An animated film will never win Best Picture, no matter how good it is, and at this point they have been sanitized so much that they aren't even being considered for a nomination.
I honestly don't understand why this movie had to cost slightly less than The Little Mermaid and The Lion King. Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast had a budget of $95 million and $160 million respectively and there was no reason Snow White couldn't have the same budget. And while I don't care...
I'm sure Asha will eventually be inducted into the Princess franchise just like Raya and Merida did and no one cares about these characters or their movies.
They released Return to Neverland and The Jungle Book 2 to theaters (big mistake in my opinion) and had Eisner remained at the company, I'm sure Bambi 2, Cinderella 3, Little Mermaid 3 would have been received a theatrical release as well.
It's happening mostly thanks to how beloved the original is. We should all be happy that the original is as much a classic as The Little Mermaid and Aladdin and receives the same treatment as they did by getting cheap sequels and a remake.
I read that these lines from the movie:
or some other bit at the end were supposedly a parody of a TV commercial that aired back in the day. but now, no one knows the commercial, so no one gets the joke.
I like the songs on Wicked, but I thought Stephen Schwartz' work on Prince of Egypt was superior.
Menken > Schwartz > LMM > Lopezes.
No one comes close to Ashman though.
The Sword in the Stone - has great animation and great humor. Its story is weak though and it just randomly ends, apparently there's a reference to a commercial there that no one seems to remember. It's easily the weakest animated film from Walt's time (I cannot consider the package films as...