POLL: Best Disney animated feature.

My initial reaction is to go for Dumbo, but then again I do feel Lilo & Stitch deserves more props than what it got.

i voted for the vastly underrated and wonderful "ichabod and mr toad."

other than that...

best: the first three, 101 dalmatians, the three caballeros.

remember fondly: alice in wonderland, the jungle book, many adventures of winnie the pooh.

worst: anything following winnie the pooh on the list. ranges from mediocre to downright dismal.

It is obviously The Aristocats for having cats in it. This is the internet, after all...

Either Dumbo or The Jungle Book - the former has a better story, the latter better songs. Pinnochio is pretty good as well.

Looking at this list has made me realize that Pixar is the worst thing to ever happen to Disney animated films.

The fall-off in quality after Lion King is kind of astounding.

Which I imagine has some connection to Pixar's development. Pixar does have at least 2 very good (dare I say incredible nyuck nyuck) films, both of which's quality I think is owed to Brad Bird rather than Pixar themselves.

Lilo & Stitch is killer tho

Okay d'oh I thought Brad Bird wrote/directed Finding Nemo also, my bad.

i remember a lot more of these a lot more fondly than i would've guessed.

I just now almost accidentally voted for The Black Cauldron because I was thinking about The Black Hole and that poor little broken droid.

i voted fox & the hound. i know its not the 'best' but its my favourite for hugely sentimental reasons.

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i kind of want to vote for robin hood becuz ROGER MILLER, plus phil harris, and peter ustinov!

the 60s run (up thru robin hood) is all really lazily animated but all really breezily entertaining in a way that the ponderous "masterpieces" just aren't

lol "ponderous" sorry i became shakey mo for a sec

lemme see which one is pauline kael's fave before i vote

three caballeros it is. thanks for helping the war effort, latin america!

I really could not deal with the end of Fox & the Hound as a little kid and couldn't stand to rewatch it. I can't even remember what my sentimental favorite was at that age, probably Beauty and the Beast although I think I saw Lady and the Tramp an obscene number of times

Also wtf there's a Fox and the Hound 2

"direct-to-video 'midquel'" eat my ass

ooh de lally ooh de lally golly what a daaaaay

caballeros in a landslide

i voted for the LION KING because im a sucker for movies that have a title card at the very end

Robin Hood was in constant rotation in our mid-80s VHS. I still remember much of it fondly, except for the seriously dated pop ballad 2/3rds of the way thru the flick.

This thread has served the purpose of reminding me that "The Black Hole" exists. Thank you, thread.

Also, Dumbo.

aw man the muthafuckin Black Hole

if ppl don't love The Black Hole then they aren't really ppl

do we need a disney live-action poll?

I remember being sorta obsessed with Sword in the Stone as a kid but I don't remember what happens in it at all. We didn't have it on tape and it wasn't at our regular video store so maybe that was the appeal

Arthur pulls the SWORD from the StONE.

Becomes KING

Beauty & the Beast. Belle gives me the horn.

Dumbo. I mean, the Pink Elephants sequence is the finest animation ever put to film EVER in the history of cinema. I mean, quite a tough choice against Fantasia, but the Pink Elephants clinched it.

Wait what was the difference between Fantasia & F2000? Was it just additional content + digitalized?

anybody who hasn't seen Ze's little topologically impossible dance move in caballeros can't really judge the finest animation ever put to film, unfortunately

F2000 is a whole different (and much worse) movie

lol "ponderous" sorry i became shakey mo for a sec

wtf?

anyway this is actually kind of a tough choice for me

anyone who isn't voting for the three caballeros is a downright sonofabitch and i wish a curse on you and your family.

lol it wasn't a very good shakey mo imitation because he didn't say "uh" before his sentence, don't worry little bro.

fuckin people

it might've actually been an alfred lord sotosyn homage, i mean it had the obnoxious film-crit jargon but none of the lighthearted sociopathic wit of our shakey after i edited out the bit wherein i expressed great amusement and satisfaction at the death of walt disney

";-)"

shit just got real on the disney thread, folks.

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I've never seen The Three Caballeros. ;_;

I haven't seen it either, tho I've always wanted to - the stills look great

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^^^ my dream man, let me show you him (he is a bird)

if we lived in a horrible, grey, dismal world in which the three caballeros did not exist, i'd have voted for alice in wonderland or dumbo.

yay psychedelic carpets

I saw The Black Cauldron and The Great Mouse Detective in the theater! Also a rerelease of Pinocchio and The Little Mermaid. I think that's it.

The only reason I didn't list "The Black Cauldron" is because I never saw it; I love the source material to bits, though.

i don't even remember liking alice in wonderland. but i loved basically all of the ones dan listed (except for mulan, hunchback, cinderella). i love the lloyd alexander book, but black cauldron didn't seem like that well put together (i read somewhere that the money ran out and the ending never got finished?)

p.s. i'd give up a whole hellova lot to have a voice like sterling holloway.

but you did list black cauldron dan

Lloy Alexander BOOKS; that movie was all 5 of them stuck together.

