My initial reaction is to go for Dumbo, but then again I do feel Lilo & Stitch deserves more props than what it got.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 08:32 (sixteen years ago) link
i voted for the vastly underrated and wonderful "ichabod and mr toad."
other than that...
best: the first three, 101 dalmatians, the three caballeros.
remember fondly: alice in wonderland, the jungle book, many adventures of winnie the pooh.
worst: anything following winnie the pooh on the list. ranges from mediocre to downright dismal.
― J.D., Wednesday, 13 June 2007 08:45 (sixteen years ago) link
It is obviously The Aristocats for having cats in it. This is the internet, after all...
― Guilty_Boksen, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Either Dumbo or The Jungle Book - the former has a better story, the latter better songs. Pinnochio is pretty good as well.
― chap, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 12:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Looking at this list has made me realize that Pixar is the worst thing to ever happen to Disney animated films.
― Curt1s Stephens, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:06 (sixteen years ago) link
The fall-off in quality after Lion King is kind of astounding.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:13 (sixteen years ago) link
Which I imagine has some connection to Pixar's development. Pixar does have at least 2 very good (dare I say incredible nyuck nyuck) films, both of which's quality I think is owed to Brad Bird rather than Pixar themselves.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Lilo & Stitch is killer tho
― A B C, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
Okay d'oh I thought Brad Bird wrote/directed Finding Nemo also, my bad.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:17 (sixteen years ago) link
i remember a lot more of these a lot more fondly than i would've guessed.
― ghost rider, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:22 (sixteen years ago) link
I just now almost accidentally voted for The Black Cauldron because I was thinking about The Black Hole and that poor little broken droid.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:25 (sixteen years ago) link
i voted fox & the hound. i know its not the 'best' but its my favourite for hugely sentimental reasons.
― stevie, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:26 (sixteen years ago) link
ctrl+f "Song of the South"
Phrase not found
― Dom Passantino, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:27 (sixteen years ago) link
i kind of want to vote for robin hood becuz ROGER MILLER, plus phil harris, and peter ustinov!
the 60s run (up thru robin hood) is all really lazily animated but all really breezily entertaining in a way that the ponderous "masterpieces" just aren't
― ghost rider, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:29 (sixteen years ago) link
lol "ponderous" sorry i became shakey mo for a sec
― ghost rider, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:30 (sixteen years ago) link
lemme see which one is pauline kael's fave before i vote
three caballeros it is. thanks for helping the war effort, latin america!
― ghost rider, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:31 (sixteen years ago) link
I really could not deal with the end of Fox & the Hound as a little kid and couldn't stand to rewatch it. I can't even remember what my sentimental favorite was at that age, probably Beauty and the Beast although I think I saw Lady and the Tramp an obscene number of times
― A B C, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Also wtf there's a Fox and the Hound 2
"direct-to-video 'midquel'" eat my ass
― A B C, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:34 (sixteen years ago) link
ooh de lally ooh de lally golly what a daaaaay
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:35 (sixteen years ago) link
caballeros in a landslide
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i voted for the LION KING because im a sucker for movies that have a title card at the very end
― max, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 14:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Robin Hood was in constant rotation in our mid-80s VHS. I still remember much of it fondly, except for the seriously dated pop ballad 2/3rds of the way thru the flick.
― kingfish, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:23 (sixteen years ago) link
This thread has served the purpose of reminding me that "The Black Hole" exists. Thank you, thread.
Also, Dumbo.
― John Justen, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:27 (sixteen years ago) link
aw man the muthafuckin Black Hole
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:29 (sixteen years ago) link
if ppl don't love The Black Hole then they aren't really ppl
do we need a disney live-action poll?
I remember being sorta obsessed with Sword in the Stone as a kid but I don't remember what happens in it at all. We didn't have it on tape and it wasn't at our regular video store so maybe that was the appeal
― A B C, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
Arthur pulls the SWORD from the StONE.
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:33 (sixteen years ago) link
Becomes KING
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Beauty & the Beast. Belle gives me the horn.
― DavidM, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:34 (sixteen years ago) link
Dumbo. I mean, the Pink Elephants sequence is the finest animation ever put to film EVER in the history of cinema. I mean, quite a tough choice against Fantasia, but the Pink Elephants clinched it.
― Masonic Boom, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Wait what was the difference between Fantasia & F2000? Was it just additional content + digitalized?
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
anybody who hasn't seen Ze's little topologically impossible dance move in caballeros can't really judge the finest animation ever put to film, unfortunately
― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:37 (sixteen years ago) link
F2000 is a whole different (and much worse) movie
wtf?
