I personally see Eric as the final push and not the entire reason, just because the first half of Part of Your World is sung as "Part of That World" before she rescues him. "I wanna be where the people are / I wanna see, wanna see 'em dancin' / Wish I could be / Part of that world" is pre-Eric. I think it's fair to…

Really, really happy to see both The Wonder Years' Winnie Cooper in this list (an arc that never fails to make me cry) along with the revelation about The Little Mermaid. I'm constantly amazed at how many people misremember or misread that entire movie. The Little Mermaid gets a really lousy rep from glib internet…

The successful movie being from five years ago and the fact that the TV show failed is more why I wondered aloud. I hope families still enjoy the Muppet movies that are already out there for sure I just wonder if Disney will try a different vehicle for them to stay fresh in the minds of younger generations.

That's so cute! Time to plan a WDW trip…

I was at Outside Lands yesterday and this set was DELIGHTFUL! I had no idea what was going to happen - Was it going to all be sung, played, and performed live?? - and was super impressed by how much of it seemed to be live. The puppetry looked awesome even very close to the stage.
I hope Electric Mayhem do other live…

I hope that's true! I was at the show yesterday and it was very impressive. I was looking at the stage from straight on and you couldn't really see the puppeteers. I had to see someone else's video from the side of the stage to see them. The band's "walk on" and leaving the stage were really well done.

It was the opener - don't worry!

That's a fair scenario. Such a shame really as both of those movies were the higher end of the output in this experimental era.

"For diversity and diversity's sake alone" :/ Unfortunately I can't say I want to take this discussion much further.

That alien chase in the last third is what keeps me from calling this movie "underrated" or a classic in its own right. Lilo, Nani, and modern day Prince David are all amazing and would have been a perfect movie. The aliens really throw it off for me. I remember on first viewing being really bothered by the ending…

A lot of the style is very inspired by Mike Mignola's - so maybe try a Hellboy comic? Said with much love for both Disney and Mike Mignola, btw.

Personally, I think of that as "Princess and the Frog"s main problem more than anything else. More than racial issues or 2D vs 3D, it was the first really solid movie - that had both beautiful visuals and a decent story - Disney had put out in at least a decade*. I had forgotten Disney was still making animated movies…

Tangled too was supposedly going to be some magical blend of bringing hand drawn techniques to computers and they scrapped that plan.

Treasure Planet also was put out on the same day/weekend as "Chamber of Secrets". Disney really thought they could take on Harry Potter without putting any fight into the campaign behind those movies which was…foolish.

Oof. The Emperor's New Groove - what's the word for a cult classic that is also deeply overrated? Honestly I resent that every dude I know selects it as his "favorite" Disney movie because it has no singing and no princesses and the only female character is an evil, usurping crone. The only good thing about is Patrick…

That segment was THE BEST.

Oh yes, definitely to this one. I was in high school when the first came out and my cousin picked me up from school and told me to grab my friends because he'd take us all to see it. It was a teen event. I watched it again recently and the "Mouse Trap" and like, Disco in the back of a truck sketches almost killed me.

No Talledega and Hot Rod over movies like Francis Ha really burns me up!* I called Talledega sublime in its idiocy and Hot Rod deserves similar praise. I use, "I've been drinking green tea all goddamn day!" just so very often. That and Bill Hader's line reading of, "I dunno what happened - it all started out super…

I cannot believe Talledega wasn't on the first list. That movie is sublime in its idiocy. It became an instant classic in my household, and even with the 2 people I don't agree on comedies with too often.

Speak for yourself! I have better taste in men than that.