"Mulan" and "Hunchback" I will go to bat for because I've seen them both recently; "Mulan" I like for illogical reasons (Xtina sang the big song from it and Ming-Na and Eddie Murphy are in it) and logical reasons (it's a bog-standard plot but reasonably well-executed and I cared about what happened as the movie went on) while "Hunchback I saw by accident after years of avoiding it because I was convinced it was a saccharine whitewash of the original story and in seeing the movie I was shocked and amazed that it actually was on the dark side in terms of what you expect from a Disney movie.

(xpost: hahaha oops, I have been drinking)

i'm a little more surprised by jungle book than alice to be honest. and only grownups and asswipe kids who go to the next grade up for reading are into fantasia

lilo and stitch rules but mulan is the last disney i have sentimental childhood attachment to, despite being kiddy stuff somehow it remained a birthday sleepover staple well into middle school

jeez that Pinocchio re-release I was talking about was 1984, must've been one of the first movies I ever saw in the theater.

it actually was the first movie i saw; my dad wrote in his journal about it the night after he took me. he said i spent the next whole day telling lies, pressing on the end of my nose, and giggling.

would have voted lion king

lion king had a really epic board game tiein

ok I'm pretty sure I saw Bambi in '82 but was too young to be traumatized by the mom death or know wtf was going on or give a shit about Bambi but I liked Thumper.

The board ate my post :(

Thumper is the only rabbit I know who transferred his lust from his dick to his foot.

I'll write it again:

While you're all in hell for worshipping obese animals and listening to trippy Mad Hatter tales, I'll be in heaven sipping margaritas thanks to THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER.

If you guys haven't seen HUNCHBACK (and I doubt most of you have), you NEED to watch the creepiest song sequence in any animated feature or possibly any movie ever. Evil priest sings about how he must fuck a woman or she'll go to hell.

I kind of had a crush on evil priest when I saw this movie at theater during age 12. ;_;

That was the last Disney film I saw in the theatre...several parents walked out. True story: one old bag said to another, "These Disney people think they're David Lynch or something."

HAHAHA that's awesome.

I remembered the whole 'God have mercy on her...God have mercy on me' bit just before it came up! :D

yeah hunchback is sorta classic despite being a hot mess, i remember my parents were heckling it bc of happy ending and demi moore but i had a bunch of crude tracings of the gypsy jester guy in my shitty drawing notebook that summer

I had a crush on him, too.

That religious rapeanger song shit is blood money diamonds gr8080. The rest of the movie doesn't really live up to it.

Holy crap Benji is TEARING SHIT UP on "So You Think You Can Dance," gotta go

Yeah, I remember when I was watching Hunchback, and that priest scene came, and I was like holy shit, am I still watching a Disney film?! But most of the movie was pretty uneven, and I never understood why, if the theme of the movie was that apperances don't matter, did Esmeralda choose the handsome prince anyway, and the Hunchback was left without any cookie? Either make it a tragedy like the original, or make him get the girl, but the ending we got was pretty half-assed.

no Pete's Dragon, no credibility

― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:52 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I WANT A PRINT OF THIS SO BAD!!!

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Elliot really was the cutest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Woo4oBWDA

Pinocchio was robbed.

Pete's Dragon deepened my fear of hillbillies.

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AVOID AVOID AVOID

lol @ these results btw

Pete's Dragon is a bizarre, dark Disney whatthehellwereyouthinking movie. And yet I kinda like it.

I was obsessed with Pete's Dragon as a kid. My favorite stuffed animal was a little Elliot pillow. I haven't seen it in years. The traveling magician (I think?) was way creepy and mickey rooney was such a drunk!

And Shelley Winters as an abusive adoptive mom, and leering hillbillies, and Helen Reddy pining for her true love lost at sea.

Yeah, it was pretty bizarre. I was a weird kid though.

I do a mean Elliot impression btw.

Ha! My 3 year old was into it for awhile, but he started getting scared toward the end so I've put it away for a few years.

I had the read-along record so I'm intimately familiar with this one.

The movie has fewer turn-the-page BEEPS.

two of Disney's most racist movies in the #2 spot

I dunno, the Jungle Book doesn't strike me as so bad...?

Wld rank Lady & the Tramp or Peter Pan ahead of it.

that sounds about right

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Don't get me wrong, that ape is the WORST.

Ape is based on Louis Prima, a white guy

I don't get what specifically about King Louie codes as "black", it's not nearly as straightforward as the crows in Dumbo or the cats in Lady & the Tramp. Louis basically plays himself - a goofy jazz singer. His overriding goal is to get the secret of fire from Mowgli (who is also, incidentally, not white). The argument that a white guy acting (arguably) like a black guy while expressing a desire to be more like another non-white character is RACIST seems pretty convoluted to me.

shakey OTM.

haha i'd forgotten the cats in 'lady and the tramp,' i assumed abbs was referring to the stereotyped italian chefs!

haha!

"where we finding baby there are milk nearby"

The whole Pleasure Island sequence was one of the most frightening experiences I ever had in a theater.

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10x scarier than anything Gerald Scarfe ever did.