Your intro to the Silver Age of Disney animation has arrived! Journey down the rabbit hole with us as we tackle Alice in Wonderland, one of Disney’s most colorful outings that earned it strong scores for aesthetics and iconic characters. But we’ll also talk about the elephant in the room: too many directors, not enough…
Timeline
Robin Hood: A Dark Age Disney Success
Our search continues with our take on Robin Hood, Disney’s anthropomorphic animal spin on the classic English legend. We’ll take a look at why this movie is so subjectively dear to us despite the fact that it’s objectively very surface-level on a lot of our key points. Don’t miss: How the film handles the historical…
Fun and Fancy Free: Disney’s Wartime Struggle
Our first foray into the package films Disney produced during World War II starts with Fun and Fancy Free, which is really two animated shorts stitched together by a Jiminy Cricket-centric narrative set in partially-live-action Hollywood. Don’t miss: The reason that movies like this were essential to Disney’s future success despite their low narrative quality…
Big Hero 6: Disney and Marvel’s Animated Sleeper
Nerds unite! We’re talking about Disney’s first animated comic book movie Big Hero 6, a Revival-era film that is often overshadowed by the enormous Frozen craze only a year before. We’ll talk about why it deserves more love than it gets and why it’s a must-watch for young people learning the true impact of grief. …
Atlantis: Adventure in Disney’s Digital Age
It’s time to talk about one of Disney’s post-Renaissance films that’s become sort of a cult classic, a paradise for both nerds and adventurers alike – Atlantis: The Lost Empire. In this third launch day episode, we discuss what went wrong for this movie and why we hate that more people don’t know about it. …
Mulan: Peak Disney Renaissance in Action
Being ‘90s kids, we had to seek out one of the strongest films of the Disney Renaissance for our second episode. Listen as we discuss Mulan, her strength of character, the music that we still get stuck in our heads decades later, and the stunning animation this movie brings to the table. Don’t miss: Some…
Snow White: In Search of the Fairest Disney Film of All
Where better to start our mission to find the best animated Disney film ever than where it all began? In this episode, we discuss Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and its merits – it’s the gold standard when it comes to one of our categories, but we’ll break it down by our rubric and…
Wingapo, Friend!
Welcome to the Defining Disney Podcast blog! Take a chance to click around our blog and find out more about what we’re doing. Our official launch date is June 10, but that doesn’t mean you can’t connect with us before then! Find our ranking criteria and our chart of movies we’ve graded so far here…
Introducing… Us!
In Western society, particularly in the US, most people are asked at least once in their lifetime, “What is your favorite Disney movie?” From this question, it’s likely a debate will arise as to whose favorite is better – “Are you kidding? Aladdin is way better than Cinderella!” “Yeah, but come on – the music in…