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Animation or otherwise.

I will settle on "One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing", for purely sentimental reasons, and for having Derek Nimmo in it.

― Ed (dali), Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Peter Pan
Tron
Flight of the Navigator
Snow White
Pete's Dragon
Pirates of the Carribean

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Down & Out in Beverly Hills--or do you mean Disney-Disney?

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:55 (twenty-two years ago)

ha!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Sunday, 3 August 2003 06:58 (twenty-two years ago)

man, I remember about 50 different "Touchstone Pictures--now Disney is hip! and adult! and--oooh--edgy" pieces in different magazines and on Entertainment Tonight-type TV shows (including ET itself, obv!) back then.

― M Matos (M Matos), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I liked Shrek very much. Rufus Wainwright's rendition of Hallelujah makes me quite emotional.

― C J (C J), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:01 (twenty-two years ago)

shrek's dreamworks - not disney! that's what that whole movie's about!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

(answering the question)

dumbo over lady and the tramp

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:05 (twenty-two years ago)

The Shaggy DOG
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
MARY FUCKING POPPINS
Herbie the Love Bug
Song of the South!!!
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Freaky Friday
fuckin Blackbeard's Ghost!

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:13 (twenty-two years ago)

shrek's dreamworks - not disney!

Oops. *runs away feeling stupid*

― C J (C J), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:35 (twenty-two years ago)

Fantasia!

― Chris Barrus (Chris Barrus), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:48 (twenty-two years ago)

The Lion King

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Sunday, 3 August 2003 07:49 (twenty-two years ago)

My Top 10:

Song of the South
Fantasia
Lady and the Tramp
Pinnochio
Beauty and the Beast
Dumbo
Bambi
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Robin Hood
The Jungle Book

― Calz (Calz), Sunday, 3 August 2003 09:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I wish they'd re-release Song of the South in the USA

― JMod, Sunday, 3 August 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Dream on. Try www.songofthesouth.net for full story.

― Calz (Calz), Sunday, 3 August 2003 15:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Original Fantasia

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 3 August 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

The Black Hole

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 3 August 2003 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I mean, terrific score by John Barry, Ernest Borgnine's in it, themes of Faust in space, big evil hovering robot (best personification of Lucifer in a movie ever), cute round hovering robots, ESP, walking dead, completely tripped-out final sequence, asteroids, laser pistols, funky sound effects, etc. - easily one of the best American science fiction films of all time.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 3 August 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Nazi Supermen Are Our Superiors

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:18 (twenty-two years ago)

Jungle Book for me

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The answer can only be 'Jungle Book'. Baloo the Bear is the only person who should ever be allowed to scat.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

They will probably never release "Song of the South" because it is now considered racist and inappropriate by the paranoid executives at Disney.

I put my vote down for Fantasia, with Tron coming in a close second.

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and I haven't thought of "Flight of the Navigator" in years. Wasn't Paul Reubens the voice of the spaceship flying around with that little boy? Doesn't that seem rather frightening now?

― The Man they call Dan (The Man they call Dan), Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:34 (twenty-two years ago)

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
No Deposit No Return
The Strongest Man In The World
Pollyanna

too bad the incredible mr.limpet isn't disney, cuz that would be my fave. or maybe coal black and de sebben dwarves ( hah! just kidding. although it is incredible. )

but i guess if i have to be all boring about it i would say pinocchio or dumbo.

― scott seward, Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Baloo the Bear is the only person who should ever be allowed to scat.

but what about Thomas O'mally (the ally cat) or Little John from Robin Hood?

DID EVERYONE FORGET GUS THE PLACE KICKING MULE?!!?!

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 3 August 2003 17:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Fools the answer is Pinocchio!!!

(I will also accept Dumbo and Sleeping Beauty.)

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 3 August 2003 18:27 (twenty-two years ago)

20,000 Leagues!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:15 (twenty-two years ago)

another Jungle Book vote
tho the elephant scenes are soo tedious they could have easily let them out. and kaa rules of course.
must see pinocchio again sometime. don't know.

― Eriik, Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:16 (twenty-two years ago)

the adventures of ichabod and mr toad!

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Escape From Witch Mountain!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The Parent Trap

― chaki (chaki), Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:44 (twenty-two years ago)

I am highly partial to Beauty & The Beast, Robin Hood and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?.

― Ian Johnson (elmo oxygen), Sunday, 3 August 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

chaki is stealing all my picks!!!

