To be fair, entertainment is 50/50: sometimes you need to know what your audience wants and show that you hear them, but on the other hand, you should be innovative and tell them "this is different, but you're gonna want to check this out."
The 00's gave us some genuine, albeit underappreciated, masterpieces; The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis The Last Empire, Lilo and Stitch, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog. Since then, Disney just hasn't been the same and should really look back on what made the 90s and 00s spectacular. It wouldn't hurt either to try bringing back hand drawn animation
@lars7282 Fair enough, that's your opinion. And to be fair, Chicken Little and Bolt are very forgetful films. I will defend Atlantis and Treasure Planet to the death however
I agree honestly. I loved Atlantis, treasure planet and the princess and the frog!! I think the key is in bringing back 2D animation, there's just something magical about it that 3D can't emulate
@@miguelmunuera2601 You're preaching to the choir mate. I miss the days when Disney was synonymous with hand drawn animation. I could never imagine my favourite Disney film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, being computer animated
Here’s the answer to “Can Disney’s Magic Return?”: It can, but the people currently in charge won’t allow it. Only when the incompetent executives are purged will the magic return
The thing is, it's in their best interest for it to return. That's what is so confusing. They would make so much more money if they actually focused on creating compelling stories & characters...
We must Refuse to turn our backs on hope. If Wish brings us back, A renaissance must happen in 2024. Execs just has to listen to us and stop thinking 💴 over Passion. I would love earn the dough too, but I would make an honest passion earning it,for the passion, not the bucks.
I think the main reason Disney has been going through such a downward spiral is because parodies have become the main trend in American animation. DreamWorks "Shrek" franchise was meant to parody Disney's idealistic fairytales, and lot of popular American TV cartoons these days seem to follow a similar mix of humor and seriousness as "Avatar: The Last Airbender" such as "The Owl House", "Steven Universe", and "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power". People are more critical of what constitutes a strong character and overlook the possibility of strength behind characters who might be more quiet and reserved.
@@miguelmunuera2601But then they still had Disney veterans around, as well as Walt’s own nephew. Now we have Bob - the most evil Disney villain of all time. Disney don’t even know how to animate anymore.
They've made some great movies while Bob's been around though. Lilo & Stitch, Atlantis, Princess & the frog. Movies that hold traditional Disney values, so if they've done it before I'm sure they can go back to that!
@@miguelmunuera2601and remember Disney had like 4 comebacks and they were all princess movies like Snow white Cinderella the little mermaid and tangled Bonus is The great mouse detective since it saved the Disney studio by going bankrupt because of the black cauldron
Great video!! It reminded me of why I always loved Disney, the magic and beauty Disney brought to my life. What Disney had, what Disney lost and why millions of us hope Disney will regain its touch. Thank you Miguel 🙏
This is EXACTLY, why I wanted to make this video. To remind myself, but also others, of the beauty of Disney - in times where it's sometimes forgotten.
I feel like Disney needs to reimagine their animation studio again Like in 80s" with the little mermaid that was the beginning of the renaissance , they haven't going in a good direction lately and have lost the creativity of creating new Stories But something tells me that maybe they still have some magic left that they had decades ago, let's just look and the short they released a few weeks ago wish upon a studio Where they were able to gather all the Disney animation Studios characters in a group photo and it felt so nostalgic and comforting to see all of our favorites characters together and interacting with each other of almost all of thier classic animated movies just by doing that shows that Disney It still has some creativity and a sense of making a good story with memorable characters, it sems that they just hasn't gotten a spark yet and exploited beyond what they are capable of doing The people who are in charge of Disney right now are not making the best decisions and are only sinking the company. They need better people who are capable of creating good stories again and raising the quality of the company and they need to get away from all these cultural wars and politics that are only is dividing people into absurd discussions For now they have been releasing intermediate movies Some have been good and some have not. Maybe I think they are in an experimentation phase to see what works and what doesn't, so I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to see the new Wish movie they're going to realese So far it hasn't caught my attention and I don't like the music that much. Maybe I'll wait until it comes out on Disney Plus to see it the same thing is happening to Pixar and thier movies .. But for the mean time it seems that the situation is not going to improve in the short term, let's hope that Disney returns to being the animation studio it once was.
Well actually The Disney Renaissance Began in 1989 with The Little Mermaid and ran through the 90s into Th New Millennium. Well on November 17th It'll have been 34 years since The Little Mermaid Kick Started The Disney Renaissance.
Yeah from 1989-1999! 34 years...that's definitely a long time. But there was about 25/30 years from the silver age to the Renaissance. So maybe this means Disney will enter a new golden era soon!
Maybe @@miguelmunuera2601 But Hollywood has once again become as Gene Siskel put it, "Tired and Bloated We need another Mover and Shaker like Arthur Penn, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg of the 80s, George Lucas of The 70s, and Quentin Tarantino. And if you ask if I'm Volunteering, I'll say Sure. Why Not? I couldn't do worse than them. Just teach me B Role and Chroma Key and I'm good. I know how Chroma Key works in theory, I just don't know how to put it into Practice.
I believe Disney is currently in an experimental age, kinda like how it was in the 2000s. They’ve made some pretty good movies and some really bad ones in recent years. It feels like Disney is just trying to see what works and what doesn’t, which might explain why the animation in Wish looks kinda off
@@miguelmunuera2601 only do it if possible because of course higher output is better but not if it lowers the quality of the video. But hey if you can make more the same quality as this one go for it I’ll watch all of them
Goodwill is something it takes a long long time to build. Its not that people arnt forgiving. A single or 2 bad movie is quickly forgotten. But after a DECADE of constant bad movies that will be remembered? 30 years? 50?
