Hello again. After a nice quiet January, this has been a slightly busier month for me, as I paid a visit to Kew Gardens to see their Orchid Festival, and I went to the cinema with a couple of friends. The latter in turn led to me watching a few more animated films at home, which has been a bit of a theme recently given my previous reviews of Wallace & Gromit and other Aardman productions, although this time they’re Disney films. So there are a few bits and pieces to mention in this month’s post and video, none of which is sponsored or gifted as usual, and I hope you enjoy!
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Disney Reviews – The Lion King & Aladdin
For several years now, Disney have been remaking and adapting some of their old animated films with live action or photorealistic animation for modern audiences. Beginning with The Jungle Book, there were a small number of these remakes produced between 1994 and 2010, but since 2014 it’s become a regular occurrence, with one or two films released every year. And there are at least 8 more in the pipeline.
Until recently I hadn’t seen any of those remakes (nor the original films either in some cases), because I just haven’t been interested in checking them out, and I’m perfectly happy with the classic movies I’m familiar with. The one exception was Beauty & The Beast that I saw in 2017, and that was only because I was taking part in a trial of an audio description app that happened to be using that film.
However, this month I decided to do an old vs new comparison of two of my all-time favourite Disney movies that I did watch in my childhood – The Lion King and Aladdin – both of which had remakes released in 2019.
This came about because I recently visited the cinema with a couple of friends to see the Mufasa prequel to the modern Lion King. So it made sense to watch the original Lion King again and compare it with the remake that I’ve never seen before. That meant I had to reactivate my Disney+ subscription for a month, so while I was there I thought I would check out Aladdin as well. And in both cases I discovered that Disney+ has extra features and even the direct-to-video sequels of the original films. So I figured I may as well look through all of that stuff.
As a result I then ended up buying the original films and their video sequels on Blu-ray and DVD, because having rewatched them after all these years I still find them enjoyable, especially the originals. I haven’t got the editions with the most extra features on them, partly because they’re not widely available now but also because I don’t need them anyway. I just went for the editions that were easiest to get hold of and I’m perfectly happy with those. And I’m not interested in owning the remakes, because while they’re interesting to see once out of curiosity, they simply aren’t as good or necessary.
So with all that said, here are my reviews of the films, along with their sequels and extras, and I hope you enjoy!
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