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Scruffy 1980
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Found this movie from my childhood on YouTube and we decided to watch it before dinner. Truly a peak example of what Jak calls “Rachel refusing to consume happy media.” This cartoon follows a dog behind abandoned by owners, giving birth while waiting for her owners to return, carrying her puppy up a chimney to escape a house fire, and being shot Bambi-style. That’s the first 15 minutes. The rest of it follows the titular puppy through the loss of…
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The Secret Garden 1993
I still have a plastic white elephant from Dollar Tree that I got as a tiny child because it reminded me of this movie. I still think of Dickon showing Mary how the plants were alive. This movie (and A Little Princess) are so tangled with my being I could never separate them.
A childhood favorite, proof that I’ve always loved my media beautiful and bleak. Wild story of parent death, Munchausen’s by Proxy, magic chants, and more. I need…
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The Swan Princess 1994
I’ve seen this movie so many times, I wore out two VHS tapes of it in one summer at my grandmother’s house. Though that’s also bc her house was boring.
The animation is genuinely some of my favorite design. Odette’s transformation is so beautiful, and I have sketchbooks from multiple points of my life with drawings inspired by this film.
Swan Princess is just fun. The romance is as shallow as the prince, the animation could be a lot smoother, and overall the film could be way better with a handful of changes. But I think it would also be less whimsical, delightful, and downright lovely.
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Little Manhattan 2005
how have i never seen this movie before?! this is the cutest movie ever made. sheer delight, every frame
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