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Entry: The Ultimate Disney Classic Animated Film Guide: 2010-2014 - A87848626
Author: Bluebottle - U43530

The latest in the series looking at Disney animated films.

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Good to see this in Peer Review

I've not seen any of these, so it made interesting reading.

I'm reading this again, and have a few more comments:

"18 years later the tower is discovered by a thief called Flynn Rider who has stolen Rapunzel's rightful crown. Rapunzel will only give him the crown back" - I'm not sure what happens here, that Flynn Rider has the crown then not...

"Eisner's policy " - a word about who Eisner is will help this Entry be self-ccontained.

Footnote 2 has two Mowglis and a Taran instead of a Tarzan?!

In what way has Christopher Robin's appearance been changed? I looked at a couple of pictures on the internet, and think he looks more like a Disney Character now than he did before, although he does look older...

I quite like the Wreck it Ralph App - it provided quite a lot of fun, although Hero's Duty is really difficult, and the race game is hard to control on a tablet without a controller. Sugar Rush is good, though, as the controls work well with the tablet, and Wreck it Ralph reminds me of the good old days of Bonzo etc on the Commodore Vic20

I'm confused about the Pixar section here - Pixar are mentioned at the top as a rival to Disney, but the films at the bottom are co-productions, is that right?

Thanks for your comments.

I've deleted the superfluous reference to Mowgli, but Taran is the main character in 'The Black Cauldron'. 'Tarzan' was a 1990s film and so the character of Tarzan doesn't look at all like the standard 1970s-80s Disney hero.
Personally I think the new-look Christopher Robin looks squished, not as tall and lanky as before, but smaller and all freckles.

Yep, Pixar is a rival to Disney, even though Pixar merged with Disney back in 2006. That's not a contradiction; in the 1960s John Lennon's biggest rival was Paul McCartney yet both were in the Beatles. Pixar is still run as a separate animation studio to Disney. Yet since 'Toy Story', which was the first film that Disney financed Pixar to make, people assume that Pixar films are Disney films, even though all Disney do are fund the films and make a fortune from the merchandising. People would expect to see the Pixar films mentioned, but they're really the subject for their own article. (It would be a potentially very dull read. 'Toy Story is a very good film… Up is a very good film. A good film Wall-E verily is. Guess what? Ratatouille, that's a good film too…' Pixar has only made successful films to date, and though some are weaker than others ('Cars 2') it is much more interesting to read and write about highs and lows than success after success after success.)

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I see you're up to the usual massive projects, BB

If you haven't already, I recommend watching the video of Alan Tudyk (of Firefly fame) voice acting the Mayor of Weselton.

My only nitpick is 'Hundred Aker Wood'. Yes, it's spelt in various ways in various places, but the original wood it's based upon is the Five Hundred Acre Wood, with the normal spelling for 'acre'.

In the map in the beginning of the Winnie-the-Pooh films it is definitely called the 'Hundred Aker Wood'. Yep, it is not the usual spelling of 'Acre', but as that is how it is spelt in the film itself, which must be considered the authority, that's how I've spelt it.

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Fair enough.

Good entry, Bluebottle.

You throw in four Pixar films at the end. Is there an entry elsewhere on these, or will there be? I think Toy Story 3 in particular deserves some detail. It was almost unheard of for a sequel to be as good as the original and Toy Story 2 achieved this. Toy Story 3 again was an outstanding film and such a three-in-a-row is probably unique.

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Word choice, grammar, punctuation and typos:

the kingdom light lanterns in the hope that their princess will return -->
the people of the kingdom light lanterns in the hope that their princess will return

Vladamir -- check the spelling of this. The name is normally Vladimir

fixing the barn door ... after the horse has come home -- the normal phrase is "after the horse has bolted". The metaphor doesn't work with fixing it after the horse has come home, as this is what any sensible person would do.

into a offices --> into offices

(John C. Reilly) --> (John C Reilly) -- house style states that there should be no full stops after initials

Best Original Song for 'Letting Go'. -- shouldn't that be 'Let It Go'?

Mars Needs Moms, a film that cost approximately $150 million to make. Mums, however, felt no need to bring their families to see the film, -- I know we are supposed to use British English, but in this case there is justification for using the term Moms to start the second sentence.

"This is the third stop-motion film Disney have released, all of which had involved Tim Burton, who had also made Corpse Bride (2005) for Warner Bros." -- remove both occurrences of the word "had" here.

Move that apostrophe on "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy".

Please make sure that every footnote ends in a full stop.

Thanks for your comments – I've made changes as suggested.

Most were straight-forward suggestions, only a couple of things need mentioning.

Pixar:
Despite saying above that it would be a potentially dull read, I do intend to write a separate article series about Pixar films – I'm just finishing off the Disney and DreamWorks series first. Pixar are, after all, the most successful animation studio; they have not yet made a film that has flopped. Their standards are consistently high, which isn't to say that some of their films aren't weaker than others, but they are all crafted to a very high standard.
Writing about Pixar is difficult as I'd potentially either sound sickeningly sycophantic by saying how brilliant each film is, or the other extreme is to end up nit-picking over trivia. It is more difficult to write about a studio that has had a string of successes than a studio that's had with more highs and lows, so I'll take my time to think of how to do the entry.

I'll also see what other people think about 'Moms/Mums'. Personally I'd never say/write 'Moms'; it just looks weird. But then I like the fact they say 'Mommy' in the US, 'Mummy' in the UK, 'Mammy' in Ireland and I really hope they say 'Memmy' in, say, New Zealand, 'Mimmy' in Australia and 'Mymmy' in South Africa

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I see what you mean about Pixar. I've just looked at the list of 15 films they have produced, and in my opinion, of the 11 I've seen, 8 were outstanding and one was not bad. I didn't like A Bug's Life or Monsters University.

So any review I did of Pixar would be loaded with superlatives. I think you would just have to confine yourself to statistics - number of Oscars won, box office profit and so on.

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I suppose I'd better finish the last entry in the series and watch the only two Disney animated films I've not seen yet.

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Congratulations!

My family played Disney Trivial Pursuit during the holiday, and everyone was amazed by my knowledge so these Entries are really useful and I look forward to reading the next instalment

I didn't know there was a Disney Trivial Pursuit – next time we meet up, can I play?

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Great idea!