I know people bash Frozen because it's insanely popular, but I honestly believe it's one of the best Disney musicals right on par with TheLion King and Beauty and the Beast.
I know people bash Frozen because it's insanely popular, but I honestly believe it's one of the best Disney musicals right on par with TheLion King and Beauty and the Beast.
To each his own. I find Frozen to be pretty overrated. The best part of the film is Let it go and then it's pretty much crap after that.
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I honestly think Beauty and the Beast is one of the very few perfect movies in existence. Every single element of it is superb. So that gets my vote. The Lion King, Frozen, Cinderella, Snow White, Tangled, and The Prince of Egypt are also all excellent.
My rankings might be a little controversial but you did say best and not favorite. I ranked more on the musical side and less on the movie side. Thus a lot of movies ended up surprisingly low because of a lack of songs.
1. The Little Mermaid 2. Pocahontas 3. Beauty and the Beast 4. Anastasia
5. Hercules 6. The Hunchback of Notre Dame 7. The Princess and the Frog 8. The Nightmare Before Christmas 9. Snow White 10. Aladdin
Honorable mentions: The Prince of Egypt, The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, Thumbelina, The Swan Princess, Frozen, The Lion King, Cats Don't Dance, Barbie as the Princess and the Pauper
Of course I haven't seen every animated musical. Did anyone catch that Dorothy movie with Lea Michele?
Disney really has the monopoly. I was surprised to see Prince of Egypt on so many lists, I've always found it to be so joyless. Anastasia I mildly enjoyed, but it's such a realistic story and then includes that ridiculous villain and his pet bat. Most early Disney, I'm not a big fan, although I enjoyed Aristocats as a child.
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I don't understand Frozen in some people's list. I know it is a hype, but very overrated and the songs are very uninspired and lame in my opinion. To me, the whole film is a product of "let's put a modern slapstick joke here", "let's put a bombastic song here" because we assume it works, looking at past projects. Also, I don't like the animation style, the characters look like bugs moving in slowmotion.
Edit: Aladdin and Pocahontas are also amongst my favorites, but Aladdin tends to have a little too much modern slapstick humor and Pocahontas' animation is a little off at times.
I was surprised to see Prince of Egypt on so many list
From a technical aspect, I think it's pretty amazing. I've never seen a carton with such amazing animation before, which is why it got ranked high on my top 10. But I really don't like most of the score from it. The opening song and the "If you believe" are great but the rest is mismatched and mediocre. But dang, that animation.
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Another vote for The Little Mermaid from me. Animation was particularly suited to capturing the wonder of moving between the two worlds (land and underwater), for both characters and audience, and the fun possibilities of the 'zero gravity'-esque conditions underwater. For example, I love that transition at the start when the "camera" follows the fish from land to sea. Plus the plot and music and all.
Not to threadjack (much), but do any posters her know of any anime musicals worthy of attention? (I'm talking cartoon film musicals, not live action musicals based on cartoons.) One would think it would be a thriving genre, perhaps, given the popularity of both animation and musicals in Japan. But there are virtually none on my radar, though admittedly I'm pretty much an anime novice. (I know there's a Little Mermaid anime with a single song.)