Disney, you need to throw away the scissors.
583819
Love the Movie but Disney has to stop cutting. STOP IT, STOP IT STOP IT! I do not understand why they do it so please STOP CUTTING! It helps no one especially the customer, and we pay the bills. Thank you!
195275
Be careful this isn't the version we're looking for.  I just bought a new hope and I'm sad to say these are the hacked versions with all the stupid stuff you don't want. Disney should have known better.
2524309
For some reason there are stupid little bows on the straps. I cut those off immediately.
1854242
Now this had some improvments
Better and faster action
Better writing and was fun to watch
How ever if you missed the series
You will be spoiled
This movie seems to take place after the series ended
But what ruined it was:
The female singer
Why disney. Why
The male singer was perfect
The depressing music
No!!! Just no
Not needing it
The one eyed alien was always annoying
Lilo is and will always be a bag of potatos
Dumb as dirt. So childish acting
The gerbal guy was never explained
How jimba and stitch magicaly warped with a black hole to where they needed to be is complete crap. Makes no sense
4880645
A) Sharpen a No 2 pencil to a fine point. B) Poke out both of your eyes before watching this movie. C) Poke both of your ear drums out, just in case you might walk into a room and someone else has this movie on.
Move on with your life
4006341
I can't believe Disney ever made this horrible movie.
This movie is singly responsible for my lifelong fear of trains!
Of course the last time I viewed this movie, I was like 4 years old, so I really do hope I have my facts straight.  I ordered this movie to verify my facts.
As I recall...at the end of the movie there was a dance party.
I'm sure the rest of the movie up to this point was dramatically great, but NOT the last part.
I think this is how it happened:  A deaf student ran out of the party because he had a nosebleed.  Another student who was blind (I think), ran after him.  The first student got to some railroad tracks, and walked/ran down one direction.  The other student, not knowing what direction to go, went down the other.
Because the one student was deaf, he was hit by a train, and my brother said "hey look, his head!"  I don't know if this was true, but if it was...this was by far the scariest movie of my life considering my age.
If I am correct, and the plot is accurate as I describe, Disney should really be ashamed.
You can email me at:  akaczrowski@mn.rr.com
I've searched for this movie for a very long time, since I didn't remember the year or the title.
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If you don't want to read my full thoughts on the movie, scroll down to the bottom for a quick summary.

This movie is perhaps the worst Disney movie I've ever seen. The plotline is trite, and over done. I swear I lost brain cells just watching it. The lipsynching is terrible, and the songs are just mediocre at best. The only reason I didn't give it less stars is because Amazon won't let you give zero stars, the choreographed scenes are actually really decent, and the actors ARE talented. Overall, a waste of time, money, and good talent.

Honestly, what I think upsets me most about this movie is the fact that it could have been good. It had the potential to be a decent movie, it really did. There was a good premise. "What happens when the children of Disney villains meet and socialize with the children of those their parents tried to destroy?" But they tried to shove so many freaking plot points into one movie. "Love conquers all", "Don't judge someone based on their looks", "Good always wins in the end", "Get the fairy godmother wand to free your parents that you fear", "We were never shown love as children and were abused regularly, but we still love our parents even though we have no reason to", "magic has been retired in the name of technology" (I really, REALLY, hate this plot point. It's such a cop out for a FANTASY based plot) just to name a few.  With everything they try and shove in your face it just winds up coming across as rushed, murky, and forced.

They treat the villains (the Disney classic villains) as the butt of a joke. The children are supposed to be afraid of them, but I don't understand how anyone can find them more than washed up wannabes that couldn't fill a thimble with their menace. THESE ARE CLASSIC VILLAINS, and they're reduced to that old high school jock at the bar. You know the one. That one that complains that he could've been the big cheese and gotten out of that Podunk town he lives in, if only he hadn't of blown out his knee cap in the last quarter of the "big game". So, he sits at the bar, refusing to move on with his life and make something more of himself, and regales tales of "the good old days" to anyone who will listen. Which is unforgivable, considering the actors they had behind them have more talent than that and the villains themselves are A rank in the Disney universe.

