A Poll New World: Disney Animated Films of the 90s

http://www.tvdsb.on.ca/currcomptech/images/radio_button.jpgI hate all these movies

^^a SB litmus test if there ever was 1

man i keep telling myself i'm gonna go back and watch all the ones i love again, but i think i'm really gonna go it before summer's up

I haven't seen a couple of these but it breaks down as Aladdin vs The Lion King for me. The former's got slightly better songs overall but the latter's got "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" plus no Robin Williams. On the other hand I'm bored shitless being told about how they CGI'd that fucking stampede. I think I wanna vote Lion King but maybe Aladdin is the less emo answer.

The Rescuers Down Under

ppl probably going to sleep on this one but its totally rad also the 1st movie i ever saw, i think

Dreadful, twee horseshit marketed to "kiddie" types

kid movies are cute and marketed to kids shockah

Kind of a noxious bunch, and not likely to age well. Nearly all of them could make a gender studies student weep. Cheap ethnic stereotypes abound. And yet... some beautiful animation and some very effective emotional button-pushing.

I voted for Hunchback, it's the most openly pervy.

Don't really know how I managed to miss every film released after The Lion King.

aladdin had the best video game.

still never seen: hunchback, hercules, pocahontas, tarzan.

beauty & the beast is a strong contender imo.

lion king was the last great disney animation, but i voted aladin.

ian otm. when I think about them, there're too many scenes in The Lion King and Aladdin by which I am irked, whereas only the ending to Beauty & The Beast bothers me.

Beauty and the Beast, Belle was my #1 role model even though I am male.

robbed:

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voted aladdin

outrageously rockist; voted lion king

the little mermaid! ariel <3

hahahaha, does your fave disney = your music taste or what?

Hunchback and Hercules were good fun IIRC, especially former. Have played the computer game of Hercules.

did anybody actually bother with the political offering/travesty that was Mulan?

Can't wait for the 00s poll so I can sock-puppet Lilo and Stitch to victory.

Aladdin over The Lion King, and yes the megadrive video game (which was Virgin's first release I think?) was unreal.

did anybody actually bother with the political offering/travesty that was Mulan?

Er...? What do you mean by that? "Mulan" is probably my favorite out of these with "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King" almost directly behind it.

wall to wall garbage

BOOM

that fuckin' mufasa jerk

Hercules had James Woods. That's enough for me.

christ on a stick,"The Emperor's New Groove" was in 2000, not 1999?

Yeah, I looked it up early. I quite enjoyed that one at the time, the all gags and no musical numbers route was a nice change.

I prefer The Iron Giant (with an Oskar Fischinger chaser) to any of these. I guess Beauty or maybe Mermaid. Certainly none of the others.

I prefer The Iron Giant

Not Disney. Also, WOULD SWEEP IN GIGANTIC LANDSLIDE.

tbh I don't think any other film would get a vote

xpost I didn't say it was. But I still prefer it....

It's like polling all of 80's Disney against the horrific wonder that is Watership Down

er, 70's

"The Iron Giant" is good but it is not appreciably better than the good movies on this list. (I might be challoping because I really can't see it without thinking "'Lilo and Stitch' for boys!" even though it came out first, but "TIG" is seriously overpraised.)

I just reminded myself that I really need to see The Plague Dogs

"The Iron Giant" is good but it is not appreciably better than the good movies on this list.

OTMFM YOU ROCKIST GITS

Rescuers Down Under

Basically you can trace fandom of "The Iron Giant" to a pack of baying cunts who kneejerk hate everything Disney does (IMO). It's like, did you actually SEE "The Rescuers Down Under" before you shot your mouth off and do you actually remember how "Beauty and the Beast" came across on screen?

I mean, "The Iron Giant" is a good (possibly great) movie but for fuck's sake.

I'd probably still vote for The Lion King ahead of TIG to be fair ;-)

The thing about "The Lion King" that I find astonishing is it has a farting warthog in it and I still like it hell of a lot.

i have a kid now and a different appreciation for a lot of this stuff, that said I haven't rewatched (or even watched) any of these bar Alladin, which I like, and which my son (3) likes, but good lord, it's kind of sexed up, isn't it?

It has so much going for it! Rowan Atkinson's finest film role, by something of a street, for a start xp

I've never liked The Lion King, sorry... but I do like Aladdin and Beauty & The Beast. Tough to pick between them.

(And later, Mulan was actually really good too... but seemed like a relic even at the time)

I just voted Rescuers Down Under cause that's probably the one I've seen the most (OK, also the only one I had on tape when I was a kid). The one I saw most recently however was Aladdin, which I saw at work. I don't know why but that movie + Lion King are the only two disney movies I keep hearing about, the only two people know the songs from etc (at least in my circle of friends who were all aged ~4-5 at the beginning of the nineties). Only exception being a friend who dislikes all the Disney movies. I can't remember what his reason was, but at the time it seemed ... well reasonable.

"Mulan" is notable for showcasing Eddie Murphy's audition reel for the part of Donkey in "Shrek" and being yet another vehicle for Ming Na to be totally awesome in.

The thing about "The Lion King" that I find astonishing is it has a farting warthog in it and I still don't like it as much as I probably should.

