Wish, which has been released as part of Disney studios 100th birthday is a cute, occasionally charming but underwhelming animated musical fantasy that attempts to pay homage to Disney classics. Like many Disney and other animated features of the last few years, it’s about a feisty but uncertain young woman empowering herself through a fight with a nasty authority figure.
Read moreDisney/ Pixar’s Elemental is a quirky, visually inventive, animated romance that serves more as a parable of multiculturalism, race relations and acceptance than as a traditional adventure comedy. The film takes the ancient philosophical notion of the world being composed of four essential elements: earth, air, fire and water and turns them into four populations of people who the inhabit
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Mickey Mouse was created by Walt Disney and is still going strong 90 years later. Here’s the story of the mouse who’s lived longer than most mice.
Read moreThe Good Dinosaur is one of those Disney Pixar animated adventure comedies that anthropomorphises dinosaurs into quirky or heroic human archetypes. We’ve seen this in numerous animated features but the eternal fascination with dinosaurs means the concept still works wonderfully. This film attempts to justify the human-like qualities of its dinosaur characters by speculating what might have happened if the
Read moreWhat would an oppressively hot and sweaty Australian Christmas be without an animated Disney fantasy set in a wintery wonderland. Disney’s’ Christmas offering for 2013 is tween-oriented girl-power adventure, Frozen which is based on Hans Christian Anderson’s fable The Snow Queen. Kristen Bell stars as the voice of irrepressible teen princess Anna whose family rules the fictitious kingdom of Arrendelle. Following
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