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

Hamlet's bogus journey

SCARLET

2025

Written and directed by Mamoru Hosoda

Spoilers: moderate

Disney's Challengers: Put it in a flower pot and you'll see what you shall see

THUMBELINA

1994

Written and directed by Don Bluth (based on the story "Tommelise" by Hans Christian Andersen)

Spoilers: moderate

Walt Disney, part LXIX: You were just as dim-witted the first time you were here, you called it "Wonderland," as I recall

ALICE IN WONDERLAND

2010

Directed by Tim Burton

Written by Linda Woolverton

Spoilers: moderate

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

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

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

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

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)

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

Walt Disney, part LVII: His groove! The rhythm by which he lives his life, his pattern of behavior—I threw it off!

THE EMPEROR'S NEW GROOVE

2000

Directed by Mark Dindal

Written by David Reynolds, Chris Williams, and Mark Dindal

Spoilers: moderate

La cité obscure

MEGALOPOLIS: A FABLE

2024

Written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola

Spoilers: moderate

Limbic capitalism

INSIDE OUT 2

2024

Directed by Kelsey Mann

Written by Meg LeFauve, Dave Holstein, and Kelsey Mann

Spoilers: moderate

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

Walt Disney, part LII: The buck bounds here and there, whilst the doe has narrow eyes, but when the two hares run side by side, how can you tell the female from the male?

MULAN

1998

Directed by Barry Cook and Tony Bancroft

Written by Rita Hsaio, Chris Sanders, Philip LaZebnik, Raymond Singer, Eugenia Bostwick-Singer, and Robert D. San Souci

Spoilers: high

Walt Disney, part ΔΔΔΔΔI: You swoon, you sigh, why deny it, uh-oh

HERCULES

1997

Directed by Ron Clements and John Musker

Written by Donald McEnery, Bob Shaw, Irene Mecchi, Ron Clements, and John Musker, et al

Spoilers: severe

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

Walt Disney, part XLVIII: At the minute of my execution, she hazarded the beating out of her own brains to save mine

POCAHONTAS

1995

Directed by Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg

Written by Carl Binder, Sussanah Grant, Philip LaZebnik, et al

Spoilers: N/A