What is the best Disney film?

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Well?

― Ally, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone where mom or dad dies bloodily so the kid has to wreak fearful revenge.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Jungle Book, if only for Louis Prima as King Louis singing "I Wanna Be Like You". Phil Harris as Baloo is really good too.

― Martin Skidmore, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The songs in Peter Pan get me everytime!

― chaki, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Aristocats!

― jel --, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Lady & the Tramp", coz it's got the best songs.

― Norman Phay, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"Powder"

― Mitch Lastnamewithheld, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dumbo, if only for Sun Ra's "Pink Elephants on Parade".

― J Blount, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fantasia.

― Joe, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dumbo is my second favorite. I like Alice in Wonderland.

― Ally, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Brave Little Toaster?

― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, Down And Out In Beverly Hills

― Brian MacDonald, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Ned's referring to Bambi.

― cpx, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going with Dumbo, it's so sad. The "Baby Mine" scene, when Dumbo's mother tries to comfort him throught the bars of her cage is the saddest thing I've ever seen.

― Arthur, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Tron!

― clotion, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's funny, I was just browsing a biography of Walt Disney today at the library. he was a strange character in many ways. he once said that he loved Mickey Mouse more than any woman, but he really hated Donald Duck and half-seriously considered killing him off. he could be a vicious bastard to work for, too. Hayley Mills remembered going on a tour of the studio with Uncle Walt and one of the animators came up and said "Hello Walt," and Disney replied, "Hello, you're fired."

my favorite Disney movie was always 101 Dalmatians, just because it seemed so radically un-Disney-like and cool. Alice in Wonderland is great for similar reasons, and yeah, Dumbo too. I think we can agree that pretty much all live-action Disney films are crap, right?

― Justyn Dillingham, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was reading the last issue of Time Out NY and I saw the most gorgeous man in the world, his picture was like huge, he had like a personal ad or something - but all it did was talk about Tron. It was very strange.

― Ally, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Fantasia. Although Peter Pan is the first film I remember seeing which makes it quite special. I don't like Alice in Wonderland it is a travesty.

― isadora, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Arthur is on the money.

They are making a Dumbo sequel.

― felicity, Wednesday, 29 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ugh, say it ain't so, Felicity.

― Arthur, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I wish I could. It will be very ugh. Dumbo will have a girlfriend.

― felicity, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

def Tron

― Alan T, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what abt the one where a cat and two dogs trek across country to find their family? (is that even disney?)

i loved it age 7

― mark s, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'The Incredible Journey' - and yes, it is a Disney live action. I think there's an 'Even More Incredible Journey' as well.

When my sister and I were v. little we were taken to see 'Cinderella' - both of us cried our eyes out when Lucifer the evil cat got killed, and we had to be taken home before the end! Puss-wusses!

― Andrew L, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Incredible Journey is second best. First best is Escape From Witch Mountain.

― Jeff W, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fantasia has a robots AND a dinosaurs section and leopold stokowksi recorded the soundtrack

― mark s, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Aladdin is far and away the best of the (more) recent ones. Especially because it spawned an equally excellent Megadrive game which I still mourn to this day.

― Archel, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Lynne from BB3.

― N., Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Kaa rules!

trusssssssssst in me, jusssssssssssst in me, ssssssssshut your eyessssssssssss and trussssssssssssst in me, go to ssssssssssleep sssssssssssave and sssssssound knowing I am a round

sssslip into sssilent ssslumber etc. etc.

(was he seducing mowgli or what? you dirty old snake)

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i liked Mulan, especially the ghostly grannies/ancestors' musical number, and the bit where the marauding mongols come out of the snow.

nearly all disney films RoXoR. i've only seen two that were rub, which is an amazing hit rate whichever way you look at it.

― rener, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I like nearly all of them except Aladdin, Robin Williams should have his feet run over by a lawn mower. The recent one with David Spade in it looked totally awful too.

