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...depart the next morning for Palm Beach to go directly to the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club. Charles, who has brought along his own equipment for his favorite sport, will engage in a friendly match. Plans for the pregame festivities, rife with quirky Americana, included appearances by Disney World's Minnie and Mickey Mouse, a kind of cartoon royal couple...
...every damn time I finish listening to the song, I experience the same horrifying prophecy. I see it becoming the opening-credits music for some Disney Channel Original Movie about a skinny (but surprisingly buxom) white 12-year-old and her meaningless problems at Palo Alto Junior High. “Sweet lord,” I think to myself, “this…this isn’t ‘original!’ This isn’t ‘challenging!’ It’s glossy! It’s mass...
Time to put all that behind us. The Black Cauldron, based on the Chronicles of Prydain series of books by Lloyd Alexander, is the 25th full-length "cartoon" from Disney. That means that by this time the only tradition to which it must be true is its own--not the folklorists', not the child psychologists', not the literary world's. And within those terms it is fine, and perhaps more ambitiously so than any other recent work from the studio. This is the first Disney cartoon feature to receive an admonitory PG rating; more important, it is the first...
...expensive nowadays to attempt the miraculously detailed subtlety of Pinocchio, which remains the masterpiece of the Disney manner. But the new boys know how to create wonderful transformations in a character's expression with a deft stroke or two, and they have mastered the deliciously parodistic plasticity required by the movements of their ever twisting-turning-tumbling creatures. Their pastoral scenes still glow with the old Disney sweetness, and the ones of foreboding glower with the old relish for the grotesque. They satisfy an older viewer's nostalgic feeling for his childhood's delight while fulfilling the younger crowd...
...title role, and will also provide the music. Set to premiere in 1986, the twelve-minute film, titled Captain Eo, will feature state-of the-art 3-D effects, and the chance to play with that process attracted Coppola. The movie will be shown only at Disneyland and Disney World. "It has a lot of drama, singing and dancing, lots of characters and great space battles," Lucas says. "Ships will come right out of the audience, and lasers will shoot by everyone's head." All in twelve minutes? Promises Lucas: "You would be surprised what you can do in twelve...