As someone who recently fell in love with a semi-coherent documentary of old film footage soundtracked to voiceover ramblings, you’d think this one in the same genre might also do it for me.
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I don’t have too much experience with the modern-retro Mickey Mouse shorts from the late 2010s, so it was enlightening to see it in full bloom for a 20 minute special.
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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The DUFF (2015)
I subscribe to the theory that much of a romantic comedy’s ultimate success or failure comes down to the cast even more than the script.
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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.