Meanwhile,Disney Channel is doing great with the shows(mostlly animated) with Amphibia,the Owl House,Molly McGee (three of them ended),Hamster and Gretel (from the creator of Phineas and Ferb),Kiff and Hailey's on It! as examples
I hope Disney does more fairy tales, but I appreciate their original films as well. I find that a lot of critiques of current Disney is basically "it's not the renaissance." It's unfair to keep comparing the renaissance and revival eras.
Shouldn't we compare a studio as historied and influential as Disney to excellence? To their best movies? It might seem unfair but when they've accomplished so much it is kind of more expected
@@miguelmunuera2601 I think their revival era has been great for the most part. Just because it's different from the renaissance doesn't mean it isn't good in it's own right
@@miguelmunuera2601 Fair. Perhaps I'm biased because I grew up in the lackluster 2000s, so the 2010s were of great excitement for me. Raya and Strange World could've been (much) better, though.
Disney's revival of the golden age of animation, known as The Disney Renaissance, was a time of immense artistic and commercial triumph. However, critics contend that the films during this period were predictable, heavily reliant on musical numbers, influenced by Broadway, and centered around princess stories. While some argue that Disney has recaptured the spirit of the Disney Renaissance with recent films like Tangled, Frozen, Moana, and Raya and the Last Dragon, others argue that these films lack the originality, diversity, emotional depth, and cultural significance of the films released between 1989 and 1999.
That's interesting. I definitely wouldn't characterize them as predictable, and actually the Renaissance period had barely any princess stories (Tarzan, lion king, Mulan, Pocahontas, Hércules, hunchback of Notre Dame, beauty and the beast), so I'm confused as to why critics thought that, but they're definitely not perfect films.
@@miguelmunuera2601 "Beauty and The Beast," "Mulan," and "Pocahontas" are technically princess stories since they're all part of the official Disney Princess franchise, and Belle is a princess since she does get together with a prince in the end.
Great video but you forgot to add The Rescuers Down Under to your list of Disney renaissance movies. It’s a great but sadly very overlooked and almost forgotten gem of the renaissance period.
That was kind of on purpose to be honest, because it isn't as highly regarded. So I showed the movies that are more known from that era, but well pointed out :)
I agree to an extent but as a 3D animator I actually heavily dislike the way that Wish looks right now. The creative team at Disney isn’t used to experimenting with different styles when it comes to 3D animation but I think they saw the success of the creative direction from Spiderverse or Puss in Boots 2 and decided they wanted to do something that’s more cartoonishly stylized but it fell short because they still kept the same style of 3D modeling with the same-face-syndrome disney princess. I really hope it’ll have a compelling story but in terms of art direction, they really need an extra push to leave their weird comfort zone and actually create something stylized.
That's really interesting, I love getting the perspective of a 3D animator. Do you think they should go full 2D next time or can a mix of 2D and 3D look good?
@@miguelmunuera2601 I don’t think they can ever go back to doing a full 2D film considering they’ve actually gotten rid of all the equipment they had to be able to make a feature-length 2D film, at least that’s what I’ve heard according to a former Disney animator. But they could maybe do a hybrid film, I think that could end up really interesting. An example of a piece of media that is a mixture between 2D and 3D is Arcane. All the backgrounds are actually painted in 2D and so are all the effects, while the characters are all 3D. I think they implemented that much better than Disney did with Wish.
I mean this is Disney we're talking about couldn't they just pivot and buy back a lot of the equipment? Oof Arcane is an amazing example, that show is absolutely beautiful and such good execution on the animation & artistic direction front. Idk if we'll get something on that level from Disney but let's hope haha
@@miguelmunuera2601 I mean they certainly have the money to buy the equipment and I’m sure a lot of the artists there would be delighted to work on a hybrid or even fully 2D film, the issue is that the higher-ups at Disney don’t really care about creating art, they’re businessmen who are only concerned with making more and more money. I had the opportunity to talk to Nick Bruno (the director of Nimona) and he even stated that if we want Disney to change their art direction the “old men at the top” have to go, lol. But yes, I really hope Disney surprises us with something great in the future!
Ah okay, it's so awesome that you got to talk to the director of Nimona - loved that movie!. The thing that I don't understand is why they don't see that caring about creating art would only put more money in their pocket lol, so they must not be very smart.
Back then Disney made things more accurate to be more believable like the bubbles in the little mermaid the sound of the furnitures from the beauty and the beast the position of each emotions in the lion king or with Rapunzels hair the kitchen in Ratatouille now they make things more accurate to be more realistic (Cough) lion king remake
What about The Rescuers:Down Under? That's part of the Disney renaissance, and I think this is (In my opinion) Walt Disney's Animation Studios best sequel.
Great vid! I too feel that the company has kind of fallen out of favor with the public in recent years due to Disney burnout, with much of their content feeling very "been there done that." Not to mention all the controversies that seem to be following the studio left and right sooo yeah, everyone hates Disney now lol However, I do sometimes wonder if a lot of this disappointment stems from the idea that many of the tropes we admired and associated with Disney animation in our youth are now feeling more cliche and repetitive in our adulthood. Plus, the fact that we as adults now are more aware of Disney and their more corporate, monopolistic intentions and those negative feelings do affect how we view their current films when compared to our more naive and blissfully ignorant childhoods. Nostalgic bias towards the old and jaded feelings towards the new. Also the idea that the 90s films defined a generation/impacted so many kid's lives can also be applied to the Revival era films. Tangled, Frozen, Moana, and yes even Encanto ( I personally LOVED that movie but hey maybe it is Midcanto XD) Imo, these are great films that are worthy of standing head to head with the studios' previous iconic work. Whether or not Wish will join that status remains to be seen. I'm still cautiously optimistic, but, there's already some things I'm not super stoked about. That new villain song just ain't doin it for me, and Asha feels like she's following in that whole "adorkable" Disney heroine trend again. However, the animation looks pretty cool, the character designs look great, and Ariana DeBose has such an amazing singing voice.