Now onto the kids. While the actors are talented and you can tell they're really trying to make a crap sandwich look appetizing, there's no real reason for them to act the way they do. Half of the cast has no purpose (the romantic rival is barely worth batting an eye at). And the chemistry between the main couple is forced, at best. They have no reason to be afraid of their parents once they leave the island. NONE. They even acknowledge that there's no way for them to reach the children. The hatred of the "good guys" children towards the "bad guys" children is ridiculous and makes the good guys look terrible. What kind of message are they trying to send here? It's ok to hate on someone who had no choice in regards to their parent? Yea. That seems totally reasonable *eye roll*. Sins of the father and all. And it's not even like they truly resolve this plot point either. You think saving a hardcore bigot's life is going to change the mind of said bigot in the blink of an eye? NO. Not when said bigot has literally been raised from birth to hate your parent and by default you. That kind of indoctrination doesn't just dissapear over night. They could've made an effort to at least show that the dunderhead was going through their own change in perception through the course of the movie, but no. That's to much effort.

The nitty gritty of the whole mess: Ramshackle plot slapped together with more loose ends than your grandmothers sewing basket, made for the sole purpose of cashing in on childhood nostalgia. Villains are trash. Story is trash. If you're looking for that Disney magic, you won't find it here, look some where else.
520375
I will keep this brief. If you have done any research on amazon, then you have seen the various 1 or 2 star reviews regarding the edits made in this film. If you are that interested, go to youtube and check them out for yourself. These scenes are incredibly racial and unnecessary and are an utter distraction to the beautiful film that is Fantasia. Now, if you feel that you need Fantasia to contain 15(?) seconds of racial content, then don't buy this Blu-Ray and institutionalize yourself immediately. Otherwise, if you have fond memories of this film from childhood, as I have, then buy this Blu-Ray set. What's more, it comes with Fantasia 2000, and DVD versions of both films. I watched Fantasia 2000 for the first time when I bought this set, and I was fairly disappointed. However, Fantasia alone justified this purchase. If you did enjoy the 2003 sequel, then you have all the more reason to buy this set. This is the definitive version, with incredible quality sound and picture, and the Blu-Ray menus and whatnot are fun and are somewhat interactive. So, if you have loved Fantasia all your life or you are introducing another Disney classic to your children, then look no further than Fantasia on Blu-Ray.
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657273
Walt Disney has done better animated films in the past. This one is rather average. But it is important because it shows a radical change in the targeted audience. The concept of family audience has completely changed. The kids are no longer accompanied by their parents but by their grand-parents. So the film targets these grand-parents as a potential audience and is built on two main characters, the child and the senior citizen. The whole film is based on this crossing over three generations. Then the film is also aiming at a younger audience that is living in decomposed more than recomposed families and the child is thus living with his father and another woman than his mother, and he is systematically betrayed, in spite of what he mat say, by his father. The boy scouts are shown as particularly father-centered if not male-chauvinistic by not allowing a boy to be supported by another person than his father when receiving medals in some ritual ceremony, the father or another fatherly man, but not the mother. A very long tradition with Walt Disney: their support of the family structure like with Ebenezer Scrooge in the famous Christmas Carol, or of course Snow White and Cinderella. Fathers are not particularly enhanced and step mothers are frankly demonized. The animals of the film are not essential, just some kind of mirror in which children will be able to recognize their phantasms and dreams. But this film is absolutely Anglo-Saxon and based on a myth from this culture and this culture only, or nearly, and particularly the English branch of that myth and culture, the Lost World of Conan Doyle, the belief in the existence of a pocket or virginal nature surviving behind un-crossable mountains that can only be reached by air with a blimp or a flying house. It is thus normal to have some paradise cataract and a bird of paradise, a giant one mind you, and of course this bird will have three chicks, a trinity that is there to sanctify this virginal world, this garden of Eden. At a time when Jules Verne was looking for adventures that contained a great quantity of danger, Conan Doyle was dreaming of the rediscovery of the garden of Eden. Charles Muntz has little to do with Captain Nemo. In fact he has no humanity at all, not even the good sense to forget about, and forgive, the dumbness of human beings. He is ready to kill a child and destroy a bird of paradise and doom its - her actually - chicks to perdition for his own vanity. It is these particularities that make the film interesting, but it does not have the finesse and the subtlety of Ratatouille. The allusions to American culture are numerous but it would be fastidious to give them all, like the small house surrounded by high rise buildings (Death of a Salesman). These allusions are aimed at the adult and elderly audience of course. But I can't resist asking one final question: is the Shady Oaks retirement home covering some shady business or some shaky eugenic mentality concerning the elderly?

