Category: Disney Live Action Remakes
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Snow White
3 outta 5 Snow White is yet another in Disney’s seemingly endless parade of Live Action Remakes, and even though the original Snow White and the Seven Dwarves is a technical classic that moved the animation medium forward, it isn’t exactly resonating with audiences for today. For proof, one has to look at the remake’s…
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The Little Mermaid
4 outta 5 As the seemingly inevitable Disney Live Action remake parade continues, it is now time for The Little Mermaid. Disney is probably remaking all its animated classics just so people will stay on the Disney Plus app for related content after watching a remake. Surprisingly, this turned out pretty good even if this…
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Cruella (’21 review)
4 outta 5 Disney has been plowing through an animated live action remakes, some are static recreations like Mulan or Cinderella, others take different angles like Maleficent and now Cruella, a sorta prequel to the animated film. This wild movie is about five different genres mashed up into a blender with a classic punk and…
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Mulan (’20 review)
4 out of 5 The 2020 Mulan live-action remake of Disney’s 1998 animated Mulan is definitely the same story in both versions, give or take an Eddie Murphy voiced dragon. However, unlike copy and paste recent Disney adaptations like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin or The Lion King, this Mulan has pep. It looks great…
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The Lion King (’19 review)
3 outta 5 Disney’s 2019’s The Lion King photorealistic CGI animated film is a perfectly serviceable remake of the iconic Disney 1994 2D animated The Lion King. The story and tunes is all there as The Lion King has a good bedrock foundation that is hard to completely screw it up. Visually, the look of…
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Dumbo (’19 review)
3 outta 5 Dumbo is the first of four live action remakes Disney is putting out this year. Next is the Will Smith as an oddly designed Genie in Aladdin, later there’s The Lion King which really isn’t live action (the grass and some tress may be real) but the animals are made to look…
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The Jungle Book (’16 review)
3 outta 5 The Jungle Book is yet another of Disney’s recent foray into live action remakes of its extensive back catalogue of animated features. Initially, there were twists to the storylines like Alice in Wonderland or Maleficent. Lately, Disney’s recent spate of remaking classics like Cinderella, this movie, and the upcoming Beauty and the…
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Alice in Wonderland (’10 review)
3 out of 5 Tim Burton is one of the most dynamic visual filmmakers around and his latest outing, a semi-sequel of sorts to the classic tale Alice In Wonderland (even though it shares the same title…confused yet?) certainly has some pizzazz. Sometimes it’s so overdone it degenerates into a lot of noise and CGI…
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