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The Best and Worst of Disney Part XII – The Dreaded Top Ten Lists

Posted on 09/25/2014 by SailorSoapbox

PART XII: THE DREADED TOP TEN LISTS So here’s where I summarize my thoughts on the Disney Official Animated Canon. Originally these lists could include non-Canon, Pixar and sequels, but after some tweaking I’ve reordered these lists to just stick … Continue reading →

Posted in Best & Worst of Disney | Tagged aladdin, animation, bambi, beauty and the beast, disney, disney animated canon, disney film, disney films, enchanted, fantasia, film review, frozen, lilo and stitch, mary poppins, mulan, one hundred and one dalmatians, peter pan, sleeping beauty, snow white and the seven dwarfs, The Brave Little Toaster, the hunchback of notre dame, the little mermaid, The Nightmare Before Christmas, the princess and the frog, top 10, who framed roger rabbit, wreck-it ralph | 1 Comment

The Best and Worst of Disney – Part X: Pixar

Posted on 07/31/2014 by SailorSoapbox

As the Renaissance Era slowly dragged to a close, a “new” animation studio arose from the ashes to steal Disney’s thunder and make better movies than they were making. Pixar had been making CG short subject films since the 80s, … Continue reading →

Posted in Best & Worst of Disney | Tagged A Bug’s Life, Brave, Cars, Cars 2, disney, disney animation studios, film review, Finding Dory, Finding Nemo, inside out, Monsters Inc, Monsters University, movie review, pixar animation, pixar animation studios, Ratatouille, the best and worst of disney, The Incredibles, Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3, Up, wall-e | 1 Comment

The Best and Worst of Disney Part VIII: Animated Features (But Not Part of the Canon)

Posted on 07/22/2014 by SailorSoapbox

For reasons that can only make sense to Disney executives, there are a bunch of movies released under the Disney banner that don’t count as part of the official Canon. Reasons range from “Not animated by Walt Disney Studios” … Continue reading →

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The Best and Worst of Disney – Part IX: Sequelitis & Direct To Video Hell

Posted on 05/12/2014 by SailorSoapbox

Starting with The Return of Jafar in 1994 and finishing (for now) with The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning in 2008, Disney released an absolute shitload of direct-to-video sequels to many of the films in its canon. Unlike The Rescuers Down Under and Fantasia 2000, … Continue reading →

Posted in Best & Worst of Disney | Tagged bambi ii, belle's magical world, cinderella 2, cinderella 3, cinderella ii, cinderella ii dreams come true, cinderella iii, cinderella iii a twist in time, disney, disney animation, disney films, disney sequel, hunchback of notre dame ii, lady and the tramp 2, lady and the tramp 2 scamp's adventure, lady and the tramp ii, peter pan 2, return to never land, return to neverland, scamp's adventure, the fox and the hound 2, the lion king 2, the lion king 2 simba's pride, the little mermaid 2, the little mermaid ii, the little mermaid ii return to the sea, the return of jafar | Comments Off

The Best and Worst of Disney Part V: The Renaissance

Posted on 04/05/2014 by SailorSoapbox

I’m a Millennial. Guess what my favourite era of Disney film is! The Dark Age is over, thank goodness, and Disney suddenly went on a streak of hit, after hit, after hit, and almost all of the Renaissance films are considered … Continue reading →

Posted in Best & Worst of Disney | Tagged aladdin, alan menken, animated film, beauty and the beast, best and worst of disney, disney, disney animated canon, disney renaissance, film review, hercules, howard ashman, mulan, pocahontas, tarzan, the hunchback of notre dame, the lion king, the little mermaid, the rescuers down under | Comments Off

The Best & Worst of Disney – Part III: The Silver Age

Posted on 03/30/2014 by SailorSoapbox

The war’s over, Walt Disney Studios has built up some income from the long streak of package films, and now it’s time to release films that Uncle Walt would be proud of. The films’ plots were all taken from children’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Best & Worst of Disney | Tagged 101 dalmatians, alice in wonderland, animated film, best and worst of disney, cinderella, disney, disney animated canon, disney animated film, film review, lady and the tramp, one hundred and one dalmatians, peter pan, silver age, sleeping beauty, the jungle book, the sword in the stone | Comments Off

From The Archives: You Say Evil Like It’s A Bad Thing

Posted on 03/30/2014 by SailorSoapbox

Last year I wrote a fairly well-received piece defending the Disney Princesses from a feminist perspective, “You Say Princess Like It’s A Bad Thing.” It was always my plan to write a sequel/companion piece to it. I like Belle and Ariel, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Archive: Disney | Tagged 101 dalmatians, cinderella, cruella de vil, cruella devil, disney, disney animated canon, disney animated film, disney villain, disney villainness, lady tremaine, maleficent, mother gothel, queen grimhilde, sleeping beauty, snow white, snow white and the seven dwarfs, tangled, the emperor's new groove, the little mermaid, ursula, wicked queen, yzma | Comments Off

The Best & Worst of Disney – Part IV: The Dark Age

Posted on 03/23/2014 by SailorSoapbox

Uncle Walt’s dead. Everyone at Walt Disney Studios goes, “Oh shit, now what do we do?!” Most of the Nine Old Men will retire in this era, and usher in a new generation of animators from their CalArts Animation School … Continue reading →

Posted in Best & Worst of Disney | Tagged animated film, animation, disney, disney animated canon, disney animated film, film review, oliver and company, robin hood, the aristocats, the black cauldron, the fox and the hound, the great mouse detective, the many adventures of winnie the pooh, the rescuers | 5 Comments

The Best & Worst Of Disney – Part II: The Wartime Films

Posted on 03/22/2014 by SailorSoapbox

For the most part, only huge Disney buffs bother to see the films produced and released during WWII. They are not what people think of when they think of the Disney feature film; rather than one cohesive narrative, these films … Continue reading →

Posted in Best & Worst of Disney | Tagged animated film, disney, disney animated canon, disney animation, fantasia, film review, fun and fancy free, make mine music, melody time, saludos amigos, the adventures of ichabod and mr toad, the three caballeros, wartime films | Comments Off

The Best & Worst Of Disney – Part I: The Golden Age

Posted on 03/20/2014 by SailorSoapbox

These were the first five feature films released by Walt Disney Studios. The 5 films are collectively considered masterpieces (they are certainly fascinating in their ambitious artistic endeavours). They each have a certain artistry and care taken in their … Continue reading →

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