Category: Movie Reviews
REVIEW: The Incredibles (2004)
“We’re superheroes. What could happen?” In anticipation of Incredibles 2 coming out this week, I’d like to talk about the first film, and some of the events leading up to its initial release. In 1999 Warner Bros. animation studio released Brad Bird’s directorial debut, The Iron Giant. ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Home on the Range (2004)
“Well, it doesn’t work for me!” After several disappointments in the early 2000s, things were getting tense at Walt Disney Animation. A film based on the Pied Piper legend was pitched and subsequently shot down by Michael Eisner, who believed parents wouldn’t take their kids to see a mov...
Read MoreREVIEW: Brother Bear (2003)
“You really think love has anything to do with being a man?” If you know Walt Disney Animation as the studio defined by singing animals and beautiful Princesses, the string of science fiction films they made in the early 2000s may seem random and weird. But in 2003, things were about to get even...
Read MoreREVIEW: Solo: A Star Wars Story
Han Solo is quite possibly my favorite character in all of cinema. He’s a scoundrel, he’s selfish, he’s arrogant, and he’s a scruffy looking nerf herder. He’s also a good guy underneath that veneer; he does the right thing in the end, and I love him for that. When Lucasfilm announced that ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Treasure Planet (2002)
“You’re something special, Jim. You’re going to rattle the stars you are.” When directors John Musker and Ron Clements pitched Disney’s The Little Mermaid to the company’s executives, they also pitched a movie called Treasure Island in Space. Then-chief of Walt Disney Studios Jef...
Read MoreREVIEW: Lilo & Stitch (2002)
“Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind or forgotten.” Atlantis: The Lost Empire wasn’t Disney’s only shot at science fiction in the early 2000’s. In fact, the next two films to come out of Walt Disney Feature Animation, Lilo & Stitch and Treasure Planet, were both di...
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