Category: Disney Movies

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Chicken Little was theatrically released as the forty-sixth full length animated feature in Disney history on November 4, 2005. It is based on the fable of the same name and clocks in at 81 minutes. The film was released amidst immense pressure for Disney, as a poor reception could have destroyed…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Home on the Range was theatrically released as the forty-fifth full length animated feature in Disney history on April 2, 2004. It is seventy-six minutes in length. The film started towards its eventual structure in 2001, changing course from an initial project called “Sweating Bullets,” which was scheduled to be released…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Atlantis: The Lost Empire was theatrically released as the forty-first full-length animated feature in Disney history on June 15, 2001. It is based on Plato’s legendary utopia and clocks in at ninety-five minutes. A direct-to-DVD sequel, Atlantis: Milo’s Return, was released on May 20, 2003. Disappointment Atlantis received mediocre reviews from…

DVD Cover ©Disney The forty-third full-length animated feature in Disney history, Treasure Planet was theatrically released on November 27, 2002. It is based on Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island and is ninety-five minutes in length. Plot Summary On the planet Montressor, a world inhabited by both humans and aliens, a teenage boy named Jim…

DVD Cover © Disney  Winnie the Pooh was released as the fifty-first full-length animated feature in Disney history on July 15, 2011. It is based on the Pooh stories by A. A. Milne and is sixty-three minutes in length. Winnie the Pooh is the second-shortest of Disney’s fifty-four full-length animated features released through 2014. At…

The Three Caballeros was released as the seventh full-length animated feature in Disney history on December 21, 1944. It was the second of six consecutive “package” films released by Disney and clocks in at seventy-two minutes. Plot Summary It is Friday the thirteenth. That means two things. First, it is the unluckiest day of the…

The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was theatrically released as the twenty-second full-length animated feature in Disney history on March 11, 1977. The movie is based on A.A. Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh books and is seventy-four minutes in length. Back to the 40s The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was the first “package film” released…

Brother Bear was theatrically released on November 1, 2003 as the forty-fourth full-length animated feature in Disney history. The flick is eighty-five minutes in length. Brother Bear was followed by a direct-to-DVD sequel, Brother Bear 2, which was released on August 9, 2006. Plot Summary In post-ice age North America, a young Inuit named Kenai…

The forty-second full-length animated feature in Disney history, Lilo and Stitch was theatrically released on June 21, 2002. The flick is eighty-five minutes in length. Plot Summary At the Galactic Federation Headquarters on Planet Turbo, Dr. Jumba Jookiba has invented an alien, Experiment 626, which possesses an ability to “think faster than [a] supercomputer” and…

The Black Cauldron was released as the twenty-fifth full-length animated feature in Disney history on July 24, 1985. It is loosely based on the first two books, The Book of Three and The Black Cauldron, in Lloyd Alexander’s fantasy series The Chronicles of Prydain and clocks in at eighty minutes. Plot Summary Long ago in…

This year is going to be an excellent year in cinema. That statement is especially true for Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. There are 10 fine movies coming our way on the big screen, 2 short films, 3 new Disney Channel original movies, and one movie to DVD and Blu-Ray. Here’s what you and your…