Animated Disney films - Best and Worst

Definitely hand-drawn over computer. Dumbo and Pinnochio are my favorites.

I have a soft spot for "Robin Hood," even though it's considered second-tier by aficionados due to its usage of recycled animation. (For example, Little John is frequently drawn with recycled cells of Baloo from "The Jungle Book.") I particularly love the Roger Miller score.

The Aristocats and Lady & the Tramp are my favorites.

Hand drawn v computer - no opinion really. They represent their era.

Worst - Robin Hood. Boy were running on fumes in the 70s. Sleeping Beauty - ugh. Brother Bear & Good Dinasaur are basically the same story told through different species. Home on the Range, dud.

Best - Coco, Toy Story 3, Beauty and the Beast, the Incredibles, Pinocchio

Hand drawn wins hands down Haven’t enjoyed a Disney movie since the mid 90s.

It seems like every recent Disney film is branded a classic upon release, but I just wonder if those CGI films ("Frozen", "Moana", "Coco") will hold up years from now the same way the early hand-drawn features do. The hand-drawn Disney animation definitely seems more popular among adults than kids.

Tangled is my favorite with Sleeping Beauty a close second.

Generally I prefer hand-drawn animation; however, I think the best Disney animated film(s) are the Toy Story Trilogy. They resonated with me the most. Cried like a little baby at the ending of Toy Story 3.

Maybe this is annoying of me, but I don't think the Pixar movies should be considered Disney movies. It's an entirely different studio.

Home on the Range was my least favorite mainly due to the voice of Roseanne Barr.

Snow White and Seven Dwarfs, Pinochicco, Bambi, 101 Dalmations, Robin Hood, The Little Mermaid--also Wall e and Up i think are brilliant. The animation doesn't interest much so much in those 2. But I love them as films.

The male characters in animated Disney films started becoming really hot ever since Gaston sported his hairy chest in "Beauty and the Beast."

One that doesn't get mentioned a lot, that I loved, is Oliver &Co. I also loved The Rescuers.

"Princess and the Frog" was the end of an era, but I found the animation in that film very hypnotic. I love watching it.

Cinderella has always been the one for me. Many years ago I read a piece on Disney villainesses. The writer posited that the worst was the Stepmother because she had no special powers and was an evil cunt just for the sake of being an evil cunt (my words).

Mary Poppins is one my favorites.

"Beauty and the Best" and "Tangled" are my faves, with "Sleeping Beauty" serving as the tiebreaker that puts me on the hand-drawn side.

My least favorite is "Treasure Planet", and didnt that justly-forgotten mess kill the hand-drawn animation department?

Treasure Planet was FAB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"The Emperor's New Groove" is a special kind of classic in its own way.

My favorite ever is "Pinocchio," with "Tangled" second.

Snow White, Dumbo, Pinocchio, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. Rest are forgettable.

yum-ooooooooooooooooooooo

No more drinks for table R21. "Rest are forgettable"???

Well, I think you know what you can kiss.

[quote]The writer posited that the worst was the Stepmother because she had no special powers and was an evil cunt just for the sake of being an evil cunt (my words)

She was my role model.

[quote]I also loved The Rescuers.

I'll see that and raise you the criminally underrated Rescuers Down Under.

My favorite is Beauty and the Beast, with pretty much any release between 1970 and 1985 (with the exception of the aforementioned Rescuers) as my least favorite.

I think "The Great Mouse Detective" is also underrated.

This moment when the pheasant loses it is really classic. It's hunting season. And my god. Nothing tells the truth like BAMBI does. No stone is left unturned in this film. It is no joke. Completely unapologetic about the life experience from the high to the low.

Pinocchio

Beauty and the Beast

LIlo and Stitch

Coco

Fantasia

Bambi is in a class by itself. My sentimental favorites are Pinnochio and Dumbo. Wall-E is a true masterpiece by any standard.

[quote]I also loved The Rescuers.

I did too.

I still remember the beautiful, and eerily haunting, opening song. I grew up in the 80s, during the height of the missing child movement, and this song always made me feel sad, thinking of the real kids my age who were abducted and were probably never coming home.

My favorite is a tie between Sleeping Beauty and Fantasia.

Fantasia 2000 not so much.

Sleeping Beauty bored me as a kid, but I appreciate it so much on an artistic level now as an adult.

The medieval art inspired animation is simply breathtaking.

WALL-E is not just one of the best movies Disney's ever made -- it's one of the best movies of the past 20 years.

r31 I love the Rescuers too. The music is great. Surprisingly, to my knowledge, the soundtrack has never been fully reissued on CD.

Dumbo and Bambi are emotionally powerful.

Sleeping Beauty has stunning animation.

Princess and the Frog is very underrated.

Not to say that it's the best but I love the original 101 Dalmatians. The art is inspired by the English artist Rowland Hilder, who in turn was inspired by the Dutch 17th century artist Hercules Seghers. I love looking at the landscapes and cityscapes in it.

Rowland Hilder landscape below.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit!

I'm a 1930s lover freak so I'll go with Snow White for best. For worst there are unfortunately way too many contenders, I won't even compare them.

[quote]WALL-E is not just one of the best movies Disney's ever made -- it's one of the best movies of the past 20 years.

Uh, Disney didn’t make it.

R39, Disney bought Pixar in 2006. WALL-E was produced by Disney and Pixar and distributed by Disney. It's a Disney product.

God I'm a whore.

That’s like saying Iron-Man is the best Disney film ever.

No, it's not, because Iron Man was made before Disney bought that studio, while WALL-E was made after Disney had acquired Pixar.

