All Disney Features and Shorts in Release Order - a challenge?
Film #814
Disney adds yet another film to its continuum of horse-focused docudramas. It’s almost unfair to judge this as a standalone piece, given that it was most commonly screened alongside a full-length feature.
Very much in the vein of The Horse with the Flying Tail, it follows a familiar arc: a horse cycles through a series of “wrong” owners before finally discovering its true calling as a trotter.…
All Disney Features and Shorts in Release Order - a challenge?
Film #813
By this stage, you know the drill. Walt hands the mic to the polymathic Ludwig Von Drake for a series of interstitials, this time sandwiched between a parade of Goofy cartoons. It had been a few years since we’d seen one of these, but it’s very much in the vein of the similarly themed The Goofy Sports Story.
In fact, some…
I'm still not sure if this was an indictment of toxic masculinity or an exemplar of its prevalence, but man - those camera angles and edits. It's definitely one of the more stylish manga adaptations of recent memory, but it's seriously weird, man. And I say that while watching the first episode of the 1990 musical cop drama series Cop Rock.
Completely devoid of anything resembling a singular plot, the first five minutes is like a trailer for the film followed by a 15 minute car chase that blows any other action scene of late out of the water. The politics of the film are super weird, almost as strange as the camera angles and whiplash editing, and no opportunity for a butt in lingerie goes past Mr. Bay. Still, if you're not prone to seizures brought on from rapid flashes,…
