The making of Hercules

The making of the Hunchback of Notre Dame

For the next while I'm going to show you the making of a few Disney films.

My top 3 favourite Disney characters

This list is going to go against all 52 Disney classics. And also I'm not going to include the Pixar characters in this in case it's obvious that the Toy Story characters are number 1. This list can include one individual character or a group of characters.
3. Jiminy Cricket: Not only do I think Jiminy is one of the best Disney characters ever but also I've seen him on a bunch of other Disney related things like Kingdom Hearts and a f other things like that. At the very beginning of Pinocchio he sings a song called "When you wish upon a star" which is Disney's theme song because... well listen to this.

All I can say is he's a great character and one of Disney's best.
2. Maleficent: O.K this might be cheating because she's a villain but I just figured I should put her on this list. I've talked about Maleficent a bunch of time I don't think there's much I can say about this character except she's one of Disney's best. (Also I saw the live-action Maleficent movie this summer and I have to say... it was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I'd skip it if I were you.)
And my number 1 favourite Disney character is... Tiana, Naveen, Louis and Ray: I couldn't really decide which should be number 1 so I decided to give them all the number 1 spot. I'm going to say the name of them and say what I like about them. With Tiana I like her for the seriousness, her positivity and she does seem to be the only character who actually does seem identifiable with what she wants and what she'll go to achieve her goal. With Naveen I like for his funny moments and his new behaviour after the hunter scene. With Louis I like his funny scenes and that he doe seem to really care about his friends. With Ray it's the same as Louis. All I can say left is that these are great characters and my favourite Disney characters.

My top 3 Santa Clauses

This list is going to be counting my favourite Santa's from movies I've seen.
3. The nightmare before Christmas: Granted, this Santa doesn't get much scene time in the film but for the scenes he did get, I really liked him. The main character is a skeleton named "Jack Skeleton" who kidnaps him to take over his job. Then 3 evil kids named Lock, Shock and Barrel bring him a bag of bugs (literally) named "Oogie Bogie" who just toys with this Santa. Oogie Bogie is the villain of this movie. Besides all that the Santa here does seem to be a loving and kind one who may at times seems a bit grumpy, but can you blame him, he's being kidnapped and being held hostage. He's a great one.
2. The Santa Clause: This movie is a Disney version and it has a really good Santa in it. He's played by Tim Allen who also played Buzz Lightyear and he hits just the right mark in this roll. He looks the part and he does do his best to try and make every Christmas a good and happy Christmas. I'd say I personally enjoy him the most in the third one, which is also one of my most favourite Christmas films ever.
And my number 1 favourite Santa Clause is...Arthur Christmas: This film delivers to us a kind and loving Santa where it also creates a great premise around him. This Santa has a really bad memory which show a lot of funny moments. When you watch him you do get the feeling like this is the kind of Santa who's been doing the work the most. At the end of the film he does see that the best thing to do is to give his job to his youngest son, "Arthur." When you see him do it it's pretty heart-warming. Also when there's a sort of quiet scene with him and you can just imagine what he's thinking. I especially like his sweetness and kind moments. He's just a great one. I'd say check this movie out yourself and just see how much of a great performance the actor delivered. For me, he's my favourite movie Santa.

My top 3 Christmas specials

Now that it's the time of Christmas I'm going to be spending the next few weeks talking about some Christmas things. So for today I'm today I'm going to be talking about my top 3 favourite TV specials. Number 1 might actually surprise you.
3. The Spongebob specials: There's actually only been 2 Spongebob specials and the second one "A Spongebob Christmas" is by far my favourite. It's stock motion actually. My absolute favourite part is the ending with all the characters together and there's even that really cool Christmas song. Listen to this.

It's definitely one of the greatest Christmas songs I've ever heard. I don't think there's much more for me to say except for that I love this special and it's staying on this list as number 3.
2. The Powerpuff girls: Twas the fight before Christmas: I know it's strange to put this on the list considering it is kind of a bit of a girls TV show and yeah the show does kind of annoy me, that is except for this episode, which is by far my favourite episode of the whole show. It's a little hard to explain everything so I'll just skip the plot. I guess my last words are, it's a great Christmas special and I love to watch it every single time.
And my number 1 favourite Christmas special of all time is... Billy and Mandy save Christmas: Billy and Mandy is a TV show I've loved all my life and the Christmas special is by far my favourite episode as well as my favourite Christmas special ever. Billy is this stupid by friendly and likable person. Mandy is an arrogant, greedy and jerky person who at times seems unlikable but when something serious happens she does seem to want things to go well and even making sure everyone's happy. In this, them and their friend, the Grim Reaper head to the north pole only to find that Santa has been turned into a vampire by the head, head vampire. Now the 3 of them have to find and destroy the head, head vampire and save Christmas. There's actually a lot of twists in this that all works so well. There are a lot of really great deliveries here that are great to listen to. And finally my last word are the same as the last one, it's a spectacular Christmas special and my personal favourite special ever and I'm going to be watching a lot more times in the future.

