C- |
*½ |
-1|
Kids & Up*
The last gasp of Disney Animation’s post-Walt malaise before the 1990s
Disney renaissance,
Oliver & Company borrows names and vague situations from
Oliver Twist, but in place of Dickens’s sentiment and Victorian moralizing
Oliver has only a misguided stab at “attitude.”
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B+ |
***½ |
+1|
Kids & Up
As interpreted by Disney and director Wolfgang Reitherman,
The Jungle Book is essentially a coming-of-age parable about carefree childhood and adult responsibility, embodied respectively by Mowgli’s two mentors, Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther (Sebastian Cabot).
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B |
*** |
+1|
Kids & Up
Oo-de-lally! As post-
Sleeping Beauty Disney animated features go,
Robin Hood is a fine entry, better than
The Sword in the Stone or
The Fox and the Hound but not as good as
The Jungle Book or
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.
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A- |
***½ |
+1|
Kids & Up*
In retelling these tales, the Disney animation house
inevitably, yes, Disneyfied Milne’s creations, as it did
everything it touched, from the dwarfs in Snow White to
the satyr in Hercules.
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