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[theinevitable]

I am obviously younger than you, as I remember loving that movie so much.

[CortJstr]

I became this kid during fifth grade, when everyone at my school was hella obsessed with The Lion King and it got regularly shown on movie-related special occasions, and I hated Lion King all to hell. I'd be desperately scraping up excuses to be in the hallway or bathroom or anywhere that wasn't the gymnasium, where 90% of my schoolmates would be speaking verbatim the memorized dialogue of a film I despised.

(For the record: yes, I still hate that movie, and no, I can't really articulate why. I think it was just the film that made me sick of Disney's shit, and there is something about it that turns my stomach to this day.)

Have you ever tried watching Kimba the White Lion?

[Lister]

When I was very, very, young (about avatar age), and we had one of the first VCRs available (It had wood paneling and a corded remote, and giant knobs to change channels), I was obsessed with the fact that I could watch Charlotte's Web at any time that I demanded it.  Apparently I would just keep yelling "THE PIG!  THE PIG!" until someone gave in and put it on for me.

I don't particularly remember it now, nor do I like it, but my parents keep buying me new versions of it thinking I will love it.

The Lion King was where I stopped liking Disney films again, too.  I basically kind of liked the Little Mermaid, then really got into Aladdin, and then I was done.  Maybe it was going to band competitions where we'd be one of the first to play (small school), then watching at least twenty bands play Circle of Life and/or Hakuna Matata.  Or maybe that was when I started realizing you can have epic animation without musicals.  I'm pretty much opposed to musicals.

[RMJ12345]

I don't particularly remember it now, nor do I like it, but my parents keep buying me new versions of it thinking I will love it.

I don't get the fuss about the movie Charlotte's Web. I loved the book and will take any excuse to talk about E.B. White, but when the movie gets brought up and I try and bring up the book, my friends call me a nerd.

I loved The Lion King, but I started hating Disney movies after that. It's like they got too caught up in their own mystique and spent way too much time on the animation and songs and not enough on crafting a good story. Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Aladdin, all awesome. Hercules on (except for Mulan) was sh*t.

Does anyone else think that The Lion King ~ Hamlet?

Simba = Hamlet
Scar = Claudius
Mufasa = King Hamlet

Think about it. I haven't.

[iron_felix]

I think it's been pretty well established that The Lion King is basically Hamlet on the Serengeti, and with the ending changed to make it kid-friendly (much like they did with The Little Mermaid.)  In fact, now that I think about it, I wonder if they didn't just make it all lions and stuff because they knew people would be up in arms if they gave a Shakespearean tragedy the Disney treatment.

[Choop]

When did Mike Lasseter leave Disney for good to go perma-Pixar? That might be what killed Disney's movies, story-wise.

Plus then they dropped all cel animation for computer-rendering. Hunt's move, that.

[side_show]

Man, I've spent the last two days planning workshops for the two person production of Hamlet, from Denmark, about to go up at my theatre, then I cam home yesterday to the SO watching this, and now you people too!

[Drastic Action]

So both Hamlet and Judge Judy are part of the contemporary collective psyche.

[Victoria Waterfield]

Current toddler status, 3/1
"Terrible Twos" is a diplomatic understatement. Even the dog wants to sell her to the gypsies ("RUFF RUFF RYPSIES?!").

[colmore]

Lilo & Stitch was really great.  Shame they canned the Cel Animation department so soon afterwards.

Lion King I'd give a B+.  I'm a big fan of a lot of Disney's "slump years" stuff like The Rescuers, they were less afraid of being dark then.  But their run from Snow White - Fantasia is flawless.

Movies I watched until the VCR wore out the magnetic tape:

The Star Wars Trilogy (could recite the opening text before I could read -- made my parents read it to me that many times)
All of the lesser Dr. Suess Movies (Pontiful Pock, Grinch Grinches the Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who etc. etc.  Chuck Jones did a lot of them and they were great)

But my favorites, and I mean this, were those cheap-ass movies collecting the cartoons from 1920s and 1930s jazz & bendy arm cartoon studios that weren't Disney or WB (usually Ub Iwerks & Fleischer Brothers) Anyone with kids should pick these up ($1 DVDs at Walmart) to instill a deep subconscious appreciation for REAL American art & culture.

[littlefallsmets]

Ub Iwerks

Flip the Frog rocks my shit.

[theinevitable]

um, yeah, The Rescuers was my favorite movie. I watched it until the tape broke. I loved those movies.

[Doc]

Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid, Aladdin, all awesome. Hercules on (except for Mulan) was sh*t.

Exactly

I could never get into the old school bendy arm animation, though I watched it a little as a kid. I think it was because so much of it was music based and I just wasn't into that. Though I do remember watching an old Lulu animation of 'You could grow up to be a mule' or whatever that song is called.
Pop-eye was cool though, particularly the Sinbad episode.

[wombat]

Current toddler status, 3/6
We spent the better part of the morning eating toothpaste and clipping our toenails.

[jaydub]

My daughter (who just turned 5!) recently got the message that you're supposed to spit out the toothpaste.  Comically, she has not yet developed the necessary oral skills, so we do that part of the evening routine naked.  Well, she's naked anyway.  That's not the sort of thing daddys get undressed for.