Just asking because there seems to be the mutual consensus that the older movies (or everything before 2010 to be fair) was better than recent ones
.... And to be honest I kinda agree
What's in your opinion the best Disney movie?
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Oh wait
I love this movie. Yzma is my all time favorite Disney villain.
Was she scary beyond all reason? Oh yeah
Emperor’s New Groove and Emperors New School feel like such absolute COMFORT watches.
Every other show or movie feels like I’m watching from the sidelines, but these feel like i’m in on it. It’s so down-to-earth, chill, relatable, naturally funny, and so strangely cozy.
Even when the stakes are high, all the interactions and scenes always keep them very fun and calming throughout
It’s a top three movie for me for sure
Yesssss
I was going to say either this or Anastasia, so I'm glad to see this here!
I tell people, from a plot standpoint, it is not the best. From a humor and enjoyability scale, no other Disney is movie comes close. So if your standard for deciding is based solely on which movie do you want to watch, This is it.
This is probably my second favorite. I placed B&B at the top because it deals with more "serious" subject matter and has a stronger moral lesson, imo.
OG Beauty and the Beast.
It was the first movie I saw in theatres as a kid.
That was my first movie in theaters too!
Absolutely! Beauty and the Beast holds a special place in many people's hearts. It's a timeless classic that captures the magic of Disney like no other.
I love every moment in Tangled. The songs are so damn good!
Sooooo damn good!!!!! I’ve Got a Dream 🎵
I really really love Moana, but the original Lion King is a close second.
Supposedly I grew up watching Disney movies, but I have no memory of them. I've always preferred Pixar
Lilo and Stitch
It’s a MASTERPIECE.
The Little Mermaid. Ursula is by far the best villain in all of Disney. She's not cruel or vindictive, she's just conducting business.
It was my birthday opening weekend for that. I think I was 5 or 6 and had my birthday party at the theatre. It was sooooo hyped! They were throwing T-shirts to the crowd and everything.
It was an incredible experience
That’s my favourite. The best songs, villain, still quote/sing it. I flooded my parents’ bathroom and caused water damage on the floor below because I was recreating the splashing waves on the rock scene while I was in the bath
Aladdin. I've probably seen that movie 784 times thanks to my kid and I'd still sit down and watch it today
Robin William's performance was incredible
Watched the remake with Will Smith and I just wished it was Robin the whole time.
Aladdin was the movie I watched nearly every day when I was a child. The sound of rewinding the VHS is still so clear in my mind.
It's still my favorite Disney movie to this day!
I need to find a copy with the original audio, before they censored the jokes people thought were offensive.
OG lion king
And Lion King still has one of the most memorable original soundtracks in any movie
Elton John killed it 🔥
And hans zimmer
Yeah it’s a tough call all around but Lion King might top them all
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
That has such as dark vibe along with Bernando and Bianca
Animated Robin Hood from 1973.
Oodalally oodallally golly what a day!
I watch it for the plot.
The plot: A ridiculously handsome fox
I loved this movie!
Tarzan and Mulan
Zootopia
My favorite part for this movie is the shots thrown at the DMV 🤣
A kids movie that tackles adult topics like the mafia, racism and drugs! bullying was nothing in comparison. I love it
Good one. We rewatch it every couple of years.
Oh shit, this was a Disney film?
Moana
Sleeping Beauty from 1959 is dazzling, one of the most beautiful things put on screen.
The music is timeless too
Well it’s Tchaikovsky.
Well damn - the more you know!
It is indeed. I appreciate you for reminding us.
Yes. It’s not my favorite Disney movie (it is top 5, however) but I think it’s Walt’s masterpiece. Everything about it is perfect.
Agreed. Walt firing on all cylinders.
When Disney+ came out, my gf and I started watching the movies in order and yeah, this was my favorite. Its apparently "underrated" cause it wasn't as successful in the box office as others before it.
And the reviews at the time were mixed as well, apparently. I’m happy that it finally received the appreciation it richly deserves.
(Btw, the thought of you watching all those Disney films together with your gf is a happy, charming image. Hope the two of you had a lovely time.)