Thanks for the amazing comment, honestly very good points. I do think part of it is bias and nostalgia, but I also heavily favor 2D animation vs 3D, I just feel like it's way more beautiful. Also, although the revival moves are good for sure, I would argue that the characters, story telling, and songs are just a slight notch above them in the Renaissance era. Anyway, let's hope Wish turns out to be a great one! So that they feel incentivized to produce more original animated movies, that's what's important :)
@@miguelmunuera2601 Oh definitely. I do believe that there was an air of sophistication with the older 2D movies, making them palatable for kids as well as adults back in the 90s. Not to say we don't get that now, but it does feel like the newer films are a bit more goofy and focused on making one-liners and jokes every 3 minutes lol. But i still love them. Also yes, 2D animation is such a misunderstood art form here in the US. Both 3D and 2D are great but there's a certain charm to seeing 2D drawings come to life with traditional hand drawn techniques. Also yes, hoping Wish will be good. Especially since the company's animation division, aside from Ralph 2/Frozen 2, has been mainly focusing on original stories. (Ralph, Zootopia, Moana, Raya, Encanto, Strange World, Wish) Wouldn't want the takeaway to be "oh, audiences want Frozen 4, Zootopia 3, Moana 2, Encanto 2" :XD
@@flipex6304 Couldn't agree more. You can just look at Japan for amazing 2D animation right now, the things they're doing with Anime, or 2d animated films are incredible. Disney should definitely take a page out of their books!
2:25 maybe I know all of these movies, but I never saw the hunchback of notre-dame, I don’t even know what the movie is about (I know the movie is about the hunchback, but I don’t know what happens in the movie).
Disney has had a variety of ages and there's always a period where they downslide or at least people feel like they are. take away the live-action remakes and the magic didn't go anywhere. it's a cycle.
True there does definitely seem to be a cycle. There was about a 30 year period between the silver age and the Renaissance where the movies were quite mediocre
I hope that Disney will make more Winnie-the-Pooh movies. I love all the characters like Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Lumpy, Owl, Rabbit, Gopher & Christopher Robin. I'm really happy that Heffalumps are being used as real good creatures ever since Lumpy debuted, but I also think that Woozles should be used a real good creatures, too, and introduce a new Woozle character for Pooh to become friends with. I think it'll only be fair if both Heffalumps and Woozles are loved and turn out to be real good toy animals and become allies to Pooh & friends instead of being imaginary, scary, nightmarish, honey-stealing creatures. I hope Disney will do a Winnie-the-Pooh Woozle movie someday. Anyway, I had always loved Winnie-the-Pooh and will always love Winnie-the-Pooh. Winnie-the-Pooh is my no. 1 favorite Disney franchise while Mickey Mouse & Friends is my no. 2 favorite franchise.
Disney had no real magic in the 70s and 80s. And now we already have the 2010s and 2020s being awful. They CAN recover, but they NEED a new Michael Eisner and Jeffrey katzenberg who believe (!) in the Disney magic. And those guys have to hire creatives - not young people who go to cal arts and post stuff on twitter and love avatar and Steven universe. REAL creatives, timeless people, who can come up with pitches where u are like: oh yes, that’s a good one! And they need variety in these stories (and art styles). If they ARENT able to find these people, then it’s over, finally.
Man they should do a live action Tarzan but done the right way I could see Henry Cavil as Tarzan and Daisy Ridley as Jane and they can also make it about Tarzan and his relationship with Clayton because as it turns out they're cousins because Tarzan's biological families' name was Clayton just like the name of the main villain of the film they could dive deep into that as well.
Just watch the newly released short ”Once Upon a Studio”. The animation was horrendous! And Wish looks incredibly bad as well. Both when it comes to the animation and to the story.
Really? I quite liked both of them to be honest, what didn't you like about the animation? Thought wish was a nice blend of 2D and 3D, but maybe that's just because I'm very tired of 3D animation haha
He is probably going at some of the characters looking a little off like what other people were talking about, but I don't know. Snow White and Pocahontas look great to me. Also Wish is one of my most anticipated movies this year.
Once upon a studio had literally the same art styles like in they're original movie what are you talking about? Animation changed and they tried to make them as accurate as the original counter of the characters even brought most of the original voice actors
I watch encantio movie that is awesome my favorite part of the movie is Maribelle runs away from her house and she was upset bruno went out to help her family build a new house ❤❤❤❤❤❤
The 2000s had some great but also had some lackluster filmography actually. 3 Example of the lackluster ones are: Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Despite its fantastic visuals the underwhelming plot and storyline is very much the downfall of this movie and that's why i coudn't connect with it the first time i watch it as a kid and even so today as i watch it again as an adult. I felt like the film focuses too much on world building, visuals and character designs rather than creating a cohesive storyline. Chicken Little - Just like Atlantis is a film that focuses too much on technical presentation on the visuals rather than crafting a great comedic storyline. Home on the Rage - A film who had unlikable characters, garish visuals and a dull premise. This movie was cringe to watch from start to finish.