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:40 (sixteen years ago) link
anyway this is actually kind of a tough choice for me
anyone who isn't voting for the three caballeros is a downright sonofabitch and i wish a curse on you and your family.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:47 (sixteen years ago) link
lol it wasn't a very good shakey mo imitation because he didn't say "uh" before his sentence, don't worry little bro.
fuckin people
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:52 (sixteen years ago) link
it might've actually been an alfred lord sotosyn homage, i mean it had the obnoxious film-crit jargon but none of the lighthearted sociopathic wit of our shakey after i edited out the bit wherein i expressed great amusement and satisfaction at the death of walt disney
― ghost rider, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:54 (sixteen years ago) link
";-)"
shit just got real on the disney thread, folks.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:56 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.quickstopentertainment.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/cic-20060707-05.jpg
― ghost rider, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never seen The Three Caballeros. ;_;
― nickalicious, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 15:58 (sixteen years ago) link
I haven't seen it either, tho I've always wanted to - the stills look great
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 16:00 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.2night.it/album/redattori/valentina_furri/jose_carioca_2903_d.jpg ^^^ my dream man, let me show you him (he is a bird)
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 13 June 2007 16:02 (sixteen years ago) link
if we lived in a horrible, grey, dismal world in which the three caballeros did not exist, i'd have voted for alice in wonderland or dumbo.
― the schef (adam schefter ha ha), Wednesday, 13 June 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
yay psychedelic carpets
― Shakey Mo Collier, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 16:03 (sixteen years ago) link
I've never seen the Three Cabeleros and I've never even heard of Saludos Amigos.
― chap, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
The only reason I didn't list "The Black Cauldron" is because I never saw it; I love the source material to bits, though.
― HI DERE, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't even remember liking alice in wonderland. but i loved basically all of the ones dan listed (except for mulan, hunchback, cinderella). i love the lloyd alexander book, but black cauldron didn't seem like that well put together (i read somewhere that the money ran out and the ending never got finished?)
p.s. i'd give up a whole hellova lot to have a voice like sterling holloway.
― remy bean, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:17 (sixteen years ago) link
but you did list black cauldron dan
― marmotwolof, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Lloy Alexander BOOKS; that movie was all 5 of them stuck together.
"Mulan" and "Hunchback" I will go to bat for because I've seen them both recently; "Mulan" I like for illogical reasons (Xtina sang the big song from it and Ming-Na and Eddie Murphy are in it) and logical reasons (it's a bog-standard plot but reasonably well-executed and I cared about what happened as the movie went on) while "Hunchback I saw by accident after years of avoiding it because I was convinced it was a saccharine whitewash of the original story and in seeing the movie I was shocked and amazed that it actually was on the dark side in terms of what you expect from a Disney movie.
(xpost: hahaha oops, I have been drinking)
― HI DERE, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:23 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm a little more surprised by jungle book than alice to be honest. and only grownups and asswipe kids who go to the next grade up for reading are into fantasia
― A B C, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:25 (sixteen years ago) link
lilo and stitch rules but mulan is the last disney i have sentimental childhood attachment to, despite being kiddy stuff somehow it remained a birthday sleepover staple well into middle school
― A B C, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
jeez that Pinocchio re-release I was talking about was 1984, must've been one of the first movies I ever saw in the theater.
― marmotwolof, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
it actually was the first movie i saw; my dad wrote in his journal about it the night after he took me. he said i spent the next whole day telling lies, pressing on the end of my nose, and giggling.
― remy bean, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:35 (sixteen years ago) link
would have voted lion king
― Just got offed, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:37 (sixteen years ago) link
lion king had a really epic board game tiein
― A B C, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:42 (sixteen years ago) link
ok I'm pretty sure I saw Bambi in '82 but was too young to be traumatized by the mom death or know wtf was going on or give a shit about Bambi but I liked Thumper.
― marmotwolof, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:56 (sixteen years ago) link
The board ate my post :(
― Tape Store, Friday, 15 June 2007 00:57 (sixteen years ago) link
Thumper is the only rabbit I know who transferred his lust from his dick to his foot.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:09 (sixteen years ago) link
I'll write it again:
While you're all in hell for worshipping obese animals and listening to trippy Mad Hatter tales, I'll be in heaven sipping margaritas thanks to THE RESCUERS DOWN UNDER.
― Tape Store, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link
If you guys haven't seen HUNCHBACK (and I doubt most of you have), you NEED to watch the creepiest song sequence in any animated feature or possibly any movie ever. Evil priest sings about how he must fuck a woman or she'll go to hell.
