Florence Pugh and Dave Bautista.