The jazz, the stylings, the familial interactions—they all feel authentic and like a genuine step forward.
All tagged Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
The King Is Dead - The Lion King
If you are going to remake a nearly perfect film, make sure it is not a craven carbon copy. Infuse it with new ideas or daring angles. At least then, even if your movie is not revolutionary, no one can say it is what 2019’s The Lion King winds up being—boring.
Toy Story 4
Toy Story 4 has just enough fresh perspective to justify its own existence—which is more than can be said about the fourth entry in nearly every other franchise.
End of an Era - Avengers: Endgame
In a way, it was all always one story. It was always Endgame.
Mostly Just Marvel - Captain Marvel
We get the origins of S.H.I.E.L.D., the origins of Captain Marvel and a good look at how she fits into where the franchise is headed from here. But all of that was to be assumed. How successfully they pulled that off is another matter entirely.
Cracked, But Not Broken - Glass
This is not “Good Shyamalan.” It is well below The Sixth Sense and not on par with Unbreakable and Split either. Instead, it’s a barely worthwhile attempt to extend the universe he created in its predecessors. But it’s interesting.
Not Quite - Incredibles 2
While Incredibles 2 manages to be fairly entertaining, it is mid-grade Pixar at best. It is still very good, but a number of confounding decisions left it feeling incomplete even as its runtime approached 2 hours.
Running Through The Temple - Star Wars: The Last Jedi
If The Force Awakens was a re-tread bridge to the past, this is a bold, new bridge to the future and I am here for it.
Night of the Dead Living - Coco
Absentee fathers, career expectations, racial identity. It is par for the course for Pixar to include themes that reach adults, but these are all tackled in a way that feels accessible to kids as well. In a way only Pixar can, they somehow seem to speak on multiple levels with each scene.
Review: Beauty and the Beast
Put simply, Beauty and the Beast has just enough Disney magic working in its favor that it would be hard not to make a winner.