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, CEGID
4793771
I have been a fan for a good many years. To have their songs chopped off like this recording has done is a major problem.
4020194
I don;t know what happened with Disney and their fairy line. The movies are great, but the toys that accompany it are so poorly made and designed. My daughter has three of the fairy dolls, including this one. It was the only thing she asked for for Xmas. the problem with each of them is the same. Cute doll, terrible design, cheaply made. The wings constantly fall off during play and each has been broken and lost within days. This doll has has a scent to it, which she likes, but the stick in flowers don't work and end up falling off and frustrating my daughter. Half of them are lost three weeks post Christmas. The fairy dolls are not Disney quality. I so prefer the fairies over the princesses, but their are very limited options and they are all junk.
1159818
I wish I hadn't bought this, I hadn't seen Cinderella in years, and now re-watching it with my young daughter I was cringing constantly at the the insanely sexist stereotypes in the movie.  Since you can't return digital content, I'll be deleting this from our library and eat the cost.
3671408
Continuing the Disney tradition of killing one or both parents, in this installment we almost get to see Ariel's mother bashed by a pirate ship.  Apparently, that was enough for the distraught King Triton to banish music from his kingdom......FOREVER!  Yeah, that didn't make any sense to me either but there it is.  The tyrant forbids everyone from listening to and/or participating in song.  They can't even hum a mournful tune.  Not a ditty to be had anywhere.  So sad.  And incomprehensibly stupid, what is this a fascist state under the sea!?  Well, at least they weren't burning books.  Meanwhile, there's this EVIL governess (voiced by Sally Field) who rides roughshod over the seven sad mopey daughters of King Triton.  They spend their time primping and whining while the EVIL governess plots to overthrow Sebastian (voiced by Samuel E. Wright) so she can become second only to the sad and dictatorial King.  And!  Once again, the angry despot wields his trident and ruins everyone's fun.  Characters are thrown in a dungeon.  There's a prison break.  A double homicide is mentioned and attempted.  It's all quite jolly.  The songs, if you can call them that, are entirely forgettable and fortunately few in number.  They do perform a version of Jump in the Line (Shake, Shake, Shake, Senora) that feels oddly out of place, but in this case seems par for the course.  At least it's not quite as objectionable as the second cartoon in this series (known as the BIG mistake).  This one at least makes for passable entertainment.  I'd watch it again.
3824726
I gave this installment of "The Chronicles of Narnia" two stars only because of the special effects.  The story really departed from the book and could have been much better had it followed the book more closely.  In the book, Prince Caspian was a young boy, NOT an adult.  The Disney folks only made him an adult so they could work in a love interest with Queen Susan.  I don't object to a love interest in a movie if it belongs.  In this case, it was totally uncalled for.  Finally, too many scenes were taken out that were in the book.  For example, Aslan's romp with Bacchus and the Mynaids.  Other scenes were substituted that were not in the book at all, such as the over-long battle scene in King Miraz's castle.  In this installment of the Narnian Chronicles, Disney has rewritten history.  For shame, Disney!
646234
This shouldn't get any stars because its missing a very important part "when love is gone" Disney needs to stop destroying classics.
4962216
I don't know how you can have a "best of" set without Princess Mononoke in it, and the price is way too high. IMO, Disney has done everything they could to bury these films ever since they took over the distribution of them.
4806564
Just buy these scissors.

My daughters loved them, until 2 futile minutes passed of trying to cut even the flimsiest paper.  Most of the time they simply tore the paper, and it certainly didn't help them learn to use scissors properly.