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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Rating: ★★★★★
Oct 19, 2002Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale
The first full-length animated film ever made and the beginning of the Disney tradition. A superlative effort, full of an adorable anthropomorphism where Disney instinctively grasps all the elements of the formula
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Pinocchio (1940)

Pinocchio (1940)
Rating: ★★★★★
Jul 8, 2005Disney Animation/Living Puppet Boy
One of the great Disney animated classics from the still unsurpassed era between 1937-42. The studio were at the peak of their game artistically and the film embodies a near-perfect sense of childlike innocence
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Fantasia (1940)

Fantasia (1940)
Rating: ★★★★★
Jul 15, 2002Disney Animation and Music Anthology
The best animated film Disney ever made, created as a work of art with animation set to classical music. The segments vary between abstraction, comic eccentricity and evocations of nightmare. The results are magical.
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Dumbo (1941)

Dumbo (1941)
Rating: ★★★★★
Nov 20, 2001Disney Animation/Flying Elephant
One of the classic films from Disney's Golden Age, a beautiful piece of anthropomorphism in the tale of an ungainly elephant that flies with its oversized ears. Considered controversial in more recent years.
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Bambi (1942)

Bambi (1942)
Rating: ★★★★★
Jun 26, 1999Disney Animation/Talking Animals
One of the unquestionable classics from Disney's Golden Age of animation between 1939 and 1942. This is an absolute delight for its unalloyed innocence and tragically affecting emotions
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Song of the South (1946)

Song of the South (1946)
Rating: ★★★½
Dec 20, 1999African-American Tall Tales/Disney Animation
Disney film that is difficult to see these days due to its controversial treatments of race issues. Controversies aside, this is undeniably likeable, in particular in its telling a series of tall tales and finding a folk vernacular
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Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Alice in Wonderland (1951)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 7, 2003Disney Animation/Alice in Wonderland Adaptation
Disney's animated adaptation is usually hated by Lewis Carroll purists for its free and easy treatment of the story but for everyone else comes with a splendidly demented visual absurdism
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
Rating: ★★★★
Mar 18, 2003Victorian Submarine Inventor/Jules Verne Adaptation
Disney's adaptation of Jules Verne's novel is a lavishly produced period adventure. This became the definitive version of the book and inspired a string of other period-set Verne adaptations over the next decade
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Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)

Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)
Rating: ★★★★
Jan 6, 2002Disney Leprechaun Film
This leprechaun fantasy is one of the best and most underrated live-action films Disney ever made. The effects are at a peak of the era and the film plays with a sublime charm that proves absolutely winning
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The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)

The Absent-Minded Professor (1961)
Rating: ★★★★
Apr 9, 1999Anti-Gravity Rubber/Disney Comedy
One of the inspired delights from Disney's live-action era, a hit that became the template for their subsequent live-action films. The scenes with flying vehicles and basketball teams are entirely charming.
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In Search of the Castaways (1962)

In Search of the Castaways (1962)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 2, 2006Jules Verne Adventure
Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea created a fad for Jules Verne adaptations throughout the 1950s/60s. Disney returned to Verne in this colourfully absurd adventure with children on a globe-spanning hunt for their missing father
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)

The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Rating: ★★
Nov 5, 2002Teen With a Computer Brain/Disney Comedy
One of a spate of Disney live-action comedies that was successful enough that it spawned two sequels. A young Kurt Russell is a college student who gets the contents of a computer accidentally transferred into his head
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The Aristo Cats (1970)

The Aristo Cats (1970)
Rating: ★★★½
May 2, 2006Disney Animation/Talking Animals
One of the better animated films made by Disney during the lean years between Walt’s death in 1966 and the studio’s return to form in the late 1980s. Not the best but it recaptures some of the classic charms of works like Lady and the Tramp
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Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)

Unidentified Flying Oddball (1979)
Rating: ★★
Dec 23, 2002Astronaut in King Arthur's Court/Disney Comedy
A Disney version of Mark Twain's A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court where the story of a man thrown back in time to Camelot is dragged into the era of Star Wars with the addition of space shuttles and androids
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The Black Hole (1979)

The Black Hole (1979)
Rating: ★★
Jan 3, 2000Lost Spaceship/Mad Scientist/Journey into a Black Hole
Disney's attempt to join the post-Star Wars SF boom proved a flop that flounders in bad writing and ponderous pretensions. On the other hand, it is almost worth watching for the stunning design and effects
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The Fox and the Hound (1981)

