Disney animated features: The rappel à l'ordre (1989-1994)

does tlm have more? i count: part of your world, under the sea, poor unfortunate souls, the chef's song, and kiss the girl. (un

I think I was counting "Fathoms Below," which tbf I don't really remember much, but it seems like it serves the same role as "Arabian Nights" and is thus redundant to "Under the Sea" as a scene-setting curtain-raiser. Maybe not a 'full' song though. Definitely not counting the gag song that Ariel's sisters don't finish.

aladdin doesn't have a villain song, another strike against it i guess

Woah, that's true! Never realized that. Wonder if they had one planned and cut it in favor of Robin Williams getting two big numbers? I could also see some really different version of Arabian Nights being given to him (he could be welcoming a suitor or something), in which case the "it's barbaric, but hey - it's home" might actually help set up something in the movie rather than just being discomfiting.

But really what's clearly missing is a showstopper for the Cave of Wonders, huge missed opportunity.

For years I marveled at brazenly dirty lyrics to the B&B 'GAston,' song, only to finally read the lyrics and learn the questionable phrase read "no one's NECK's as incredibly thick as Gaston" and heave a sigh of relief/sorrow

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hahahahahahahahaha

gaston is an awesome villain. so is ursula, though. actually, even though his characterization is super-racist, so is jafar.

i loved beauty and the beast so much as a kid.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

bottom two are right and the top 4 are all great so ya cool whatever

Awesome turnout. Wow. Kinda surprised Aladdin beat The Little Mermaid, but I shouldn't be - it outright won one of the other polls covering similar territory. Just on technique and entertainment skill and so on, I'd probably rank the big musicals the same way the voters here did - Little Mermaid does not have Robin Williams, thank god, but it is still a bit rougher and rustier.

Next one coming tomorrow!

Disney animated features: Mannerism (1995-1999)

I thought the live action Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast and Jungle Book were better than they had to be, but holy shit the live action "Aladdin" trailer looks like some straight-up mid-90s garbage.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foyufD52aog

whooooooof

These movies are literally the most pointless thing ever.

This is from a few years ago. I knew about the Lion King ripping off Kimba The White Lion but didn't know about the extent and assholery of it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfJvKIDS9n8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1YHXnlJWI4

just tried to give the DuckTales movie a whirl since we've got a free trial of D+ to goof around with and OOF, had to bail like two minutes in as the middle eastern stereotypes piled up. maybe it gets better later but i regret throwing it a token vote here if indeed i did so.

Racial stereotypes in a Disney movie???! Oh my stars and garters

i mean this is a major beef of mine with plenty of their stuff, cf. Aladdin. just didn't know to expect it in this one, jeez.

designed lights for a junior prod of TLK opening tonight, tried to brecht it up as much as i could lol. the lionesses have a "hunting song" that ends w them bringing down an an antelope and feeding on it in a circle upstage (tossing plastic bones away etc); i hit them with a blood-red strobe and black out everything else for a few seconds before simba runs in like "hi mom!!" and lights return to normal daylight for mom turning around wiping her mouth; later when simba witnesses his father's murder it happens in the same blackout and the same strobe. more like the circle of death

and yet nothing i could think of or do could ever stand against the power of my own pale 1/1000th onstage imitation of

i did watch the opening scene of TLK on youtube recently and i wont lie it still gave me chills. you can just coast after an opening that good.

pure hi-tech propaganda. i argued for gaston upthread as most effective villain of this era (stand by this) but a huge point in scar's favor is the cut from the climactic timpani hit sealing off the monarchist ecstasy of this opening directly to scar relishing the first spoken line of both movie and show: "life's not fair, is it?"