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    Remember The Three Caballeros, from various singalongs? Turns out, it was from a movie (that had some bizarre psychedelia at the end, but that's beside the point). And beyond that, it was a sequel to "South America, Please Like The US More Than The Axis", aka "Saludos Amigos". Thrill as Donald Duck rides a llama!…

    I appreciate the idea behind Fantasia, but the movie was so dull to me. We had to restart the movie twice because we fell asleep trying to watch it twice. There are some great moments, which is why it's as high as it is, but those are dragged down with dullness after dullness.

    I have no attachment to Oliver and Company - I was 1 when it came out and I never saw it until this year. Besides it looking terrible and feeling extremely dated, the characters are unappealing, mostly lazy stereotypes with lame dialogue. Fagin is hard to even look at. Sykes is one of the least effective Disney…

    Lilo & Stitch, yay! Treasure Planet… can I ask what you think is amazing about it?

    The Jungle Book (and the movies from then through Oliver & Company) certainly look cheap, agreed. But the soundtrack, characters, and voice work make up for it. My favorite part: Shere Khan singing the last line of "That's What Friends Are For".

    The lemurs are the worst, no question, but there's nothing appealing about the movie that's not in the trailer. The dialogue is atrocious. The mouth animation for the dinosaurs is hideous. The characters are beyond boring. The conflict is predictable. The constant barren landscapes are like playing one of those PS1…

    My wife made her rankings too. Her top five were Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Lady and the Tramp, The Lion King, and Tangled. So, the same top 4 slightly reordered, and then Tangled. She didn't have The Jungle Book till #17. The nerve!

    I found the list, and I misremembered by bottom 5 slightly; The Black Cauldron wasn't in, but Make Mine Music was. And this was before I saw Frozen a few weeks ago, so I'm adding that now. The full list:
    1) The Little Mermaid. 2) Beauty and the Beast. 3) Lady and the Tramp. 4) The Lion King. 5) The Jungle Book. 6)…

    Home on the Range certainly isn't in the upper echelon of Disney films, but it at least had some sense of joy and fun in it compared to what came before it (Brother Bear and Treasure Planet directly preceded it). And it had characters singing a song, which hadn't happened since Mulan 6 years (9 movies) prior. It…

    The first six minutes of the movie were the only watchable part. Then the animals started talking, and it all went to seed.

    Earlier this year, my wife and I finished our year-long marathon of all the Disney animated features. When we made our rankings of them after all was said and done, Dinosaur was firmly at the bottom of both of our lists. My bottom five, for reference: 48) Oliver and Company. 49) The Black Cauldron. 50) Melody Time.…

    Back in the 40s, Disney's package film "Make Mine Music" had several stories, at least one of which certainly had an unhappy ending: Willie the Whale, who could sing opera, dreamed of performing at the Met, and was instead harpooned to death by a man who thought he had swallowed several human opera singers.

    From what I know, those episodes exist, but Barker has put the kibosh on airing them or releasing them, even with a disclaimer that it was a different time.

    Look, can't we get BEYOND Thunderdome?

    That sounds more like The Colbert Report's "The Word"…