― Nicole, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mary Poppins!!! The scenes on the rooftop with the sweepers and the staircase of thick black smoke and the view over the city and...

(partly live-action with animated penguins does that count?)

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

escape from witch mountain is AMAZING!!!!

― dave k, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What the hell could "The Even More Incredible Journey" be about? A slug and a caterpillar carry a pupating silkworm across the Pacific Ocean?

― Sam, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Or maybe the family makes yet another attempt to escape from their clearly psychotic pets.

― Sam, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

sssssssssslowly and ssssurely your ssssensesss will cceasssse to ressssssssissssssssst

(great line)

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mistake - the sequel to 'Incredible Journey' (erm and it's really called 'Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey' (1993)) is in fact a remake of the original w/ new celebrity voices - eg. Michael J. Fox and Sally Field. Hurrah.

― Andrew L, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Emperor's New Groove" was surprisingly hilarious. Eartha Kitt made that movie.

I'm trying to think of a Disney movie that I've seen that I disliked. The only ones I can think of that might be candidates ("Atlantis", "Pocahontas", "The Hunchback Of Notre Dame") I've avoided like the plague. "Escape To Witch Mountain" is really, really excellent, as is "Tron", so not all the live-actions ones suck.

― Dan Perry, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No Dan - Disney made that movie. Eartha Kitt's voice was merely in it.

― Pete, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HULK SMASH PUNY PTEE!!!

― HULK!, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the hulk never were disney...or was he?

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

HULK NOT CARE ABOUT DISNEY! HULK WANT TO SMASH PTEE!! PUNS HURT HULK DEEPLY IN HULK'S TENDER HEART! RAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― HULK!, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh god ,there's someone ripping up his shirt again...

it seems the end of this thread is near.

― erik, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Robin Hood is far and away my favourite.

― chris, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Robin Hood is great for Terry-Thomas as the snake...

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You are all mad. Snow White & The Seven Dwarves is best because it is the most romantic.

― Austin., Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you sap

― chris, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Robin Hood is great for having Prince John suck his thumb and call for mommy. plus maid marian is a total fox.

― dave k, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That scene in "Sword in the Stone" where Arthur turns into a squirrel and gets a female squirrel to fall in love with him only to return to human form. That scene makes me hurt deep-down.

― dave k, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

For a while it was Aladdin until cynicism set in and I grew weary of Robin "I act like a child in every movie!" Williams (side question: anyone seen "Insomnia"? Very good movie and exception to Robin's rule). Now it's probably Mulan.

― Vinnie, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Dude, the Siouxsie cover of "Trust in Me" was one of my favorite songs for awhile. I've always wanted to hear k.d. lang do it. It's got just the right kind of drama.

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

plus maid marian is a total fox
hahahaha king of puns!

― Vinnie, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RAAAAAAAAAARGH!!! HULK SMASH PUNS!!!!

― HULK!, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

oh jesus, i forgot that awesome wizard battle between merlin and that witch in "sword in the stone"... people, recognize the genius!

― dave k, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a Gary Larson sequel to Incredible Journey, with a cow, a snake and a squid. I should photocopy the cartoon for Andrew L, but I'll obviously forget. And it would take bloody ages to find it amongst all those Far Side collections...

― Martin Skidmore, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I was TOTALLY in love with Robin Hood!

― felicity, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Robin Hood! Every word, every snippet of score, the lyrics to all the songs, MEMORIZED bzntch! It's like some sort of religious experience every time I watch it, or like I'm copying the torah or reciting some shit from the Koran or something.

― Dan I., Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Plus I got to laugh at the uninitiated who didn't know where the Hamster Dance song really came from. (!)

― Dan I., Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

related question: which was the most "indie" disney film?

― geeta, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

You're all wrong. The best Disney film is "Toot, Whistle, Plunk, & Boom". It's on the Fantasia DVD.

― Chris Barrus, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Obscure old school one with a vampire fanged Donald weilding an ice pic being all racist and shit.

