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Telluride 2009 Review: Don Hahn's Waking Sleeping Beauty

6 September 2009 5:01 PM, PDT | firstshowing.net | See recent FirstShowing.net news »

I'm not normally a documentary guy, they're just not my thing, and I don't fall in love with that many of them. However, earlier today I was encouraged to check out a documentary directed by Don Hahn called Waking Sleeping Beauty about Walt Disney Animation and the people from that side of the studio. And I fell in love it. I don't mean I just liked it a lot, I completely and thoroughly fell in love with it. I have never felt this emotional towards a documentary or another film this entire year. It's a fascinating story that's both amusing and inspiring to watch. I think it's perhaps the best movie about Disney Animation ever made. Waking Sleeping Beauty focuses on the era between 1984 and 1994 at Walt Disney Feature Animation, during which films like The Great Mouse Detective, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Little Mermaid, Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and ... »

- Alex Billington

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Sdcc 2009: Disney Animation Round Two - Ron Clements and John Musker

17 August 2009 8:00 AM, PDT | Hitfix | See recent Hitfix news »

Time to get these done, yes? I'll have three of these today and tomorrow, and I apologize for them lingering as long as they have.  The second of the Disney animation roundtables I attended, following the chat with John Lasseter and Hayao Miyazaki, was with the directors of "The Princess and the Frog."  That is to say, Disney legends Ron Clements and John Musker.  Their first three movies are all Disney pictures that hold up, and they helped rebuild the company with "The Great Mouse Detective," "The Little Mermaid," and "Aladdin."  So this is all in the same room, happening one... »

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Treasure Planet – Movie Review

13 August 2009 11:24 PM, PDT | AreYouScreening.com | See recent AreYouScreening news »

After spending several years trying (apparently) to alienate anyone who has ever liked anything Disney (by sequeling everything into absurdity), and moreover seemingly championing Pixar as their only hope (by proving they can do nothing nearly as well), Disney returns to their only competent in-house team, Ron Clements and John Musker. What we learn, by the time we’re done watching Treasure Planet, is that we can hope for a good movie out of Disney once every three to five years. Unfortunately, Disney is whipping them out at a much more furious pace. Worse yet, when a good one rolls around everyone is so used to bashing Disney films (and rightfully so) that the good ones tank at the box-office, making the next sequel to a movie that was useless in the first place all the more likely. Clements and Musker (and a pair of people who look like they »

- Marc Eastman

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Disney Shows Off 2D ‘Princess and the Frog’ Pics

10 June 2009 11:45 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »

I didn't grow up on Disney, so I don't get the same mildly inappropriate tingle that everyone else seems to get when people talk about Disney classics. But I do appreciate great artwork, so I have to thank John Lasseter and Ed Catmull for pulling Disney back into the 2D world. We stirred up a little controversy regarding The Princess and the Frog almost a year ago, but hopefully that entire conversation has run its course so we can all get down to the business of appreciating some incredible animation. Keep in mind, this is Disney's return to pencil and paper (although some backgrounds and effects are going to be computer-aided): The Princess and the Frog is directed by Ron Clements and John Musker who brought the world The Little Mermaid and The Great Mouse Detective. Also, Oprah is involved somehow. I think she either drew a bunch of cels or voices one of the characters »

- Cole Abaius

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Trailer for "The Princess and the Frog"

10 May 2009 8:21 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Yesterday, Disney finally aired the trailer for their highly anticipated new animated film The Princess and the Frog on The Disney Channel during an episode of Wizards of Waverly Place. Lucky for us, someone taped it and put it up online.

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In what is Disney's first big theatrical foray into 2D animation since 2004's abysmal Home on the Range, it's both a return to roots by adapting the classic fairy tale of the frog prince and a move forward by having their first black Princess in a film with a New Orleans jazz flavor.

Honestly, the trailer underwhelmed me somewhat, but it's pretty much only focused on one scene, so I still maintain my excitement. It's just exciting that Disney is finally working hard to do what they do best again rather than trying to compete with Pixar. Ironic that it took Pixar founder John Lasseter »

- Arya Ponto

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5 articles from 2009

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