Disney — Happy Place — It Turns Out the Naming Rights! Membership Option Was For Real and Someone Is Now Five Hundred Bucks Poorer Presents Nat

Don Bluth's 1982 Directorial Debut The Secret of NIMH Is an Animation Masterpiece That Traumatized Multiple Generations of Children

One of you kind souls paid me to experience the Don Bluth’s beautifully traumatizing 1982 directorial debut The Secret of NIMH.

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinJuly 15, 2024Dom Bluth, Disney, Dom DeLuise

Because Michael Jackson Died on This Date We're Rerunning This Piece on Captain EO

I finally got around to watching Captain EO, a once-in-a-lifetime collaboration between Disney, Michael Jackson, George Lucas and Francis Ford Coppola that’s a technological marvel and dramatically tedious in the same way the prequel trilogy would prove to be.

The Slick 1994 Kiddie Fantasy Blank Check Was One of Michael Jackson's Favorite Films For Very Understandable Reasons

If you like movies involving inappropriately romantic relationships, then boy is 1994’s Blank Check is for you! Unsurprisingly, Michael Jackson was a big fan.

1994 SeriesNathan RabinJanuary 29, 2024Miguel Ferrer, Michael Lerner, Tone Loc, Michael Jackson, Brian Bonsall, Disney, capitalism, Rick Ducummon

Hannah Montana: The Movie Is Very Silly and Also Not Terribly Realistic

We’re britches and boots and if that ain’t good enough for you, maybe you should just pack up and git!

Control Nathan Rabin 4.0Nathan RabinAugust 17, 2023Billy Ray Cyrus, Disney, musical

Song of the South is Racist, Terrible

For the concluding entry in Wild Disney Animation Month I come face to face with 1946’s Song of the South, which is every bit as horrifying and racist as its reputation suggests and then some.

The Notorious 1987 Sorta Sequel Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night is Pure Nightmare Fuel

Filmation’s notorious 1987 Disney knockoff Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night is pure nightmare fuel.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit Will Always Be a Marvel and a Miracle

In this piece that will appear in my forthcoming book The Fractured Mirror, I pay reverent tribute to 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit, which was hailed as a technological miracle when it came out. It has only gotten better with time.

The Travolta/Cage Project #85 Bolt (2008)

John Travolta voices an adorable if delusional dog who thinks he’s a superhero in the charming and funny 2008 Disney cartoon Bolt.

Travolta/Cage, The Travolta/Cage ProjectNathan RabinJanuary 20, 2022John Travolta, Disney, animation, Miley Cyrus

Wild Disney Animation Month: Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996)

Robin Williams IS THE GENIE IN the otherwise forgettable 1996 direct-to-video Aladdin second sequel Aladdin and the King of Thieves.

Wild Disney AnimationNathan RabinJuly 21, 2021Robin Williams, Disney, sequel, direct to video

My World of Flops Mars Needs Better Movies Case File #186 Mars Needs Moms (2011)

For Wild Disney Animation Month I finally get around to writing up one of the biggest box-office bombs of all time, the staggeringly misguided CGI animated flop Mars Needs Moms, which ultimately takes place not on Mars or Earth but in the most nightmarish recesses of the uncanny valley.