Interesting, I actually heavily disagree with you on Atlantis. I think it's incredibly underrated. The dialogue is great and unique, the story is very interesting with real stakes and unique plot points, I think it's very greatly done imo
@@miguelmunuera2601 Fair enough Sir Miguel. I respect your opinion. Yes the dialogue and the visuals where the selling points but i really felt like the story is very incoherent but i understand what your saying actually. I watch that film twice only first when i was 10 in 2002 during the height of Disney Channel era and second when i was 12 in 2004. Then i watch it again this February actually 20 years later and unfortunately i still did not like it. But at the end of the day we all had different opinions so its all cool i'm just happy that you like that movie despite my dislike for it.
Im afraid it cant because of no 2d animations anymore. Sure i love frozen etc but its not the same. There cant be a second lion king (no i dont mean the sequel) super gangsta, best movie ever of all times
I was raised on every single one of the nine jewels on Disney’s crown, so seeing them wanting me to be excited to celebrate 100 years with a quirky lol-girl in some generic fantasy world ruled by a villain more sympathetic than her makes me feel particularly offended and upset.
@@miguelmunuera2601 i may be over-dramatic bc the movie didn’t even come out yet but i have right to be after the trash I’ve been subjected to come on 😂
Eh - we'll see. Don't get me wrong; I'd love it if Disney could return to their glorious roots, but the sheer amount of BS they've kludged up their system with is not going to go away overnight. Even if they make a good-faith effort to bring back the good old days, it'll still take them a few years to do it - and during that time, who knows what might happen.
That's true. Although who knows if they've been working on that behind the scenes already right? But you're right, it could be years until they turn things around
I think that Disney is too scared about this new generations PC obsession and needs to stop being afraid of offending the "morally superior" children of this day and age, because lets be real - they will find something to be offended by no matter what. Disney trying to be all inclusive and not offend ANYONE is way too concerned about the threat of cancel culture. Maybe they should stop listening to people and get creative crazy! Inner conflicts are great and all but will never be able to replace those iconic villains we love to hate! Scratch the adorkable princess - its way overdone! give me an offensive villain and some original old school story telling.
@@nevaehhamilton3493 haha wish isn't performing that well, nor has it had great reviews. It was definitely a step in the right direction but there's still a lot Disney has to improve on :)
Disney used to change to please its audience, now Disney wants its audience to change to please it.
Absolutely. Completely backwards
🤬🤬🤬😡😡😡😡NOOOOOO! Disney MUST REGAIN THEIR TRUEST CREATIVITY!!!!!
I want to ask a very simple question: What's Disney Audience ? And if your answer is FAN AND FANDOM ... don't answer.
To be fair, entertainment is 50/50: sometimes you need to know what your audience wants and show that you hear them, but on the other hand, you should be innovative and tell them "this is different, but you're gonna want to check this out."
Are you sure it's not other way around?
The 00's gave us some genuine, albeit underappreciated, masterpieces; The Emperor's New Groove, Atlantis The Last Empire, Lilo and Stitch, Treasure Planet, The Princess and the Frog. Since then, Disney just hasn't been the same and should really look back on what made the 90s and 00s spectacular. It wouldn't hurt either to try bringing back hand drawn animation
The 2000s were the downfall. These movies were so uneven and tried to be hip and modern, that’s when Disney lost it and never recovered til today
@lars7282 Fair enough, that's your opinion. And to be fair, Chicken Little and Bolt are very forgetful films. I will defend Atlantis and Treasure Planet to the death however
I agree honestly. I loved Atlantis, treasure planet and the princess and the frog!! I think the key is in bringing back 2D animation, there's just something magical about it that 3D can't emulate
@@miguelmunuera2601 You're preaching to the choir mate. I miss the days when Disney was synonymous with hand drawn animation. I could never imagine my favourite Disney film, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, being computer animated
@@Alex-ng6hc yeah I'm just so confused as to why they don't make the pivot honestly. It's clear which is better
Here’s the answer to “Can Disney’s Magic Return?”:
It can, but the people currently in charge won’t allow it. Only when the incompetent executives are purged will the magic return
The thing is, it's in their best interest for it to return. That's what is so confusing. They would make so much more money if they actually focused on creating compelling stories & characters...
We must Refuse to turn our backs on hope. If Wish brings us back, A renaissance must happen in 2024. Execs just has to listen to us and stop thinking 💴 over Passion. I would love earn the dough too, but I would make an honest passion earning it,for the passion, not the bucks.
I think Wish is not bad.
@@JudgeTrudy agreed
I think the main reason Disney has been going through such a downward spiral is because parodies have become the main trend in American animation. DreamWorks "Shrek" franchise was meant to parody Disney's idealistic fairytales, and lot of popular American TV cartoons these days seem to follow a similar mix of humor and seriousness as "Avatar: The Last Airbender" such as "The Owl House", "Steven Universe", and "She-Ra and the Princesses of Power". People are more critical of what constitutes a strong character and overlook the possibility of strength behind characters who might be more quiet and reserved.
That's a good point that I hadn't considered
I don’t think the new releases will ever compare to old Disney 😭
Gotta have faith ;) Remember that Disney had a 30 year 'dark age' before their renaissance in the 90s.
@@miguelmunuera2601But then they still had Disney veterans around, as well as Walt’s own nephew. Now we have Bob - the most evil Disney villain of all time.
Disney don’t even know how to animate anymore.
