How's It Hold Up?

Though this live action Steven Spielberg film is not officially a live-action sequel to Disney's Peter Pan, it can be interpreted as one, and it was an indelible part of many a 90's kid's childhood. Considered a failure, the film has recently undergone something of a cultural reevaluation as those who grew up with it analyze it as adults. So now it's time for us to do that! Is this film only good through nostalgia goggles, or does it have something to offer still in the year 2021? Listen to find out!

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After the Alice Comedies, it was time for Walt to create a new star, one that didn't rely on a live actor being inserted into the animation. But this star was not yet Mickey Mouse, but instead Oswald the Lucky Rabbit! Today we look at perhaps the most iconic Oswald short, while talking about the character's origins. The short might be iconic, but is it any good? Listen to find out!

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In the early 2000s, Peter Pan was one of many Disney movies that was given a sequel, and was also far from the first to focus on the child of one of the protagonists from the original film. This one stars Wendy's daughter Jane, who gets to go on her own Neverland adventure. Disney sequels have a bad reputation, but this podcast's opinions on them have been mixed rather than only bad. Is this one of the better ones, or is this sequel best left in the bargain bin? Listen to find out!

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The final Alice Comedy we'll be covering, this one is indicative of the trend with this series of Alice as a character being minimized so the short can focus on the cartoons. Also Pete's here and he's got a hat! Is this the best of the bunch, or was this series ready to be thrown out? Listen to find out!

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This movie is something of a double-edged sword for Disney, in that it's generally considered one of their most iconic and loved works, while also being one of their most infamously racist. Everyone knows the depiction of Native Americans in this movie hasn't held up, but how much does that affect the overall product? And how's the story around that? Is the good in this one worth sitting through the bad, or is this particular film best left to rot inside the Disney vault? Listen to find out!

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Today's Alice Comedy is the very first appearance of a Disney character that's still around and in use today! And I don't mean Mickey Mouse! No, I mean Mickey's eventual main villain - Pete! Yes, it's true, Pete, sometimes known as Peg-Leg Pete and in this cartoon known as Bootleg Pete, is older than Mickey or even Mickey's 'cousin' Oswald the Lucky Rabbit! But sure, the cartoon is noteworthy for that reason, but... is it actually any good? Listen to find out!

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Did you know that Disney's animated Winnie the Pooh adventures are not the only ones? There's at least one other - a very different version based on the same stories and made in Russia by studio Soyuzmulfilm! This episode is actually not reviewing a movie, but three shorts that total around 40 minutes in total. Each is based on one single chapter from Winnie the Pooh, and none involve Christopher Robin. What is this alternate version of Winnie the Pooh like, and more importantly, how does it hold up?

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Another week another Alice Comedies short! This one has a lot of live action in it and a lot of child actors! It was also released in theatres, unlike the first Alice Comedies short we watched. Did it deserve to be? How's this thing hold up?

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This is our first CoMix Wave film, and is also likely the most well-known of the lot. To say this movie is popular in Japan would be an understatement. Needless to say, we were excited to watch it. But does this story of a boy and girl switching bodies with each other hold up five years later? Or is this one not worth the hype? Listen to find out!

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Most people might think of the old black and white Mickey Mouse cartoons as Disney's first main cartoon shorts series, and some might even recall that a certain Lucky Rabbit had a series before Mickey. But Walt's first long-running series of cartoon shorts were actually the Alice Comedies - a series of live-action/animation hybrids featuring a little girl named Alice interacting with an animated world. This is the very first of those, though this particular cartoon was only used to try to sell the series to distributors, rather than to entertain an audience. Should it have been put in front of an audience, though? Or is this one best left for the Disney Vault? Listen to find out!

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