Changing the Reel: A TLIAW that, let's face is, was never going to be finished in a week

Winnie the Pooh (1989)
A straight adaptation of the beloved children book is certainly a "light" Disney film, but is none the less considered a decent home.

The story isn't quite a compilation film, there are no named segments, and there is some flow between the stories. However each story from the book can stand alone, and they are faithfully recreated on the film. This comes at the cost of any plot, with things just sort of happening.

While certainly not up to the level of deep storytelling as Bluthian films it Winnie the Pooh and did well with families who just wanted some pretty colors for their kids. A financial sucess and well regarded by animation fans.
 
A straight adaptation of the beloved children book is certainly a "light" Disney film, but is none the less considered a decent home.

The story isn't quite a compilation film, there are no named segments, and there is some flow between the stories. However each story from the book can stand alone, and they are faithfully recreated on the film. This comes at the cost of any plot, with things just sort of happening.

While certainly not up to the level of deep storytelling as Bluthian films it Winnie the Pooh and did well with families who just wanted some pretty colors for their kids. A financial sucess and well regarded by animation fans.

Glad to see this reiteration isn't changed from canon.
 
Fantasia (1990)
A completely original concept from the mind of Don Bluth. It was part one of a planned dualogy.

In a vaguely future word a scientist named Martin Ross develops a computer program called Fantasia, which has a huge capacity for learning and communication. Fantasia quickly bonds with its creator and begins becoming more and more human. It develops a fondness for baseball (it prefers the Oakland A's, which proved ironic considering their preference in the 1990 world series) and even a favorite food (chili) despite having no physical form. However the villainous General Hawthorne wants to use Fantasia against "the enemy" (a motive that clearly did not anticipate the end of the cold war) and Ross must stall and attempt to avoid losing contact with his creation. Ross also falls in love with the whip smart May Tony, a programmer at the same lab, and Fantasia helps them get together. Hawthorne grows impatient and attempts to storm the labs containing Fantasia. However Ross and Tony escape and Fantasia uploads itself to a different computer (causing computer programmers for generations to scream "THAT IS NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS"). The final shot is of them hiding, but together, in a jungle.

Despite the lack of source material to encourage enthusiasm and overt criticism of the United States government it did well a the box office. It remains a classic, unlike the "light" film that followed it.
 
A completely original concept from the mind of Don Bluth. It was part one of a planned dualogy.

In a vaguely future word a scientist named Martin Ross develops a computer program called Fantasia, which has a huge capacity for learning and communication. Fantasia quickly bonds with its creator and begins becoming more and more human. It develops a fondness for baseball (it prefers the Oakland A's, which proved ironic considering their preference in the 1990 world series) and even a favorite food (chili) despite having no physical form. However the villainous General Hawthorne wants to use Fantasia against "the enemy" (a motive that clearly did not anticipate the end of the cold war) and Ross must stall and attempt to avoid losing contact with his creation. Ross also falls in love with the whip smart May Tony, a programmer at the same lab, and Fantasia helps them get together. Hawthorne grows impatient and attempts to storm the labs containing Fantasia. However Ross and Tony escape and Fantasia uploads itself to a different computer (causing computer programmers for generations to scream "THAT IS NOT HOW ANY OF THIS WORKS"). The final shot is of them hiding, but together, in a jungle.

Despite the lack of source material to encourage enthusiasm and overt criticism of the United States government it did well a the box office. It remains a classic, unlike the "light" film that followed it.

I love this concept! When you think about it, it's still Disney magic. It's just the only Disney movie to have the Clarke's Third Law kind of magic instead of the fairytale kind. Plus Fantasia, being a sentient program, could likely do what it wants with its data.

Makes me wonder how the theme parks were changed ITTL.
 
Tangled (1991)
Tangled is movie about a Poodle who wants to become a hairdresser.

FloofFuff the poodle lives win a well off suburban family, but dreams of more. She sees an ad for a salon in New York City and decides to do that. She runs away and hitchhikes there, somehow never getting dirty. In NYC she meets a duck who wants to be firefighter and a pigeon who wants to be a nail painter. Hi-jinks ensue. They fail comically but for some reason are not discouraged and head home with FloofFuff, who becomes a hairdresser for the pets of her community.

Yes it is as bad as it sounds. It flopped hard at the box office because critics and average moviegoers hated it a lot. Everyone hated it then. Everyone hates it now.

For Christs sake its about a Poodle who wants to become a hairdresser of course it was terrible.
 
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