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Tangled vs. The Fall of Disney Animation
31, May 2011
by Nigel Druitt
Tangled, a retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale from Walt Disney Animation Studios, did quite well for itself this past holiday season. A hit with both critics and audiences alike, it did well at the box office (earning nearly $200 million domestically, and – in its second weekend of release – dethroning Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 as box office champ). It did quite well in disc sales, too, raking in over $80 million in its first week of release. It’s ranked in the Top 20 for 2010 on Flickchart, with a healthy 58% win percentage, appearing in 48 users’ individual Top 20 lists. It’s quite charming, hearkening back to the glory days of Disney princesses, and I found it to be thoroughly entertaining.
But am I the only one who has a problem with this?
- In: User Showcase
- Tags: 1995, 2004, 2009, Aladdin, animation, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Beauty and the Beast, Brother Bear, Cars, Chicken Little, Fantasia 2000, Home on the Range, John Lasseter, John Musker, Lilo & Stitch, Pixar, Ron Clements, Tangled, The Emperor's New Groove, The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Frog, Toy Story, Treasure Planet, Walt Disney
by Nigel Druitt
In This Corner…
Back in the days before 1995, before Pixar came along and ruined everything, the Walt Disney Studio was responsible for the greatest animated films of all time. In 1937, Walt Disney changed the face of cinema forever with the first feature-length animated film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Every few years heralded the advent of a new Disney masterpiece, but following The Jungle Book in 1967 (the final animated film Walt himself oversaw before his death), Disney animation hit a bit of a slump.
It wasn’t until 1989, with the success of The Little Mermaid, that the studio’s second Golden Age of animation arrived, and it lasted until CGI (and the obvious storytelling prowess of Pixar Studios) moved in and brutally kicked traditional hand-drawn animation out of the cinemas. It was a magic age that brought us films the likes of Aladdin, Mulan and Tarzan, but there were two films that stood head and shoulders above the rest.
Both were films that told classic stories in a way that only Disney animation could achieve. Both reveled in critical and box office success. (One was able to claim for nine years that it was the highest-grossing animated movie of all time; the other was able to claim for 19 years that it was the only animated movie to ever be nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award–until an expansion of the category to ten nominees and this film came along.) And both were unquestionably among the most brilliant jewels in Disney’s animation crown. But this, folks, is Flickchart, and there’s only one question to ask: Which movie is better? Find out in this edition of Reel Rumbles (now Super-Sized, with a special Bonus Round!): The Lion King vs. Beauty and the Beast.
- In: Reel Rumbles
- Tags: 1937, 1967, 1989, 1991, 1994, 1995, 1996, 2001, 2003, 2006, Aladdin, Alan Menken, Angela Lansbury, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Beauty and the Beast, David Ogden Stiers, eddie murphy, Elton John, Ernie Sabella, fairy tale, film, films, Flickchart, Gary Trousdale, Hamlet, Hans Zimmer, Howard Ashman, James Earl Jones, Jeremy Irons, Jerry Orbach, Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Kirk Wise, Linda Hamilton, Matthew Broderick, movies, Mulan, Nathan Lane, Open Season, Paige O'Hara, Pirates of the Caribbean, Pixar, Reel Rumbles, Rob Minkoff, Robby Benson, Robert Guillaume, Roger Allers, Ron Perlman, Rowan Atkinson, Shakespeare, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Tarzan, The Haunted Mansion, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, The Little Mermaid, Tim Rice, Walt Disney