Tag: disney

While the first film twisted Sleeping Beauty lore into something unique, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil boils over into a modern political debate.

While still producing a pure fantasy romance, there's an honesty to Princess and the Frog's fable that's often missing in Disney animation.

While familiar, safe, and even predictable in its method, Rise of Skywalker does what's needed to close a saga concerned with totalitarians and the families who fight back.

Bringing Christmas spirit to a cold, corporate world, The Santa Clause brings gooey sentimentality to a family story, but that works in context.

With more energy and brazen story ideas, Santa Clause 2 isn't a great movie, but embraces escapism to tell a unique Christmas tale.

The better of the two sequels, The Santa Clause 3 brings the series' themes to a proper close, even if the humor only rises to a sitcom level.

Between Genius and Sanity Dr. Hans Reinhardt spent 20 years living with robots when an astronaut crew finds his spaceship hovering near a black hole. In that time, Reinhardt …

See No Evil Intolerance produces a lasting concussive force. That’s why Maleficent does what she does, or so goes this tweaked fairy tale retelling. Yes, Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) curses …

Miyazaki’s Animated Masterpiece The lush, otherworldly animation of Studio Ghibli meets fables pulled from Japanese folklore in the amazing Spirited Away. Starring a plucky young girl surviving fantastical adventures …

Mediocre King “Long live the king,” says villain Scar to his brother Mufasa, seconds before Mufasa falls to his death. It’s a key moment in The Lion King, both …

Moderately Strong Joe Young The opening of 1998’s Mighty Joe Young remake clearly comes from Disney. You can tell because it’s not one but two dead mothers. That’s gutsy …

Plush Rush For the fourth time, the characters of Toy Story face abandonment. They end up lost, accidentally separated from their kid, and spend the rest of Toy Story …