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...Nightmare Before Christmas Every Burton film is Halloween scary and candy-cane sweet. So it's appropriate that the fevered imagineer (Beetlejuice, the Batman films, Edward Scissorhands) dreamed up this stop-motion fable about a Halloween ghoul who wants to play Santa Claus. Directed by Henry Selick, Nightmare is Disney's weirdest cartoon ever: chilly, rollicking, endlessly inventive. And it's animated by Danny Elfman's magical-spookical score. Is this the first Hollywood musical to set every one of its 10 songs in a minor...
...long for Rapunzel’s long tresses? The moral of these memories: just one slipper, two kisses, three balls, and four brave princes later, these good females were rescued from bad fruit and several very wicked witches. In spite of the well-justified feminist disgust for these pathetic Disney damsels (has anyone really listened to Snow White’s pre-pubescent vocal tones?), I can’t help feeling nostalgic for a time when a man saved his woman. Before bad boy meant good catch, and before nice guy meant lame date. Before being a good girlfriend...
...least shrieks against drum legs at family dinner. Part incredible animation, part Zach Braff’s success at channeling lovable neuroticism, the title star of the production is the cutest animated animal ever—besting out the numerous big-eyed elephants, dogs, and bunnies in the Disney repertoire. Those giant glasses, that tiny green shirt, and the best lines in the movie instantly win you over. Sadly, Disney’s newest attempt to overcome the loss of Pixar is not nearly as charming as my new little love. Disney proves with “Chicken Little?...
...Lewis biography, "that 60 years later, nobody has really turned up." Lewis, whose day job was Oxford medievalist, did eventually get around to other work, including seven children's books about a place called Narnia. Ninety-five million Narnia books have been sold since then, and as Disney begins test screenings for its December release of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, based on the series' first volume, the septet is back near the top of the children's best-seller lists...
...Animation Forever Your article on the switch from hand-drawn to computer-generated [CG] animation at Disney [Oct. 3] mentioned me and my colleague Andreas Deja as "respected animators ... [who] resisted making the switch to CG." I won't speak for Andreas, but in my case, that statement just isn't true. First, I'm not a Disney employee, even though I continue to work for the company on numerous projects. They include a test with Roger Rabbit animated in CG to prove we could do a squashy-stretchy character, a stereoscopic CG version of Aladdin's genie and, most...