The Disney Classics
 

I'm wondering who else likes the Disney animated classics on here. I like them all but my absolute personal favorites in no particular order would be: The Jungle Book, 101 Dalmatians, Pocahontas, Mulan, and The Fox and the Hound. These will always be great to me no matter how many times I see them.

I like the ones from 1989-1999 and that's all. I find it hard to watch the others from before The Little Mermaid.

Aw man, I haven't seen Jungle Book in forever. My favorites are Dumbo, Tarzan, Lion King, Alice in Wonderland, 101 Dalmatians, and Emperor's New Groove (which is just about the most underrated Disney movie, if you ask me).

And as a side note, I've always adored Sleeping Beauty just for that one scene where she gets possessed and walks up the stairs to touch the spindle. That always had me absolutely mesmerized when I was a kid. :tlol:

Oh ok. If you don't mind me asking, why is that?

I like most of the Disney movies.
One of my favorites aside from The Rescuers Down Under *dunno if it was a classic or not* is The Black Cauldron.

Kudos for mentioning Mulan btw.

I like most of the Disney Classics, do try to collect them all.

Thanks. Mushu is hilarious :D

Love mostly all them. Black Cauldron is really a cool, but underrated movie.

I love the Black Cauldron, it's a fun fantasy piece.

Absolutely love Mulan. That girl really knew how to take care of business. I like all of these, actually. Oh but I haven't gotten to sit down and watch Black Cauldron yet. Somehow, I missed out on owning that one when they rereleased it in the 90's. I watched Jungle Book and Dalmatians endlessly when those came out in the early 90's. I never owned Sleeping Beauty, but my better half has it so we've watched it more than once, I think. I enjoyed Fox and The Hound as well. I remember Toysrus doing some sort of deal where you got a stuffed Copper if you bought a VHS copy from them back in 94 or thereabouts. I wanna say you had to use the receipt or something to order Tod separately, but I got mine at Walmart or Target and missed out on that.

I forgot about Aladdin. Loved all three of those. At first I thought this kid was lying about a Return of Jafar sequel until we spied it at Wallyworld when I was 10 or so. Makes me sad to think that flicks Aladdin and Little Mermaid are classics now! lol Oh, and loved LM as well. My better half still has all her VHS copies, so we haven't switched to disc just yet. We love watching all those old previews.

I forgot to add Aristocats. I enjoy that one as well.

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My sister and I like Hercules I love the song "I won't Say I'm in love"

The two I loved as a kid and still really enjoy are The Sword in the Stone and Robin Hood.

I love a lot of the classic Disney movies. My faves are: The Aristocats, 101 Dalmatians, The Lion King trilogy, though I love all of the others too. Those are just the ones I've loved the most.

My faves are Treasure Planet, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Aladdin, Bedknobs and Broomsticks, Robin Hood, The Little Mermaid, Oliver & Company. I know the direct-to-video sequels tend to get a lot of scorn, but I really really liked Bambi 2 as well.

I also like a lot of their live movies as well, like The Cat From Outer Space, White Fang, Homeward Bound.

I miss traditionally animated movies - seems these days that everything is CG.

They can be hit or miss. I like Sleeping Beauty and Bambi a lot but Pinocchio is GARBAGE, for example.

I still got to get around to seeing Cat From Outer Space. I loved Homeward Bound but discovered that the version released on VHS back in the day was edited. I saw this version on Disney channel with a few added scenes. Looks like Disney slipped some deleted scenes back into the TV broadcast version I'm not sure if they put them back in the DVD version or what. Looks like there's one with Peter washing Chance with a hose after he eats the Wedding cake, one with Kate taking the pets on a car ride, etc. But yeah that one was another of my favs.

Aladdin, Hercules, little Mermaid, Alice in Wonderland, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Peter Pan, just to name a few.

My favorites are The Great Mouse Detective, Robin Hood, and Sleeping Beauty (1st Disney movie my parents bought when I was a kid.)

I love all Disney~ except....Home on the Range.....

My favorite is Lady and the Tramp. I liked most of the animal ones. Especially dog ones. ( Wasn't Oliver and Company a Disney one? They run together on me)

Jungle Book, Lion King, Mulan, and Little Mermaid are also right up there. In the not so much category: Pocahontas, Aristocats, and Song of the South.

Yep, it's Disney....and probably the first movie I saw in theaters....or at least that I remember.

I like pretty much all the ones already mentioned.

I was thinking the other day though...its weird that there are no Mickey Mouse rides at the parks. Like rides based on his classic cartoons. I never realized that til now and now with this topic there's never been a definitive quote-unquote Mickey Mouse movie either. I don't mean specials or movies based on other stories.

Strange isn't it? He's the face/mascot of Disney.

Mickey has a ton of rides at the park. He used to have a whole section dedicated to him (Toontown or whatever) but it was replaced with a princess area.

Lion King and Oliver and Company are my two favorites. Jester, I remember seeing Oliver and Co. in theaters as well.

They're all pretty good. My wife and I try and get all of them, I think we have about 2/3s. She's a big mark for Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast. They're okay.

Ya I know about Toontown but I mean rides where your "inside" the theme world.

They could make a Steamboat Willie and Lonesome Ghosts rides.

Agreed. It's one of Disney's least-known but BEST animated films.



Hee-hee, me too! I have it on my playlist on my PC.



We seem to have a lot of the same tastes here- Bedknobs, Oliver, and Aladdin are three of my faves, as well. And The Cat From Outer Space- ah, who could NOT love that one! I still contend that ALL cats are aliens, but that's just me.... Also, Are we talking the ORIGINAL "Incredible Journey", or the remake. Homeward Bound was the remake, but I always like the original one better. The same goes for the Herbie movies, which I also loved.



