July is Officially Wild Disney Animation Month at the Happy Place!

Some of y’all may remember that in late 2019 I introduced a very ambitious idea called 2020: The Year YOU Control Nathan Rabin designed to give y’all the opportunity to help determine the content on this site by voting on various theme months. 

Like a lot of my good ideas, it didn’t quite work out as expected or desired. But I’ve been plugging away at it all the same, even though it will take TWO very long years to realize rather than one. 

So far I’ve covered Wrestling Month, Phil Hartman Month, Danny DeVito Month, John Candy Month, Mismatched Buddy Cops Movie Month, TV on Film Month, Direct to Video Sequel Month and Video Game Month for 2020: The Year YOU Control Nathan Rabin. 

That leaves Unexpected Tearjerkers, Lovable Losers/Bad With Money, Nora Ephron Month and Wild Disney Animation as the only theme months I have not yet gotten around to covering, in part because I’m not entirely sure what some of them would actually entail. 

Nora Ephron Month? I understand the parameters of that but Lovable Losers/Bad with Money Month and Unexpected Tearjerkers are amorphous and vague in ways I find both exciting and a little bit scary. 

So I have determined that July will be Wild Disney Animation Month here at the Happy Place. 

What does that mean? I’m not entirely sure, although if I had not covered The Black Cauldron and The Hunchback of Notre Dame for Control Nathan Rabin 4.0 those would both be fine choices. 

That’s why I am once again asking YOU, the Happy Place reader and hopefully patron, what movies I should write about for Wild Disney Animation. 

How about the direct-to-video Aladdin sequel with Robin Williams returning as the Genie? That sounds potentially fascinating! What about Chicken Little, the CGI Disney movie starring Zach Braff? 

Or Home on the Range, the flop animated western starring the dynamic duo of Judi Dench and Dame Roseanne Barr? How about Saludos Amigos and The Three Caballeros, films Disney made in the 1940s as goodwill gestures towards our friends in South America? That shit would probably be fascinating as fuck to watch and write about. 

Disney cobbled together a bunch of anthology films in the 1940s like Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free and Melody Time? Are they good or are they worthless pieces of shit that single-handedly made the world a more fucked up place? 

I aim to find out! As the climax/conclusion of Wild Disney Animation Month I’m thinking of finally tackling The Song of the South, which is famously unavailable through legal methods but is, in fact, available non-legally.

Other than all of the movies I just mentioned, what should I cover for Wild Disney Animation Month? 

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