― The Hegemon, Thursday, 30 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm noticing a lack of Pooh on this thread. Why in all that is holy is every Disney store full up of Pooh paraphenelia??? You walk into a Disney store and you are attacked by giant, 10 foot tall Pooh Bears and Piglets - you cannot run or hide from the massive amount of animals from the 100 Acre Woods. It is a real bitch to find characters from other Disney films sometimes - what is up with that when no one here is claiming Pooh?

(For what it's worth, before I stand accused, I DO like Winnie the Pooh and yes there is a 3 foot tall Tigger in my living room, what's it to you? You shoulda seen it when I first saw it on my coffee table. I entered at 3 am wearing a black wrap dress and torn stockings after the real estate board party, and it was smoking a cigarette and holding an Onion book, no joke. My ex bought me strange gifts.)

― Ally, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bambi is the first movie i saw in a theater Snow White Followed soon after and then Fox and HOund- which taught me lessons of free will vs detrenimism(Sp)

― anthony, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

interestingly, the pooh 'brand' is i think disney's largest moneymaker in the lucrative childrens' toys/DVDs/videos/computer games etc market. pooh was obv not an idea generated by walt the d-man himself but instead the rights were "acquired" - i think it's set up now so that disney doesn't even have to pay royalties to the aa milne family anymore, so it's a wholly disney-owned 'franchise' now, which means even bigger bucks for disney, because, hell, ph34r it: the many-tentacled disneyified pooh merchandising juggernaut now outsells MICKEY MOUSE HIMSELF.

also strangely, the copyright protection on "mickey mouse" the image/ concept/etc was set to expire in 2003, but vigorous lobbying in washington by disney extended the copyright, preventing mickey and his pals from entering into the public domain.

― geeta, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I think Bambi or Peter Pan was the first Disney film I saw when wee and small. Hopefully the latter, the former would have left me too traumatized as an introduction. D'oh!

I have a soft spot for the original Rescuers film. I would, though.

Here's a tough one -- name something from the eighties Disney regime that is honestly loved. ;-) I'm guessing there won't be much in the way of praise for Oliver and Company...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Disney Pooh can fuck right off. Taking sides:http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:lPV-McbPw2YC:www.jigsaw-puzzles.c o.uk/images/pooh.gif vs. http://www.pooh-corner.com/images/anipooh.gif

Pooh slash fiction

― Austin., Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

actually, the original Pooh cartoons that Disney did were fine, and quite reverent to the books. in fact they may actually be my favorite Disney cartoons. it's just the Saturday morning crap and overmerchandizing of Pooh that kills it for most of us.

Eighties Disney is pretty sad. did anyone ever see The Black Cauldron?

― Justyn Dillingham, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I did, I loved the books and still do. The film...

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I had a soft spot for "The Fox and the Hound" when I was kid, but this is only because I was five when it came out. Post-Walt, Pre- Katzenberg Disney Movies are completely unredeemable (with an exception made for "The Rescuers"). Plus this was when Don Bluth was in his prime, and Disney was considering giving up film production altogether and focusing solely on theme parks.

― J Blount, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Disney pooh is a load of old nads. It makes me very cross indeed that so many people only know of WTP in disney form, esp. cos the original illustrations were so good.

― RickyT, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Please, Winnie the Pooh is hardly the worst bastardization that Disney's done. It's less of a betrayal than Pinocchio or Alice in Wonderland or the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

― J Blount, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned: I honestly love the Great Mouse Detective (1986) and I hope I'm not the only one.

― Vinnie, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Of course, your question was whether it was honestly loved i.e. by many if not all. There is probably nothing that fits that criteria from the 80's since the Great Mouse Detective is not very well known (most indie Disney movie! to answer geeta's question) and nothing else was very good to my recollection.

― Vinnie, Friday, 31 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Great Mouse Detective I remember being good fun (especially since I'm a Holmes addict myself), so that slips through, and I think that The Fox and the Hound could qualify as well. Beyond that, I dunno...Little Mermaid was the start of the great revival, wasn't it?

