Category: Walt Disney Collection

Director :  Bill Condon Year Of Release :  2017 Principal Cast :  Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Kevin Kline, Josh Gad, Ewan Mcgregor, Ian McKellan, Stanley Tucci, Emma Thompson, Audra McDonald, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Nathan Mack, Hattie Morahan, Adrian Schiller, Gerard Horan, Haydn Gwynne, Michael Jibson. Approx Running Time :   129 Minutes Synopsis:   An adaptation of the fairy tale about a monstrous-looking prince and a young woman who fall in love. ****** The Disney live-action money train continues to roll, as the studio presents another of its adaptations of previously…

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Director :  Ron Clements + John Musker Year Of Release :   2016 Principal Cast :  Voices of Auli’i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson, Rachel House, Temuera Morrison, Nichole Scherzinger, Jemaine Clement, Alan Tudyk, Oscar Knightley. Approx Running Time :  107 Minutes Synopsis:   In Ancient Polynesia, when a terrible curse incurred by Maui reaches an impetuous Chieftain’s daughter’s island, she answers the Ocean’s call to seek out the demigod to set things right. ****** The historic Disney formula returns with a vengeance in its 2016 digital offering, Moana, a Polynesian-based fable of magic,…

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Director :   Andrew Stanton Year Of Release :   2016 Principal Cast :  Voices of Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brookes, Ed O’Neil, Hayden Rolence, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Kailtin Olson, Ty Burrell, Idris Elba, Dominic West, Bob Peterson, Andrew Stanton, Sigourney Weaver. Approx Running Time :   103 Minutes Synopsis:   Marlin and Nemo must embark on a search for the amnesiac Dory after she goes off in search of her long-lost parents. ******* It still staggers me to think that Finding Nemo was only Pixar’s fifth theatrical release. The in-its-infancy studio was delivering instant…

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Director :   Byron Howard + Rich Moore Year Of Release :  2016 Principal Cast :  Ginnifer Goodwin, Jason Bateman, Idris Elba, JK Simmons, Jenny Slate, Tommy Chong, Octavia Spencer, Nate Torrence, Shakira, Bonnie Hunt, Don Lake, Alan Tudyk, Tom Lister Jr, Maurice LaMarche, Raymond S Persi, Kristen Bell. Approx Running Time :  108 Minutes Synopsis:   In a city of anthropomorphic animals, a rookie bunny cop and a cynical con artist fox must work together to uncover a conspiracy. ***** Listen to “Try Everything” performed by Shakira, from the Zootopia Original…

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Director :  Clyde Geronomi + Hamilton Luske + Wilfred Jackson Year Of Release :  1950 Principal Cast : Voices of Ilene Woods, William Phipps, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Luis van Rooten, Jimmy MacDonald, Rhoda Williams, Lucille Bliss, June Foray. Approx Running Time :   75 Minutes Synopsis:   A young girl falls for a handsome Prince and hopes to marry in spite of her mean step-sisters and awful ste-mother. ****** Feminism alert! Disney’s 1950 animated masterpiece, Cinderella, is exactly the kind of film that drives the hardcore feminist movement crazy. Based on…

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Director :   Peter Sohn Year Of Release :  2015 Principal Cast :  Raymond Ochoa, Jack Bright, Sam Elliot, Anna Paquin, AJ Buckley, Jeffrey Wright, Frances McDormand, Marcus Scribner, Maleah Padilla, Steve Zahn, Mandy Freund, Dave Boat, Jack McGraw. Approx Running Time :  93 Minutes Synopsis:  In a world where dinosaurs and humans live side-by-side, an Apatosaurus named Arlo makes an unlikely human friend. ******** 2015 marked a rare year for Pixar, the studio behind films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and Monsters Inc. For the first time, the studio delivered…

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– Summary – Director :  Ron Clements + John Musker Year Of Release :   1989 Principal Cast :  Voices of Jodi Benson, Christopher Daniel Barnes, Pat Carroll, Samuel E Wright, Jason Marin, Kenneth Mars, Buddy Hackett, Ben Wright, Paddi Edwards, Edie McClurg. Approx Running Time :   82 Minutes Synopsis:   A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land. What we think :  Hugely familiar Disney film remains enjoyable for all the right reasons, and slightly icky for all the…

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– Summary – Director :  Various Year Of Release :  1940 Principal Cast :  Deems Taylor (Live action) Approx Running Time :   126 Minutes Synopsis:   A collection of animated interpretations of great works of Western classical music. What we think :  An early example of what you’d call an “experimental film”, or perhaps a “concept album” for Disney, Fantasia holds up even today, in spite of its amorphous anthology aspects, with thunderous music accompanying some of the studio’s most beautiful animation. Controversy around racism aside, the film remains a beautiful…

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– Summary – Director :   Pete Docter Year Of Release :   2015 Principal Cast :  Voices of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black, Mindy Kaling, Kaitlyn Dias, Richard Kind, Diane Lane, Kyle McLachlan, Paula Poundstone, Frank Oz, Dave Golez, John Ratzenberger. Approx Running Time :  94 Minutes Synopsis:  After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions – Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness – conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school. What we think : …

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