thanks to all who responded to plead for imput.

[shadowedge613]

here is the more or less final version of the list. feel free, however, to contuine to argue for your favorites. you might convince me.

1940 Fantasia
1959 Sleeping Beauty
1973 Robin Hood
1991 Beauty and the Beast
1992 Aladdin
1994 The Lion King
2000 The Emperor’s New Groove

Comments

[innocentwater.livejournal.com]

Bugger. Should've seen this first.

What about the Black Cauldron, though? ;_;

Come on, it's in a league of its own. It needs to be shown. Totally agree on Sleeping Beauty and Aladdin though.

[mishakitty78.livejournal.com]

dude. i am SO disappointed in the lack of STITCH representation, here. that movie rocked! here's why:

a. it gave homage (in a very cute and adult way, too) to ELVIS...disney gives homage to the king?! rock.
b. it actually had a non-traditional family - was nice to see disney throw a little love to orphans and single-parent kids
c. the main character (STITCH) was the single most adorablely evile-yet-good creature EVER.
d. the animation was refreshingly different for a disney film. very cult-tiki, which was awesome.
e. alien plinkly cross-dresses. regularly.
f. there are SO many adult themes going on.
g. STITCH is still amazing.

woman, it TOTALLY beats aladdin. i can agree with most of the others - especially fantasia, sleeping beauty, and the lion king...

:P

you may have convinced me

[shadowedge613.livejournal.com]

my first sampleing yeilded little support for Lilo and Stich. (Well, except for one,) but since I have only seen it in spanish, and the tide of support has toatally overwhelmed me i beleive I will be adding Lilo and Stich. (probably cutting The rescuers ( a last minute addition.)

Best Disney animated movies (that aren't already on the list)

[jessikanesis.livejournal.com]

I'm assuming that we're only doing Disney animated movies? Because if it's any animated movies, I have much, much more. Likewise if it can be a non-animated Disney movie.

1955 Lady and the Tramp
Love story that breeches the socioeconomic class of dogs. Sweet spaghetti love scene. Peggy Lee sings a great song.

1988 Oliver & Company
Because Charles Dickens is the shit, and also I love Dodger's opening song. "Why should I worry? Why should I care? I may not have a dime, but I've got street savoir faire."

1990 The Rescuers Down Under
The only Disney sequal that wasn't a huge mistake. Much better than The Rescuers. Mostly because of the giant golden eagle and the mouse who's basically Steve Irwin.

1995 Pocahontas
Mostly everyone just likes the songs "Colors of the Wind" and "Just Around the Riverbend." They're fabulous songs with a green message.

1995 Gargoyles: The Hero's Awaken
It's Gargoyles. It's crack. It's revenge and jalipanios. It's the first five episodes of Disney's Gargoyles, the animated series, stuck together to make a movie. And it works. So well.

1996 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
This is the way Victor Hugo should have written it originally. Now, despite my gargoyle fan-ness, I find these gargoyles to be stupid, but besides the songs that they sing, every song is like a masterpeice unto itself, especially the opening song where Frolo kills Quasi's mother and is going to kill Quasi, except that the Archdecon guilts him out of it at the last minute. "And for the first time in his life of power and control, Frolo felt a twinge of fear for his immortal soul..." The huge magestic chior they used in most of the songs added a lot to it.

1998 Mulan
Diney's first successful cross-dressing feminist movie. Really cool villain.

2002 Lilo & Stitch
For all the reasons that other person said.

And,
2001 Monsters Inc.
The scene where Boo is scared of Sully and running away, and then Sully finally sees himself through the eyes of the children he's been scaring all these years, is heartbreaking. Boo is also just too cute.

Re: Best Disney animated movies (that aren't already on the list)

[jessikanesis.livejournal.com]

Oh, I totally forgot:

Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.

[lemur-cat.livejournal.com]

Looks good to me.

[penchanter.livejournal.com]

I'll put in another vote for Black Cauldron, because I have not seen it yet and because practically everyone whose opinions I value has recommended it to me.

I will also vote for Mulan, but that's just because I've been in a Mulan-mood lately (and I'm mourning my dead video cassette of it).

Awesome list, though, especially the 1973-1994 picks.