Talk:Disney Renaissance/@comment-30591854-20180712173517

I never liked the Pocahontas movie. One of the worst movies I've ever seen (animated and non-animated alike), in my personal opinion. All I liked about that movie was the song "Colors of the Wind"... I'm not gonna whine about the historical incorrectness (as the real Pocahontas was 12 when she met John Smith), but the entire setup never appealed to me... I just couldn't connect with neither Pocahontas nor John Smith.

I cannot judge the Rescuers down under... I never saw the movie.

Maybe The Little Mermaid is set too much in a "girlish" perspective, but I could do with it, but maybe that's also because Ursula is one of my favorite Disney villains. Beauty and the Beast was pretty enjoyable. The Lion King was a very well set up plot. Now I'm not going to relate it to Shakespear. The Egyptian Pharao Osiris was killed by his brother Seth in order to seize the crown only to be defeated in turn by Osiris' son Horus in the end, so I guess even in Shakespear's time the concept wasn't new :P The reason for Seth to kill Osiris is exactly the same as why Scar killed Mufasa... Jealousy for the crown and all the power having it provides. Alladin and Hercules were just plain funny. Alladin most of all due to the genie, and Hercules most of all due to the literal HOT temper of Hades. I need to watch Tarzan again to judge it more properly. Mulan and the Hunchback are maybe the most mature ones. Mulan is a story of a girl risking her life in order to keep her father from dying a horrible death, disregarding her own. Not only was taking on a 'male' persona to join the army a crime holding the penalty of death, but war is no child's play. The Hunchback is of course due to a villain falling in love with a woman who could only damage his reputation for what she is (thanks to the racist society of the time the story takes place in), and trying to depict her as a sex witch who uses her magic to play with his sexual feelings, was just his disguise, his defense, just to cover up the truth about his feelings, causing a lot of tragedy in the process. I wonder if that plot wasn't "too mature" for a Disney movie. I was already in my 40s when I saw the movie for the first time... Would I have understood it if I was in my teens or even younger? It does the Hunchback one of my own favorite Disney movies though, but I like a mature story (contrary to what a lot of people think "mature" does NOT mean porn or an overdose of violence)....

Of course, this is just a quick personal view... :)