They've made some great movies while Bob's been around though. Lilo & Stitch, Atlantis, Princess & the frog. Movies that hold traditional Disney values, so if they've done it before I'm sure they can go back to that!
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@@miguelmunuera2601and remember Disney had like 4 comebacks and they were all princess movies like Snow white Cinderella the little mermaid and tangled
Bonus is The great mouse detective since it saved the Disney studio by going bankrupt because of the black cauldron
Great video!! It reminded me of why I always loved Disney, the magic and beauty Disney brought to my life. What Disney had, what Disney lost and why millions of us hope Disney will regain its touch. Thank you Miguel 🙏
This is EXACTLY, why I wanted to make this video. To remind myself, but also others, of the beauty of Disney - in times where it's sometimes forgotten.
4:46 Sleeping Beauty did not spend 90 per cent of the time sleeping in the movie. You obviously haven't watched Sleeping Beauty in a very long time. 😂
I checked it haha and I found that she only appears in 18 minutes of the movie, with 18 lines of dialogue 😂 that was kinda my point
I feel like Disney needs to reimagine their animation studio again Like in 80s" with the little mermaid that was the beginning of the renaissance , they haven't going in a good direction lately and have lost the creativity of creating new Stories But something tells me that maybe they still have some magic left that they had decades ago, let's just look and the short they released a few weeks ago wish upon a studio Where they were able to gather all the Disney animation Studios characters in a group photo and it felt so nostalgic and comforting to see all of our favorites characters together and interacting with each other of almost all of thier classic animated movies just by doing that shows that Disney It still has some creativity and a sense of making a good story with memorable characters, it sems that they just hasn't gotten a spark yet and exploited beyond what they are capable of doing The people who are in charge of Disney right now are not making the best decisions and are only sinking the company. They need better people who are capable of creating good stories again and raising the quality of the company and they need to get away from all these cultural wars and politics that are only is dividing people into absurd discussions For now they have been releasing intermediate movies Some have been good and some have not. Maybe I think they are in an experimentation phase to see what works and what doesn't, so I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to see the new Wish movie they're going to realese So far it hasn't caught my attention and I don't like the music that much. Maybe I'll wait until it comes out on Disney Plus to see it the same thing is happening to Pixar and thier movies .. But for the mean time it seems that the situation is not going to improve in the short term, let's hope that Disney returns to being the animation studio it once was.
Thanks for the amazing comment!! I couldn't agree more with everything you're saying, although I think wish will be nice
@@miguelmunuera2601 Let's waith and see maybe Disney will surprise us :)
They’ve bounced back before in 1950, 1989, and 2008. So definitely yes!
My thoughts exactly!
Well actually The Disney Renaissance Began in 1989 with The Little Mermaid and ran through the 90s into Th New Millennium. Well on November 17th It'll have been 34 years since The Little Mermaid Kick Started The Disney Renaissance.
Yeah from 1989-1999! 34 years...that's definitely a long time. But there was about 25/30 years from the silver age to the Renaissance. So maybe this means Disney will enter a new golden era soon!
Maybe @@miguelmunuera2601 But Hollywood has once again become as Gene Siskel put it, "Tired and Bloated We need another Mover and Shaker like Arthur Penn, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, Richard Donner, Steven Spielberg of the 80s, George Lucas of The 70s, and Quentin Tarantino. And if you ask if I'm Volunteering, I'll say Sure. Why Not? I couldn't do worse than them. Just teach me B Role and Chroma Key and I'm good. I know how Chroma Key works in theory, I just don't know how to put it into Practice.
I love the goofy movie as well ! It has a great message about family and relationships and the music is so catchy in a good way
I've actually never watched them! Do you recommend?
Great video! I’m super excited about ‘Wish’🤩
Thanks a ton :) me too!! It looks like such a nice change from the recent Disney movies.
Don’t be. Wish looks too bland and too easy. And it will bomb so hard and be the next nail in the coffin
I believe Disney is currently in an experimental age, kinda like how it was in the 2000s. They’ve made some pretty good movies and some really bad ones in recent years.
It feels like Disney is just trying to see what works and what doesn’t, which might explain why the animation in Wish looks kinda off
Maybe..let's just hope they figure it out sooner rather than later
@@miguelmunuera2601Maybe they should resurrected old projects they cancelled and give them another shot. Like how dreamworks resurrected Croods 2
Encanto, in my opinion, I think it was successful at that time, and I think Wish will be a hoot!
I agree tbh
Another great video dude! Really enjoying your content
Thanks man! Really trying to produce the best content, I just feel like I need to shorten the time between vids
@@miguelmunuera2601 only do it if possible because of course higher output is better but not if it lowers the quality of the video. But hey if you can make more the same quality as this one go for it I’ll watch all of them
Honestly really appreciate the support and advice man. Just checked out some of your content and you're killing it too, consider me a new fan! :)
Goodwill is something it takes a long long time to build. Its not that people arnt forgiving. A single or 2 bad movie is quickly forgotten. But after a DECADE of constant bad movies that will be remembered? 30 years? 50?
That's a good point. One would argue though that they have made some good movies all the way no?
Meanwhile,Disney Channel is doing great with the shows(mostlly animated) with Amphibia,the Owl House,Molly McGee (three of them ended),Hamster and Gretel (from the creator of Phineas and Ferb),Kiff and Hailey's on It! as examples
Oh really? Disney channel is booming right now?
Big man ting!! Keep it going my guy ❤
Thanks man! Really appreciate it :)
I hope Disney does more fairy tales, but I appreciate their original films as well. I find that a lot of critiques of current Disney is basically "it's not the renaissance." It's unfair to keep comparing the renaissance and revival eras.
