Disneycember

1937

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

He praises the artistry and individual personalities of the dwarves, but pans the uninteresting heroine, villain, prince, and some plot holes. He says that the film's strong emotional feel is why it ultimately works and holds up to this day.
Plot Flaw: He calls this the first animated film, when technically the first animated feature film was El Apóstol.

Fantasia

He declares it his favorite Disney film, as well as one of his favorite films in general, heavily praising the animation, use of classic music, more adult feel, and overall delivery.

1942

Bambi

He praises the artistry, focus on emotion more than character, and strong thematic undertones, feeling that watching a character growing up is more interesting than the usual Hollywood cliches. However, he admits that the cute moments drag on a little and feels that the second half, where Bambi has grown up, is better than the first.

1944

The Three Caballeros

He says it's better than Saludos Amigos, praising the impressive and fast paced animation and better shorts, but feels that the wild energy becomes exhausting (comparing the film to being at a party) and that the segments are better off individually.

1947

Fun and Fancy Free

He again feels that the shorts are better off separate, as there's a lack of connection between the two and neither of them feel very cinematic. He also feels that the live-action transitional sequences into them are weird and don't fit with the two shorts at all.

1949

The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

He feels that it was what Fun and Fancy Free should have been, with two very cinematic and memorable stories that work well together and are loyal to the source material, and is impressed that Disney secretly made the main character (Ichabod) selfish and made the antagonist (Brom Bones) more like a likeable character.
Plot flaw: He mispronounces Winky's name as "Weepie".

1951

Alice in Wonderland

He praises Katherine Beaumont's performance, as well as the Queen of Hearts and overall delivery of the world, but wishes more of the book was used, or at the very least a sequel to it.

1955

Lady and the Tramp

He praises the point of view the film takes, the well paced romance, and avoidance of usual cliches, but admits that nothing is either particularly bad or particularly memorable.

1961

One Hundred and One Dalmatians

He admits that the film's really only for dog lovers, feeling that nothing stands out except the villain, cat, and climax.

1967

The Jungle Book

He praises the villains Shere Khan and Kaa and the song "My own home", but feels everything else is OK. He also wished it followed the original book better.
Plot flaw: He assumes that future Disney films stole animation from this film, when they were actually from the same director, who reused animation from his films as a trademark. He also assumes that Shere Khan was afraid of nothing when his only fear was really fire.

1973

Robin Hood

He enjoys the loyalty to the story, characters, romance, humor, climax, and action scenes, but wishes that Robin Hood's love interest has more screentime.

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

He heavily praises the main character, supporting cast, positive atmosphere, fourth wall jokes, ending, and overall feel of reliving one's childhood. He also says that it's one of the few films that he enjoys more as an adult than he did as a child.

1985

The Black Cauldron

He admits that Taran and Gurgi are annoying, Eilonwy being a princess was unneeded, as she has no proof of being so and the Elmer Bernstein score sounds too much like his work in Ghostbusters, but admits that it's not terrible, praising the creative animation.
Plot flaw: He mispronounces Hen Wen the pig's name "Hen Wig". He also assumes that "The Rescuers" wasn't a huge success, when it was in fact one of the highest grossing films of the 1977.

1988

Oliver and Company

He praises the song "Why Should I Worry?", the animation of the city, Cheech Marin's performance as Tito and the villain's death, but feels that nothing else stood out, and thinks that The Land Before Time, which came out the same time, feels like more of a Disney film than this movie does. He's especially critical of the fact that the film makes the main cast of an Oliver Twist adaptation animals.

1990

The Rescuers Down Under

He feels that it's a huge improvement over the first, praising the intensity, and better characters, action scenes, animation, and villain. He finds it ironic that this action-packed film is constantly overlooked while everyone seems to remember the mundane first film, which also showed in their Rotten Tomatoes scores.
Plot flaw: He mistakes Miss Bianca's voice for Zsa Zsa Gabor instead of her sister, Eva Gabor.

1992

Aladdin

This was his favorite Disney film as a child, but began leaning a little bit more towards Beauty and the Beast & Fantasia as he got older. He still praises the style of the setting, animation, characters, romance, action scenes, and songs, but feels that some of the humor doesn't hold up and also takes note on the semi-modernization that was to be expected from a satire of the 1001 Arabian Nights.
Plot flaw: When he mentions that this film possibly inspired the satirical style of Shrek, he didn't realize that Pirates of the Caribbean veterans Ted Elliott & Terry Rossio (a duo of writers well known for helming both comedic and dark material) had a helping hand in both films with the writing.

1995

Pocahontas

He wishes that the film tried something new with its unoriginal story, and feels that the main characters and overall film are boring, though he admits that the animation is nice and thinks the songs "Colors of the Wind" and "Savages" are both entertaining. He's especially critical by the fact that Percy, Meeko, and Flit don't talk, stating that out of all the Disney films, having things in nature talk would actually make sense here.

1997

Hercules

He declares it as one of Disney's weakest films, and feels that the film destroyed popular interest in 2D animated Disney films, panning the style, story choices, similarities to Aladdin, Superman, and Rocky, & rehashed characterization, though he praises James Woods as Hades.

