The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. Most of what I said in my last post about Toy Story 2 carries over to Ratatouille, with the caveat that the theoretical in this movie comes out more strongly, and Ratatouille cuts out a lot of the silliness that Toy Story 2 didn’t benefit… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 10-6
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. If Alice is here for a reason, it’s sheer trippiness. Sure, it’s not Jodorowsky, but it’s pretty good for a Disney movie produced in the same year as A Place in the Sun and A Streetcar Named Desire. The film knows… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 20-16
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. The great romantic comedy of 1977 was never Annie Hall, but The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh. Let’s see Alvy Singer love himself as much as Pooh loves pots of honey during the middle of a flash flood. (“What I… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 25-21
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. Somewhere towards the end of this movie, I had to level with myself. I was laughing my butt off at basically everything Jack-Jack did, but as the movie decided to get closer to solving its plot and further away… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 45-41
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. A fear of what it means to grow old is at the heart of a number of Pixar’s better movies: Toy Story 2 stands alone on this thematic promontory, but there’s applause to be shared for movies like Up or Toy Story 3 or The Incredibles,… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 60-56
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. Is The Three Caballeros so superior to Saludos Amigos? Not by so much, really, although it gets a lift from its more smoothly integrated human-animated scenes. But The Three Caballeros does have the largest collection of psycho birds before Hitchcock. Ze Carioca… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 70-66
The landing page, with rationale and links to other posts in this series, can be found here. I don’t really have a lot to say about Chicken Little. It’s noteworthy, in my mind, for being one of the worst movies I have ever come across, in terms of quality the inoffensive animated corollary to Crash. It… Read More Disney/Pixar Rankings: 77-71
Dir. Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske. Starring Kathryn Beaumont, Ed Wynn, Verna Felton The story of Alice is one of the most frequently visited in English-language cinema, and the problem of how to represent the immense strangeness of her Wonderland is just about as vexing. How does one adequately represent the world beyond the… Read More Alice in Wonderland (1951)
You can read up on the basis for this series here, and also find links to other posts in the series. Movies I’ve reviewed on this site have a link in the title which you can follow to read my full review. 5) Fantasia (1940), directed by (deep breath) Samuel Armstrong, James Algar, Bill Roberts, Paul… Read More 100 Exceptional American Movies in 10 Genres: Sprawling, 5-1
Seeing Things Secondhand 