Hello all — it’s a couple weeks overdue, but here is a podcast review of How to Train Your Dragon 2 featuring me (Dan) and the ever-enlightening Kevin from Taestful Reviews. Kevin and I have been slowly working on a series called Animation Evaluation in which we go through the recent works of the major…
Dan: While I was searching for images for a post I was writing for this site, I stumbled upon a blog called Taestful Reviews. I read through several of the reviews on the site, which focuses on animation, and really liked the voice of the writer, Kevin Tae. I reached out to him to see…
The Little Mermaid (1989) Kevin: Frozen is largely credited for creatively twisting Disney princess tropes, but for me, The Little Mermaid did it better. Although it returned to the animation Disney was known for in the golden days, The Little Mermaid should be known for innovating the Disney fairytale formula. Eric and Ariel fall in…
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I could have included this in my Disney Renaissance post, but I chose to give A Goofy Movie it’s own post — ranked directly ahead of the other Disney Renaissance movies. It’s not because A Goofy Movie is BETTER than the other Disney movies. I can objectively accept that Beauty and the Beast has more…
Ah, “Disney Movies” — a staple of the childhood of pretty much any American child from the 1990s. These animated films — mostly Broadway-inspired musicals — produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios (née Walt Disney Feature Animation) became one of the most trusted brands in all of cinema thanks to a fantastic run of films…
There are few things we at Earn This love more than a good musical — particularly a well-animated or -choreagraphed Disney musical. “Let It Go” has yet to thaw from the Billboard Top 10, and we’re creeping up on the 25th anniversary of The Little Mermaid, a film that launched a thousand Buzzfeed “only 90s kids” articles.…
This is an entry in the Pokemon Movies Retrospective Movie #6: Jirachi – Wish Maker “Jirachi will only be awake for the seven days the Millennium Comet is visible. To protect itself during this time, they say it selects a kindhearted young boy to be its partner.” – Butler (Japanese dub) Jirachi – Wish Maker, 「七夜の願い星 ジラーチ」(lit.…
I’m in the camp that Frozen is entertaining if a tad overrated. People are coming out of the woodwork to support the movie, which won two Academy Awards, two Annies, and a slew of other awards. I’ve seen it twice now, once in theater and once in our living room, and I quite enjoy it……
It’s almost unreal how good animated movies have been the past ten years. It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that some individual years have had a better slate of animated movies than entire previous decades have. It’s almost an embarrassment of riches. So where have these films come from? A variety of places. Some…