Oh dear, and The Black Cauldron. Poor Lloyd Alexander. Though a live action take would be filmable and pretty good these days.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

'80s Disney flicks seem to be the bastard child of the high concept pitches gone awry trend that plagued late '70s Saturday morning cartoons (70's: "It's a cartoon of the Three Stooges - except they're robots!", "It's a cartoon of the Harlem Globetrotters - except they're mutant superheroes!"; 80's Disney: "It's a cartoon of Sherlock Holmes - with mice!", "It's a cartoon of Oliver Twist - with cats!"). This was when Disney still re-released their classics to theaters (a sadly defunct practice) and, as much as I loved "The Fox and the Hound" I knew it didn't measure up to "Lady and the Tramp" and wasn't half as cool as "The Secret of NIMH", which blew my mind at the time.

And Ned - I would be shocked if Eisner didn't take a glance at Lord of the Rings opening weekend numbers and immediately call someone to make sure Disney still had the rights to Black Cauldron.

― J Blount, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Walt Disney's Old Yeller was an excellent movie. :) :)

― Gale, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Secret of NIMH ruled, and An American Tail had its points. Bluth was making a better Disney movie than Disney at that point, to be sure (then he went to shit in a big way...).

Thinking of Tron, it was Disney-released but not really a Disney movie; the Lisberger group was out of Boston and relocated to LA, and pretty much handled things on its own. A good ringer, though.

Eisner is more apt to be beating himself up since they could have done LOTR with Jackson and they turned him down -- that said, every other studio did as well except for New Line.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Waitwaitwait... Didn't "The Secret of NIMH" come out after "The Fox And The Hound"?

― Dan Perry, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought they came out the same year, but Dan's right, Fox was 1981, NIMH was 1982. Wil Wheaton does one of the mouse kids' voices, you know. Oh, it's true.

Great Mouse Detective actually isn't a complete high-concept deal; like most of the Disney movies, it was actually adapted from a pre-existing book or collection of stories they got the rights to.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pinnocho had one of the most evil and hedonistic series ever put on film, it was closer to Fellini then Capra- and in that it was redeemed.

― anthony, Saturday, 1 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Beyond that, I dunno...Little Mermaid was the start of the great revival, wasn't it?

It was certainly when Eisner took notice, I think: Kids have always wanted to see a cool cartoon, but when LM made so much cash, that's when they realised, "Ooo, the little ones are good for some cash..."

But for my fave, it's a tie between The Aristocats and Lady and the Tramp. Being proper doesn't mean you can't come out a winner;>

― Nichole Graham, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Song of the South

― JM, Sunday, 2 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

disney rapes the folk tales, fairy sroies, pantomimes and children's books of the world, leaving them sullied.

― Ed, Monday, 3 June 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two years pass...

I saw The Lion King for the first time in ages, and its' far better than I remember. I thought it may have been a bit twee, but it got the line just right. And it may have the saddest bit in any Disney film as well -

ts: Dumbo's mum conforting Dumbo through the bars of a cage
vs
Simba unable to understand why his dad is just lying on the ground after being hit by a herd of wilderbeast.

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I like the Great Mouse Detective too. That peg-legged bat thing is cool. Also, speaking of Alice in Wonderland, apparently Aldous Huxley wrote a script for the Disney adaptation, but Walt could only understand one word in three so it got dropped.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

America's Heart And Soul.

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I've got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty
I've got whoozits and whatsits galore,
You want thing-a-ma-bobs?
I got twenty!!!
But who cares....

No big deal.........

I WANT MOOOOOOOOOOORE...........

― Joe (Joe), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Powder is a minor classic. Whatever happened to its director? He seemed to have such a good touch with young actors.

― John Curly, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Dumbo!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

And as for live-action films, Mary Poppins.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

It's Pinnochio by a million miles.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:37 (twenty-one years ago)

John Curly wrote: Powder is a minor classic. Whatever happened to its director? He seemed to have such a good touch with young actors.

