The Emperor’s New Clothes (1987)
Mar 22, 2010Fairy-Tale
One of the shabby fairytales produced by Cannon Films. Here the clear and simple moral sting of the Hans Christian Andersen original disappears under buffoonish comedy
Hans Christian Andersen
The Little Mermaid (1989)
Jun 9, 1999Disney Animation/Fairy-Tale
The beginning of the big Disney renaissance of the 1990s. An adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale that is conducted with an enormous degree of energy, colour and good cheer
The Snow Queen (1995)
Nov 5, 2010Animation/Fairy-Tale
Lightweight British animated adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale made for children
The Ugly Duckling (1997)
Jan 27, 2006Animation/Fairy-Tale
Amiable British animated film for young children based on the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale
Fantasia 2000 (1999)
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
The Ugly Duckling (2010)
Jul 14, 2015Claymation/Fairytale
Charming Claymation animated adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale from Russia that manages to be a mordant satire on Communism into the bargain
Frozen (2013)
Nov 30, 2013Disney Animation/Fairytale Adaptation
Disney animated film that supposedly adapts Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, although Andersen wouldn't recognise it. This often feels like a ramshackle assemblage of formula elements rather than the classic it was hailed as
Little Mermaid (2016)
Jul 3, 2017Modernised Fairy-Tale
A modernisation of Hans Christian Andersen's fairytale cast as a hipster romance where the mermaid becomes a stripper, all shot with the gauzy soft focus of a feminine hygiene products commercial
The Little Mermaid (2023)
Aug 5, 2023Disney Live-Action Remake
Disney’s original The Little Mermaid was an enormously fresh film. This is the live-action remake that came out amid much controversy and is inevitably a lesser shadow of the original.