# Disney Animated Movie Madness FINAL ROUND

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [June 11, 2008, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-movie-madness-final-round/452516 "2008-06-11T00:40:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-movie-madness-final-round/452516/41 "2008-06-13T15:46:38Z")

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_Beauty and the Beast._ Easily. The story is funny, scary, and genuinely moving. The artwork is stunning, the music is classic Broadway quality, and it has a far deeper bench when it comes to awesome voice casting (Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury, Paige O’Hara, Richard White, and Robbie Benson of all people are all splendid). _Beauty_ made animation for adults respectable and even an _event_. It had _class_. And no of scatological or scattershot pop culture references masquerading as humor, which sadly is more than you can say for most current kids’ movies.

And to me, Belle is utterly charming and way more of an interesting role model as a heroine. Bookish lass who doesn’t need to transform herself FTW! The only transforming going on is with Beast, and his most important change is internal, not external.

(Though it’s a shame the animation for the transformed Beast made him into such a plastic Ken doll. Wouldn’t mind a Lucasian/Spielbergish retcon of _that_ special effect!)

And I have to repeat: Jerry Orbach and David Ogden Stiers! Hells to the yeah!

_The Little Mermaid_ isn’t even on my personal radar of top ten Disney animated movies. Cute but nothing special IMO. But then I’m weird (and old) and would’ve placed _Robin Hood_ in my top two, so there ya go.

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**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\
**Post date:** [June 13, 2008, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-movie-madness-final-round/452516/42 "2008-06-13T20:22:07Z")

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[QUOTE=choie]  
_The Little Mermaid_ isn’t even on my personal radar of top ten Disney animated movies. Cute but nothing special IMO.  
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You know, I blasted Ariel a little bit, but I’m having a hard time thinking of a singing performance in a Disney film that tops Samuel E. Wright’s work as Sebastian. It’s been a long time since I have seen any other Disney movies, though. I might have to start a thread about that.  
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**Author:** ![The\_Hamster\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8edcca/32.png) [@The\_Hamster\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Hamster_King)\
**Post date:** [June 14, 2008, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/disney-animated-movie-madness-final-round/452516/43 "2008-06-14T00:07:10Z")

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[QUOTE=RiverRunner]  
… I’m having a hard time thinking of a singing performance in a Disney film that tops Samuel E. Wright’s work as Sebastian.  
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How about [Louis Prima](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HX_7DmnAp_E) in The Jungle Book?

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