Shouldn't we compare a studio as historied and influential as Disney to excellence? To their best movies? It might seem unfair but when they've accomplished so much it is kind of more expected
@@miguelmunuera2601 I think their revival era has been great for the most part. Just because it's different from the renaissance doesn't mean it isn't good in it's own right
@@OpticalSorcerer Fair enough honestly, it hasn't been my favourite period but I totally understand if people are a fan of the era :)
@@miguelmunuera2601 Fair. Perhaps I'm biased because I grew up in the lackluster 2000s, so the 2010s were of great excitement for me. Raya and Strange World could've been (much) better, though.
@@OpticalSorcerer you didn't like some of their 2000s releases like Atlantis, treasure planet, princess and the frog?? Those are awesome for me hahah
Disney's revival of the golden age of animation, known as The Disney Renaissance, was a time of immense artistic and commercial triumph. However, critics contend that the films during this period were predictable, heavily reliant on musical numbers, influenced by Broadway, and centered around princess stories. While some argue that Disney has recaptured the spirit of the Disney Renaissance with recent films like Tangled, Frozen, Moana, and Raya and the Last Dragon, others argue that these films lack the originality, diversity, emotional depth, and cultural significance of the films released between 1989 and 1999.
That's interesting. I definitely wouldn't characterize them as predictable, and actually the Renaissance period had barely any princess stories (Tarzan, lion king, Mulan, Pocahontas, Hércules, hunchback of Notre Dame, beauty and the beast), so I'm confused as to why critics thought that, but they're definitely not perfect films.
@@miguelmunuera2601 "Beauty and The Beast," "Mulan," and "Pocahontas" are technically princess stories since they're all part of the official Disney Princess franchise, and Belle is a princess since she does get together with a prince in the end.
Great video but you forgot to add The Rescuers Down Under to your list of Disney renaissance movies. It’s a great but sadly very overlooked and almost forgotten gem of the renaissance period.
That was kind of on purpose to be honest, because it isn't as highly regarded. So I showed the movies that are more known from that era, but well pointed out :)
Let’s hope “Wish” does well.
Honestly same but with the mixed online reception already I'm afraid it won't
I agree to an extent but as a 3D animator I actually heavily dislike the way that Wish looks right now. The creative team at Disney isn’t used to experimenting with different styles when it comes to 3D animation but I think they saw the success of the creative direction from Spiderverse or Puss in Boots 2 and decided they wanted to do something that’s more cartoonishly stylized but it fell short because they still kept the same style of 3D modeling with the same-face-syndrome disney princess. I really hope it’ll have a compelling story but in terms of art direction, they really need an extra push to leave their weird comfort zone and actually create something stylized.
That's really interesting, I love getting the perspective of a 3D animator. Do you think they should go full 2D next time or can a mix of 2D and 3D look good?
@@miguelmunuera2601 I don’t think they can ever go back to doing a full 2D film considering they’ve actually gotten rid of all the equipment they had to be able to make a feature-length 2D film, at least that’s what I’ve heard according to a former Disney animator. But they could maybe do a hybrid film, I think that could end up really interesting. An example of a piece of media that is a mixture between 2D and 3D is Arcane. All the backgrounds are actually painted in 2D and so are all the effects, while the characters are all 3D. I think they implemented that much better than Disney did with Wish.
I mean this is Disney we're talking about couldn't they just pivot and buy back a lot of the equipment? Oof Arcane is an amazing example, that show is absolutely beautiful and such good execution on the animation & artistic direction front. Idk if we'll get something on that level from Disney but let's hope haha
@@miguelmunuera2601 I mean they certainly have the money to buy the equipment and I’m sure a lot of the artists there would be delighted to work on a hybrid or even fully 2D film, the issue is that the higher-ups at Disney don’t really care about creating art, they’re businessmen who are only concerned with making more and more money. I had the opportunity to talk to Nick Bruno (the director of Nimona) and he even stated that if we want Disney to change their art direction the “old men at the top” have to go, lol. But yes, I really hope Disney surprises us with something great in the future!
Ah okay, it's so awesome that you got to talk to the director of Nimona - loved that movie!. The thing that I don't understand is why they don't see that caring about creating art would only put more money in their pocket lol, so they must not be very smart.
Back then Disney made things more accurate to be more believable like the bubbles in the little mermaid the sound of the furnitures from the beauty and the beast the position of each emotions in the lion king or with Rapunzels hair the kitchen in Ratatouille now they make things more accurate to be more realistic
(Cough) lion king remake
What about The Rescuers:Down Under? That's part of the Disney renaissance, and I think this is (In my opinion) Walt Disney's Animation Studios best sequel.
You think it's the best sequel? How come? I've never gotten to watch it
@@miguelmunuera2601 The animation(obviously), the character writing and the score.
Am I the only one who thought Encanto was a great movie?
Don't get me wrong, I very much enjoyed it, but just don't think it's as good as some of the Disney classics. You think it is?
I enjoyed it too.
They did made a live action movie of Beauty and the Beast in 2017
True 👀
Great vid! I too feel that the company has kind of fallen out of favor with the public in recent years due to Disney burnout, with much of their content feeling very "been there done that." Not to mention all the controversies that seem to be following the studio left and right sooo yeah, everyone hates Disney now lol
However, I do sometimes wonder if a lot of this disappointment stems from the idea that many of the tropes we admired and associated with Disney animation in our youth are now feeling more cliche and repetitive in our adulthood. Plus, the fact that we as adults now are more aware of Disney and their more corporate, monopolistic intentions and those negative feelings do affect how we view their current films when compared to our more naive and blissfully ignorant childhoods. Nostalgic bias towards the old and jaded feelings towards the new.
