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Author Topic: What are the best and worst movies from the Disney Animation Machine? Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 07-18-2010 02:17 PM                     I have a friend who is blind to Disney doing anything not fabulous, so I am curious to everyone's opinions here. Lets hear your top 5 favorite Disney animated movies, and also your most hated/disappointing 5 Disney animated movies. You can go back as many years as you like, but it MUST be animated. Anything with live action is not for this list. For example, Snow White, Lion King, Princess & the Frog and even that fabulous classic Home on the Range are all fair game. Hand drawn or cg is all fair game. Lets exclude Pixar from this list since it wasn't actually from Disney, just released by them.  |  IP: Logged Joe Redifer You need a beating today Posts: 12859 From: Denver, Colorado Registered: May 99 posted 07-18-2010 08:01 PM                        Favs (in order): -Aladdin . -Beauty and the Beast . . . . -The Little Mermaid Middle of the Road: -The Lion King . . . - The Hunchback Of Notre Dame Absolute Crap: (not in order) Hercules Mulan Tarzan Fantasia/2000 The Emperor's New Groove Snow White Cinderella Fantasia Sleeping Beauty and everything else. I realize that some of those are "classics", but they simply don't float my boat.  |  IP: Logged Jeremy Weigel Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1062 From: Edmond, OK, USA Registered: Mar 2007 posted 07-18-2010 08:26 PM                     Favorites: Aladdin Lion King Sword and the Stone Jungle Book Dinosaur Dislikes: Snow White (cant stand her voice) Pocahontas Emperors New Groove Hercules Tarzan  |  IP: Logged John Wilson Film God Posts: 5438 From: Sydney, Australia. Registered: Dec 1999 posted 07-18-2010 08:29 PM                     Top 5: 1. Beauty and the Beast 2. Lady and the Tramp 3. The Jungle Book 4. Dumbo 5. Aladdin Bottom 5 1. Hercules 2. Tarzan 3. Robin Hood 4. Fantasia 2000 5. The Rescuers Down Under  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-18-2010 08:53 PM                     To me, most all were good. To start off with some favorites (which I ran and all were IB technicolor releases..) "Sword in the Stone" -1962 "101 Dalmations" -1961 "Jungle Book" - 1966 (last animated feature by Walt himself) "Song of the South" - 1946 "Lady and the Tramp" - 1956 (First Disney anim feature in CinemaScope) "Sleeping Beauty" - 1958 (70mm release) Worst "Pocahontas" - 1994 (why did they make this one .. so unentertaining.. ) with "The Princess and the Frog" - it was good to see cel animation come back from "The Mouse Factory".  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-18-2010 09:05 PM                        My favorites: 1. The Lion King 2. Aladdin 3. Beauty and the Beast 4. The Princess and the Frog 5. Bambi / Lady & the Tramp / One Hundred and One Dalmatians (tie) I could probably insert many of the classics into #5 depending on what kind of mood I'm in at a given time, but those are my current favorites. Least favorites: 1. Home on the Range (Thank heavens they resurrected the hand-drawn division, I would hate to see this piece of crap go down in history as the last hand-animated Disney movie) 2. A Goofy Movie 3. Chicken Little 4. Pocanhontas (except the music was good) 5. Mulan / The Emperor's New Groove (tie) I liked "Tarzan" quite a bit and don't understand the hatred for it on this thread. The music in it was good, too -- it was nice to see Disney step away from the strictly-musical bag for animation. I know there is a lot of love for "Dumbo" but I've never seen it.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-18-2010 09:22 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley I know there is a lot of love for "Dumbo" but I've never seen it. Here you've been in the business for all of these years and never have seen that 1941, 62 min mini-feature called "Dumbo"? Should be slapped for that..."lol" Dang, that was definitely a family "tear jerker" in that one scene with Dumbo and his mother... (I ran it three times...) This was made during the "Fantasia" production and right after "Pinocchio" (and the U.S. was gearing up for war if needed..). Walt used a technique in this film called "Sonovox" to make the circus steam engine speak.  |  IP: Logged Monte L Fullmer Film God Posts: 8367 From: Nampa, Idaho, USA Registered: Nov 2004 posted 07-18-2010 09:24 PM                     quote: Mike Blakesley I know there is a lot of love for "Dumbo" but I've never seen it. Here you've been in the business for all of these years and never have seen that 1941, 62 min mini-feature called "Dumbo"? Should be slapped for that..."lol" Dang, that was definitely a family "tear jerker" in that one scene with Dumbo and his mother... (I ran it three times...) This was made during the "Fantasia" production and right after "Pinocchio" (and the U.S. was gearing up for war if needed..). Walt used a technique in this film called "Sonovox" to make the circus steam engine, Casey Junior, speak.  |  IP: Logged Mike Olpin Chop Chop! Posts: 1852 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-18-2010 09:28 PM                     Top 10 - this list changes all the time depending on my mood 1) Lion King 2) Lilo & Stitch 3) Hunchback of Notre Dame 4) Mulan 5) Dumbo 6) Beauty & The Beast 7) Aladdin 8) 101 Dalmatians 9) Tarzan 10) Hercules Not my cup of tea, in no particular order. -Atlantis -Rescuers -Black Cauldron -Almost everything from DisneyToon Studios (Except A Goofy Movie, I think I must have been exactly the target age for that film when it came out, and to this day I still like it.)  |  IP: Logged Danny Yancey Film Handler Posts: 9 From: Melbourne Fla. US Registered: Nov 2009 posted 07-19-2010 01:56 PM                     Can't list favorits as I worked for Disney and the animations studio. Ran the dailies every Tuesday morning for the animators back when they where doing Rescures down under, Mulan emperor and Roger rabbit and others up untill I retired in 05. Emperor stared out to be another prince and pauper storie with MM in South America an quite a lot completed film completed when they complely changed it. It looked real good. I took care of the camera that tranfered the drawings to the cells and the cameras and tables for making the film from the cells. It was a very interestering job. I ran the frist showing of Rescures and Little Mermaid at Disney MGM studio for the press release and VIPs in our Dailies theatre.  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 07-20-2010 08:02 AM                     Favourites (pre-1990s): Alice in Wonderland 101 Dalmatians The Rescuers Lady and the Tramp The Aristocats After Mermaid and Lion King, I didn't care any more for new Disney movies (Hercules was an exception because it at least tried to break from the formula), and I couldn't stand another Randy Newman song without throwing up. Dislikes: The Little Mermaid The Lion King The Black Cauldron The Sword in the Stone The Great Mouse Detective Special Cases Disney did a number of feature-length films made up from shorter segments in the 10 to 22 minute range. I think this is a league of its own, so these are my favourites: Fun and Fancy Free (1947) Make Mine Music (1946) Three Caballeros/Saludos Amigos (1943/45) The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad (1949) Fantasia (original) FANTASIA is most impressive technically, you can find in it anything that could be done with traditional cel animation. Nutcracker Suite, Night on Bald Mountain and Dance of the Hours are highlights of animation, no matter whether you like classic music or not. FANTASIA 2000 didn't do anything for me, even in 15/70 presentation, although the Firebird segment was done beautiful.  |  IP: Logged Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 07-20-2010 02:31 PM                        I kind of liked Lilo & Stitch but I don't like Stitch the character. The Stitch-based attraction at Disney World (Stitch's Great Escape) is one of the worst things in the Magic Kingdom.  |  IP: Logged James Westbrook Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1133 From: Lubbock, Texas, Usa Registered: Mar 2006 posted 07-20-2010 02:43 PM                     Stitch, like Donald Duck, sounded like he could have been cussing unintelligibly. I recall a character named "Gurgi" in the Black Cauldron who had a similar "speech defect."  |  IP: Logged Ian Parfrey Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1049 From: Imbil Australia 26 deg 27' 42.66" S 152 deg 42' 23.40" E Registered: Feb 2009 posted 07-20-2010 04:05 PM                     Likes: In order of preference- Aladdin Hercules The Lion King The Little Mermaid The Hunchback of Notre Dame Beauty and the Beast Snow White Nightmare Before Christmas Spirit of '43 (as an insight into WW2 propaganda) Silly Symphony series inclusive Dislike: The Rescuers The Rescuers Down Under 101 Dalmations Aristocats Lilo & Stitch Chicken Little  |  IP: Logged Mark J. Marshall Film God Posts: 3188 From: New Castle, DE, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 07-20-2010 08:18 PM                    quote: Mike Blakesley The Stitch-based attraction at Disney World (Stitch's Great Escape) is one of the worst things in the Magic Kingdom. That saddens me. The Extra-Terrorestrial Encounter that it replaced was one of the best things at the Magic Kingdom in my opinion. Sorry - not to hijack. Carry on.  |  IP: Logged

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