Better Fiction: The Blog

The Incredibles
Finding Nemo
Kung Fu Panda: Does this movie deserve its exalted position? Time will tell. For the moment, it's a favorite, but I admit that it could easily drop below "Beauty and the Beast", a long-time favorite.
Beauty and the Beast: Tight, wonderful writing.
Pinocchio
Cinderella
Shrek
The Iron Giant: Hard to know where to put this one. We're getting into gray areas here. Maybe "Akira" should have been above "Flushed Away". Above "Iron Giant", too?
Flushed Away
Akira
Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
The Little Mermaid
Sleeping Beauty
Les Triplets de Belleville: Mybiggest problem is the inclusion of two topless scenes just to try to prove this isn't a kids' film.
Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-rabbit: If I could include the sort films, they'd be further up the list.
Tarzan
The Simpson's Movie: Avoided seeing this for a long time, but I have to admit it was well done.
Spirited Away
Ice Age 2
The Nightmare Before Christmas: First (and only?) time I saw this was during its opening week in Los Angeles. Great fanfare, but I had such a roaring headache I couldn't enjoy the film.
Toy Story 2: Strangely, I've discovered that many list this as the best animated film of all time--or at least the list maker's favorite.
Aladdin
Chicken Run
Fantasia
Toy Story
Antz--First saw this on an airline. It's a better movie that way.
Ice Age
A Bug's Life--Now we're into the ho-hum level of Pixar. This and Monster's Inc. are not my favorites. Perhaps they need to farther down the list.
Monsters Inc
Lilo & Stitch--Before the semi-merge with Pixar, this looked to be that last creative effort of merit by Disney
Bolt--Disney is back
Steamboy
Coraline--Note to film-makers: we are tired of leading child characters we want to strangle.
The Lion King--Big success, horrible structure problems
Ratatouille--I can't get past the horrid voice over. It kills the opening of the picture.
Shrek 3
Cars--Why are they making a sequel?
Wall-E--I know, this is your FAVORITE. This story came in two parts, the first dragged on too long, the second was a rushed, humorless mess that made me cringe whenever it actually attempted dialog.
Madagascar
Madagascar II
Dumbo
Bambi
101 Dalmatians--Dubmo, Bambi, and Dalmatians are just about forgettable as far as I'm concerned. I know they're classics and you love them. That's fine with me.
James and The Giant Peach
The Corpse Bride--Such promise. Such a horrid ending. So little imagination.
Shark Tale--Has its high points. Maybe warrants a higher rating.
Chicken Little
Mulan
Pocahontas--During the second golden age, there were two Disney groups at work. The group responsible for Pocahontas and Mulan didn't know what it was doing.
The Rescuers
The Rescuers II
Shrek 2--Shudder
Robots--A kid's film full of sex jokes.
Happy Feet--Boring and over-the-top liberal preachiness.
The Wild--Nothing good about this horror except for the chameleons.