DINOSAUR – James Newton Howard
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton A mammoth majestic effort of immense proportions and great beauty, James Newton Howard’s score for the Disney animated epic Dinosaur is far and away the best work of...
View ArticleHOME ON THE RANGE – Alan Menken
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Eight-time Oscar winner Alan Menken has been away from film music since 1997, after the Disney animated film Hercules crashed and burned both critically and...
View ArticleCHICKEN LITTLE – John Debney
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton It pains me to write this, but the quality of Disney’s annual animated features seem to be decreasing in quality with each passing year. It’s a truly depressing...
View ArticleMEET THE ROBINSONS – Danny Elfman
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Walt Disney’s 46th feature length animation, and their major animated effort for 2007, Meet the Robinsons surprisingly fell under the radar, and was a comparative...
View ArticleBOLT – John Powell
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The 48th official film in the Disney animated feature canon, Bolt is the story a small dog – the Bolt of the title, voiced by John Travolta – who has lived his...
View ArticleTHE PRINCESS AND THE FROG – Randy Newman
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The Princess and the Frog is the 49th entry in the official canonical list of Disney animated features. Set in New Orleans at the turn of the century, and loosely...
View ArticleFROZEN – Christophe Beck
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Frozen is the 53rd official animated feature in the Walt Disney canon. Directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, Disney veterans who previously worked on The Little...
View ArticlePINOCCHIO – Leigh Harline and Paul J. Smith
MOVIE MUSIC UK CLASSICS Original Review by Craig Lysy After reading the novel “The Adventures of Pinocchio” by Carlo Collodi, Walt Disney felt it could be made into a fine Disney animated feature. When...
View ArticleZOOTOPIA – Michael Giacchino
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Zootopia is the latest animated film from Walt Disney, directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore. A comedy-crime caper with undertones that explore themes of racism,...
View ArticleTHE GREAT MOUSE DETECTIVE – Henry Mancini
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton Looking back from the vantage point we have now, thirty years into the future, it’s difficult to picture just how much trouble Walt Disney’s...
View ArticleSNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS – Frank Churchill, Leigh Harline, and Paul J....
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy Walt Disney Productions had been very successful in producing animated short subject films such as Mickey Mouse and the Silly...
View ArticleTHE LITTLE MERMAID – Alan Menken
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The Walt Disney Corporation is, for better or worse, probably the world’s biggest and most influential media and entertainment company. Not only...
View ArticleFROZEN II – Christophe Beck
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton I don’t think anyone – including the people at Walt Disney – could have predicted just how successful Frozen would be when it was released in the fall of 2013. With...
View ArticleRAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON – James Newton Howard
Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The first of Disney’s two animated films scheduled to be released in 2021, Raya and the Last Dragon is a fantasy adventure set in an alternate-reality version of...
View ArticleBEAUTY AND THE BEAST – Alan Menken
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton When looking back at the period now, considering their enormous success and influence, it’s easy to forget that Disney was a film studio in trouble...
View ArticleENCANTO – Germaine Franco and Lin-Manuel Miranda
Original Review by Christopher Garner Disney’s 60th animated feature film, Encanto, had a unique path to popularity. Its one-month theatrical run was profitable by pandemic standards, but far less...
View ArticleDUMBO – Oliver Wallace and Frank Churchill
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy The children’s story of Dumbo, written by Helen Aberson-Mayer in 1939, was presented to studio executive Walt Disney, who was...
View ArticleBAMBI – Frank Churchill and Edward H. Plumb
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy Walt Disney was in dire financial straits with his last two films, Pinocchio and Fantasia, both under-performing at the box...
View ArticleCINDERELLA – Oliver Wallace and Paul J. Smith
GREATEST SCORES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Original Review by Craig Lysy Walt Disney and his beloved studio had not achieved a commercial triumph since “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs thirteen years...
View ArticleALADDIN – Alan Menken
THROWBACK THIRTY Original Review by Jonathan Broxton The enormous success of Beauty and the Beast in 1991 ushered in what is now commonly known as the Disney Renaissance, which brought to an end a...
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