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REVIEW: Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure – Season 2, Episode 5, “Freebird”
*Spoilers* In “Freebird,” Cass finds Rapunzel meditating and insists that the break is over and they need to move on. Eugene, Lance, and Hookfoot get into a disagreement over who’s the strongest, provoking the bemused female party members to go off on an adventure. They come upon a couple ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Princess and the Frog (2009)
“Dreams do come true in New Orleans!” After years of box office bombs, moderate disappointments and a lot of computer animation, Disney returned to basics in 2009 with The Princess and the Frog. Arguments can be made regarding whether Disney should stick with what works or experiment with differ...
Read MoreREVIEW: Bolt (2008)
Disney’s Bolt was their first animated feature made entirely under the supervision of chief creative officer John Lasseter. Bolt was originally called American Dog and set to be directed by Chris Sanders of Lilo and Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon fame. In its original form, American Dog w...
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: 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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