Showing posts with label fantasy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fantasy. 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, May 5, 2025

Walt Disney, part LXVI: Disney Princess enchanted tales


ENCHANTED

2007
Directed by Kevin Lima
Written by Bill Kelly, Rita Hsiao, Todd Alcott, Bob Schooley, and Mark McCorkle

Spoilers: high

Saturday, March 22, 2025

Walt Disney, part LXXXIII: Failure, then learning, then death


MOANA 2

2024
Directed by Jason Hand, Dana Ledoux Miller, and David Derrick Jr.
Written by Jared Bush, Bryson Chun, Bek Smith, and Dana Ledoux Miller

Spoilers: moderate
Note that will eventually be removed: "part 83" is an approximate one, but it is where I believe this film will eventually fall once my not-so-diligently pursued retrospective catalog of Walt Disney animation is done sometime in the next couple of months; meanwhile, since I intended to be done with it before Moana 2 came out on streaming, even if I did not succeed in doing so, it's still best to treat it as just another entry in that series, something I've been sub rosa doing with all of Disney's new-release cartoons for the past two or three years anyhow

Tuesday, December 17, 2024

Walt Disney, part LXI: Not even your average bear


BROTHER BEAR

2003
Directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker
Written by Tab Murphy and the rest of WDFA, I guess, based on an "idea" by Michael Eisner

Spoilers: moderate

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)

Thursday, December 5, 2024

Walt Disney, part LVIII: Why Kida can't read—and what you can do about it


ATLANTIS: THE LOST EMPIRE

2001
Directed by Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise
Written by Joss Whedon, Bryce Zabel, Jackie Zabel, Tab Murphy, Gary Trousdale, and Kirk Wise

Spoilers: high

Thursday, September 26, 2024

Limbic capitalism


INSIDE OUT 2

2024
Directed by Kelsey Mann
Written by Meg LeFauve, Dave Holstein, and Kelsey Mann

Spoilers: moderate

Saturday, August 3, 2024

A cabin in the woods


KNOCK AT THE CABIN

2023
Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
Written by Steve Desmond, Michael Sherman, and M. Night Shyamalan (based on the novel The Cabin At the End of the World by Paul G. Tremblay)

Spoilers: high

Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Monday, March 11, 2024

Walt Disney, part XLIX: The pits


JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

1996
Directed by Henry Selick
Written by Karey Kirkpatrick, Jonathan Roberts, and Steve Bloom (based on the novel by Roald Dahl)

Spoilers: moderate

Thursday, February 29, 2024

Walt Disney, part XLVI: Bad and good luck tales


DUCKTALES THE MOVIE: TREASURE OF THE LOST LAMP

1990
Directed by Bob Hathcock
Written by Alan Burnett

Spoilers: moderate

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

Thursday, February 15, 2024

Disney's Challengers, part XI: Après moi, le déluge


ROCK-A-DOODLE

1992
Directed by Don Bluth
Written by David N. Weiss and numerous others (based on the play Chantecler by Edmond Rostand)

Spoilers: moderate

Tuesday, February 6, 2024

Disney's Challengers, part VIII: Dog damn


ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN

1989
Directed by Don Bluth (co-directed by Gary Goldman and John Pomeroy)
Written by David N. Weiss and zillion other people

Spoilers: moderate