Tangled

Like I said in my last review I now it's too late to do this review considering that it's a C.G.I movie but I just thought I should do it anyway. What's the story? In a far away kingdom there's a magic flower called the golden flower that can be used to give you eternal youth. But it can only work when you sing a certain song that a witch named "Mother Gothel" figured out. As it turns out she's been using the flower for hundreds of years that is until the queen of the land gets incredibly sick while she's having her baby. So some soldiers are told to find the flower to be used to keep her alive and know that it's gone Mother Gothel loses her ability to keep young. It seems that the flower has been crushed down and has been passed to the queen and kings daughter "Rapunzel." And the power of the flower actually seems to be in her hair. So Mother Gothel kidnaps Rapunzel when she's just a baby and uses the power of her hair to grow younger. This opening is actually a pretty good setup since they do explain everything perfectly in just those few minutes. And the rest of the story is actually pretty good too. Rapunzel grows up into a teenager with her witch mother and chameleon friend named "Pascal." But when a famous thief named "Flynn" enters her tower she knocks him out and tries to get some information out of him. He agree that if she lets him go he'll lead her to this ceremony that seems to take place every year on her birthday. This ceremony is raising a bunch of lanterns in the hope that someday she'll find it and return home. And the rest I'm pretty sure you can easily guess. So the story is actually very creative. The characters are not bad I guess. Rapunzel is a regular sweet, fun-loving and nice princess and she's a good character. Flynn is really funny because of his wise-cracking jokes. Mother Gothel is the villain and she does seem to be a good one. There are some thugs in this who are really, really funny characters. They have a song where they all tell their dreams which is a fun song. Speaking of which, I'm going to be talking about the songs in a second. But no matter what, my two favourite characters are Pascal and a horse named "Maximus." They're both none speaking comic-relief animals who make me laugh extremely hard when ever they're on screen. Now, like I was just saying about the songs, their all pretty forgettable and not fun to listen to, except for the thug song I was just saying. Like I was saying before I was going to compare The Princess & the Frog to this and yeah it's obvious that I'm going to say that the Princess & the Frog is better in my opinion. While the characters in this are good and the animation is impressive, the Princess has everything including those 1000 times better. For this one I do really like. I'd say this is worth a few watches. And everyone those were the 2-D Disney animated movies all reviewed. I hope you enjoyed them and hopefully you can watch these movies yourselves and think of your own opinions on them. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed.

The Princess and the Frog

I know it's weird to talk about this film considering I've talked about it 1000 times. Though I thought it'd be a good idea since I've done a review for a lot of the other Disney films. Remember how before on my top 3 movies that didn't get sequels? Remember how I said there was more to the story then what I told originally said to you all. If you don't remember I'd go back and look at it but if you do remember, here's the upper part of the story. O.K so got up to the part where Tiana was turned into a frog and she and Naveen got stuck in the Bayou and now they're trying to get back to the New Orleans city to turn back to normal and stop the Shadow-man with Louis the Alligator and Ray the Firefly. As that's going on the Shadow-man, as it turns out has a deal with the underworld saying if they can get Naveen back for him and once he takes over New Orleans, they can devour as many souls from people as much as they want. But in order to take control of the town h has to have Lawrence, Naveen's former assistant marry Charlotte, Tiana's best friend, but they need to get Naveen blood into some kind of small talisman that Lawrence is wearing to make himself look like Naveen at a certain amount of time or else it'll all just go away. But as it also turns out Naveen has to be kissed by Charlotte because her father is the king of some kind of parade which technically means she's a princess and apparently Naveen has to be kissed by any princess to break the spell over himself and Tiana. But that has to be done by mid-night on the night it ends or else she's not a princess anymore. But on top of that Both Tiana and Naveen of course begin to fall-in love with each other while trying to help each other through their faults and finally the Shadow-man actually kills Ray by just stomping on him and there's actually a very depressing funeral scene. Now you could say that there's too many details in this story which makes it too complicated and too long to explain or understand everything that's going on, but for me I think it really works and the reasons are because of the characters, the music plus the songs and the execution. It all turns to be brilliantly written. As I've said before, my favourite character is either Tiana, Naveen, Louis or Ray. Really, to me, every character in this movie is just spectacular. Also I've also said before on how I would really love to see a Princess and the Frog world in Kingdom Hearts 3. And like I showed you all, I've made my own plan for a plot that could happen while Sora, Donald and Goofy are there. The songs were composed and written by Randy Newman, my favourite Disney and Pixar composer. The songs in this are just great to listen to. My favourite is the song "When we're human" sang by Tiana, Naveen and Louis. As it turns out all the actors who did the voices for all the characters actually did their singing voices as well. As I've also said in my top 10 favourite movies I said how the Shadow-man is a really great villain and if I found this movie before I did my top 5 Disney villains I definitely would of put him on it. Remember how I said in my last review on Treasure Planet I said how this film was directed by John Musker and Ron Clements and how their my favourite Disney directors because they've directed a lot of other Disney movies I love, they still are. So to finish up I guess my final thought are that this movie is still movie is still one of my favourite movies ever and it always will be. I know this was still technically the last hand-drawn 2-D animated Disney film, I'm going to do one more Disney review. Tangled I know it's too late to do that one but a lot of people lie to compare that movie to this one seeing how they both have a princess in them and Tangled was released right after this one. So join me next and I hope you enjoy this movie because I forever will.