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by Emma
Woah... there are many claims to the throne!!!!

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What do you mean 'many claims'? There's my claim and then there 'the pretenders', 'the paupers' and the 'dream on sisters', who are so beneath 'claiming' that to even mention their attempt would be an insult to the throne.

Sorry to break up this love-fest, but...

The Little Mermaid II?

The Little Mermaid II!

The. Little. Mermaid. II!

Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but she dies at the end. Her prince marries someone else - and after she goes through hell to be with him, giving up her voice and feeling the pain of walking on hot coal every step she takes on land - and she throws herself into the sea rather than kill him and becomes sea foam, then earns a shot at working towards a soul.

It's very moving. I have a macho exterior to maintain, and I don't mind admitting I wept openly the first time I read that story.

Hence, I can not only not accept a sequel, I can not accept a version of the Little Mermaid which can have a sequel.

And I'm not sure where to start on the Hunchback of Notre Dame II. I mean; it's not just him that dies.

It seems to be contraversial, but with a very few exceptions, I _hate_ Disney.

If KeiranFrost is the Disney God, and Sweet-Sange the Disney Queen, I guess that makes me the Disney Antichrist; or at least the Disney Scheming Vizier.

In almost every case - and the exceptions tend to be the ones I don't mind - Disney feels it necessary to pepper its stories with anachronistic Americanisms, and more crude slapstick comedy than an incompetently dubbed kung fu movie, thus utterly destroying any mood they might otherwise have created.

Aladdin might have been a nice little Arabian Nights story, if not for that bleeding Genie. I saw a bit of the end of Hunchback, and I might almost have been able to like it on its own merits, if not for the incessant prattling of the comedy gargoyles.

The Lion King was okay, because the goofy comedy sidekicks were the batchelor buddies, and that's kosher. The Sword in the Stone was also okay, because the anachronism actually served as a handy updating of T H White's rather bizarre, extemporal Arthurian/Victorian/modernist setting.

The Disney-Pixar productions also tend to get a slightly better balance, set a better mood, and tell a better story visually.

But in general, I hate Disney.

I'm shocked beyond words

You evil Vizier. You think we don't know? Jafar, Ursula, Eesma... all viziers, all evil.

Oh yeah, we knew!!!

Still shocked by the way

a friend was investigated a topic for a presentation today, about subliminal messages in Disney Films.
Some of the things included a phallic shaped object on the poster for the litlle mermaid, and a naked woman in the background of the rescuers film.
I also watched a programme about animators putting images into family films for their own amusement, like a shot of Jessica Rabbit partly naked, etc
its quite intresting reading
i'd post some links, but i'm not sure if they'd be suitable, besides i wouldn't want to ruin the image heh
Personally i think Tyler Durden had the right idea....