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...PAST few years, it looked as if Walt Disney Productions had lost its way Apparently not content with the sort of films that entertained generations, of moviegoers. Disney sought to widen its audience appeal, as if audiences could be larger than those that appreciate Disney's Peter Pun of Dumbo As a result, the studio presented the likes of Trol, an elephant of a different, less charming sort With Tex. Disney happily regains its proper course, offering a movie that, like a black hole but unlike Disney's The Black Hole draws an audience completely into its environment. An examination...
...floating on a sea like the isle of Cythera itself, framed by a "classical" Poussinesque clutter of arching trees, fallen columns and pediments and other bric-a-brac. It has the deeply sincere vulgarity of a holy card: an alliance between Alexander Gerasimov, Stalin's favorite artist, and Walt Disney...
...harsh or deep the animosity, a good enemy will often become first recognizable, then familiar and eventually even likable. "My only love sprung from my only hate!" said Juliet, thus crumbling in an exclamation what her forebears took decades to develop. When the American Civil War was over, Walt Whitman lamented: "My enemy is dead, a man divine as myself is dead." With enemies like that, who needs friends! This is the danger of applying conscience to what ought to be conducted by naked reflex. It is benumbing to consider how many perfectly good enmities have been ruined...
...days a Walt Disney movie would have concentrated all its considerable sentimental energies on just one of the situations taken up in Tex. That would have been the forced sale (to pay the grocery and utility bills) of Rowdy, the horse much beloved by its adolescent title character. But even in small Oklahoma towns the world moves on, becomes more complicated; and before this modest, intelligent and entirely engaging movie concludes, young Tex has not only come to terms with Rowdy's loss, but been introduced to almost all the other perils a youngster must cope with these days...
Despite, or maybe because of, the sanitizing, Epcot is bound to be a huge success. Though the new venture is more than half financed from its own assets, the Disney organization is no longer the magic profitmaker that Uncle Walt bequeathed. Disney films have flopped almost without exception since Mary Poppins in 1964; the organization's celluloid bid for adult acceptance, TRON, has yet to recoup its $22 million expenditure. The recession and the declining appeal of its theme parks have reduced attendance at Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom. Epcot Center is expected to attract 9 million admissions...