Walt Disney, part LXX: All at once, everything looks different

TANGLED

2010

Directed by Byron Howard and Nathan Greno

Written by Dan Fogelman, plus innumerable others, over almost two decades

Spoilers: severe

True sh... well, that'd be a little too easy

SUPERGIRL

2026

Directed by Craig Gillespie

Written by Ana Nogueira and Jeremy Slater (based on the comic book Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow by Tom King and Bilquis Evely)

Spoilers: moderate

Sherwood Week: Boys in the hood

ROBIN HOOD

2018

Directed by Otto Bathurst

Written by Ben Chandler and David James Kelly

Spoilers: moderate

Sherwood Week: A jest of Robin Hood

ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS

1993

Directed by Mel Brooks

Written by Evan Chandler, J. David Shapiro, and Mel Brooks

Spoilers: still inapplicable

This is nothing like Avatar! (Rating: mostly true)

HOPPERS

2026

Directed by Daniel Chong

Written by Jesse Andrews and Daniel Chong

Spoilers: moderate

Now is not the time for nuance

I LOVE BOOSTERS

2026

Written and directed by Boots Riley

Spoilers: moderate

There are no abominable snowmen; there are no sasquatches; there are no bigfeet!

HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS

1987

Directed by William Dear

Written by William E. Martin, Ezra D. Rappaport, and William Dear

Spoilers: high

Sherwood Week: Sheriff don't like it

ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THIEVES

1991

Directed by Kevin Reynolds

Written by Pen Densham and John Watson

Spoilers: inapplicable, really

Sherwood Week: He's not the Marian kind

ROBIN AND MARIAN

1976

Directed by Richard Lester

Written by James Goldman

Spoilers: moderate shifting pretty immediately into severe, and I guess you could feel deceived that I said it was ever "moderate"

Sherwood Week: Grinning and baron it

THE BANDIT OF SHERWOOD FOREST

1946

Directed by Henry Levin and George Sherman

Written by Wilfred H. Pettitt and Melvin Levy

THE SON OF ROBIN HOOD

1958

Directed by George Sherman

Written by George S. Slavin and George W. George (no, really)

Spoilers for either: moderate

Punch-drunk love

MORTAL KOMBAT II

2026

Directed by Simon McQuoid

Written by Jeremy Slater (actually based, remarkably enough, more than anything else on the video game Mortal Kombat II by Ed Boon and John Tobias)

Spoilers: moderate

There [still won't] be blood

MORTAL KOMBAT: ANNIHILATION

1997

Directed by John R. Leonetti

Written by Lawrence Kasanoff, Joshua Wexler, John Tobias, Brent Friedman, and Bryan Zabel (based on the video game Mortal Kombat 3 by Ed Boon and John Tobias)

Spoilers: moderate

One battle after another

MORTAL KOMBAT

1995

Directed by Paul W.S. Anderson

Written by Kevin Droney (based on the video game by Ed Boon and John Tobias)

Spoilers: moderate

Sherwood Week: But have you considered all the Angles?

THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

1938

Directed by Michael Curtiz and William Keighley

Written by Rowland Leigh, Norman Reilly Raine, and Seton I. Miller

Spoilers: N/A

Second childhood

COCOON

1985

Directed by Ron Howard

Written by David Saperstein and Tom Benedek

*BATTERIES NOT INCLUDED

1987

Directed by Matthew Robbins

Written by Mick Garris, Brad Bird, Brent Maddock, S.S. Wilson, and Matthew Robbins

Spoilers: moderate to moderately highish

00 Week: The fear of Voodoo and the supernatural, still deeply, primevally ingrained

LIVE AND LET DIE

1973

Directed by Guy Hamilton

Written by Tom Mankiewicz (based on the novel by Ian Fleming)

Spoilers: severe

Cardboard Science: But the film is a saddening bore

THE ANGRY RED PLANET

1959

Directed by Ib Melchior

Written by Sid Pink and Ib Melchior

Spoilers: moderate

Please don't take my sunshine away

PROJECT HAIL MARY

2026

Directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller

Written by Drew Goddard (based on the novel by Andy Weir)

Spoilers: moderate

Just what is going on in that piratical mind of yours?

THE SEA HAWK

1940

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Written by Howard Koch and Seton I. Miller

Spoilers: moderate

Volcano girls, we really can't be beat

AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH

2025

Directed by James Cameron

Written by Rick Jaffa, Amanda Silver, and James Cameron

Spoilers: high