and after that there's still "Dumbo", THEN there's "The Lion King".

"The Lion King" is not a bad movie. It's biggest problems are that (a) like "Dreamgirls", its biggest, boldest moment is at its midpoint and everything thereafter is a letdown, (b) that moment is the inciting incident, meaning you sit through roughly 40 minutes of meandering plot set-up and (c) is the character of adult Simba - once Simba grows up, you don't give a flying fig about this wimpy, wishy-washy adult lion, and Matthew Broderick's voice performance doesn't aide this at all.

And out of the films in this Top 6, though "Lilo" and "Dumbo" are not as technically proficient and ornate looking and sounding as the others on the list, they are probably the two best pieces of cinematic storytelling on the list.

As far as "most powerful" animated film ever, it's up against "Fantasia", "Sleeping Beauty", and much of Pixar's output. And I haven't seen them yet, but there's also foreign films like "Watership Down" and "Animal Farm" that are considered up there.