Oldskool Disney =
Newskool Disney = I could live without.
I think Lilo & Stitch pushed Disney's luck - certainly, I loved the music, that saved it IMHO, but animation wise, nothing spectacular.
It's the
sequels that are getting my goat.
Atlantis III is apparently in the works, according to very valid rumours around Australian Animation Scenes. Atlantis II was sad. The first Atlantis was a let-down due to a "communication barriers" (re: failures) between various Disney in-house animation studios. Mulan II - good for kids aged 10 - 12, bad news if you're into first-time-around classics. Lilo & Stitch II - now this, and the TV series, is a total nightmare. My apologies to those of you who do enjoy it, but having been a 2D animator for most of my life, you can see that the animation is poorly done - it's not frame-by frame animation like its original firsts, this is the poorly done squash & stretch stuff - simple animation "cheating" made to look like concentrated effort.
Most of Disney's TV series and Direct-To-DVD/Video sequels are a bunch of horsepockey. They are given 6 - 9 months to churn out the concept, create characters and have the whole mess done at least a month after those 6 - 9 have gone by. Atlantis II was probably Disney's best (and worst) example of this method of "cheating". Sure, it's visually spectacular...now only if it were the
real concentrated effort like the original films, perhaps Disney's TV Animation Studios wouldn't be pooling together to try and save their tails.
Home on the Range...
I saw a brief clip and wondered had the world taken to nuclear bombing the heck out of each other. No, I'm actually dead serious there. That's not Disney. That's corporate asshatism plus a LOT of George Washingtons. The original dream is gone,
let the animation die in peace. Pushing the "cashcow" any further is like flogging a horse that's been skinned already.
Disney Channel = much worse...like it couldn't get any worse!
First off Disney,
not every one of your viewing audience are tweens! Not all of us find it enjoyable to see a Power Puff Girls-type lookalike times 400 prancing around and saving the world...bar Kim Possible, I've got nothing against that animation (the fandom's a leetle much, but it's bearable). The rest...*shudders* I want to assassinate the one who created Teamo Supremo. I really want to punch them one >>;
Also, Disney's sudden interest in Flash Animation again has me very worried. Brandy & Mr Whiskers...uhm, Ren & Stimpy already did that scene, move on please Disney! Toy Story 3 is already sending messages to my brain saying "get off ze train, boss!" And their sudden hopes on "Valiant" taking "the world by storm" with Disney's "first inhouse 3D animation studio"...ech, I've been a Disney fan since I was 4 years old. I've been hoping to get a job at Disney since I was 7. And I'm sorry to say this, but all it believes in now is corporate dollar signs and nothing more.
I'm saddened that, as a Disney fan of the older, wonderful films I grew up with to see Disney sink so far into such degrading attributes.
And it had so much potential to remain the best company with the best films...*sighs*
But if we're going to talk all-time favourites...my 20:
1. Basil the Great Mouse Detective
2. Robin Hood
3. The Sword In The Stone
4. The Jungle Book
5. The Three Caballeros
6. Song Of The South (Disney never admitted to this one!)
7. The Aristocats
8. The Rescuers
9. The Fox & The Hound
10. Oliver & Company (Why should ah worry? Why should ah care?...)
11. Beauty & The Beast
12. The Lion King
13. Hercules
14. Mulan
15. Tarzan (Phil Collins is
)
16. The Emperor's New Groove
17. Fantasia (not Fantasia: 2000, the original unremastered version)
18. Lady & The Tramp
19. The Rescuers Down Under
20. Pinocchio
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