― Abbott, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:12 (sixteen years ago) link
I kind of had a crush on evil priest when I saw this movie at theater during age 12. ;_;
― Abbott, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:13 (sixteen years ago) link
That was the last Disney film I saw in the theatre...several parents walked out. True story: one old bag said to another, "These Disney people think they're David Lynch or something."
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:16 (sixteen years ago) link
HAHAHA that's awesome.
― Abbott, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:17 (sixteen years ago) link
I remembered the whole 'God have mercy on her...God have mercy on me' bit just before it came up! :D
― Just got offed, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:19 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah hunchback is sorta classic despite being a hot mess, i remember my parents were heckling it bc of happy ending and demi moore but i had a bunch of crude tracings of the gypsy jester guy in my shitty drawing notebook that summer
― A B C, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I had a crush on him, too.
― Abbott, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:23 (sixteen years ago) link
That religious rapeanger song shit is blood money diamonds gr8080. The rest of the movie doesn't really live up to it.
Holy crap Benji is TEARING SHIT UP on "So You Think You Can Dance," gotta go
― Dimension 5ive, Friday, 15 June 2007 01:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I remember when I was watching Hunchback, and that priest scene came, and I was like holy shit, am I still watching a Disney film?! But most of the movie was pretty uneven, and I never understood why, if the theme of the movie was that apperances don't matter, did Esmeralda choose the handsome prince anyway, and the Hunchback was left without any cookie? Either make it a tragedy like the original, or make him get the girl, but the ending we got was pretty half-assed.
― Tuomas, Friday, 15 June 2007 06:26 (sixteen years ago) link
no Pete's Dragon, no credibility
― Steve Shasta, Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:52 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I WANT A PRINT OF THIS SO BAD!!!
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kwr8ureUxk1qzjlz4o1_500.jpg
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link
Elliot really was the cutest.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Woo4oBWDA
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:16 (twelve years ago) link
Pinocchio was robbed.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 12:46 (twelve years ago) link
Pete's Dragon deepened my fear of hillbillies.
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
http://media.liveauctiongroup.net/i/8736/10038470_1.jpg
AVOID AVOID AVOID
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ these results btw
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
Pete's Dragon is a bizarre, dark Disney whatthehellwereyouthinking movie. And yet I kinda like it.
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
I was obsessed with Pete's Dragon as a kid. My favorite stuffed animal was a little Elliot pillow. I haven't seen it in years. The traveling magician (I think?) was way creepy and mickey rooney was such a drunk!
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
And Shelley Winters as an abusive adoptive mom, and leering hillbillies, and Helen Reddy pining for her true love lost at sea.
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:28 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, it was pretty bizarre. I was a weird kid though.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
I do a mean Elliot impression btw.
― wolf kabob (ENBB), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
Ha! My 3 year old was into it for awhile, but he started getting scared toward the end so I've put it away for a few years.
― Advanced Uncle Meat recovery system (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:31 (twelve years ago) link
I had the read-along record so I'm intimately familiar with this one.
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:34 (twelve years ago) link
The movie has fewer turn-the-page BEEPS.
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
two of Disney's most racist movies in the #2 spot
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
I dunno, the Jungle Book doesn't strike me as so bad...?
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
Wld rank Lady & the Tramp or Peter Pan ahead of it.
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds about right
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
http://images.wikia.com/disney/images/a/af/Junglebook329.jpg
― Mordy, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
Don't get me wrong, that ape is the WORST.
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:13 (twelve years ago) link
Ape is based on Louis Prima, a white guy
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
I don't get what specifically about King Louie codes as "black", it's not nearly as straightforward as the crows in Dumbo or the cats in Lady & the Tramp. Louis basically plays himself - a goofy jazz singer. His overriding goal is to get the secret of fire from Mowgli (who is also, incidentally, not white). The argument that a white guy acting (arguably) like a black guy while expressing a desire to be more like another non-white character is RACIST seems pretty convoluted to me.
― heavy is the head that eats the crayons (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
shakey OTM.
haha i'd forgotten the cats in 'lady and the tramp,' i assumed abbs was referring to the stereotyped italian chefs!
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:36 (twelve years ago) link
haha!
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:37 (twelve years ago) link
"where we finding baby there are milk nearby"
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 23:39 (twelve years ago) link
The whole Pleasure Island sequence was one of the most frightening experiences I ever had in a theater.
http://i.imgur.com/uNemxsV.gif
10x scarier than anything Gerald Scarfe ever did.
― pplains, Saturday, 22 July 2017 03:50 (six years ago) link