Kids are more into Moana than they are into Snow White, which I can’t say is a bad thing.
This is something I’ve been wondering about in general: HAVE any of Disney’s live-action remakes become modern-day classics that today’s little kids watch over and over?
Mine were too old when the first one came out (Beauty and the Beast, 2017 with Emma Watson?), so I don’t know. Does anyone have little ones in their life often enough to be aware of what they like to watch?
They also made a live-action 101 Dalmatians in 1996.
The issue there is that Snow White already has stuff. Frozen was not only a huge hit- record breaking box office- but also all new characters, etc.
Likely bombed. 85% 1 star. While I have no interest in in, it is most certainly NOT a 1 star film.
Yep, thanks, that makes more sense. I would buy those rating, based upon watching several previews, The OG film is 97% there.
Nope. The Jungle Book came close, and having watched it- it is pretty damn good. Maybe better than the OG. Getting Bill Murray to voice Baloo was genius. And they left that song in.
I recall that one … Glenn Close as Cruella. It seems to be of a different generation, somehow, from the current crop of Disney live-action movies.
I do remember, in the late 1990s, a friend’s three-year-old that did often watch that exact film on DVD.
I only remember that film because the news were reporting that the film caused the usual, predictable but idiotic buying frenzy for Dalmatians. I bet it didn’t have a good impact on that dog breed.
I was unclear – “modern classic” in the sense of “every parent of a toddler has it in steady rotation”. Compare the Land Before Time dinosaur series, the 1990s Disney animation renaissance films, Monsters, Inc., Finding Nemo, Toy Story, etc.
My kids are still pretty young, but they don’t really have classics they watch over and over, when it comes to movies (which has been hard for me to wrap my head around!), because with streaming, they don’t have the 10 or 15 or 20 VHS tapes in your personal collection; they have all of Disney’s (and Paramount and Universal and …) library available in an instant.
So as much as I wish my kid loved the same Winnie the Pooh movies I watched as a kid, for example, she’s only seen them once or twice; she rarely actually has to rewatch a movie.
I wondered about the impact of streaming – thanks for the data point. I’m sure your experience is common.
And I’m just now remembering the 2015 live-action Cinderella, which was the first of the 21st-century remakes. Wikipedia lists a handful of others pre-2015, but all of them aside from 101 Dalmatians are re-adaptations of the source material, not live-action remakes per se.
Although we had probably 30+ kids video tapes, and my kids watch the sound of music 300,000 times. And most of the others only two or three times.
I guess they also had a video that was just hit songs from Disney movies, and that one was also very popular. I’m not sure we even owned “beauty and the beast”, but we watched “be our guest” a lot.
I had completely forgotten about the Jason Scott Lee live-action The Jungle Book from 1994.
I’m sure it depends how you count. But isn’t their logo Snow White’s castle? And her dress is one of the more recognizable princess dresses. Even if other costumes sell more, the existence of “Snow White” kind of anchors the brand. It’s surely a very valuable piece of IP.
Yeah the live-action 101 Dalmatians just seems different from the recent crop of remakes we’ve gotten in the past 10 years. Perhaps because they used actual dogs instead of cgi like all of these recent films. It doesn’t just seem like a shot-by-shot remake but it’s own thing.
Sleeping Beauty & Cinderella.
Oh. Never mind.
You sure that’s not the queen’s castle? I thought Snow White lived in the woods…
Naw, i was just wrong. I guess i can’t tell the princesses apart.
Consider yourself lucky not to have the same 6-7 Barney tapes running all the time (kids had Disney tapes too but there’s no accounting for taste).