(Isn't Kim Richards of the Witch Mountain movies aunt to the Hilton sisters?)

― rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 3 August 2003 20:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The Little Mermaid. All-time best. Best musical numbers, best villian, hottest heroine.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 3 August 2003 20:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Really no one here for Pinocchio and Dumbo?

I cry.

― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 3 August 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I said dumbo!

― nnnh oh oh nnnh nnnh oh (James Blount), Sunday, 3 August 2003 20:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The Jungle Book yes, but not for Stevie T's frankly insane reason, but because it has the greatest musical sequence in the history of cinema, the great Louis Prima as King Louis singing I Wanna Be Like You (with extra interjections from the very fine Phil Harris as Baloo).

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 3 August 2003 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

You people keep suggesting movies that don't even have robots in them. At least TRON comes close.

http://grovers-aunt.tripod.com/blackhole.jpg

― Millar (Millar), Monday, 4 August 2003 00:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Jungle book, yo. For reasons outlined above (I am fond of sticking Louis Prima on in the restaurant for the facial expressions provoked).

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 4 August 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Really no one here for Pinocchio and Dumbo?

i said pinocchio AND dumbo!

― scott seward, Monday, 4 August 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Sorry, not enough careful reading. Yay!

Pinocchio is really quite harrowing--whether you see it as a child or an adult. Doesn't have the primordal Riefsenstahlian Whomp of Bambi but it is quite powerful and absorbing. Not for nothing was it evoked in A.I.

Dumbo is just a beautiful piece of storytelling. I like Fantasia much too but it's a bit hit or miss and somehow as a cultural product it's a little disconcerting, like this elephantine demonstration of Disney/American might. When Ozu saw it as a POW in the Phillipines, he said "Gee, these guys might beat us if they can make something like that."

― amateurist (amateurist), Monday, 4 August 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Another vote for Dumbo. Fantasia is a bit uneven, but it has some of the most beautiful andd innovative episodes in Disney films ever.

By the way, am I the only who cried at the end of Lilo and Stitch? That was the best Diseny flick in years.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 4 August 2003 08:18 (twenty-two years ago)

my favourite is Beauty & the Beast, but I'm not sure if I would say that one was the best per se!

― Pinkpanther (Pinkpanther), Monday, 4 August 2003 08:31 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite Disney pieces are the shorter weirder ones like "Lambert the Sheepish Lion" and "Ferdinand the Bull". But if I had to pick a film it would probably be Mickey's Christmas Carol. Or Bambi. Or Beauty & The Beast.

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Monday, 4 August 2003 08:36 (twenty-two years ago)

pinocchio is dark. luring boys in cages with candy then turning them into donkeys. how was it received in 1941 then i wonder?

― Eriik, Monday, 4 August 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

"Pinocchio in 1940 became extra expensive because Walt
shut down the production to make the puppet more sympathetic
than the lying juvenile delinquent as presented in the
original Carlo Collodi story. He also resurrected a minor
character, an unnamed cricket who tried to tell Pinocchio
the difference between right and wrong until the puppet
killed him with the mallet. Excited by the development of
Jiminy Cricket plus the revamped, misguided rather than
rotten Pinocchio, Walt poured extra money into the film's
special effects and it ended up losing a million dollars in
it's first release.

For the premiere of Pinocchio Walt hired 11 midgets,
dressed them up like the little puppet and put them on top
of Radio City Music Hall in New York with a full day's
supply of food and wine. The idea was they would wave hello
to the little children entering into the theater. By the
middle of the hot afternoon, there were 11 drunken naked
midgets running around the top of the marquee, screaming
obscenities at the crowd below. The most embarrassed people
were the police who had to climb up ladders and take the
little fellows off in pillowcases."

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 4 August 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

i was just about to leave the video store that a friend of mine runs and he puts benigni's live-action pinocchio movie on. i couldn't move. i was riveted. it was so strange and awful.i must go buy a copy. that movie might as well be the reason that smoking pot was invented. the bad dubbing so transcends the word "bad".

― scott seward, Monday, 4 August 2003 10:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Pinocchio still frightens me. Something about children turning into animals has always been really scary to me. It's a really creepy movie. I don't know if that makes it a classic or dud though.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 4 August 2003 11:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Toy Story!

