Category: Directed by Clyde Geronimi
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Seven credited writers on Sleeping Beauty and none of them could figure out any dialogue to give the prince. Though, notwithstanding some cute banter between the three fairies, there’s not much good dialogue in Sleeping Beauty anyway. Villain Maleficent doesn’t even get any. Eleanor Audley’s great in the part, but it’s not because of the…
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Bill Peet, who came up with the story for Susie the Little Blue Coupe and co-wrote the final script, must have thought American kids didn’t have enough depressing classic Russian literature in their lives. It’s a seriously disturbed, if fantastic, cartoon. Susie tells the story of a happy little car named, you guessed it, Susie.…
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The Story of Anyburg U.S.A. is an odd one. A small town decides to sue cars–personified here as cute, the windshields as big eyes–for all the auto accidents. Sadly, Anyburg opens with a lot more energy–the narrator goes on and on about homicides on the highway and such and it doesn’t seem Disney at all.…
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Mostly enchanting Disney tale of a snobbish Cocker Spaniel named Lady who meets a below-her-station Standard Schnauzer named Tramp and, through a series of adventures and misadventures, falls for him. The film relies a little too heavily on the songs, letting them take over when they shouldn’t, and the finale ignores its stars for the…
The Stop Button 