It was great! Though we're not together anymore lol, we remain friends/neighbors
I watched Fantasia again today for the first time in about five years. It still holds up, even with the replaced narrator and the poor quality sound. The Rite of Spring section especially must've really set people off back when it first came out. I've learned a lot about music theory recently (or at least a lot more than I used to know), and it is so harmonically dissonant and rhythmically unsettling, so modern. Disney was really trying to make a piece of art for the people and not just sell a product.
I guess most ppl don't like hippos and gators dancing ballet.
It's a masterpiece.
No other animated film come close
Mid 40's male here. My favorites are Moana and Wreck it Ralph.
Just wait till they release the cross-over sequel, Ralph Wrecks Moana.
not sure that's a kids movie....
I'm a huge fan of Moana and Encanto. But out of the older Disney movies id say who framed Roger rabbit and marry poppins are my favorite. And the dalmatian movies (101 and 102 lol) I'm only a fan of moana and encanto for the newer movies. I could rewatch every old Disney movie out there and still love them all lol
The Jungle Book
HEY!
De-zop-ba-ronie
Hap-da-dee-ba-lat
Da-dat-dat-non
Hey, a-baby-dot-doo
Zaba-doo-doo-day-doo-bop
Doo-boo-doo-day, ze-bonz
Za-bop-bop-bobby
princess and the frog!!!!
yo same, i looove the music!
The Little Mermaid is my favorite Disney movie ever and I don’t even know what is in 2nd place.
My favorite is Jungle Book.
The best? Lion King.
Snow White and Mulan are my favorite Disney Princesses.
Lion King is probably the best movie from Disney.
Enchanted
So many stellar movies. As a kid, Aristocats had me enthralled and laughing.
I adore Aristocats, especially scat cat and the twins.
Lion king, lady and the tramp, oliver and company and the lizzie mcguire movie.
For me it goes: lion king, Aladdin, Mulan, Hercules, Tarzan
For Pixar: Nemo, toy story are my tops.
Buzz losing his mind in Andy's house, Timon and pumba doing the hula, are my all-time favourite scenes that still make me lol after the thousandth time
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Cinderella
Love the music so much and everything the nice day and do 😀
Mulan tbh shit slaps, and not the live action one 💀
Would you like to stay for dinner..? … Would you like to stay forever
Atlantis. Good characters, good story, hot women.
Mary Poppins
Mary Poppins or The Lion King or Aladdin
Bed knobs and broomsticks
Love that movie!
Atlantis for me. I'm obsessed.
Lion King 🌝
Big hero
Hercules. My go to comfort movie when i’m hungover
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
My absolute favorite, hands down, is the 1991 animated “Beauty And The Beast”
The Rescuers (1977), and I'm not even that old.
Mulan was one of my favorites, also Pocahontas
Toy Story
Princess and the frog.
It's the only Disney film to emphasise hard work over marrying into riches
As far as Pixar goes, I'm a die-hard Incredibles fan (both movies were cool; I can't pick which one's better, so don't ask and don't pick on me for liking both equally). I love that the characters were quite relatable (the fact that one of them was voiced by a favorite historian of mine is an added plus).
When it comes down to regular Disney, however, that's a tricky one. I'd say a cross between Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
I ❤️ Bed-Knobs and Broomsticks
Fantasia
I loved The Road to El Dorado .
My apologies for correcting but wasn’t it Dreamworks who made that one?
You’re probably right - I’m 40 and haven’t watched it since I was very young and we had a shelf full of VhS tapes , I always assumed it was Disney because it was mixed in with the others - good catch though :)
Lion King, Mulan, and Hunchback - all great, with fantastic songs (Hellfire is the best Disney song hands-down and I will die on this hill).
So many good ones out there though. Emperor's New Groove is hysterical, Toy Story was iconic, Incredibles, Atlantis, Moana, Little Mermaid..
Please select a hill close to, but not attached to, mine.
I'll make a man out of you. Otherwise, yes I'll cover your flanks on your hill.