Also the idea that the 90s films defined a generation/impacted so many kid's lives can also be applied to the Revival era films. Tangled, Frozen, Moana, and yes even Encanto ( I personally LOVED that movie but hey maybe it is Midcanto XD) Imo, these are great films that are worthy of standing head to head with the studios' previous iconic work. Whether or not Wish will join that status remains to be seen. I'm still cautiously optimistic, but, there's already some things I'm not super stoked about. That new villain song just ain't doin it for me, and Asha feels like she's following in that whole "adorkable" Disney heroine trend again. However, the animation looks pretty cool, the character designs look great, and Ariana DeBose has such an amazing singing voice.
Thanks for the amazing comment, honestly very good points. I do think part of it is bias and nostalgia, but I also heavily favor 2D animation vs 3D, I just feel like it's way more beautiful. Also, although the revival moves are good for sure, I would argue that the characters, story telling, and songs are just a slight notch above them in the Renaissance era. Anyway, let's hope Wish turns out to be a great one! So that they feel incentivized to produce more original animated movies, that's what's important :)
@@miguelmunuera2601 Oh definitely. I do believe that there was an air of sophistication with the older 2D movies, making them palatable for kids as well as adults back in the 90s. Not to say we don't get that now, but it does feel like the newer films are a bit more goofy and focused on making one-liners and jokes every 3 minutes lol. But i still love them.
Also yes, 2D animation is such a misunderstood art form here in the US. Both 3D and 2D are great but there's a certain charm to seeing 2D drawings come to life with traditional hand drawn techniques.
Also yes, hoping Wish will be good. Especially since the company's animation division, aside from Ralph 2/Frozen 2, has been mainly focusing on original stories. (Ralph, Zootopia, Moana, Raya, Encanto, Strange World, Wish) Wouldn't want the takeaway to be "oh, audiences want Frozen 4, Zootopia 3, Moana 2, Encanto 2" :XD
@@flipex6304 Couldn't agree more. You can just look at Japan for amazing 2D animation right now, the things they're doing with Anime, or 2d animated films are incredible. Disney should definitely take a page out of their books!
2:25 maybe I know all of these movies, but I never saw the hunchback of notre-dame, I don’t even know what the movie is about (I know the movie is about the hunchback, but I don’t know what happens in the movie).
Disney has had a variety of ages and there's always a period where they downslide or at least people feel like they are. take away the live-action remakes and the magic didn't go anywhere. it's a cycle.
True there does definitely seem to be a cycle. There was about a 30 year period between the silver age and the Renaissance where the movies were quite mediocre
@@miguelmunuera2601 even then there were goodies like the jungle book
As there have been goodies since the Renaissance, like princess and the frog, Atlantis, etc.
I hope that Disney will make more Winnie-the-Pooh movies. I love all the characters like Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore, Kanga, Roo, Lumpy, Owl, Rabbit, Gopher & Christopher Robin. I'm really happy that Heffalumps are being used as real good creatures ever since Lumpy debuted, but I also think that Woozles should be used a real good creatures, too, and introduce a new Woozle character for Pooh to become friends with. I think it'll only be fair if both Heffalumps and Woozles are loved and turn out to be real good toy animals and become allies to Pooh & friends instead of being imaginary, scary, nightmarish, honey-stealing creatures. I hope Disney will do a Winnie-the-Pooh Woozle movie someday. Anyway, I had always loved Winnie-the-Pooh and will always love Winnie-the-Pooh. Winnie-the-Pooh is my no. 1 favorite Disney franchise while Mickey Mouse & Friends is my no. 2 favorite franchise.
Honestly I've never really watched Winnie the Pooh, but it definitely influenced so many people. I definitely need to watch some :)
Disney had no real magic in the 70s and 80s. And now we already have the 2010s and 2020s being awful. They CAN recover, but they NEED a new Michael Eisner and Jeffrey katzenberg who believe (!) in the Disney magic. And those guys have to hire creatives - not young people who go to cal arts and post stuff on twitter and love avatar and Steven universe. REAL creatives, timeless people, who can come up with pitches where u are like: oh yes, that’s a good one! And they need variety in these stories (and art styles). If they ARENT able to find these people, then it’s over, finally.
Man they should do a live action Tarzan but done the right way I could see Henry Cavil as Tarzan and Daisy Ridley as Jane and they can also make it about Tarzan and his relationship with Clayton because as it turns out they're cousins because Tarzan's biological families' name was Clayton just like the name of the main villain of the film they could dive deep into that as well.
Honestly I'd love to see Henry Caville as Tarzan, that would be such a sick cast..gotta suggest it to Disney 👀
Yeah they should also do Treasure Planet, Atlantis and Hunchback of Notre Dame.@@miguelmunuera2601
Yeah I could totally see him doing the Tarzan yell as he lifts Sabor's dead body above his head.@@miguelmunuera2601
Snowhite remake cancelled? Thank goodness! Wish the other remakes they had in plans got cancelled too
There have been rumours but it hasn't been officially cancelled yet ;) Let's hope lol
Rip 2D films+ (1940-2009)
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Just watch the newly released short ”Once Upon a Studio”. The animation was horrendous!
And Wish looks incredibly bad as well. Both when it comes to the animation and to the story.
Really? I quite liked both of them to be honest, what didn't you like about the animation?
