[NYer]

Perhaps, as we work and pray for such a faith-guided cultural resurrection, we might show Fantasia and Sleeping Beauty to our children and shield them from the barren and looted moral landscape of Tangled. Even Walt Disney might approve.

Some of the Disney classics are still available on tape and DVD.

[Constitutions Grandchild]

Disney hit it out of the park with Secretariat. I suggest we show them how a real family film affects the bottom line and buy a ticket. My very conservative, very family values, very nit-picky family was quite impressed with the effort on the part of all. It was fun to see John Malkevich be John Malkevich without anyone having to die or be blow up. The golf clubs in the waste basket were enough to let glimpses of his quixotic self shine through.

[christianhomeschoolmommaof3]

We have long been bothered by Walt Disney films. They portray wimpy, ignorant fathers (Beauty and the Beast, Alladin) and disobedient daughters (The Little Mermaid, Alladin). The daughters are always bailing the father’s out of a situation and the disobedience of the daughters always leads to happiness with no consequence. That is not what we want to teach our children so we stay away.

[Fiji Hill]

In late 1940 or early 1941 my father hitchhiked from Loma Linda to Los Angeles to see Fantasia, which was playing at the Carthay Circle Theater, and he was glad to have made the trip. The theater had an early version of "surround sound," and he described the finale as being spectacular.

I first saw the film during its 1963 release.

[November 2010]

Disney resuscitated Ellen Degeneres’ career by making her the voice of Dora. They produced her talk show as well. Disney does not represent family values and should be avoided by parents. They are a colossus, it’s hard to avoid their content . . . but their content is not “good” anymore in a moral or value oriented sense.

[Beowulf9]

Don’t know who owns Disney now, but I think it is not in the Disney family anymore. Is this correct?

Trek, which was pretty well done, had a lot of crude stuff in it, which I can’t fathom why, but I’ve heard the last Trek movie was worse in this regard.

Profits being down may not be due to this, but they are not raking it in lately.

“Disney profits slide

BY JASON GARCIA crline Orlando Sentinel
Walt Disney Co. profit sank 7 percent during the final three months of its fiscal year, disappointing Wall Street as one-time adjustments dragged down the company’s television networks and theme parks and more than offset gains from the blockbuster movie ``Toy Story 3.’’

Business remained soft at Walt Disney World during the July-through-September period, though the company said the resort’s fall bookings are beginning to pick up.

``Overall, we’re encouraged by many of the trends we’re seeing in our businesses,’’ Disney Co. Chief Financial Officer Jay Rasulo said during a Thursday afternoon conference call with analysts.
“Disney made $835 million during the quarter, which ended Oct. 2, down from $895 million last year. Revenue dipped 1 percent to $9.7 billion.”

http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/11/15/1926705/disney-profits-slide.html

[Alex Murphy]

....the animated features that Disney brought to the screen when Uncle Walt himself still oversaw the studio made a point of drawing considerable aesthetic, emotional, and narrative power from specifically Christian aspects of the culture that, even today, America shares with Europe.

Related:
Disney accused by Catholic cleric of corrupting children's minds
Walt Disney on Faith & God, 1963

[LibFreeOrDie]

Fairy tales are morality tales? They were meant to scare kids into obedience. And talk about stereotypes! Always with the evil stepmothers and the old women as witches.

To the author of the review: Don’t compare Dreyer’s Joan of Arc to fairy tale films. And why are you so upset about a woman’s tear bringing a man back to life? But it’s OK for the prince to kiss Sleeping Beauty to bring her back?

If you believe this article, then don’t see the movie. If any groups want Disney/Pixar to make movies more to their liking, then they can buy the company outright, or buy stock and speak up at shareholder meetings. Or produce their own indie kids movies.

[johngrace]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gd2YKyEImY&feature=related

[Eepsy]

Does this guy even know Rapunzel’s original storyline?

Pregnant woman nags husband into stealing from a witch’s garden.

Husband gets caught. Witch demands newborn baby, or she’ll kill the husband. Dear old hubby agrees to hand over the kid.

Witch raises beautiful child in innocence at top of tower.

Handsome prince inveigles beautiful girl into midnight visits.

Beautiful innocent girl complains to witch her dresses don’t fit around the middle anymore.

Yeah, lots of morality going on there....

[pbear8]

and skeletal figures rise from graves to join their dark lord and his demons in their fiery revels.

My FIL drew them!