Disney Animated Films - Ranked

It was just a joyless waste of time and energy. Nothing in it that was even remotely compelling or engaging.

Boring, flat and uninteresting.

I thought it was okay. It got better as it went on, but the first act of the film was so mundane and boring. It really felt like a step back to Disney princess films from way back, but without the charm and heart that made those films successful in their days. Thankfully the film does improve a lot on the way, but it does never manage to capture the Disney magic we've come to love.

A huge issue for me is that the songs, for the most part, fails to engage me and when such a huge part of the characters journey is told through the songs, I'm struggling to emotionally connect with the characters. The film is visually pleasant to look at and it does a few fun things with its mythology and giant sea creatures, but this is all on spectacle level and not on an emotional. So I will say that this is a film that probably someone else, and certainly young girls, will get more out of, but I just found it to be okay.

RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET is a fine film once it finally gets going. The problem is that it takes forever for it to pick up momentum: It's so sloe and tedious to begin with, with jokes constantly falling flat that I seriously feared for the film. Thankfully it starts to pick itself up and once it do, it's visually pleasant, funny and heartfelt enough for me to start caring about whatever was happening on screen.

It's a wonderfully animated and delightful film with a lot of charm and humorous moments. It's a rather entertaining film, despite it using every familiar story beat that we've seen before.

But Big Hereo 6 is a film that relies a lot on Baymax. This is a character that delivers basically everything that's note-worthy in this film, and without him it would have been very average. Instead it's been elevated to good.

Mulan is another one of those diversified Disney princesses that Disney have a tendency to do now and then, and despite it playing on slightly more daring topics than some of the other Disney films, Mulan is at its core very formulaic. Not that there's anything wrong with that when it's done as well as Mulan is.

The story of this film is very simple, and it may lack the depth and level of ambition that one usually expects from Disney. Yet in its simplicity, Disney have managed to craft a really funny film that is carried by amusing characters hilariously interacting with each other and clever gags.

It's a plethora of fun, color and clever ideas. While it's overall message is a bit too hammered in for my taste, this was a film that continuously kept surprising me with one humorous scene after the other. It's fast-paced, well-told and structured and have enough memorable characters in it, for us to care and get emotionally invested. Quite simply a very entertaining piece of animation and a fine achievement by Disney.