I will help defend your hill as it is a worthy one.
My personal favorite is The Sword in the Stone. It still makes me laugh and I quote it often.
Look, I’m going to say it: Frozen is correctly rated, not overrated, you’re all just understandably sick of it. Do you have any idea how technically difficult all that snow was? The songs are incredible as evidenced by their longevity. There’s a reason everyone went fucking insane on it for so long, it is up as a very strong contender. Otherwise I would say likely Beauty and the Beast, the second and unfortunately last film driven by Howard Ashman’s lyrics, I think when most people think ‘Disney’ or ‘Disney princess’, they’re thinking of Belle and Beast dancing in that ballroom.
Nah! Snow schmow. It's shit.
You disliking something doesn’t make it bad :)
Live action version of Alice in wonderland
Oh geez I love them all
Fox and the Hound
This was a heart breaking movie though.
I mean the reason I think it's Disney's best movie is because it's not an overtly happy one. Even at its ending.
It's got some very real life difficult lessons.
The overarching theme being that you lose your innocence that you had as a child and when you get older you realize that life is messy and not everybody is going to be able to get along or be friends.
It also deals with grief, letting things go.
It also has what I believe to be the most underrated antagonist/villain character development in Disney.
Amos Slade wouldn't have hesitated to kill the fox at the beginning of the movie but at the end of the movie he sees the dog protect the fox, The dog who just saved his life. And he gains compassion realizing that he doesn't have to be the hunter all the time.
The Lion King 🦁
Coco
The Little Mermaid. It was so revolutionary as a movie. Now we just see it as any other princess movie, but it was the movie that kicked off the renaissance. It was the first Disney musical movie, the movies before it might have a character sing here and there but THIS was a musical. The execution of it was fantastic as well, I mean, who would expect an octopus drag queen to be the main villain of the movie? Since I loved it so much I was terrified of the live action being butchered. And well… it wasn’t great. I wish the live action was closer to the original because it just felt so empty. If a sea creature wasn’t a main character it was just a prop, unlike the animated movie where everyone was so full of life.
I wish the live action wasn't an adaptation but a spin-off
Yeah that would have been cool. It would have been interesting to see more elements from the original story as well, like her grandmother or the sea foam. A part of the original story that always sort of stuck with me is the garden. They have all the colorful plants they could want underwater, but can’t smell it so it makes the little mermaid sad
For me, it's Encanto and Tangled. Great stories, awesome songs, great character designs.
The Black Cauldron
I came here to say exactly this. Best Disney film hands down.
Wall-E
I feel is so underrated.
Same. Can’t believe you’re the only one to mention it.
Hands down "The Apple Dumpling Gang"
If you saw Kurt Russell in Tarantino's "Hateful Eight" then you'll love him in Disney's "The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes".
The Great Mouse Detective.
Where is all the love for Up? That film has one of the greatest love stories ever put on screen before the main story even really gets going
Either The Snowball Express, Gus, or The Strongest Man In The World (Possibly Kurt Russell's finest performance).
Does Dinosaur count? I loved that movie so much as a kid
I couldn’t even pick as different movies provide me with the same feelings. I loved Oliver and company but many didn’t. So I guess Zootopia is my pick for best. But I have massive soft spot for Atlantis and Treasure planet. Then there are classics like Robin Hood, beauty and the beast. I honestly couldn’t really pick one.
Toy Story will always remain my all time favorite Disney movie. So much originality and style for the time. I really love all of Pixar, honestly.
I think the Fox and the Hound is incredibly underrated.
It's the only one that feels real to me, like they weren't trying to make it too aggressively positive. It's one of the only Disney movies that has continued to affect the way I act well into adulthood.
I love this one as well. It was the first movie I cried to lol. Bambi too.
Mulan, animated. Will die on this hill!
Although as a furry I have to admit that Jungle Book and Robin Hood were, er, influential in my youth. ;3
Computer Wore Tennis Shoes
Cinderella
Cool Runnings
While Moana is my absolute favourite, it's because it reminds me of home.
