Underrated Disney Movies.
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That would be because you never ever hear people talk about it. =)Fischgopf said:
It's a collection of musical shorts.
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Treasure Planet. Its a great movie and one of the few that actually has a mom and not a dad. It's still got the annoying comedy sidekick character that most disney movies around that time had though.
Agreed. Far from a perfect movie, but a lot of fun nonetheless.Zontar said:
Bedknobs and Broomsticks: Seems to have fallen off the map for whatever reason, but I really loved it when I was a kid.
Darby O'Gill and The Little People: One many have never even heard of. Weird one for me, mostly memorable because it terrified me when I was a kid. Scarred for life by a Disney movie, and one made long before I was born. That has to be worth something...
I only saw it once when I was really little but I remember really liking Robin Hood. Another one that I really liked as a kid (and owned on VHS) was Basil, The Great Mouse Detective! Robin Hood I don't remember too well but Mouse Detective was one of the first things that really creeped me out (a movie I saw after Burton's Batman and Batman Returns), mainly because of a plot-line about clockwork mouse decoys that would be used to...either kill or kidnap specific mice. One of them burst the Hell apart while the main antagonist Professor Rattigan was being a creepy asshole and I just remember that scene creeping out child-me but I just couldn't turn away and I freaking loved it as a kid!
edit: If you're interested in Basil, The Great Mouse Detective, I just thought I'd add in that this is a movie that features Vincent Price. Of course, he plays the role of the villain Professor Rattigan.
edit: If you're interested in Basil, The Great Mouse Detective, I just thought I'd add in that this is a movie that features Vincent Price. Of course, he plays the role of the villain Professor Rattigan.
Seconding the Great Mouse Detective. I didn't even know/care who Vincent Price was until I saw that role.
Aladdin and the King of Thieves is always my go-to underrated Disney movie, likely due to the bad reputation of Disney sequels, and Return of Jafar in particular. They learned their lesson for the conclusion of the trilogy though, bringing back Robin Williams and bumping the animation quality back up. In some ways I find it superior to the original. Before he was Gimli Son of Gloin, John Rhys-Davies was kicking butt as the King of Thieves. And competing with Jerry Orbach as... well... 'Persian Wolverine'.
Not sure if Hercules could be considered 'underrated', but I find it far more rewatchable than the aforementioned classics. Probably the only one where three of the main characters (Phil, Meg, Hades) are amusingly rough cynic-type characters, perhaps giving it a bit more of an edge than its peers, and contrasted by Hercules being the eternally-hopeful paragon until his spirit is temporarily broken in the finale:
Aladdin and the King of Thieves is always my go-to underrated Disney movie, likely due to the bad reputation of Disney sequels, and Return of Jafar in particular. They learned their lesson for the conclusion of the trilogy though, bringing back Robin Williams and bumping the animation quality back up. In some ways I find it superior to the original. Before he was Gimli Son of Gloin, John Rhys-Davies was kicking butt as the King of Thieves. And competing with Jerry Orbach as... well... 'Persian Wolverine'.
Not sure if Hercules could be considered 'underrated', but I find it far more rewatchable than the aforementioned classics. Probably the only one where three of the main characters (Phil, Meg, Hades) are amusingly rough cynic-type characters, perhaps giving it a bit more of an edge than its peers, and contrasted by Hercules being the eternally-hopeful paragon until his spirit is temporarily broken in the finale:
I'd say Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Treasure Planet are very underrated... despite their flaws. Oh, and The Emperor's New Groove is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen.
In terms of sequels, Aladdin and the King of Thieves is quite good. I haven't seen Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time yet, but I really need to. From what I hear it's surprisingly enjoyable. Not to mention self-aware.
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Also, The Princess and the Frog deserved better than it got.
In terms of sequels, Aladdin and the King of Thieves is quite good. I haven't seen Cinderella 3: A Twist in Time yet, but I really need to. From what I hear it's surprisingly enjoyable. Not to mention self-aware.
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Also, The Princess and the Frog deserved better than it got.
The Black Cauldron, at the time was the most expensive and most ambitious animated movie Disney had ever made. And it failed miserably. And I actually kind of enjoyed it. They took huge liberties with the source material... yeah, like Disney does with every single story they ever tell (yeah, the hunchback just lives happily ever after.) It was more an effort combine the first and second books of the Prydain Chronicles. And if they had continued the series, the last movie would have been a pretty awesome animated film... a little violent for Disney though.
