My Favorite Disney Animated Films

My son Will (age 19) and I watched Fantasia on blu-ray Tuesday night and were once again reminded of what a creative tour-de-force that film remains even after so many years. I also remembered just how wonderful so many of the Disney full-length animated feature films are. It was a wonderful night. 

That was followed on Wednesday morning by the announcement that they are going to make a live action version of Dumbo with Tim Burton directing. I am working on a post for next week called 7 Things I Believe (and you probably don't!), and one of those could easily be that I believe Disney needs to cease and desist with making new versions of their classic films. As my son (the one who is studying filmmaking in college) likes to say, "There is no need to make a new version of a film when the definitive version has already been made." Or in this case, Don't mess with Walt! These animated classics (and many others) will never be topped. So please, Disney- leave them alone. Here are my animated favorites, in no particular order...

1. The Jungle Book
2. Lady and the Tramp
3. The Lion King
4. Lilo and Stitch
5. Sleeping Beauty
6. Aladdin
7. Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs
8. Beauty and the Beast
9. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
10. Fantasia

If you are disappointed not to see Frozen on my list, then you just don't know me as well as you thought you did. It MIGHT make the list if I included my top 25! Enjoy your Thursday, and watch a Disney animated classic soon. You'll be amazed at how brilliant they remain.

Throwback Thursday: A Very Goofy Remote

My family drove up to visit my mom this past Sunday. It seems like every time we are there she has dug out some family artifact to give myself or Will, and this time was no exception. She wondered if we might want this:

It's a classic Surfin' Goofy Remote Control! My dad was totally into Mr. Fy, and so we bought him all kinds of Goofy merchandise over the years. I do not know exactly how old it is, but it has buttons for a VCR and no DVD control, and when I looked to see if I could program it for my Vizio flat screen I found that Vizio had yet be invented when the instructions were written! So it may be useless, but it's still cool and it joins all the other Disney memorabilia in our home. Plus it seemed like the perfect relic for a Disney kind of Throwback Thursday! Surf's up, my friends!