Yeah, you really MUST see "Cat From...." as it's very funny and the entire idea is just- well, let's just say you'll never see your kitties the same way again, LOL!!


Beauty and the Beast and Lion King are also on my list of faves, too! (And Cam Clarke does Simba's singing voice in Lion King 2!!)

I love them all, but the Lion King is a film a could watch until the end of time, over and over again!

Big lover of Classic Disney movies. Almost had every one on VHS when I was a kid.

My absolute favorite 'Princess' ones have to be Sleeping Beauty and Beauty and the Beast. *Warning: Mini-rant about Maleficent movie incoming*

SB I adore mostly for it's unique artstyle (and by unique I mean at the time compared to the animated films before it), the three fairies for being a breath of fresh air as the main characters (seriously, they're the ones who drive the whole plot) and of course, Maleficent is an all-time great villain (and screw what the recent Angelina Jolie movie did with her. She's a villain to me and the three fairies weren't complete idiots.) Don't get me wrong, it has some flaws, Aurora and her relationship with the Prince aren't spectacular, but I attribute that to the source material being about a girl who falls asleep/needs to be rescued and being a product of it's time regarding how broad archetypes were depicted in film. And it's one of things that rather bothers me the most about the recent Maleficent movie. Not fixing what was really wrong with the original (like maybe improving Aurora/Phillip as characters or their romance being more charming) and only serves to make Maleficent look good by giving other characters s*itty writing.

Though if I had to pick ones that don't feature a princess, Jungle Book, Emperor's New Groove, and Great Mouse Detective are my picks.

Well, to be fair, Maleficent is more about her own POV of things, so I can see why they did what they did. I haven't watched the movie yet but I've heard good things.

Fun Aristocats facts: I was obsessed with collecting the plush Aristocats toys. I got Duchess from the Disney catalog back in the day along with the basket featuring the three kittens. Then I got O'Malley at The Disney Store in Indy when I went for my eye appointment. I was so happy to get all of them. I also taught myself how to play "Scales and Arpeggios" on the piano at our house. I was just fooling around one day and just started playing the song. I could probably still remember it if I tried.

I also was obsessed with getting the 101 Dalmatians plush toys, too. Those were just two of my favorite Disney movies.

I'm talking the remake, though I have seen the original as well. What can I say, I'm a sucker for Michael J Fox voice-acting. :P

I'd have been cool if Maleficent WAS just about her point of view, but it wasn't. They made her into the hero. It's f*cking dumb.

Precisely.

Hell, I would've been okay if they kept her starting out as a good fairy, but have her pride/ambition and lust for power drive her into being evil. Not because some guy who she was friends with as a kid and stopped seeing for long time broke her heart and metaphorically "raped" her because he couldn't dare kill her when that honestly would've been a more merciful thing to do to her.

God, even as I typed that, it made me cringe.

I really liked Maleficent, but I can understand why some people didn't. I thought it was an interesting approach to the fact that a lot of the time, we regard people as bad or evil without examining how they got to that point. Not to mention, as Obi-wan once said, "many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view" - depending on who's telling the story, who plays the hero and who plays the villain can often be vastly different. People are rarely totally good or totally evil - I thought it was interesting to have a movie that explored the shades of grey (and god, how do I hate the fact that I can't use the expression "shades of grey" without thinking of that schlockfest of a book series... man, you want to talk crappy movies, that thing is gonna be a torment for the ages...)

On the other hand, it made a lot of changes from the animated version, so I get how that would rub some people the wrong way. I also felt there was too much CG, but that's just my two cents.

I can't sit through the earliest Disney movies from like the 40's-70's....they're too slow and rather dull. I understand they were groundbreaking at their time, but nowadays I just can't do it. Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty all put me to sleep.

The movies from about the mid 80's till now (or towards the early 2000's) were the best ones.

Love Disney classics, Little Mermaid and Aladdin were my favorites. Also loved Mulan past the 80 flicks and Goofy flick was an all time favorite :)

I loved the Little Mermaid when I was seven. It was all I talked about. I would pretend that I was a mermaid and my bath toys were sea creatures whenever I would take a bath lol.

I probably enjoy Sleeping Beauty the most... in my book, it's one of the most finely rendered
animated films ever made. The painstaking detail that went into the artwork is amazing. However,
the script could've used some tinkering/more rewrites (Aurora's character is extremely underdeveloped).
Artistically though, I think it was Disney at the top of its game. Disney hasn't surpassed it since.

Phillip's battle with Maleficent is one of the best/if not the best action sequence from the Disney animated ouvre:

http://youtu.be/ZJA61iKs43Q

On a side note, in terms of mass market animated films, I really think that Studio Ghibli puts out the
best animated/most creative films at present. It's actually really irritating that Disney splashes their name and logo
all over the U.S. Studio Ghibli home video releases. It makes it seem like Disney actually makes those films.

The thing is, those very earliest Disney films were literally all about the animation over everything. That's partly why the earliest works were some of the most commonly-known fairy tales; they could purposely skimp on character development and parts of the plot, which were familiar to everyone watching anyway, because the one and only reason those films were even made, was because feature animation was brand new as an art form and they were showing off what they could do with it. A lot of the characters were very thin and shallow because they could get away with it; everyone more or less knew the stories, the point was how mind-blowing it was that you could bring those worlds to life with pen and ink.

I totally agree that the earliest Disney cartoons were not great examples of characterization or storytelling, but it's completely forgivable when they're taken as a product of their time. Their only purpose was to look amazing, and they succeeded in that.

Oddly enough, as they entered the "middle phase" of the 60s/70s, the films began to have much better stories and characters while the animation suffered (as animation did across the board during that era). Funny thing, that. And then in the late-80s they pulled it all together.