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I recently saw the trailer and I am excited to see it. McFarland, USA is inspired by the 1987 true story about High School coach Jim White. Photo by RikkiNįebruary 20 th will bring Disney’s latest sports film. Photo by RikkiNįrom Lucasfilm, on the big screen now is Strange Magic, released January 23 rd.
#RECENT DISNEY MOVIES OF 2015 MOVIE#
In July Teen Beach Movie 2 will be a continuation with the same characters we saw in Wet Side Story being brought over to the real world. Kristin Chenoweth as Maleficent should be fun. This will be a movie about the children of some of our favorite classic Disney heroes and villains. Due this summer, Disney Channel will have Descendants. With Leigh-Allyn Baker and Laura Marano, it looks like it will be hilarious. The first one will be Bad Hair Day on February 13 th.
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And the latter two, at least, feature female characters that are plucky and charming, if not downright “feminist” by today’s standards-perfect for Disney to update for modern sensibilities.The Disney Channel will have three new original movies. (When is the last time you saw someone taking a picture with a life-sized Ratigan in a Disney theme park, or stumbled upon Bernard and Bianca swag not from the nostalgia den that is Etsy?) They have grand sequences that could be quite engrossing and fun in live-action form-recall, for instance, the thrilling climactic showdown inside of Big Ben in The Great Mouse Detective. Nor have they been endlessly, shamelessly mined for cash in the years since their original releases, as hits like Beauty and the Beast have been. Other, lesser Disney films are ripe for reinterpretation in live-action form, too: The Sword in the Stone, The Great Mouse Detective, The Rescuers-like The Black Cauldron, all of these films have a small batch of defenders, but aren’t memorable enough to the masses to be plagued by nostalgia and high expectations. But it was also a film that had a lot of potential as a genuinely enjoyable adventure, and could still be relevant today: Its dark themes and young-adult target audience are more appropriate for the current post- Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter landscape than they were for the mid-’80s.
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A loose adaptation of the first two books in the fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain, about a young protagonist named Taran, the film suffered from a lethal combination of poor executive decisions, poor creative choices, and poor timing, as Slate’s Dan Kois wrote at the time of its 25 th anniversary. Take The Black Cauldron, an oft-forgotten box office bomb more notable for being the first Disney animated feature to get a PG rating than for any of its aesthetic or storytelling merits. (On the other hand, don’t hold your breath for a Song of the South reinterpretation-as much as we could all use an excuse for a Pharrell Williams cover of “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah,” even Disney would have to admit that this movie is now so anachronistic and reprehensible as to be beyond modern-day repair.)Ī smarter way for Disney to go about its resurrections would be to forget what worked the first time around and take on the films that struck out-whether creatively, commercially, or both-and improve upon them in live-action form.
And there’s truly no good reason to remake the 1991 version of Beauty and the Beast: It was both a critical and commercial hit (becoming the first animated feature nominated for Best Picture), and features arguably the first strong female character in Disney history. By returning to the well of long-standing, beloved animated films like Pinocchio, Disney lends credence to the concern that it only wants to make blockbusters without any interest in taking creative “risks.” Sure, the recent remakes of Cinderella and Maleficenthave aimed for a sort of revisionist-feminist storytelling-“Ella is neither a martyr or a doormat,” Slate’s Katy Waldman wrote in her positive review of the former-but they’re still retreads of iconic works that were successful with audiences and critics in their original incarnations.
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