I similarly loved Beauty and the Beast and identified with Belle; it's one I should watch again. I've seen it as an adult, but not for many years. The last time I did I remember being especially taken with the lovely opening with the story in stained glass.
Aladdin was my childhood favorite; I watched it about a million times and could probably still recite most of the dialogue along with it. It was likely my first introduction to meta jokes, for which I am still a huge sucker. It was also fun to grow up with it and get more and more of the Genie's jokes and impressions as I got older. (I think Jasmine may have also been an early bisexual awakening moment for young me, heh.)
I really need to watch Mulan; I think when it came out I was going through my "I'm too old for Disney!" phase and never got around to seeing the whole thing. I know it's beloved by many and I'd probably enjoy it, too.
Encanto is a recent favorite movie and still one of those I can watch kind of anytime. I love that Mirabel didn't get powers, too, and I love how the "villain" is intergenerational trauma. I find it funny and very moving and rather profound. (And it looks lovely and the music is great!)
I'm definitely a Disney revival kid all the way; I liked Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty and some of the other classics pretty well, but I never loved them like I did later films. Parts of Pinocchio and basically all of Alice In Wonderland stressed me out.
Besides the ones I already mentioned, I loved The Lion King (so beautiful! and the humor! and the music!) and The Little Mermaid (I kind of wanted to live under the sea). And The Emperor's New Groove, which I didn't see till I was an adult, is fully one of my all-time favorite movies, though it's so outside the Disney norm I only sort of count it. So great, though. Bulletproof cheer-up movie. Patrick Warburton should've won an Oscar.
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Date: 2025-05-08 09:07 am (UTC)Aladdin was my childhood favorite; I watched it about a million times and could probably still recite most of the dialogue along with it. It was likely my first introduction to meta jokes, for which I am still a huge sucker. It was also fun to grow up with it and get more and more of the Genie's jokes and impressions as I got older. (I think Jasmine may have also been an early bisexual awakening moment for young me, heh.)
I really need to watch Mulan; I think when it came out I was going through my "I'm too old for Disney!" phase and never got around to seeing the whole thing. I know it's beloved by many and I'd probably enjoy it, too.
Encanto is a recent favorite movie and still one of those I can watch kind of anytime. I love that Mirabel didn't get powers, too, and I love how the "villain" is intergenerational trauma. I find it funny and very moving and rather profound. (And it looks lovely and the music is great!)
I'm definitely a Disney revival kid all the way; I liked Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty and some of the other classics pretty well, but I never loved them like I did later films. Parts of Pinocchio and basically all of Alice In Wonderland stressed me out.
Besides the ones I already mentioned, I loved The Lion King (so beautiful! and the humor! and the music!) and The Little Mermaid (I kind of wanted to live under the sea). And The Emperor's New Groove, which I didn't see till I was an adult, is fully one of my all-time favorite movies, though it's so outside the Disney norm I only sort of count it. So great, though. Bulletproof cheer-up movie. Patrick Warburton should've won an Oscar.