Fantasia (1940) and Fantasia 2000 (2000, duh)
The Aristocats (1970)*
The Rescuers (1977)* and The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
The Fox and the Hound (1981)*
The Black Cauldron (1985)
The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Oliver and Compay (1988)*
Dinosaur (2000)*
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001)
Treasure Planet (2002)
Brother Bear (2003)
Home on the Range (2004)
Chicken Little (2005)*
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Bolt (2008)
The ones with asterisks were all childhood movies for me, most of whom I watched countless times over and over again on VHS at my grandma's house lol. And damn, the 2000s were rough for them.
Fantasia is my absolute shit. It literally sparked my love of music. I'm not even really into classical, but the idea of artists making animations based solely on how a piece of music makes them feel is amazing to me.
Fantasia and Peter and the Wolf both really stand out in my childhood memories because they're when I started to think of instrumental music as narrative and imagery. It completely blew my mind.
Same! Although the deleted centaur scenes are disturbingly racist as fuck, do not recommend
Treasure Planet is my personal favorite on this list.
Dinosaur's good (as a dinosaur nerd). I genuinely appreciate the effort they went to not showing more iconic dinosaurs, even if it was likely a choice driven by the sales dept.
Aristocats, The Jungle Book, and Robin Hood (and definitely a few more by the same artist) all have a very comfy feel to them, probably thanks in part to the quality of the audio.
I'm still mad about Atlantis: The Lost Empire being rushed and the switch completely to 3D animation
I also watched all of these many times on VHS
i know its not in the disney canon but i always loved A Goofy Movie as a child. had it on vhs and watched it all the time
As a major Lloyd Alexander nerd, Black Cauldron is a brutal disappointment
This movie is worth less in whole versus the sum of it's parts. The animation is fantastic. The source material is great. The music is top notch. Amazing villain. And...
The movie is middling at best.
Atlantis and Treasure Planet are peak animation. Wish they were musicals but I wish everything was an 1830s Grand Opera so whatever.
The Great Mouse Detective is very charming, mostly because of Vincent Price.
The Rescuers rules, I also had it on a VHS I would watch over and over
oh wow, what a trip!
The Aristocats (1970)* Chicken Little (2005)*
i feel like everyone talks about these ones...?
The Rescuers (1977)* and The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
holy fuck thank you, i forgot what these were called. i'm gonna do some drugs with my siblings and watch them
Dinosaur (2000)*
i got really drawn into the plot as a kid, but damn the animation in this movie doesn't hold up
Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) Treasure Planet (2002)
great couple of films. i think there was an atlantis sequel as well
Bolt (2008)
this one is absolute trash from what i remember. tasteless kitch
How about the VHS with Willie the Operatic Whale, Lambert the Sheepish Lion, and Ferdinand the Bull all in one convenient package? I loved it.
"meet the robinsons" is weird but i remember me and my sister really loving it, also you forgot BROTHER BEAR 2
Um, technically that wasn't by Walt Disney Animation Studios sweaty.
oh yeah just checked it is a disneytoon studio joint, the cursed disney sequel makers, also joaquin phoenix is the actual voice actor for the main bear on the first movie
