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• DISNEY ANIMATION: DREAMS DO COME TRUE IN NEW ORLEANS

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  Following the ice-cold release of Home on the Range in the spring of 2004, Walt Disney Feature Animation set itself to the important task of becoming a clone of the far more financially successful DreamWorks Animation; 2005s Chicken Little was a CGI feature with all the appeal of slamming your hand in a car door, but ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: CATTLE OUT THE OL WAZZOO

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  Heres a man who doesnt, I think, get nearly the respect he deserves, even among Disney animation buffs: Will Finn. Maybe because his career took him all over the place, and Disneyphilia tends to reward the lifers, like Glen Keane, Mark Henn, or Andreas Deja; Finn started out as one of Don Bluths kids, doing some ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: WELL AND TRULY, IM ON MY WAY NOW

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  Brother Bear is the platonic ideal of a completely vanilla animated childrens movie: the one Disney film that, whenever I mention that Ive been working my way through the whole animated canon, I can guarantee that whomever Im talking to forgot that it exists. Even I keep forgetting that it exists: when working on ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: NO ONE HAS EVER BEEN THIS COOL

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  Im skipping ahead. The actual entry at No. 39 in the Disney animation canon is the 2000 summer film Dinosaur, an ambitious and hugely expensive computer-generated imagery cartoon with live-action backgrounds that represents the studios first step into so-called 3D animation that looked so awful to me back in the day ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: PUT YOUR FAITH IN WHAT YOU MOST BELIEVE IN

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  1999 was a rather special year for English-language cinema, an annus mirabilis in which every new weekend seemed to bring a new film that threatened to redefine the language of the art form or simply to perfect the language that already existed. Of course it wasnt really that packed with revolution film masterpieces, ...
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• FANTASTIC IS AS FANTASTIC DOES

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  With Fantastic Mr. Fox, the notoriously fussy Wes Anderson has I think found the ideal medium or his stylistic preoccupations, not just for his sake but for his audiences. I know that Im not the only person to love both Rushmore and The Royal Tenenbaums, only to find The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: TILL WE FIND OUR PLACE ON THE PATH UNWINDING

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  The second-highest grossing film of 1994, and at the time the record-holder for most successful animated feature ever released, The Lion King occupies a very special place in my development into the angry contrarian that I am today, for it was the first time that the twelve-year-old me had ever felt something that Ive ...
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• Weekend special--the untrustworthy reptile returns

  
  The Goat Rope — Authority: 125
  Editors note: It is the policy of this blog on occasion to provide space for the contributions of several of the animals in and around Goat Rope Farm. This holiday weekend we are not entirely pleased to note the return of one such commentator, a snapping turtle who declines to give his name and is known only as The ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: IN A JAM, IN A SCRAPE

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  The unprecedented financial success of The Little Mermaid, the highest-grossing animated film of all time at its first release, meant inevitably that it was going to be copied, heavily, by the films that followed it; for the Walt Disney Company certainly was not averse to making money hand-over-fist, and they also ...
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• Fantastic Mr. Fox

  
  Movie Mom — Authority: 480
  Director Wes Anderson has often seemed more interested in his films props and sets than the characters and stories. His last movies most memorable character was a set of luggage ( The Darjeeling Limited ). The previous ones most memorable image was a cutaway that turned a sea-going vessel into a sort of dolls house ...
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• ALT-DISNEY: ALL DOGS GO TO HEAVEN (1989)

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  When I decided - like a damn idiot - to spice up my 45-day Disney retrospective by also taking into consideration the four films directed in the 1980s by former Disney animator Don Bluth, who in that time came very close to shattering his former employers once-iron stranglehold on American theatrical animation, there ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: DREAMING IS STILL HOW THE STRONG SURVIVE

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  Soon after the 1984 takeover of Walt Disney Productions, when the future of the companys feature animation division was still in considerable doubt, Roy E. Disney and Jeffrey Katzenberg nevertheless had enough faith that they would be able to pull things out that they concocted a truly extraordinary plan for the ...
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• ALT-DISNEY: THE LAND BEFORE TIME (1988)

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  The war for dominance in American animation between Don Bluth and the Walt Disney Company had gotten a bit more intense with their dueling mouse movies in 1986, but that had nothing on the pissing match the two studios engaged in late in 1988. Both companies released a new feature on November 18 of that year, in a ...
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• ALT-DISNEY: AN AMERICAN TAIL (1986)

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  One would be hard-pressed to come up with two films better suited to direct comparison than Disneys The Great Mouse Detective and Don Bluths An American Tail. Both are animated features created by Disney-trained animators. Both are about mice. Both are period pieces set in the late years of the 19th Century. Both ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: TRICKY AND WICKED OF COURSE

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  When Jeffrery Katzenberg was plopped in charge of the Disney Animation Studios in 1984, he didnt only inherit the massively blighted production that was The Black Cauldron - there was another story that had been pushed reasonably far into pre-production before its sister projects cost had forced a temporary ...
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• ALT-DISNEY: THE SECRET OF NIMH (1982)

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  As I have discussed elsewhere, 1979 saw Don Bluth, one of Disneys best and brightest animators, leave the company fold, declaring (and rightfully, if you asked me), that The House That Walt Built was no longer true it its architect, and that if there was to be a proper heir to the Disney spirit of magic and childlike ...
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• DISNEY ANIMATION: IF ONLY THE WORLD WOULDNT GET IN THE WAY

  
  Antagony & Ecstasy — Authority: 476
  With The Rescuers, it seemed that the new blood at the Disney Animation Studios had figured out what was what, and were all pumped up to do something even bigger and better, for with the great majority of the old guard retired or planning on doing so any moment, it was clearly a rich time for the kids to make a real ...
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