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Toy Story 2

― Nick H, Monday, 4 August 2003 13:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Chaki, that was excellent. where'd you find that one?

also, my faves: 20,000 Leagues(Peter Lorre in a disney film, for god's sake!), Sword in the Stone, Robin Hood.

man, how many disney flicks did you like as a kid, then cringe at as an adult. oh well. At least Freaky Friday had BOTH John Austin AND Mrs. Schmaus!

Beauty & the Beast was the flick that gave me an inkling than Disney might not be totally lost.

OH SNAP, i forgot TREASURE ISLAND!

ROBERT NEWTON OWNZ YOU ALL!
http://www.mooncove.com/newton/images/ljsschm2.jpg

"Aye, who be cuttin' a page out of a Bible? Poor rovin'
seamen the likes o' you needs every scrap o' scripture 'e can get."

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm with Millar. There are very few movies as cool as The Black Hole, Disney or not. I had Black-Hole themed dreams very often for years after seeing that film.

And man oh man, EVERY movie premier needs drunken naked midgets being hauled off in pillowcases!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Emperor's New Groove was, er, underrated

― Chuck Tatum (Chuck Tatum), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Except it wasn't Disney either.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

Another vote for Black Hole. Also not mentioned yet: Condorman and Candleshoe.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Of more recent offerings, The Straight Story should be up there too.

― o. nate (onate), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

What was that one that The Simpsons was spoofing with "The Fantabulous Contraption of Professor Horatio Hufnagel"?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 4 August 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Maximilian Schell's excellent triplehammy++ performance as the villain in Black Hole shouldn't go unmentioned.

- Maximilian Schell's excellent triplehammy++ performance as the villain in Black Hole -

That is all.

― Sommermute (Wintermute), Monday, 4 August 2003 16:05 (twenty-two years ago)

> The answer can only be 'Jungle Book'. Baloo the Bear is the only person who should ever be allowed to scat.

isn't the bag of maggots in The Nightmare Before Christmas based on some famous jazz vocalist?

and staying with the jazz theme(?), i'd like to see The Aristocats again because it's been ages and i like the animation style

andy

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Black Hole and Condorman both fine if twisted memories of my youth. I did like how the Beta Band sampled the Black Hole theme, I have to say.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:46 (twenty-two years ago)

/me googles

bag of maggots = oogie boogie
famous jazz vocalist = cab calloway

andy

― koogs (koogs), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 16:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Alice in Wonderland

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:02 (twenty-two years ago)

My password to my work network is the title of a Disney film, actually. So if anyone ever wants to hack into my files for some reason, they can narrow it down.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Some might take that suggestion as corporate sabotage, honey...

― ModJ, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh really? All I can say to that is my oh my, I have never seen an elephant fly.

Oh who said that.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Wasn't it the crows?

― Modj, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes. Yes, it was.

― Ally (mlescaut), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Heh.

― ModJ, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Fantasia 2000 -- if nothing else, for the flying whales and the Gershwin sequence.

Alice in Wonderland, cause I've cribbed from it so damn much and I think I saw the movie before reading the book (I was very small, I'm not positive).

Tron, for God's sake, Tron!

I obsessed about The Witch Mountains movies and books as a kid.

Oh, but my gosh, no one's mentioned Dr Syn, aka the Scarecrow! Recognize!

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It's all about Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Emperor's New Groove was, er, underrated
-- Chuck Tatum (sappy_papp...), August 4th, 2003. (later) (link)
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Except it wasn't Disney either.
-- NA (emmaa...), August 4th, 2003. (later) (link)

http://disney.go.com/disneyvideos/animatedfilms/groove/

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Disney should have responded to The Prince of Egypt with The Prince of Persia.

http://home.earthlink.net/~simoncooke/samcoupe/pics/prince.gif

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 17:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the parent trap

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I stand corrected. I thought it was that other studio that did the Anastacia movie and All Dogs Go to Heaven. My bad.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The only way I ever remember that Groove was a Disney movie is by reminding myself that it originated as Disney's "Prince and the Pauper set in the Incan Empire" film, and then clearly some funny interns got ahold of it and made a good movie instead.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:13 (twenty-two years ago)

how about most overrated Disney film? my vote goes to Cinderella - whatta bore!

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Snow White for most overrated. Great for its time and all, and their first animated feature, etc., but the animation doesn't age well compared to some of the other Disney movies and not a whole lot actually happens.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Most overrated = recent Disney, ie, Beauty and the Beast, Lion King, and even Alladin. Let's take a classic story and cram it into one of our standard formulas.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The babysitter I had as a kid was in Song of the South.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)

But "Beauty and the Beast" was the best out of the recent Disney films.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I did like it a lot, but I agree that it'd have more going for it if it hadn't lent its formula (or used the formula from? I forget where in the order it comes) to the six or seven others.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Bedknobs and Broomsticks is great. I want to see it again. I probably haven't seen it since 1985.

