For how cheap and rushed it should feel, given that it’s a 50-minute special advertising a theme park attraction, Muppets Haunted Mansion is surprisingly well-realized.
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Dumbo (1941)
In many ways, Dumbo feels like it should have been the first Disney animated feature.
This week, I watched a whole bunch of Legend of Sleepy Hollow adaptations for an upcoming episode of The Goods: A Film Podcast, including this 1999 Hallmark made-for-TV flick.
First, if you are expecting an adaptation with even a glimmer of fidelity to the source story, you will be disappointed.
It’s tough to think of many other movies that are more cheerful than this one — it’s a movie where it’s easy to have a smile on your face during literally the entire duration without really realizing it.
Even when you’re a kid, you just know that this movie looks different from classic early Disney, even if you can’t put a finger on it:
Here we have two half-hour literary adaptations of beloved works, both charming and well-animated and lively, but with almost no reason to be packaged together.
Despite suffering through the nightmarishly bad Belle’s Magical World the previous day, my daughters were up for still more Beauty and the Beast content last night, so we streamed The Enchanted Christmas.
My girls wanted to see more Beauty and the Beast after we enjoyed the animated classic last week. So I pulled this up on Disney+ (not realizing the Christmas one is the first proper midquel).
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Reservoir Dogs (1992)
I know a lot of the value of this movie is the influence it brought on indie films: