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blueflame724 Since: May, 2010
#1: Jun 20th 2012 at 12:48:49 AM

Considered Disney's most successful director duo in animated films(with Great Mouse Detective, Mermaid, Aladdin, Hercules, Treasure Planet and PATF). Some are known for a more comedic bent with some Looney Tunes influence(Aladdin), while others are just great fairy tales.

What do you consider your favorite or what do you consider the best of their films?

Of the ones I've seen(which excludes TP), I'd say GMD, and Aladdin.

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Shota Since: Oct, 2010 Relationship Status: Dancing with myself
#2: Jun 20th 2012 at 8:45:39 PM

Common sense would say The Little Mermaid.

But I'm not a common person, so I say Aladdin.

blueflame724 Since: May, 2010
#3: Jun 21st 2012 at 1:46:54 AM

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Well Little Mermaid is considered by some to be overrated(overshadowed All Dogs Go To Heaven, is considered the film which started the Disney Renaissance, is one of the iconic fairy tales, etc.).

I still like the movie though.

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odadune Since: Apr, 2012
#4: Jun 21st 2012 at 9:38:14 AM

Little Mermaid probably holds together the best as a film, but I find the main character annoying. Aladdin is probably the the second-best constructed of their films, but I find the hero AND the main comic sidekick annoying. So those two films are filed under "respect them, don't love them."

Treasure Planet has a great visual aesthetic and a great take on the ship's captain, but Jim's boring, the other good guys are boring, and Silver is charmless and defanged with an unmemorable character design, so it fails pretty dramatically as a Treasure Island adaptation. I might buy it on bluray just cuz it's so pretty though.

Princess and the Frog: I love the period and the setting, and nearly everything after the main characters meet Ray is great, but the heroine's such a killjoy early on, and the animation's painfully weak in spots, so I'm a bit ambivalent about the film overall. (Walt would have beaten the animators in charge of the gator attack scene with a STICK).

Hercules: saw it in the past year or so, thought it held up better than I remembered. Very charming, even the hero.

Great Mouse Detective: sentimental favorite, because I saw it early in life. I'm not sure it holds together that well as a film (plot, tonal shifts), but it's got a great set of characters, great gaslight/semi-steampunk aesthetic, and it's never boring.

edited 21st Jun '12 9:40:46 AM by odadune

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