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Yes, you're the only one on Earth who had that reaction, you beautiful snowflake, you.

OK, Mulan has a lot going for it and it was probably unfair to lump it in there. But I see it as the modern Disney movie that's the most hamstrung by a perceived need to adhere rigidly to a formula: the songs are probably the worst from that era, and the wacky dragon sidekick with Eddie Murphy's voice is not my

Moby says a lot of things.

Why do so many Newswire headlines in the last year or so begin with a superfluous "And"? Just curious.
My guess is that it's supposed to function as some sort of acknowledgement of the rolling, ever-renewing churn of internet news items, but it's been trotted out so often lately that I figured I take a shot and ask

Mediocre? It's refreshingly untethered from the "hero's journey / find your destiny" jail that traps so many family movies, and it has a pretty damned radical (for a kids film) subtext about female sexuality. Yet you'd say it was more mediocre than Brother Bear or Home on the Range? Or Mulan? Or Oliver & Company?

Aw, c'mon, the characters? What recent family film had a more instantly engaging cast? By the end I realized that I had come to be pretty dang fond of those guys. Anna? Not even Anna?

Yeah, my kid is in love with it. And as someone who's sat through plenty of garbage (i.e., a dad), I really appreciated Frozen — it's one of those movies that reminds you how effective it is when a couple of memorable characters get a fleshed-out story to live in. So, so many movies these days make it clear that the

And not just any orchestral score — it was tin whistles and synthesizers! That score is brutal.

When I heard my three-year-old daughter sing to herself, "This quote 'engagement' is a flex arrangement / And by the way, I don't see no ring," I knew Disney had stumbled onto a phenomenon.

So after the doom of Old Valyria, how do they explain what happened to all the dragon eggs?

Yet I feel like Franco has the charisma and good will to get away with his antics, whereas LaBeouf was powerfully punchable even at his peak (which was, what, Constantine? Holes?

That's pretty cool though.

Those letters are life-alteringly great. Thank you very much.

Don't you lose it, now listen to us
Everything's gonna be all right
Take a break, take some time
Everything's gonna be all right
Don't you lose it, remember to take

It's my favorite too, and though I can't second that Metallica thing I'll agree that it does totally rock. Or it moves, maybe that's a better word for it — the songs just pop and swing in a way that still lands today.

Pearl Jam does DEVO!

Nirvana does DEVO!

I've got to say Oh No, It's DEVO!

Although first she swings from somewhere you can't see.