Good touch? I think you mean bad touch.

― Ernest P. (ernestp), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I think that Song of the South is the best.

The director of Powder also made Jeepers Creepers 1 and 2.

― C-Man (C-Man), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow the Great Mouse Detective has the voices of Vincent Price and Basil Rathbone! I never knew that as a kid, plus I remember loving the book it was based on.
The Madame Cluck "On Wisconsin" football scene and the puppet show in Robin Hood still reduce me to tears of laughter every time.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I seem to remember one about a pidgeon teaching a wheelchair-bound boy to walk again, all in live action. I think the heroic pidgeon died in the act, but it's all so long ago.

Was it called 'Pidge'?

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Pidge featured a scene of the heroic pigeon being put in a coop where the other pigeons proceded to peck him to death. One of our teachers actually apologized for showing it to us in the sixth grade.

― Tim Masters, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Jungle Book hands down, followed by Alladin.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Oliver & Company - in the right mood, unwanted kittens in a box to be given away/left for dead might still make me cry like a baby.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Was there a wheelchair-bound boy taught to walk again through love for a pigeon at any stage in Pidge?

― Vic Fluro, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

BAMBI.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Was there a wheelchair-bound boy taught to walk again through love for a pigeon at any stage in Pidge?

-- Vic Fluro (vicflur...), June 30th, 2004.

I think something uplifting happened before all the bloodshed.

― Tim Masters, Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

a whole thread and no beauty and the beast?

― g--ff (gcannon), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 14:17 (twenty-one years ago)

did anyone ever see hunchback of notre dame? it's creepy . . . there's that scene in notre dame that is probably the most sexually violent a disney movie has ever been.

― kelsey (kelstarry), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

My opinion upthread remains

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 30 June 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

Dumbo

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Friday, 6 January 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

SPY KIDS 2

― GET EQUIPPED WITH BUBBLE LEAD (ex machina), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:10 (twenty years ago)

20,000 leagues

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 January 2006 19:35 (twenty years ago)

fuckin' Jungle Book by a country mile.

― Wogan Lenin (dog latin), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

For me it's all about the music.
Robin Hood - Roger Miller as the Rooster/Minstrel RULES! Oodelally!!
Jungle Book - Bare Necessities! Also The Monkey Song, The Elephant March. Hooray! s
Dumbo - "Baby Mine", "Pink Elephants on Parade", "When I See An Elephant Fly"...it's all there.
Lady & The Tramp - Peggy Lee's "He's A Tramp" is just sooo good.

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 7 January 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)

Pinocchio
Mary Poppins
Monsters, Inc.

― remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:11 (twenty years ago)

monsters inc, really?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:13 (twenty years ago)

Monsters Inc is great but I wouldn't class it as Disney, otherwise Spirited Away might be my fave Disney movie.

Dumbo makes me cry like a baby.
Aladdin is way underrated.
Pinocchio's probably the best for technique.

(Finding Nemo's my fave Pixar.)

― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:21 (twenty years ago)

To me it's the best of all the Pixar creations -- most unique premise, most internally consistant style, most transportive. Though I should add

Toy Story

to my list, because it's pretty swanky too. Finding Nemo doesn't make my list because it struck me a -- err, this is a silly critique -- loud and too bombastic. I haven't watched Dumbo since I was 11, and I don't know if I remember Jungle Book at all. Maybe I'll go rent them tonight?

― remy (x Jeremy), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:24 (twenty years ago)

The main reason I put Nemo above Monsters Inc is pretty silly too: I think Monsters Inc fucks about with its time-scale and Mike and Sully do stupid things to drive the plot, whereas plotwise I think Nemo's just about perfect.

― Excelsior Syndrum (noodle vague), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:29 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0292702736.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 January 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

Apart from Louis Prima singing 'I Wanna Be Like You' I would take just about any Pixar ahead of just about all the real-Disney movies put together.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 7 January 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

as far as traditionally animated features go I'd go with Lilo and Stitch. the early ones are aimed squarely at kids. I enjoy l&s and emperor's new groove more.