The Watcher in the Woods. Not animated, a live action horror/suspense movie. Super scary. My mother rented this because it was Disney (so she assumed safe) plus it had a favorite actress of hers, Bettie Davis. I was 7, my cousin was 8. It really got to me, I was actually frightened. My cousin, she was basically traumatized. I can still freak her out by writing backwards on the wall or on glass where she'll see it. She is in her 40's now, and will run screaming. Parents, rent this one for your kids. It will mess them up.
The Watcher in the Woods. Not animated, a live action horror/suspense movie. Super scary. My mother rented this because it was Disney (so she assumed safe) plus it had a favorite actress of hers, Bettie Davis. I was 7, my cousin was 8. It really got to me, I was actually frightened. My cousin, she was basically traumatized. I can still freak her out by writing backwards on the wall or on glass where she'll see it. She is in her 40's now, and will run screaming. Parents, rent this one for your kids. It will mess them up.
I don't know if that counts though. Yeah, it's not Lion King caliber in terms of popularity, but whenever I see anyone talk about it nowadays nobody has anything but good things to say about it. One of those movies that had a resurgence in popularity afterwards I guess.Fox12 said:
OT: I don't think Hercules gets as much credit as it deserves. Sure, as a movie it doesn't really work, the script is full of problems, the plot makes little sense, there's a lot of tonal whiplash and so on. But it has an utterly unique visual design among the Disney canon, it has great songs and a sort of nutty energy propelling it forward, the Hydra is a fantastic example of fusing CG with hand drawn animation (something which creators have problems with TO THIS DAY), James Woods is downright iconic as Hades, and Meg is a unique character in the Disney female pantheon in the sense that she doesn't really fit any one archetype: she's not a princess, a tomboyish warrior, a damsel in distress, a "girls can do it too" badass or a femme fatale. The closest you'd probably describe her is a Punch Clock Villain [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PunchClockVillain] as a love interest. I really like her character for that.
Everyone I know that's seen it loves it. The problem? The vast majority of people I know either haven't seen it, or don't remember it. It doesn't help that it's not as easily marketable as their many pretty princess movies. That tends to happen when your protagonist is malformed, and the main female character is a little more sexually adventurous then your standard Disney princess.bartholen said:
Treasure Planet is the first one that springs to mind. Of all the DAC films I've seen, it takes the #5 spot. It doesn't really do anything all that spectacular or original, and it's outright bonkers in regards to how it handles space travel (asphyxiation? What's that?), but there's something about the film that just works for me. Kind of a greater than the sum of its parts sort of thing.
Outside the DAC, but still Disney, I'd say The Return of Jaffar. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I loved it as a kid. Not nearly as good as its predecessor, but fun in its own right. Never seen King of Thieves though.
Outside the DAC, but still Disney, I'd say The Return of Jaffar. Maybe it's just nostalgia, but I loved it as a kid. Not nearly as good as its predecessor, but fun in its own right. Never seen King of Thieves though.
I wouldn't really call that underrated. Most people agree (myself included) that while not as good as the first, it's a pretty decent sequel.Tanis said:
Um...Fox12 said:
Basically this. If anything, I'd call Hunchback overrated, but only in the sense that I remember the movie, but it made little impact on me at the time, and it's not really a film I consider among Disney's greats. But apparently I'm in the minority.bartholen said:
Aristocats is Disney. As for whether it's underrated...well, it's fine. It's meh. It's okay. It's average. I watched it a lot as a kid, but it doesn't really give me paws now.Xsjadoblayde said:
100% yesZontar said:
Another 100% Yes.Worgen said:
For my own contribution... Big Hero Six.
Newer and more in everyone's mind, so it might seem as if it couldn't be underrated, but it had the misfortune of coming right after Frozen, which is one of the most overrated Disney movies ever. While BH6 is a great movie, its rarely one you'll hear people talk about, and half don't even know its Disney. Its kind of just forgotten, which is a shame for such a colourful, but often grounded movie that tackled some really tough issues in a fairly mature way. It deserves far more attention that it received, even if it isn't outright disliked.