1999

Tarzan

He feels that the main characters, animation, and several story ideas are great, but pans the songs by Phil Collins as well as Rosie O'Donnell's performance in general, the fact that the film introduces a villain (Sabor) which should have been the main, then replaces it with another (Clayton), and the fact that Clayton is a cliched villain with no real depth.
Plot flaw: He mistakes Sabor the leopard for a cheetah.

Fantasia 2000

He criticizes it for its celebrity appearances but still considers it a good sequel to the original.

Lilo & Stitch

He admits that whilst it is a good movie with great animation, the story involving Lilo and Nani's relationship is done so well that the rest of the film doesn't hold up to it. He admits he would've preferred if the film was solely about Lilo's story.

2004

Home on the Range

He feels that the film fails completely, and ranks up there with Disney's absolute worst, ridiculing the pitifully standard plot, forgettable songs, extremely childish approach with the humor, writing, animation style, & characters, and found the fact that Disney helmed it to begin with alienating. Although he admits that Jennifer Tilly's performance as Grace can be funny.

2009

The Princess and the Frog

He has mixed feelings about the songs, especially from Randy Newman in general, and finds the plot complicating for his tastes, but praises everything else.

2011

Winnie the Pooh

He feels that it holds up as a sequel, praising it for having all the things that made the original so great, but wishes that it was longer and had more stories like the original.
Plot flaw: He assumes it's a sequel when it's actually a reboot.

1995

Toy Story

He praises the film for having a well written story, great characters and has its funny moments. The only criticism is how the physicality of the humans aren't perfect, but excuses it for being the first fully CGI animated film.

1999

Toy Story 2

He applauds it for taking what made the original work and bringing it to a whole new level, with various themes on facing the inevitable and what choices to make, improved CGI animation, and emotional back stories. Although not being a fan of Randy Newman, he praises the song, "When She Loved Me". He also praises the fact the film continues the story from the original instead of simply re-hashing it.
Plot flaw: He stated that A Bugs Life did not grossed as much as Toy Story and the critical repition was mixed when it actully made 3 million dollors more and the crictal repition on rotten tomatos was 92%.

2003

Finding Nemo

He praises the characters, atmosphere, the moral being directed more to adults than children and having more drama in a children's film than comedy.
Plot flaw: He refers to Darla as the dentist's daughter when she is in fact his niece.

2005

Chicken Little

Despite acknowledging its good intentions, some of its effort, and praising the design of the aliens, he criticizes the main characters for being stock, the cruel and mean-spirited nature of the supporting characters (particularly Buck Cluck), the bizzare story, and the confusing pop culture reference jokes.
Plot flaw: He mistakes an anthropomorphic bear for being a dog, and the lawnmower goat for a sheep. He also says that one of the characters is called The Ugly Duckling, but her name is actually Abbey Mallard.

The Wild

Despite taking note on the standard premise, annoying aspects, and obscurity, he praises the creativity of the characters, the villain's backstory, and the jokes (hit-and-miss as they were).
Plot flaw: He assumes the game the animals were playing is called "Sweeping" when in reality the game is called "Curling" and said that Cloak and Camo are geckos when they are chameleons. He also assumes that Ryan leaves the zoo on his own accord when he was actually accidentally shipped away to the wild by humans.

Meet the Robinsons

He feels that it suffers from the same problems as Chicken Little, and criticizes the strange premise, bizarre designs, uncomfortable relationship between the main character and the family, and the terrible pacing due to the film never slowing down or taking a break. However, he gives some praise to some of the characters and humor, as well as the twists (though somewhat predictable) and heavily praises the moral, which he feels redeems the film.

Bolt

He praises the story, voice acting, characters, and cuteness but wanted it to be more funny with more jokes. He says overall it's a decent film.
Plot flaw: He mistakes Rhino the hamster for a guinea pig.

2010

Toy Story 3

He praises the direction the film takes, having expected it after the second film, as well as the well developed villain, great suspense, great drama, plenty of intense scenes, and plenty of funny scenes, but admits to a few nitpicks he had about the barely looked over omission of Bo Peep, the scenes in the Day Care for being a little bit too dark and miserable and for not having the right balance between humor and intensity (by a small margin). He also criticizes the ending as very corny to see Andy giving away his toys individually. In the end, he still considers it a solid conclusion to a solid trilogy, and a great nostalgic film for everyone, but he just personally enjoyed the first two a little bit more.

2012

Brave

Similar to Dinosaur, he praises the look and mystique of the trailer but finds the movie to be cliched and rushed, using every other formula that Disney had done in the past, but admits he likes the mother-daughter relationship (something rarely touched upon in Disney), some of the characters, humor, animation and the third act.

1998

Antz

He praises the design and voices of the characters (with the exception of Christopher Walken as Colonel Cutter), the relatively dark tone and atmosphere, and the scale of the insects.

1988

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

He feels that while everything in the film works, what really makes it memorable is the fact that it was the film every child always wanted to see, with all the animated characters together, which gives anyone who watches it the feeling of being a child again.

2000

Dinosaur

He praises the animation and live action mixing, but feels that the rest of the film is generic and cliched.