Which Walt Disney Animation Studios feature films are still really worth watching?
I still rewatch Disney’s animated Robin Hood. I think it holds up, but I have no particular expertise.
Fantasia probably holds up the best. It seems too soon to vote for Tangled but I gave it a vote.
I think Alice in Wonderland holds up well and several others that I voted for but I guess I never liked Robin Hood so I left that off. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a masterpiece considering the time and what it accomplished but much of it is not enjoyable to sit through now. The Black Cauldron largely wasted great source material so why it has held up, it has held up at a low level.
Could be. I just cut off the list at a round fifty films, which is all those released more than five years ago.
I think they all do, really, but I’ll add to the vote for Fantasia, and for the underappreciated Fantasia 2000.
That’s not to say that some of the jokes in the others don’t “strand the test of time” because they were topical. Pinocchio’s Pleasure Island pool hall is in the shape of a cue stick and eight ball, echoing the appearance of the Trylon and Perisphere from the 1939 World’s Fait. I wonder if any kids today get that. The end of Sword in the Stone is supposed to have a joke that refers to a tgen-current TV commercial for Pepsi 9although I’ve never been able to dentify it). All of Robin Williams’ pop culture references are a hoot now, but they’re going to date the film, too. Future kids are going to puzzle over who the caricatures of William F. Buckley, Rodney Dangerfield, and Jack Nicholson are supposed to be. And so on.
As a general rule, everything up to and including Sleeping Beauty, then from* The Little Mermaid* on. With a few exceptions, of course.
I saw Robin Hood first run at the theater. Forty something years later, I watch it on video with the kids in my life. It’s still entertaining for all of us.
I dunno, between 2000 and 2008 or so they weren’t exactly at their best. A few gems in there like Lilo and Stitch, but for the most part that content was really rough. Though I’ll grant that a few of them like Treasure Planet and Atlantis were “above mediocre”.
Here’s where somebody watched and ranked all 54 of them (including the last few newest ones not in the poll). It’s hardly a “definitive” list in terms of the ranking, but it does make a few interesting points. And it has a description and an image from each film, so you can remember them.
Limited my vote to 10 (w/Pinocchio still my vote for the best of them all). While some from the 50s are significantly overrated–something particularly noticeable when you see them on the big screen–the second “Renaissance” (89-94) doesn’t hold up as well to these eyes anymore, either. This isn’t to say the ones I didn’t vote for are bed. Just a preference of which ones I’m most interested in revisiting.