Showing posts with label John Musker. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Musker. Show all posts

Saturday, May 17, 2025

Walt Disney, part LXVIII: When we're human


THE PRINCESS AND THE FROG

2009
Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
Written by Rob Edwards, Greg Erb, Jason Oremland, Ron Clements, and John Musker

Spoilers: severe

Monday, December 16, 2024

Walt Disney, part LX: All the old romance, retold exactly in the ancient way


TREASURE PLANET

2002
Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
Written by Rob Edwards, Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Ron Clements, and John Musker (based on the novel Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Spoilers: high (though it's also, you know, Treasure Island)

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Sunday, February 18, 2024

Walt Disney, part XLIII: You ain't never had a friend like me


ALADDIN

1992
Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
Written by Ted Elliott, Terry Rossio, Ron Clements, John Musker, and what appears to be the entire staff of Walt Disney Feature Animation

Spoilers: moderate

Friday, January 22, 2021

Walt Disney, part XXXVIII: What's a fire, and why does it—what's the word—burn?


THE LITTLE MERMAID

1989
Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker
Written by Ron Clements, John Musker, and Howard Ashman (based on the story by Hans Christian Andersen)

Spoiler alert: well, she doesn't become a freaking air spirit

Thursday, August 13, 2020

Walt Disney, part XXXIV: The supreme ruler of all mousedom


THE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE

1986
Directed by Ron Clements, Burny Mattinson, Dave Michener, and John Musker

Spoiler alert: moderate

Sunday, November 27, 2016

You can't expect a demigod to beat a decapod


MOANA

For the first time in a long time, a movie lives up totally to my highest expectations.  Welcome back, Walt Disney.

2016
Directed by Ron Clements, John Musker, Don Hall, and Chris Williams
Written by Jared Bush, Pamela Ribon, Jordan Kandell, Aaron Kandell, Don Hall, Chris Williams, Ron Clements, and John Musker
With Auli'i Cravalho (Moana Waialiki), Dwayne Johnson (Maui), Rachel House (Tala), Temeura Morrison (Chief Tui Waialiki), Nicole Scherzinger (Sina Waialiki), Alan Tudyk (Hei Hei the Chicken), and Jermaine Clement (Tamatoa)

Spoiler alert: mild