My listed movie that probably doesn’t make many people’s lists is Hercules. I loved the thematic approach to the animation.
I’ll defend my Pocahontas vote. It is awful as history and I hate that too many people have their entire knowledge of European exploration of the Americas based on the movie. As a movie, however, it is excellent. Beautiful animation and wonderful music. If you’ve only seen it as a VHS rental on a 1990s tube tv, it is well worth another viewing using a modern television and audio.
For what it is worth, I just think it is a bad movie. The awful break from history not even considered. I didn’t like the story and found the music mostly annoying.
Same for Hercules, another bad Disney movie in my opinion, though I with this I do have the annoyance of just about the least shitty of the Greek Gods being made into the big evil.
These are all anthology-type movies. I focused only on theatrical features.
I also purposely included only fully animated films; most of those you mentioned have live action portions.
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I voted for Beauty and the Beast, Lion King (which is also a vote for Kimba), Fantasia, Sword in the Stone, & Winnie the Pooh.
I would also have voted for Aladdin, Sleepy Hollow and the Brer Rabbit segments, if they were on the list (I know, I know - and I agree. But I’m fond of the Brer Rabbit stories).
Here is the ranking so far:
Any surprises?
40 Fantasia
38 The Lion King
37 The Little Mermaid
36 Beauty and the Beast
35 The Emperor’s New Groove
31 Robin Hood
22 Big Hero 6
28 Frozen
28 Wreck-It Ralph
25 Mulan
25 Tangled
24 The Jungle Book
22 Lilo & Stitch
22 Zootopia
21 Moana
20 The Sword in the Stone
19 Aladdin
19 Dumbo
19 Peter Pan
18 Lady and the Tramp
18 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
18 Winnie the Pooh
17 Hercules
16 Alice in Wonderland
16 One Hundred and One Dalmatians
16 Sleeping Beauty
14 Pinocchio
12 Tarzan
11 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
10 The Aristocats
10 Cinderella
9 Bambi
8 The Great Mouse Detective
7 The Princess and the Frog
7 The Rescuers
6 The Black Cauldron
6 Meet the Robinsons
5 Atlantis: The Lose Empire
5 Treasure Planet
4 The Fox and the Hound
4 The Rescuers Down Under
3 Bolt
2 Dinosaur
2 Pocahontas
1 Brother Bear
1 Oliver & Company
0 Chicken Little
0 Home on the Range
(note that the Aladdin number was obtained through the Pixar poll. I’m sure it would be higher if someone had placed it in the proper poll to begin with)
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Glad to see **Fantasia **floated to the top. That & **Aladdin **are my top picks. **Alice **might be my third favorite, but I’m not surprised that has less votes.
Pinocchio is the single greatest accomplishment in the history of animation. On this subject there is really no debate. All you hipsters voting for Fantasia but not voting for Pinocchio are nuts.
A few for me. I’m surprised to see Fantasia at the top (and would personally rank it among the ones that I have the very least interest in ever seeing again.) Also The Emperor’s New Groove and* Robin Hood*. I’m surprised to see *Bolt *near the bottom, which I rank as one of my favorite CG or cel animated films from any studio.
Emperor’s New Groove and Lion King are the only two that I would stop and watch today. I’m neutral on the other classics and haven’t seen most of the B-tier stuff like Bolt or Home on the Range.
I hold an active dislike for The Jungle Book, being a reader of the Kipling book as a kid and then dismayed to see the characters, so powerful and awe-inspiring in my mind’s eyes, turned into prancing buffoons on the screen.
Probably not hipsters, but people who at some point did recreational drugs and enjoyed watching Fantasia and etc.
All of them were made by Disney’s animation division as theatrically released features, without any live-action segments. They’re not like Song of the South, So Dear to My Heart or Mary Poppins. (Saludos Amigos does open with a brief documentary montage of South America, and Donald Duck chases a live human singer in an otherwise animated sequence The Three Caballeros. Nothing more than what Fantasia has.)
Oh, and now I’m done with the animated pedantry. °o°
I wasn’t aware of that one. That still doesn’t negate the fact that the classic three (Honey Tree, Blustery Day, and* Tigger Too*) are not on the list.
Hippies?
They are not on the list because they don’t belong on the list.
Again (sigh), I was only interested in including theatrical features. These are all 25-minute shorts.
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You are absolutely right. I should have excluded Fantasia too.
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Mulan, Lilo and Stitch, and the Emperor’s New Groove are all really up there. I think I wind up with them in that order, but it’s a hard decision. Lion King (and all the Aladdin movies) are a step down from those, but still awesome. Next down is the Rescuers series (the first one slightly better), which I always watched when on TV. And I kinda like Hercules, oddly–even if I forget all the songs until we sang them in choir. The Jungle Book and 101 Dalmatians have a ton of nostalgia for me, but I have to admit they aren’t as good as the above. The Little Mermaid is a bit lower than that, followed by the classics Dumbo, Snow White, Bambi, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, and the Sword in the Stone. Finally I have to give a nod to The Fox and the Hound, the first movie I ever saw in theaters.
There are some more that I’ve seen parts of, but not the whole thing, so I don’t feel fair judging them. They are The Aristocats, Atlantis, Brother Bear, Fantasia, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Lady and the Tramp (I may have seen all of it, but I only remember parts), Peter Pan (same), Robin Hood, and Tarzan. I also have watched and heard “Let It Go” as much as anyone.
The rest I’ve never seen at all. Unless you count A Goofy Movie, which goes up there with the top three. (I’d put it before New Groove.) The Ducktales movie was okay, but it was very tied in with the series, unlike A Goofy Movie, so I don’t count it. And I ignored home video sequels beyond Aladdin, which I count because I watched them the same as if they were theatrical releases.
Edit: I ultimately voted for the top 6 that were available.
Which attraction?
Robin Hood near the top is kind of mind blowing.
The difference is that Fantasia is a beloved classic and the other ones mentioned are barely remembered