Atlantis: I didn’t like that movie. At all
Brother Bear: As you can tell my my sig, I love it! It’s one of myf avorites. I love the music and the story and the setting, and everything!
Home on the Range: I don’t mind it, it’s not great. But I do like Alan Menken’s score in this, probably because I’m a country music fan.
And Treasure Planet? I haven’t seen it. Yet.
I guess that’s fair enough, but I love how in the 50 Disney films Tangled trailer they skip over Home on the Range as quickly as possible. 
LOL they did? That’s great, do you have a link?
WHY??? 
Sorry for the caps. I’m just so taken by that movie that I can’t grasp that concept. Especially the singing over the score. <3
Cats Don’t Dance
Virginia: All the characters got on my nerves. All of them. And the storyline.
And I agree with you Cats Don’t Dance is a fantastic movie. Mainly because of it’s setting and score. And animation.
I love the concept behind Lost Empire, and I especially love the people behind Lost Empire. So it’s kind of a guilty pleasure for me.
But really, Mike Mignola, Joss Whedon, Michael J. Fox all involved with a movie about Atlantis and it never once lives up to its potential?
No wonder why it often ends up towards the bottom of the canon heap.
Think of it this way IV(though this example is kind of for everyone, it just works better if I can personalize it) what if Brad Bird, Stanley Kubrick and Keith David were all involved in a movie that satirized the mad politics of dictatorships and it didn’t reach any of your expectations? Wouldn’t you be incredibly disappointed to such a degree that it’s almost baffling that you still have it as a guilty pleasure?
That’s how I feel about Lost Empire.
I stand by the opinion that Meet The Robinsons is one of the most underappreciated mainstream offerings of the past or pretty much any decade.
Meet the Robinsons had an awesome first act and an equally awesome development with the villain, but I don’t know. I feel like it could have been tweaked a little. One thing that drove me crazy about the movie was how the chaotic Robinson family was not given enough time to truly feel their connection with one another. I felt like it was expected of me to see how close they are, but it wasn’t shown to me very well. Disney should have given additional more screen time to a select few characters in order to get around this. I can see how one might argue that the fast pace of the second act when Wilbur meets the Robinsons reflects the family’s eccentricity, but it doesn’t make for the most effective storytelling.
I admit, there’s a lot of tweaking that could’ve went into this film to make it loads better. The time travel mechanics alone would make even James Cameron cry. But I still think it’s unfair that this movie is almost swept under the rug. You go name good Disney films it doesn’t show up, you go off and name bad Disney films it still doesn’t show up. You even name also-ran Disney films and it still doesn’t show its face.
It’s pretty much the Treasure Planet of the Disney CGI set.
Another underrated film, A Goofy Movie. Say what you will, but I feel this movie still holds up. It’s the 90s in a bottle. More on it later.
I enjoy A Goofy Movie quite a bit. It’s a lighthearted road movie with a fairly honest look at a father-son relationship, which is not something you see in many animated Disney films.
But I agree with what you said about Meet the Robinsons being swept under the rug. It has a lot of merits. I just wish that there were more, because it could have been a great movie. It’s like half of it was fantastic and the other half was done halfheartedly, or at least the filmmakers weren’t given enough time to improve it (or didn’t know how to, perhaps).
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I like that movie as well, and it’s ince that you mention the father-son relationship, because that isn’t common in Disney movies. Usually it’s a daughter-father relationship.
Aero, I too love MTR. It really meant a lot to me.
And yes, I suppose that analogy did make sense!! But I still really adore that movie, sorry. 
I went through their whole canon in my head (I realize Goofy Movie is not part of this) and found only The Lion King and Chicken Little, the latter of which obviously came a decade later, focus on the main character and his father. It’s refreshing to see Disney tackle that relationship in a serious enough matter for what should have been merely a silly, goofy movie. There are also many cases when a mentoring character will sort of informally “adopt” one of the main characters as a son, nephew, or little brother.
As for Bambi, that’s in a different league because his father almost never spends time with him in the original film. 
Pinocchio has the father-son thing if you accept cross-kingdom adoption until fairy-induced flesh and blood, plus they’re apart for much of the story…but yeah, it’s comparatively rare. Can’t think of any besides Sleeping Beauty, Tangled, and The Lion King (part of the original, all of the sequel) where both parents are alive, either. Whoops, 101 Dalmatians, too. And Peter Pan! Guess it’s not as rare.
Mulan!! She has both. But they usually have one…or less. I wonder what it is with Disney and dead/leaving parents. 
I was referring to boys and their fathers. There are more girls who seem to interact with their fathers in Disney movies… strange. It’s just not whether the father is technically present or not, but how much focus is given on the relationship with his son. That’s what’s rare.
JustSteve, I can’t believe I forgot Pinocchio. That’s a great example.
Oh. Sorry.
That was my bad, IV, for muddying the waters with the “parents” thing. But it is interesting how Disney seems to gravitate toward absent-parent situations.
Backtracking a bit, I liked Atlantis and Treasure Planet well enough, but I agree with some comments here about their limitations.
Another lesser known but awesome movie: A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Everyone knows the TV specials, less folks know about the films.
No one has to apologize for anything, I was just clarifying what I was saying. Indeed, it’s very strange that so many Disney characters have a single parent or none at all. I know it creates sympathy for the main character and gives them less support in some cases, but I dunno… Strange.
Because it pulls the heartstrings, and when that happens it’s hello Oscars!
I guess that’s true. It’s just that for me, the absence of parents or decent parents is a very hurtful thing. I know they’re only films, but it still makes me very uncomfortable in the worst emotional way.