Confession: I watched "Beauty and the Beast" while sick some time last year and I totally cried.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I find Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty very boring.

― Mandee, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd and PAM GRIER

clearly "Something Wicked this Way Comes"

― H (Heruy), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)

101 Dalmatians; Freaky Friday; Lady and the Tramp; Treasure Island

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Overrated by whom? When I was a kid I rated every Disney movie pretty highly, even Rescuers Down Under! (Or was that after my time? Maybe it was just The Rescuers.)

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 20:39 (twenty-two years ago)

I got a bit freaked out when Jason Robards got his hand all fucked up in that flick. brrrr.

i always remember liking Sleeping Beauty. And Bedknobs & Broomsticks was TOTALLY a birthday party movie for either me or my brother for several years.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 04:02 (twenty-two years ago)

twenty years pass...

The Black Hole

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 3 August 2003 15:54 (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I mean, terrific score by John Barry, Ernest Borgnine's in it, themes of Faust in space, big evil hovering robot (best personification of Lucifer in a movie ever), cute round hovering robots, ESP, walking dead, completely tripped-out final sequence, asteroids, laser pistols, funky sound effects, etc. - easily one of the best American science fiction films of all time.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 3 August 2003 15:57 (twenty years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Awesome. This on right now and runs til the Celtic game kicks off. Perfect.

― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 April 2024 12:15 (one year ago)

I watched this for the first time today. I liked most of the elements mentioned above (could have lived without the cute round hovering robots) (always happy to see Anthony Perkins, though), but it still felt kind of lacklustre overall? I think a film that would have really captured my imagination if I'd seen aged between 5 and 10, in the same way I was fascinated by Star Trek V (where they literally fly to the centre of the universe to meet God)

― soref, Saturday, 13 April 2024 17:43 (one year ago)

'villain who acts like they are nice and friendly at first, but there heavy hints that they are actually EVIL' - this was also something that always drew me into films when I was a kid. Maybe Maximilian Schell works as a villain for children because he's like a malevolent parent, like an evil step-parent type?

― soref, Saturday, 13 April 2024 17:48 (one year ago)

The ending was pretty weird! Walt must have been spinning in his grave. Too much boring running about firing laser guns though. Can't quite work out who Maximilian Schell reminded of in this film.

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Schell.jpg

― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 April 2024 18:18 (one year ago)

Getting a Richard Manuel vibe from that pic

Jack Kirby drew a comic strip adaptation of Black Hole late in his career, but it’s pretty lacklustre: https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS059pyLgIh7fm8-fQIE8hmaPZZNHX7urC1nSJzv6zNSTZcds0F2p0vViLBHYOlYPecgS8jij82qDXA-hODKEKMYaMKzvkctOJ-5R2EZYT6gChXT0SPsHK_YvhiYQOWW8WuMAsmg/s1600/black-hole-1.jpg

― Ward Fowler, Saturday, 13 April 2024 19:09 (one year ago)

Maximilian Schell doll!

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VM0AAOSw2l1hnS-W/s-l1200.webp

― My God's got no nose... (Tom D.), Saturday, 13 April 2024 19:27 (one year ago)

Seems odd to me that Mary Poppins got no love hardly at all. Just a single mention among about 40 different films cited. It's got all the main Disney hallmarks: catchy songs, dancing people and objects, adorable kids, a dead parent, and a pervading sense of unreality, all presented in gaudy Technicolor. Plus a killer performance by Julie Andrews!!! for godsake.

How can Fantasia compete with that? It doesn't have ANY dead parents!

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 14 April 2024 00:15 (one year ago)

You dont know the lives of the souls in bald mountain, b

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Sunday, 14 April 2024 00:35 (one year ago)

Disney doesn't mess with untold backstories. Their credo is: if you didn't see it or hear it, then it's not in the movie.

― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Sunday, 14 April 2024 00:41 (one year ago)

I had these! So freakin’ psyched to see the actual pictures again. What a weird and lovely piece of long dead and little remembered pop media

https://projectswordtoys.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-black-hole-viewmaster.html?m=1

― piscesx, Sunday, 14 April 2024 00:48 (one year ago)

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