The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Rating: ★★★
Oct 31, 2005Disney Animation/Talking Animals
Disney animated film from the fallow period of the 1970s/early 80s. This concerns the friendship between a talking fox and a hound tempered by the knowledge they will grow into enemies. An okay effort if not up the heights of the studio's classics
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Tron (1982)

Tron (1982)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 18, 2002Journey into Cyberspace
A flop in its day, nobody at the time saw how revolutionary this was in that it predicted the idea of cyberspace and the internet. The design of the world inside the computer all in candy apple colours and geometric shapes is extraordinary
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Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
Rating: ★★★★
Feb 2, 2001Sinister Circus/Ray Bradbury Adaptation
Adaptation of the Ray Bradbury novel about a sinister circus come to town and one of the films that get Bradbury right principally because Bradbury himself wrote the script
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Flight of the Navigator (1986)

Flight of the Navigator (1986)
Rating: ★★★
Aug 17, 2002Alien-Abducted Child Returns
Smart and intelligent Disney film where Joey Cramer play a kid who goes missing and reappears some years later unaged, only to realise he has been abducted by aliens and can control a spaceship
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The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Rating: ★★★★
Nov 24, 2002Disney Animation/Mouse Sherlock Holmes
One of the most delightful films produced during the 1960s-80s lean years of Disney animation. This was not a success but delivers a film of winning charms about a mouse equivalent of Sherlock Holmes
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Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989)
Rating: ★★★★
Feb 15, 2001Miniaturised Backyard Adventures
A delightful Disney film about the adventures of a group of kids who are accidentally miniaturised and have to make their way across a now giant-sized backyard. The effects are top-notch and the film pure and unabashed fun
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Beauty and the Beast (1991)

Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Rating: ★★★★
Jul 7, 2000Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale
The start of the 90s renaissance of Disney animation, a beautifully made adaptation of the fairytale that hearkens back to the Disney Golden Age. The only animated film nominated for an Academy Award Best Picture
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Pocahontas (1995)

Pocahontas (1995)
Rating: ★★
Nov 8, 2001Disney Animation/Historical Meeting Between English & Native Americans
Disney bases an animated film on the historical character but warps the story considerably. It feels that this is a Disney animated film made more to adhere to Political Correctness than it is a good one
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James and the Giant Peach (1996)

James and the Giant Peach (1996)
Rating: ★★★★
Dec 1, 2000Fantastical Journey/Stop-Motion Animation/Roald Dahl Adaptation
Henry Selick's follow-up to The Nightmare Before Christmas, a Roald Dahl adaptation filled with enormous visual creativity as a boy and several talking insects set forth on a sea journey in a giant peach
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101 Dalmatians (1996)

101 Dalmatians (1996)
Rating: ★★
Nov 22, 2001Live-Action Disney Remake/Dognapping Villainness
This live-action remake of the classic Disney animated film benefits from Glenn Close chewing scenery in grand style as Cruella De Ville but the latter half essentially degenerates into no more than a series of Home Alone-styled slapstick violence scenes
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Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)

Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 31, 1998Disney Animation/Pocahontas Goes to England
One of the better among the cheap video-released sequels to their animated films Disney released during the 1990s/2000s, this actually works better than the original
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Inspector Gadget (1999)

Inspector Gadget (1999)
Rating: ★★½
Jul 27, 1999Cyborg Cop/Cartoon in Live-Action
A live-action adaptation of the popular animated series, one of the spate of such films made after the live-action The Flintstones. Amiably silly and frequently slapstick fun that proves to be exactly what one expects of it
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Tarzan (1999)

Tarzan (1999)
Rating: ★★★½
Nov 6, 2012Jungle Hero/Disney Animation
This Disney animated adaptation treats the Edgar Rice Burroughs novel with surprising respect and faithfulness for the most part where the addition of talking animals even works for it. Fun and with a great deal of creative energy, one of the better films from the 90s Disney renaissance
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Fantasia 2000 (1999)

Fantasia 2000 (1999)
Rating: ★★
Jan 3, 2000Disney Animation and Music Anthology
Disney's sequel to Fantasia comes weighted with a sense of its own self-importance - the first theatrical release of the new millennium. However, it fails to produce much that has the stature of the original
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The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)

The Emperor’s New Groove (2000)
Rating: ★★★
Dec 15, 2000Disney Animation/Man Transformed into a Llama
One of the head-scratching animated oddities produced by Disney during the 2000s. Not unlikeable, the story concerns a self-centered Aztec emperor who is transformed into a llama
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