Best Disney Movies: My Top Disney Films Review

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tlwomack
Gilbert, AZ

Disney Films: Keep your children, children

fun loving, technically challenged

AUG

2009

Best Disney Movies: My Top Disney Films —

After seeing a few of the recent Disney films, I have come to the conclusions; young parents need to bring back the classic Disney films into their homes. For the new Pixar /Disney films are not for children anymore in my opinion.

Let’s don't forget all the classic Disney's films, most of us watched as kids. From Snow White to Bed-Knobs and Broomsticks, Peter Pan to Sleeping Beauty, the old Disney films always had a message. Yes some of the new ones are OK; Pixar has done a few good films with Disney such as Toy-Story. But recently they have become too political or too environmental. They have lost the individual influence that the classics and Walt himself had to contain. In the last twenty years, only Lion King and the Little Mermaid have the distinction of being a classic in my opinion because it has upheld a real message of family, right from wrong, strive to be your best, and the value of responsibility. All things young children need to see and learn in their young lives. They were always reinforced with the classic Disney Films. Not the case in today’s films. No matter how good the trailer might be. These family values of right from wrong, strive to be your best, and the value of responsibility have been missing completely in the last few Disney films. Yes, they may contain one of these family and individual values, but it is usually covered up with an agenda message. The recent robot movie was terrible, and sadly so has been the last few Pixar and Disney films when it comes to the above mentioned. Even "Up" was not well written and had a few hidden messages that were just too much indoctrination then value learning in my opinion. It seems they have to be too politically correct to capture any message and then it is not letting a child be a child. It is sad that as an adult, having four young children, I now believe I have to see the Disney film first before I let my children see it. Walt Disney would be very saddened by this new design of message telling through animation or digital design. Too many of the gags are intended for adults and then followed by to much guilt aim at both children and adults. Sometimes lost or maybe not lost on the very young viewer but not myself. I have even been insulted in the concept of the last few "Disney" films. Yet there are still the classics, from Jungle book to Fantasia. So if you are a young parent, take time and rent the classic Disney's films. (Especially the ones from the 40’s, 50, and 60's). Yes, I would be the first to say don't miss Lion King, Little Mermaid, or maybe even Toy Story”, but don't let your children see the new ones until you do. Don't fall into the trap of using your own memories of Disney films as a safe element. They have become almost harsh for children to watch. Maybe that is why their box office has dropped so much. Yes they make it up on DVD sales, but I have a stack the kids have not watched in years, but they will pull out a classic when it comes time to watch a film together. The new modern film makes at Disney have lost the Disney design of films of truth, honesty and responsibility that were always in the writings and concept of Walt Disney Films. Imagination, the will to explore, and challenge one self, were always within the 90 minutes of the film. I just don't see this anymore in Disney Films. I believe it was all lost when they bought all those film companies in the late seventies and eighties to be able to make R- rated films all in the name of profit. I note this not from a soap box, but as a parent who sees the radical changes of Walt Disney films. Children only get to be children for ten to fifteen years; they get to be an adult for 50 or sixty years. The classics never made them grow up to fast, so why then do we allow the new Disney animated films to change this I must ask. So I say to all of you young parents, revisit the classics. Easy to find, and will always be a part of young lives from this writer, and for my children and they should be of yours. These films might look old and not high tech, and you might even get a little whinnying from your children. Yet rest assure, they will receive a real message within those old film design. Just the other day, we had a family film night and selected Swiss Family Robinson. Yes a few "that's an old movie" came out but even the oldest (14) didn't miss a moment. They laughed they cried and they were happy at the end. It only proves, no matter the age, if a film has never been seen before, it is a new film for that viewer. And the classics Disney Films are the only ones that will keep your children, children.

Last edited on Aug 26, 2009