That’s like saying Star Wars: The Force Awakens or Ant-Man is the best Disney movie ever.

Sure.

Song of the South is a whopper!

A moment please for Disney's greatest villain, Ursula the Sea Witch.

Put another way, which are you going to have a rousing time with at Uncle Charlie's, "Part of Your World" or "Poor Unfortunate Soul?" Exactly.

Pocahontas. Loved the cool color scheme, some of the songs. John Smith was cute. Loved it.

Made me have a fetish for blond/blue jerks.

Disney distributes the Pixar films, but they are different studios. R44 is right—if you consider "Wall-E" a Disney film, that means that you "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" is as well. Just because Disney as a corporation is gobbling up everything in sight doesn't mean that we should conflate the actual studios.

[quote] Song of the South is a whopper!

All the other Disney hybrids copied it. [italic]Bedknobs and Broomsticks[/italic] did the best job of it.

[italic]The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh[/italic] is a stoner comedy cleverly disguised as a children's animated film.

"Just because Disney as a corporation is gobbling up everything in sight doesn't mean that we should conflate the actual studios."

Only 50 threads and already there's a nit-picky bitch fight over cartoons.

Welcome to the DL.

I don't consider it a bitch fight, just a discussion. What's wrong with having a discussion on a message board? Isn't that the point?

Hands down, [italic]Chicken Little[/italic] is the worst animated Disney movie I've seen, hand-drawn or animated. That movie was such a fuck-you to everything that came before it that it made me give up on new non-Pixar films from them for almost a decade. Skip it and watch the 1943 animated short of the same instead. The more recent CGI ones by Disney proper are better than that mess, but none of them were worth getting rid of hand-drawn animation for. There's room for everyone, etc., etc., etc.

Bambi. My mother took me to see it as a child.

The openin song always makes me weep.

I was pretty disappointed in "Moana." There were some good songs and some really beautiful animation, but the story felt inert and incomplete, like a solid second draft. The whole sequence with the singing crab was pointless—which Howard Ashman would have clocked in two seconds, and thrown it out.

"Bambi" is beautiful from an animation aspect (those deep woods modeled on the deep, piney green and black granite of Maine's woods) but it's also a profound meditation on life and loss. It's a prime example of when animation is truly art. I was a sentimental, serious kid and it moved me. I remember also getting misty over the friendship in "The Fox and The Hound". Also part of the reason I can't read the end of "Winnie The Pooh", when Christopher Robin "leaves" his early childhood behind, without bawling my eyes out.

R57 "perspective' not "aspect".

R57: I think you'll like this video—which shows one of the reasons why the animation is so magical.

Disney did more than just distribute WALL-E.

"I don't consider it a bitch fight, just a discussion. What's wrong with having a discussion on a message board? Isn't that the point?"

You're trying to start an argument over semantics on a simple thread about Disney animated movies.

Any movie made through Disney, including "The Force Awakens", is a Disney movie. Disney owns the SW franchise rights.

"WALL-E" is also a Disney movie. Disney owns Pixar.

[quote] One that doesn't get mentioned a lot, that I loved, is Oliver &Co.

Those two teenage girls who got Blanche and I in trouble wouldn't have if they'd just seen this movie like I'd suggested.

I love "I'm Shiny," r56. It was the only decent song.

R63 & R56 I enjoyed the music in Moana. There was something rather charming about hearing The Rock sing "You're Welcome."

Abba was originally intended to do the music for The Lion King, but they weren't available, so Disney went with Elton John.

R57 Thank you for reminding me of FOX AND THE HOUND. It is not referenced often, but a gorgeous film ultimately about racism and friendship. Asking the question--can we truly get past our differences and come together as friends and equals. And it bravely, but sadly concludes with--no, we cannot ultimately. Pretty intense.

I also loved the christopher robin and pooh stuff.

I feel lucky to have been a child in the 70's when these kinds of stories were being told to children all the time. They were the norm.

Schulz's Peanuts worked in this same way. They were psychological and emotional stories for children. Daring to look at the child who is the outsider or the other. And not in a condescending way. But in an honest and relatable way.

And they not afraid of the darker truths of these stories.

Charlie Brown loses the spelling bee. He doesn't get a valentine. He loses the ball game. Again.

The fox and the hound have too many differences. And there are too many others who disapprove of their friendship. They cannot overcome these barriers and stay friends.

These endings would never go today. Parents would be outraged and find this way too dark for children. It's sad. Hiding or perverting the truth never makes it not true. And up and coming generations have no armor for or experience with any of these truths.

Sorry. didn't mean to go off. This thread is about Disney.

PINOCHHIO, SNOW WHITE, THE LITTLE MERMAID, 101 DALMATIONS.

R66 I haven't yet seen Fox and the Hound but Zootopia had a similar theme.

R67 And omg. Thank you for reminding me about ZOOTOPIA. Another film that i had completely forgotten.

if only...

I really love Hercules, especially the score. I still don’t get why that one wasn’t a bigger hit.

Hand drawn hands down. Lady and the Tramp.

My favourite is Aladdin, then Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. I suspect these are my favourites because they came out when I was a child. I think that is true for many in this thread. I still feel pangs of nostalgia when I think of them.

I did not connect as deeply with the films that came afterwards. Except perhaps The Hunchback of Notre Dame. I cried so much when everyone was mistreating Quasimodo, that my eyes were red and puffy at the end, foreshadowing the bleeding heart I would grow up to be.

Watched, "Fantasia" at least once a year as a kid, so I have a soft spot for it.:

Hercules anyone? I would watch that one every day on VHS as a kid lmao

I started tuning out with the new era of Disney animated musicals like Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid. The artwork was not up to snuff.

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