When I try to be less subjective I say Atlantis, because the whole cast could be the main character, the villain is super realistic and despite the terrible white saviour syndrome the moral is actually good.
Moana
Lilo and Stich, Moana and Alice in Wonderland.
The Lion King.
Full of wisdom.
All that’s essential in life is in that movie and the soundtrack is spectacular.
Hercules got me into greek mythology.
I’d say early 2000s Disney were incredible, Atlantis, Treasure Planet, Emperor’s new groove.
Emperors New Groove!!!
I honestly think the bare necessities because not many people have watched it, but it gives a pretty good representation of man vs. natuure
Aladdin with Robin Williams as the genie … or Lion King
Pirates of the Caribbean at the World's End
That because all of the legacy animators retired around 2010 or a few years before.
Hunchback of notre dame
Snow White — pure art.
The older Disney movie have their charms. They used a troupe of classic voice actors. Then the 80s and 90s came along. Then a slew of movies came out with multi level writing wink wink and stars like Robin Williams. Tough to top that over and over.
It's Mulan for me. I remember watching it - at the cinema - several times!
Lilo and Stitch is my favorite by far
Enchanted
The Lion King. Followed closely by Hercules, Frozen, Little Mermaid, and Tarzan to round out my top 5 in order.
Lady and the Tramp! Apparently I watched it to much when I was a baby that I went through 3 VHS tapes. 😅🤣
I'm always cautious whenever someone says "the old movies are better" because a part of me always wonders how much nostalgia plays into that viewpoint. My favorite disney movies are from the renaiscence period as well, OG Beauty and the Beast, OG Lion King, Hunchback of Notre Dame, but I'm not going to pretend they haven't made stuff that i wouldnt consider on par with their classics in the modern period of disney movies (which by your post 2010 remark i assume you mean post-Bolt, when disney when back to making fairy tale adjacent stuff). I loved Tangled, The Princess and the Frog, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Moana, Encanto, all of those have that good disney movie spark to them that puts them in the same catagory as the older ones IMO. True there's been some movies with a bit more glaring flaws recently (Wish and Strange World come to mind, even though I think the main problem you could fix and have Wish work great is just change the villain. If it just had a better/more consistent villain i think it would have been great, but i realize i'm in the minority on that), but you know there are people that look at flawed movies from disney's past today favorably because its what they grew up with as well (Emporor's New Groove/Pocahontas/Meet the Robinsons comes to mind, movies that were panned when they came out and now its some people's favorites)
Lion king 1994 or Toy Story 3.
Treasure Planet, Atlantis, and Lilo and Stitch
Loved all three. They looked amazing, the characters are fun, and if j was ever asked to put on a good movie everyone is going to like it'd be one of them.
Lion King Mulan Little mermaid Lilo & stich Emperor's New groove Atlantis Tarzan
Lion King 🦁
Beauty and The Beast - 1991
Tangled
Treasure Planet
Moana
Lion King has always been peak animation for me, for a variety of reasons.
The lion king
The Black Cauldron, 1985. Excellent film!
Guys, it's Wall-E.
Animated, Aladdin; but for me the best Disney movie is Mary Poppins. Mostly for the music, that score is 🔥
The Little Mermaid was my favourite as a kid, but I’m going to have to give this one to Mulan
Original Aladdin (not live action) - can’t beat Robin
Sleeping Beauty or Pinocchio would be my favorites but I think that's mostly that they were the first ones I saw - in a theater - when I was very young.
The Incredibles. There is so much perfection here that if I wrote about it here I’d probably exceed the comment character limit. There’s enough video reviews on YouTube that you can look at to see my point but holy crap this movie is amazing and awesome and perfect in every way. I once watched it every night for like two weeks straight cause it is so good.
I want to be able to block "Disney" from casual conversation.
Because I FUCKING HATE DISNEY!!!!!!!
The Emperor's New Groove. It's artistically unique and very quirky with a great story; the characters' designs and personalities are so lovable, and Kuzco is very relatable. One of my favourite films to watch in childhood, ongoing to this very day.