LJ otm about Rowan Atkinson as Zazoo though.

how old are u velko

haters gonna hate btw

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otm

ancient

velko must be >35. i was born in '89 and these movies are, like, what we watched

u r correct, i was out of college when these things came out.

how the hell has no one else repped for the little mermaid u losers

SEBASTIAN THE REGGAE CRAB

ARIEL'S HAIR

prob gonna go w;/lil ass mermaid imo

lex it's between that and like 5 others for me

lil ass mermaid <3

ursula was fucking terrifying when i was a kid btw... like, nightmare-inducingly scary

i think i had two movie-inspired recurring nightmares, one was ursula and the other was bob mitchum from night of the hunter chasing my lil ass all around the world

srsly ariel had the best hair of any disney heroine even pocahontas

urszula was an incredible villain like everyone's nightmare headmistress

Aladin could be ok for all I know but I babysit a little girl who made me watch it approximately 3000x one summer and ruined it for me. I was just young enought to be prety into with The Little Mermaid when it came out so I'm going to have to go with that because I remember it being pretty great. Ursula is pretty fucking terrifying and Lex - I love Sebasitan.

actually my choice'll be among the first 5

xp canks otm, she and the lady from sleeping beauty are the scariest imo

ok it's b/w lil mermaid and aladdin now

I think Aladdin, LM and The Lion King are the only ones of these I've seen.

hmm i think aladdin had better music? maybe it's because i've seen it more recently but all i can remembe offhand from lil mermaid is "under the sea"??

I always thought Ursula looked vaguely like a Gerald Scarfe drawing. Then - lo and behold! - years later, Gerald Scarfe did the character designs for Hercules.

Gerald Scarfe + James Woods = Hercules for the win.

kiss di gyal!

xp

i swear 'kiss di gyal' ~opened my mind~ to reggae

:-)

I may or may not still remember most of the words to most of songs from the Little Mermaid. Was also once able to play them on the piano. hahaha. I'm a dork.

oh man i'm totally watching lil mermaid tonight

I kind of want to now too!

B&TB had the best ensemble of supporting characters, which makes up for the fact that Belle's hair is not quite as snazzy as Ariel's.

lololol at alla youse btw.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

people are shocked that i have never seen the lion king, nor any disney movie made after the lion king.

see, by the time i was 9, i was already rocking Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins and had no room for kiddie-baby stuff, as i'm sure i called it at the time.

(and yes, i'm being serious. my moms can confirm)

also, little mermaid all the way. probably the most interesting for gender studies students, too.

u fukken racsits

people are shocked that i have never seen the lion king, nor any disney movie made after the lion king.

see, by the time i was 9, i was already rocking Soundgarden and Smashing Pumpkins and had no room for kiddie-baby stuff, as i'm sure i called it at the time.

(and yes, i'm being serious. my moms can confirm)

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haha otm

ursula was fucking terrifying when i was a kid btw... like, nightmare-inducingly scary

totally! i remember i went to see this w/ my aunt and little sister and little sister's friend, who got so scared of ursula she cried and they had to take her out of the theater. also when we were kids my sister said she wanted to be the little mermaid when she grew up and i would get so frustrated telling her she couldn't because they already had a voice for the littler mermaid, who was a cartoon, btw. then they brought it to broadway! so for all i know, she COULDA been the little mermaid after all! but she wasn't. also at my job last summer i got to talk to the little mermaid on the phone a lot. she is v v nice, btw!

btw i ended up voting little mermaid.

When star Jones was fat she looked a lot like Urula.

uh, Ursula

lololol

kinda pissed at myself for not going to see the broadway show, even though it was supposed to be AWFUL.

GOOOOD TEENAGERS TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES

AND VOTE FOR ALADDIN

snopes says that's an urban legend but i swear I heard it on my copy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4piZV5wPrw
you tell me

If you didnt no that aren't you surprised you didnt notice it before?

I've listened at full blast before and heard it. Snopes claims those words aren't said. I kinda wanna write Barbara Mikkelsen and send her ears in the mail.

disney renaissance (haha i already knew this term ¬_¬) = no thx

actually now i think about it i've only seen aladdin & lion king

as a kid we had copies of jungle book, bambi, dumbo etc around on VHS, probably due to older siblings; REALLY liked jungle book. but they were all around so as to get into memory in a weird pre-narrative fashion, like i kind of have no memory of how any of those films work from point A to point B

also distinctly remember once or twice o_o at fantasia, which was the only cartoon at my aunt's house

mentally all of those - also 'the aristocats', 'cause my dad took me to see a print of it some local cinema randomly had - were real and current to me whereas when they put 'the little mermaid' on once at infant school it seemed lol old

i forgot dalmatians! we had that too. that's a fucking GREAT movie

these just ... just no! nothing with a 'disney princess' in it. do not want.

btw i know this attitude is almost as tiresome as BUT WHAT ABOUT THE IRON GIANT HUH and i apologise for that

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is sorely underrated

Aladdin, Pocahontas, Mulan -- geez 90s disney was racist

u say that but my kids watched peter pan for the first time this week and i had totally forgotten how terrible the "indian" scene was

yeah super problematic and they still sell DVDs and other adaptations like children's picture books w that stuff