![]() ![]() For a teenager who rebelled against his Disney upbringing, the shift away from musicals was superficially a good thing but when you strip away the big Billboard hits, maybe it also changed the rhythms of the movies and robbed them of some of their magic.Īll I can say is, for me as a teen and twentysomething with unforgiving tastes (spirit animal: dark dramas), an overall sense of suspense-free boredom seemed to permeate Pixar's films. Despite the inclusion of memorable tunes such as "You've Got a Friend in Me," you weren't as likely to see characters breaking out in song. Pixar didn't depart from Disney formula entirely, but its films were less song-driven. ![]() Toy Story 3 was the first film to break the notion I had as a young adult that these kinds of movies were safe and uninteresting fodder for theme park families. The original Toy Story came out in 1995 but it wasn't until a decade and a half later that its second sequel would finally help me surmount my disinterest in all things Pixar-related. While film scholars and Disney historians may mark the end of the Renaissance as 1999 - the last year of the millennium, when Tarzan hit theaters - I think it peaked with The Lion King and was already on the creative and cultural downswing, becoming less inspired and more self-repeating, by the time Pixar came along and disrupted the animation model as we knew it. A year later, a massive sea-change would occur in the world of animation. The Lion King hit theaters twenty-five years ago this week.
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