Favorite Disney Movies

[gunswordfist]

Who'd you rob?

[Avaitor]

Eisner. He still has a big supply of copies of the movie, back when he was trying to sell it as the next big thing before he was ousted.

[RacattackForce]

Shadow and I just finished watching every single movie in the Disney Animated Canon over the course of three months, so...




• Lilo and Stitch 
• Mulan 
• Tangled 
• The Emperor's New Groove
• The Fox and the Hound
• The Hunchback of Notre Dame
• Pinocchio
• Tarzan
• The Rescuers Down Under
• Wreck-It Ralph
• Beauty and the Beast
• The Princess and the Frog
• Aladdin
• Big Hero 6
• Alice in Wonderland
• Cinderella
• 101 Dalmatians
• The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
• Winnie the Pooh (2011)
• The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
• The Little Mermaid
• Lady and the Tramp
• The Great Mouse Detective
• The Lion King
• Fantasia
• Fantasia 2000
• The Jungle Book
• Treasure Planet
• Meet the Robinsons
• Atlantis: The Lost Empire
• Hercules
• Sleeping Beauty
• Bolt
• Oliver and Company
• The Sword in the Stone
• Peter Pan
• Frozen
• Fun and Fancy Free
• Melody Time
• The Three Caballeros
• Make Mine Music
• Saludos Amigos
• Bambi
• Dumbo
• Snow White
• Home on the Range
• The Black Cauldron
• The Rescuers
• Robin Hood
• Pocahontas
• Brother Bear
• Dinosaur 
• Chicken Little 
• The Aristocats 

[The Shadow Gentleman]

Recently (by which I mean 3 hours ago) Racattack and I finished our two and a half month marathon of all the films in the Disney Animated Canon. Quite the endeavor. Every time we finished a movie, we added it to our own personalized lists, showing our preference for each movie. Now that our journey has come to a close, we are both proud to present our lists of the Disney classics, from our most favored to the least.

Keep in mind these lists are entirely personal and very difficult to create, especially as the number of films increased. It's difficult to put one movie you like above another, and as such, the positions are bound to fluctuate over time. 

   1.   Pinocchio
   2.   The Lion King
   3.   The Many Adventures of Winnie-the-Pooh
   4.   Lilo and Stitch
   5.   Wreck-It Ralph
   6.   Tarzan
   7.   The Emperor's New Groove
   8.   The Great Mouse Detective
   9.   Fantasia
   10.   Mulan
   11.   Aladdin
   12.   The Hunchback of Notre Dame
   13.   The One Hundred and One Dalmatians
   14.   Lady and the Tramp
   15.   Bambi
   16.   Beauty and the Beast
   17.   Meet the Robinsons
   18.   Atlantis: The Lost Empire
   19.   The Rescuers Down Under
   20.   Winnie-the-Pooh
   21.   Alice in Wonderland
   22.   Big Hero 6
   23.   The Jungle Book
   24.   The Little Mermaid
   25.   The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
   26.   Cinderella
   27.   The Princess and the Frog
   28.   Treasure Planet
   29.   Dumbo
   30.   Tangled
   31.   Fun and Fancy Free
   32.   Hercules
   33.   The Fox and the Hound
   34.   The Three Caballeros
   35.   Bolt
   36.   Sleeping Beauty
   37.   Fantasia 2000
   38.   The Sword in the Stone
   39.   Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
   40.   Peter Pan
   41.   Melody Time
   42.   Oliver and Company
   43.   Make Mine Music
   44.   The Rescuers
   45.   Saludos Amigos
   46.   Frozen
   47.   Brother Bear
   48.   Home on the Range
   49.   Pocahontas
   50.   The Black Cauldron
   51.   Chicken Little
   52.   Robin Hood
   53.   Dinosaur
   54.   The Aristocats

900th Post. Woot woot.

[LumRanmaYasha]

Cool lists! Watching through the entire Disney animated film canon from beginning to end is something I've been meaning to do for a while myself, but I just don't have the time to do such a thing right now. One day, though.

[gunswordfist]

Yay, OCD!

I haven't watched a Disney movie in , outside a tiny bit of The Lion King. I'll have to remedy that soon.

[Avaitor]

I don't think that a worse Disney movie can exist than Home on the Range.

But we're not talking about sequels or live-action.

[Foggle]

   7.   The Emperor's New Groove
   8.   The Great Mouse Detective

   2.   Mulan 
   4.   The Emperor's New Groove

[Spark Of Spirit]

Good lists. I always thought it was tragic the Black Cauldron was nowhere near as good as the book(s) it adapts. It was Prydain's one shot, and it was a flop.

I don't think that a worse Disney movie can exist than Home on the Range.

But we're not talking about sequels or live-action.

That and Chicken Little are clear bottom of the list to me. Say what you will about any of the others, at least they had effort put into them.

[Avaitor]

"We done a lot of things we're not proud of. Robbing graves, eh, plundering tombs, double parking. But, nobody got hurt. Well, maybe somebody got hurt, but nobody we knew."

We need to talk about Atlantis more.

[Avaitor]

When Chicken Little first came out, I'd sing along to the song in the commercials by replacing the word slip to "one little bitch". I thought it was funny because I was 13, and random swearing was funny like that.

Finally seeing the film, this is probably still more entertaining than it is. There is very little good here. The CG looks grossly out of date, not just by today's standards, but even compared to Pixar and Dreamworks' stuff from the same period. Bringing up Dreamworks is important, since it's obvious that Disney wanted to try to capitalize on their success, by adding pop culture references and hit songs into the shuffle when they don't belong whatsoever, with few notable attempts of humor beyond this.

Still, I'd say that it's a little better than Home on the Range, since there's some semblance of love here. But it's not a very pleasant or fun film to watch.

In other news, the renaissance really did peak with The Lion King. This is a movie that never gets old.

[Avaitor]

I decided to pull off a pretty cool double feature tonight.

First, I put on my recently purchased copy of Hercules, and boy, does it look great on Blu. Disney has been hit or miss with their recent transfers, but the colors really pop here. And while this will never rank among my all-time favorites, I do find the movie to hold up a little better with age. It's nice to see Disney make a movie in their Renaissance format that has comedy at the storytelling's core, and not as a distraction like some of their other films. It doesn't fully work, true, but it's at least better than Pocahontas, and probably equal with Tarzan.

And I decided to follow it up with another Musker & Clements film, their most recent before Moana. If Disney could find a way to use computer graphics as visually creatively as Princess and the Frog's eased animation, I wouldn't be as opposed to their hand-drawn department being caput. And truthfully, I still resonate with this more than Tangled or Frozen, or really, anything Disney's studio has done since. True, not every element of the movie's plot works, and Newman only offered a few notable songs, but the characters are more than endearing enough to make this fun to watch.

[Avaitor]

The Emperor's New Groove is such a revelation. Easily Disney's funniest movie.

[Foggle]

The Emperor's New Groove is such a revelation. Easily Disney's funniest movie.

One of the best movies I've ever seen. I love it just as much today as I did when I was a kid.

[Avaitor]

And don't forget the cow.

Such a perfect montage of one great moment after another.