What a joy to have finally reached this era of Disney history! The post Walt years were interesting historically but a bit of a slog for me personally. At the end of the day, I like when Disney is grand and emotional - and Beauty and the Beast is nothing if not that.
This movie is unbearably gorgeous. This is the second film to be digitally painted and the control of the color palette is incredible. Look at the beautiful…
It is fascinating that so few people remember this movie and the ones who do have no idea that it came out during the Disney Renaissance, especially because this is a watershed moment for the studio. Rescuers Down Under is the first animated film to use the Computer Animation Production System (CAPS). That means that while this film is still drawn by hand, those drawings are then scanned into a computer and inked and painted digitally.
On the one hand,…
In my write ups for the first couple of Disney flicks, I focused a lot on the ability of animation to create mood and evoke emotion through imagery and I stand by all the praise I gave to films like Fantasia and Bambi. That said, another thing animation is great for is fucking with the fabric of reality. Enter The Three Caballeros.
This thing is a fucking blast, absolutely bonkers. It's essentially a shaggy party flick thinly veiled as another…
Maybe the strangest entry in the Disney Animated Canon, certainly of the ones I'm watching through for this project. This movie bombed so hard and is so forgotten that it seems to barely exist. But it does exist. It's been here all along. Existing. Do I like it? Um... not really. But it is interesting!
Right off the bat I'm gonna say that I really love the look of this movie. Any time a traditionally animated movie goes for the…
