Recent Disney Movies?!!!

[DisneyPrincess4590]

Can someone help me out here? My mind is going completely blank. I just returned from seeing Meet the Robinsons and I was mentally comparing it to recent Disney movies that have come out. The problem is - I couldn't remember any! I loved Cars and Pirates of the Caribbean last summer and I can't remember seeing anything since then. Was the last non-Pixar animated movie that Disney made really Chicken Little?!

[lazyboy97O]

Yes. Wikipedia actually has a decent list.

[sailerm]

Last year, they had Herbie Fully Loaded, Sky High, and a few others

[thrax]

bridge to teribithea was the last movie before MTR

[lazyboy97O]

The original poster asked, "Was the last non-Pixar animated movie that Disney made really Chicken Little?!" The last animated film released and made by Disney was Chicken Little.

[DisneyPrincess4590]

Originally Posted by lazyboy97O

The original poster asked, "Was the last non-Pixar animated movie that Disney made really Chicken Little?!" The last animated film released and made by Disney was Chicken Little.

Whoa...that is a really long time to go without producing an animated film. Walt Disney Pictures needs to step it up a bit. Wasn't The Wild also kinda recent ? - not that I even saw it!

[Aladdin]

Neither "Valiant" (Aug 19, 2005) nor
"The Wild" (Apr 14, 2006) were Disney movies.

Disney was just the Primary Distributor.

I did check imdb, and it did list Disney as
one of 4 Producers of "The Wild", but, it really
wasn't a Disney movie ~ It's really sad that
Disney even got involved with these two
movies, they both contributed to the string
of mediocre Animated movies which Disney
became associated with in it's recent history.

Disney's association with those two movies
goes back to Eisner's poor negotiating skills
which lead to a rift between Disney and
Pixar, during Eisner's last days. Eisner wanted
to "sponsor" some non Pixar animated movies,
in order to have more leverage in negotiating
a new contract with Pixar. With sponsoring
movies like The Wild and Valiant, Eisner was
trying to say "Disney doesn't need Pixar". And
Eisner was even trying to say the Disney doesn't
need to be producing animation, all it needs is
to Distribute.

Thank goodness Lasseter doesn't feel the same way!

[pizzamousechips]

Well, The Walt Disney Company owns these film studios:
Walt Disney Pictures
Touchstone Pictures
Hollywood Pictures
Miramax Films
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pixar


That's not what you're asking for, but it's good to know.

[lazyboy97O]

Originally Posted by DisneyPrincess4590

Whoa...that is a really long time to go without producing an animated film. Walt Disney Pictures needs to step it up a bit. Wasn't The Wild also kinda recent ? - not that I even saw it!

NO! Those be dangerous waters. The concept of getting out movies quickly and routinely is why we ended up with mediocrity. Works of creativity take time and should not be rushed. If I remeber correctly, Meet the Robinsons was pushed back about half a year.

[DisneyPrincess4590]

Originally Posted by lazyboy97O

NO! Those be dangerous waters. The concept of getting out movies quickly and routinely is why we ended up with mediocrity. Works of creativity take time and should not be rushed. If I remeber correctly, Meet the Robinsons was pushed back about half a year.

Well, Walt Disney Feature animation used to put out a quality movie at least once a year:

(Forgive me if some of the dates are wrong, I'm just going off the top of my head...)

1991 - Beauty and the Beast
1992 - Aladdin
1994 - The Lion King
1995 - Pocahontas
1996 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1997 - Hercules
1998 - Mulan
1999 - Tarzan

2000....then something happened.....

[Melonballer]

Originally Posted by DisneyPrincess4590

Well, Walt Disney Feature animation used to put out a quality movie at least once a year:

(Forgive me if some of the dates are wrong, I'm just going off the top of my head...)

1991 - Beauty and the Beast
1992 - Aladdin
1994 - The Lion King
1995 - Pocahontas
1996 - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1997 - Hercules
1998 - Mulan
1999 - Tarzan

2000....then something happened.....

Well don't forget Fantasia 2000, which imho was a quality film. Lilo and Stitch was pretty good too. But those are exceptions to the rule. Since 2000, most of the films have not been that good.

[DisneyPrincess4590]

Originally Posted by Melonballer

Well don't forget Fantasia 2000, which imho was a quality film. Lilo and Stitch was pretty good too. But those are exceptions to the rule. Since 2000, most of the films have not been that good.

You make good points!

[sailerm]

Back in the day, Disney had large teams of people working on a specifice title, so they could put a quality film out every year or two. Snow White, Pinocchio, Bambi ect. things really slowed down after Walt's death. Robin Hood, Rescuers, FOx and the Hound. It wasn't until the success of the Little Mermaid that they really focused on riding that creative wave and producing big budget animated films, but after clunkers like Atlantis and Treasure Planet, they scaled back.

If it wasn't for PIXAR animation may have completely dropped off of Disney's Slate, but even then PIXAR only produces ONE film at a time, with 2 or 3 years between releases, but this has worked very well as it allows them to refine quality film making.

We don't need boat loads of Chicken Littles, and Meet the Robinsons. I can wait for grand event animated features every 3 or 4 years apart if it means that these films will be treasured classics.

Think long term guys not instant gratification.