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:09 (twenty years ago)

THE BLACK HOLE by far since it sounds like the title of a porno flick. Everything else by DIsney and it's offshoots is pure shit.

― dawg sez, Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:14 (twenty years ago)

the best one is THE THREE CABALLEROS, a completely demented film from 1943 or so in which there is no plot whatsoever, just a series of surreal quasi-psychedelic episodes about donald duck going to south america and chasing (live-action) girls around for an hour. it's like a disney version of fear and loathing in las vegas!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:24 (twenty years ago)

i liked monsters inc, but i thought the ending was a real cop-out, and that sorta soured it for me

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:26 (twenty years ago)

Mary Poppins

― latebloomer: Let's just say I do for bullshit what Stonehenge did for Rocks (lat, Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:48 (twenty years ago)

that sounds good, J.D.!

― [tuvan throat singer's profound lyric sheet-must read again] (nordicskilla), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:50 (twenty years ago)

you should see it and tell me what you think, i've never met anyone else who's seen it!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 7 January 2006 23:53 (twenty years ago)

I've seen it! Zé Carioca (the parrot) is a beloved character in portuguese-language Disney comics. His adventures, written and set in Brazil, rank alongside vintage Barks for me as being amongst the very best Disney comics. They're also (along with the soaps, of course) one of the main places to pick up on brazilian slang, popcult, etc. for portuguese foaks. I think they'd lose a lot in translation, tho. :(

I remember liking the movie well enough, but I was a bit too young to not find the extended song&dance numbers (one featuring Carmen Miranda, right?) a bit tedious. Strongest memory I have is of the end of the movie's title song, where Donald, Carioca and the rooster dude promptly throw away their "one for all, all for one" ethos in favour of chasing skirt.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Sunday, 8 January 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

the actual correct answer is 'der fuehrer's face.'

also,

When my sister and I were v. little we were taken to see 'Cinderella' - both of us cried our eyes out when Lucifer the evil cat got killed, and we had to be taken home before the end! Puss-wusses!

wait wtf no way does lucifer die in this movie!

― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:11 (sixteen years ago)

I really like Pinnochio. Jungle Book has the best songs, though.

― chap, Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:13 (sixteen years ago)

Pinocchio by a mile for me. Absolutely beautiful animation and a fantastic script with just the right ammount of darkness

― Number None, Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:15 (sixteen years ago)

Pinocchio is pretty amazing

― I'm in Miami Subs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:39 (sixteen years ago)

Alice was always my fave as a kid tho

― I'm in Miami Subs (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 15 August 2009 18:40 (sixteen years ago)

The Straight Story - David Lynch

― Zeno, Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:00 (sixteen years ago)

^^ ultimate Lynch fan.

― the stain specialist (Viceroy), Saturday, 15 August 2009 19:06 (sixteen years ago)

six years pass...

Has The Jungle Book been discussed somewhere? So good!

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 3 June 2016 08:36 (nine years ago)

The new one I mean.

― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 3 June 2016 08:40 (nine years ago)

two months pass...

Dumbo was on Disney Jr last night and my wife and I were both like "oh we've never seen this whole movie, let's watch it with the boys"

Then the crows showed up.
Holy shit.

― Don't boo, vote (DJP), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:04 (nine years ago)

i know right. and i love the rest of that film.

― Len Bincowank (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:05 (nine years ago)

when i was a kid there used to be a Disney clips show on TV every bank holiday and they used to show the crow song every time. course this was back when the BBC still broadcast The Black and White Minstrel Show so

― Len Bincowank (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:06 (nine years ago)

Disney's decision to keep Song of the South in the vault is very strange in light of the unquestioned ubiquity of like Dumbo and Peter Pan.

― Our Meals Are Hot And Fresh! (Old Lunch), Monday, 29 August 2016 14:13 (nine years ago)

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