It’s five damn minutes long!  Make them watch.

(deep despairing sigh)

Also, when Moana came out my daughters were 4 and 6, or thereabouts, and I wept openly through almost the entire movie at how awesome her character and story turned out, thinking of them sitting next to me.

I said the same thing elsewhere in here - the cut from the queen barely holding it together to the king openly weeping just kills me, every time.

I admit there might be some nostalgia underpinning its continued top-two status for me (I was 17 when it came out, so not exactly a kid, but still saw it with other similarly-aged friends in the theater, and we were all comfortable enough with ourselves to not only be excited but agree that it was fucking amazing).…

My daughters have started to age out of the princesses a bit.  Not entirely, but enough that it’s definitely no longer their go-to genre.  What this means is that I really want to watch the TV show but no longer have any excuse to pin it on my kids.  If I’m gonna watch it at this point, it’s all on me, a middle-aged…

That’s what I appreciated the most about Frozen - not only was the ultimate “love” they were talking about of the sibling kind rather than the romantic, they had the balls to go beyond even having the romantic subplot fizzle out by making the Prince Charming character the actual damn villain!  Low-key revolutionary…

Yep.  Other things aside, I actually think “Fathers of daughters” is absolutely a target audience of Disney’s modern offerings, considering that they are now and increasingly showing us how goddamn proud we’d be of our daughters to be as smart, strong, and independent as these protagonists.

Has she seen “Tangled Ever After”?  

The competition Mother Gothel does with Rapunzel to make sure she wins the “I love you most” conversation is chilling.

Plus Gothel’s villain song is fantastic.

I’d have to revisit the others to see if I fully agree with your rankings, but I’m definitely on board with your first two slots.  Moana is a masterpiece start to finish, and for my money it’s in the conversation with The Lion King as the best Disney has ever done.

“The lantern sequence itself is one of the most gorgeous scenes in Disney animation history”

100% agreed. It was the first one since “Circle of Life” to truly take my breath away the first time I saw it, and it remains a favorite even though the Frozens and especially Moana have had moments comparably strong. I would…

I don’t think it did come out of nowhere.  From the very opening narration it explained that she’d gotten infused with the magic from that whatever plant, and while it had only expressed itself through her hair/song, there’s no reason to think that it couldn’t be expressed in other ways.  Plus, I think that there’s a…

I wouldn’t use that many greater-thans, but I do agree that while I love Frozen just like any feeling human being should, Tangled does get the slight nod from me in this matchup.

The moment you try it, you will understand it.

““just like the performers in these old shows, someday I will survive myself in reruns.””

godDAMN.

I like how he was yelling “none of you want to try it!  none of you want to try it!” and then was proven quite wrong indeed.

We gonna talk about Joel Embiid’s decision to be the face of this?

“It’s not (officially) clear yet if the rest of the Guardians—Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, raccoon”

That’s rabbit, you uncultured swine.