Thought wish was a nice blend of 2D and 3D, but maybe that's just because I'm very tired of 3D animation haha
He is probably going at some of the characters looking a little off like what other people were talking about, but I don't know. Snow White and Pocahontas look great to me.
Also Wish is one of my most anticipated movies this year.
Honestly, same here!
Once upon a studio had literally the same art styles like in they're original movie what are you talking about? Animation changed and they tried to make them as accurate as the original counter of the characters even brought most of the original voice actors
@@Simbala-bq5vyhe just mad that it wasn’t a 3 hour film
Maaaaybe....
Why, did it leave?
Sadly, I think it has definitely lost a chunk of it
This guy dose a better job at making videos about Disneys decline better then any of these anti sjw TH-camrs (especially Nerdrotic) ever did.
And that’s a fact
Appreciate it!! Still a lot to improve but thanks a ton :)
I watch encantio movie that is awesome my favorite part of the movie is Maribelle runs away from her house and she was upset bruno went out to help her family build a new house ❤❤❤❤❤❤
The 2000s had some great but also had some lackluster filmography actually. 3 Example of the lackluster ones are:
Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Despite its fantastic visuals the underwhelming plot and storyline is very much the downfall of this movie and that's why i coudn't connect with it the first time i watch it as a kid and even so today as i watch it again as an adult. I felt like the film focuses too much on world building, visuals and character designs rather than creating a cohesive storyline.
Chicken Little - Just like Atlantis is a film that focuses too much on technical presentation on the visuals rather than crafting a great comedic storyline.
Home on the Rage - A film who had unlikable characters, garish visuals and a dull premise. This movie was cringe to watch from start to finish.
Interesting, I actually heavily disagree with you on Atlantis. I think it's incredibly underrated. The dialogue is great and unique, the story is very interesting with real stakes and unique plot points, I think it's very greatly done imo
@@miguelmunuera2601 Fair enough Sir Miguel. I respect your opinion. Yes the dialogue and the visuals where the selling points but i really felt like the story is very incoherent but i understand what your saying actually. I watch that film twice only first when i was 10 in 2002 during the height of Disney Channel era and second when i was 12 in 2004. Then i watch it again this February actually 20 years later and unfortunately i still did not like it. But at the end of the day we all had different opinions so its all cool i'm just happy that you like that movie despite my dislike for it.
@@kevzsabz8253 yeah that's the beauty of film, we can have different opinions on the same movie and talk about why we disagree :)
Im afraid it cant because of no 2d animations anymore. Sure i love frozen etc but its not the same. There cant be a second lion king (no i dont mean the sequel) super gangsta, best movie ever of all times
They need to bring back 2D animation though!
@@miguelmunuera2601 hell yes yes yes!!! Wish is close to this, maybe it will come back completely
@@IzayoiArwena I'm sure they will slowly. Japan does some beautiful 2D animation with all of it's anime, that is what Disney needs to go back to!
@@miguelmunuera2601 Japan didn't had something that kinda screwed everything for 2D Animation and no, it wasn't made by Disney: Shrek
HA! Please Disney is a trainwreak. Them getting their shit back together would make the earth quake
Would need a miracle 😂
I don't care much for Disney, so I don't want anymore things from them.
Not even if they get a second renaissance?
I was raised on every single one of the nine jewels on Disney’s crown, so seeing them wanting me to be excited to celebrate 100 years with a quirky lol-girl in some generic fantasy world ruled by a villain more sympathetic than her makes me feel particularly offended and upset.
Honestly when you put it like that, I also feel offended hahah
@@miguelmunuera2601 i may be over-dramatic bc the movie didn’t even come out yet but i have right to be after the trash I’ve been subjected to come on 😂
@@thetwelfth9987 hahaha honestly after everything we've been put through it's okay to be traumatized 😂 I'm holding out hope though
Eh - we'll see. Don't get me wrong; I'd love it if Disney could return to their glorious roots, but the sheer amount of BS they've kludged up their system with is not going to go away overnight. Even if they make a good-faith effort to bring back the good old days, it'll still take them a few years to do it - and during that time, who knows what might happen.
That's true. Although who knows if they've been working on that behind the scenes already right? But you're right, it could be years until they turn things around
totally agree Disney lot the plot
No and it shouldn’t!
Why?
I hate Disney!@@miguelmunuera2601
I think that Disney is too scared about this new generations PC obsession and needs to stop being afraid of offending the "morally superior" children of this day and age, because lets be real - they will find something to be offended by no matter what. Disney trying to be all inclusive and not offend ANYONE is way too concerned about the threat of cancel culture. Maybe they should stop listening to people and get creative crazy! Inner conflicts are great and all but will never be able to replace those iconic villains we love to hate! Scratch the adorkable princess - its way overdone! give me an offensive villain and some original old school story telling.
Disney still has the potential to make really great movies, but i believe they just have many unfit people running the studio rn
Or they're on a budget or somethin', movies like Shrek was good, and the Moana sea animation
My Answer: not for me. 😂😂😂
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That video aged horrifically.
Which one?
@@miguelmunuera2601 You asked the question if Disney's magic could return. Then Wish came out.
@@nevaehhamilton3493 haha wish isn't performing that well, nor has it had great reviews. It was definitely a step in the right direction but there's still a lot Disney has to improve on :)
Yeah no 💩 y it's failing. They own Marvel, Lucasfilm and Fox. Fox and Marvel don't feel like Disney to me.
Good point! Although you'd think they'd be able to compartmentalize it all..
DISAGREE ENCANTO SUCKS
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trust is something that has to be earned by time
Facts