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I know I just did this on Thursday, but I have to say it again: you guys are the best readers a blogger ever had, and I really appreciate the enthusiasm everybody seems to have for the Disney project. It's taking a lot out of me, but as long as I know that you're all enjoying and responding to ...
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Once again, it all comes down to Howard Ashman: it was in the late 1980s, as animation was purring along for The Little Mermaid, and the story for Beauty and the Beast was just barely starting to take form, Ashman suggested another musical project for Disney: an adaptation of Aladdin, one of the ...
Animation
It is sheer coincidence of scheduling, and nothing but, that I come to write about the 1991 Disney animated feature Beauty and the Beast on Thanksgiving, but it could not possibly be more appropriate; for there is no animated film produced during my lifetime for which I am more thankful than ...
Animation
Faizon Love
If my non-U.S. readers will pardon the indulgence of some geo-centricity, I would like to take this opportunity to give some thanks: mostly to all of you out there on the interwebs, who have given me so much encouragement in the last few months, and who keep coming back to read my tepid scrawls, ...
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The unprecedented financial success of The Little Mermaid, the highest-grossing animated film of all time at its first release, meant inevitably that it was going to be copied, heavily, by the films that followed it; for the Walt Disney Company certainly was not averse to making money ...
Adventure
After two decades of creative floundering following the death in December, 1966, of Disney Animation Studios' founder and namesake Walt Disney, the late 1980s must have seemed like a very wonderful time to be employed at that studio. For the first time, there was a clear guiding hand that ...
Animation
Faizon Love
When I decided - like a damn idiot - to spice up my 45-day Disney retrospective by also taking into consideration the four films directed in the 1980s by former Disney animator Don Bluth, who in that time came very close to shattering his former employer's once-iron stranglehold on American ...
Animation
Don Cheadle
Soon after the 1984 takeover of Walt Disney Productions, when the future of the company's feature animation division was still in considerable doubt, Roy E. Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg nevertheless had enough faith that they would be able to pull things out that they concocted a truly ...
Animation
The war for dominance in American animation between Don Bluth and the Walt Disney Company had gotten a bit more intense with their dueling mouse movies in 1986, but that had nothing on the pissing match the two studios engaged in late in 1988. Both companies released a new feature on November 18 ...
Horror
Don Cheadle
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One would be hard-pressed to come up with two films better suited to direct comparison than Disney's The Great Mouse Detective and Don Bluth's An American Tail. Both are animated features created by Disney-trained animators. Both are about mice. Both are period pieces set in the late years of ...
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Don Cheadle
When Jeffrery Katzenberg was plopped in charge of the Disney Animation Studios in 1984, he didn't only inherit the massively blighted production that was The Black Cauldron - there was another story that had been pushed reasonably far into pre-production before its sister project's cost had ...
Adventure
"This picture takes place in Paris in those wonderful days when a siren was a brunette and not an alarm --- and if a Frenchman turned out the light it was not on account of an air raid!"-Opening title card, NinotchkaIf I have found one clear through-line connecting most of the films I've studied ...
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Faizon Love
On July 24, 1985, Walt Disney Productions released its 25th animated feature film, The Black Cauldron. The film grossed somewhat more than $21 million in its domestic theatrical release, on a production budget that has still never been officially announced, though it assuredly was much more than ...
Drama
Gore Verbinski
As I have discussed elsewhere, 1979 saw Don Bluth, one of Disney's best and brightest animators, leave the company fold, declaring (and rightfully, if you asked me), that The House That Walt Built was no longer true it its architect, and that if there was to be a proper heir to the Disney spirit ...
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I am currently trying to fix a busted PC. And of all damn days for it to happen, I had quite a busy day scheduled - but no matter. Eventually I will have subdued it to my will, and I will then toil deep into the morning hours, providing you all with the wonderful, wordy Disney reviews (and then ...
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With The Rescuers, it seemed that the new blood at the Disney Animation Studios had figured out what was what, and were all pumped up to do something even bigger and better, for with the great majority of the old guard retired or planning on doing so any moment, it was clearly a rich time for ...
Comedy
Wayne'S World
The last animated film released by Walt Disney Productions in the 1970s is a transitional work, the handing of the torch from one generation to another. Even though several of the older generation who was still around at this point managed to stick around for one last film, 1977's The Rescuers ...
Animation
It's nice to see that even in the depths of Walt Disney Production's horrible stretch from 1970-1989, there's one spot of true brilliance, although to call The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh a '70s film is more than a bit disingenuous. Its roots lie in the comparatively strong period of the ...
Animation
You just go on ahead and ignore that Right-Aligned Poster of Dismissal, which I put in only out of a sense of intellectual duty. Because Roland Emmerich's newest disaster epic 2012 is absolutely a bad film, and it would be a disservice for me to argue otherwise. At the same time, it's so ...
