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Imagine being the best in the business at what you do and probably the most important film of your type of a generation only for some nerds years later to come back and remark how your whole moral landscape is just kinda monarchist and the world would be better if the lions were dead. Who listens to the Antelope? Fox and Talen do.

The millenial voice lives in this movie, and it is Robin Williams. Come listen to Fox and Talen as they tease out how they love this movie that is DEFINITELY orientalist as hell.

What do the French Aristocracy have to say about love? Well let’s check it out in the supposed movie that made the Disney Renaissance, despite being a ho-hum kinda affair.

Speaking of complaining about things for money, we also looked at 1990’s The Rescuers Down Under, the first time Disney attempted to tackle sequels and Australia, two things that we, as Australians and sequels, would very much like them to stop doing. Voice acting, wildlife, landscapes and storytelling, try and find a thing in this movie they did that made Fox and Talen happy. You’ll be a while!

In 1989, Disney released an animated movie based on Hans Christian Anderson’s The Little Mermaid, a movie that has since been the bedrock of a host of thinkpieces about how it actually sucks and Ariel is a bad character. But does that hold water? What is actually here in this movie lots of people have preconceived notions about since they watched it when they were kids and now they have youtube channels that complain about things for money?

Welcome to Season Four of the Disney Animated Canonball, the Disney Renaissance! Ah yes, the movies that we (millenials) think of as ‘the Disney movies everyone loves’ and it’s shocking to say that this season has a bunch of movies that actually seem to deserve their reputation!

The most unintentionally 80s thing ever made, Oliver and Company is a movie that sounds like a punchline to a joke about bad animatied movies, featuring Billy Joel as a street-wise singing dog. It’s an adaptation of Oliver Twist, and Talen has OPINIONS on that!

Sherlock Holmes is a tricky character to adapt so Disney decided to do it by making him a mouse and hiding all the cocaine. In 1986, we got to see the results of it with Basil the Mouse Detective.

Hey, you want to start an argument? Suggest this was the first Disney movie with CG animation and watch people bicker. After the gut-shot of the animation department in Fox and the Hound, the story of Disney continues with this brutal box office failure and adaptational mess which really has a better idea at the heart of it than it deserves.

The ongoing twisting of Disney in this thrashing period has the apocalyptic title The Fox and the Hound where a whole generation of animators walked out of the studio.