…was old enough to see in the theater. When the sequel was announced, I just couldn’t wait! Originally pitched as a low-budget movie, the Disney Studio was trying to keep…

…to “clean up” the picture, and everything looks bold and strong. Although a (terrible) pan-and-scan 1.33:1 edition is being sold separately, you really owe it to yourself to see this…

…“too difficult”! The Studio takeover of 1984 put the film on hold for another couple of years until it resurfaced under the guidance of new Mouse chiefs Michael Eisner and…

…legend of Ichabod Crane (recently retold in much more horrific style by Tim Burton), telling the tale with his inimitable bouncy and boomy vocals. Crosby has a couple of good…

…Grant. Based on a short story by children’s authors Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl, Walt considered producing Dumbo as a featurette, before Huemer and Grant’s treatment persuaded him otherwise. During…

…comments from important faces from Disney history, including four of the Nine Old Men. Joining Marc Davis and Ward Kimball (in their last major interviews) are Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas,…

…a desperate bid to create company synergy. Hey, both stories featured talking animals in the wild, right? Both had a stampede sequence? Music and songs from older British rockers? Check!…

…out the cast is Robert Guillaume, who here seems to have lost his hold on Rafiki and plays him straight as an old fool rather than the mystical eccentric that…

…seemed to be more than a little over saturated. Scratch Tracks: Presented in good old Dolby Digital 5.1, the mix is as lively as the film’s narrative will allow. There’s…

…this feel a lot more subtly and effortlessly than current Bond composer David Arnold does with his sometimes sledgehammer approach. Staying with the sound, and here we get an ensemble…

…and runs away, where he finds the mysterious, and supposedly evil Zugor, who unsurprisingly turns out to be simply a warm old grump. But when a dissident group of gorillas,…

…good old fashioned orchestral score instead of a sourced music track, and the big British landmarks seen in the opening credits provides the authenticity in the setting (funny that a…

…scenario before, most notably with The Emperor’s New Groove, but Prinze (doing his best Bruce Willis it seems) and his flatly scripted lines just can’t hold the attention, leaving more…

…on the supposed children of the original stars. When Columbia ran into management upheaval problems and a Ghostbusters sequel was put on hold, they were none too pleased that another…

…Storyboard: The old Mousetro, Walt himself, guides us through some illuminating episodes of the DisneyLand television series in which he doesn’t just bookend the shows, but sticks around to present…

…unique route of incorporating themed cartoons into well-rounded documentary styled programs. We all know the often told genesis of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, and a fair few will have been…

…seems happy to break convention too: the Fairy Godmother has given up her mythical status – here’s she’s walking around the palace and talking to the mice like an old…