Disney Top 10 - Funny Moments (Animated)

[Mel O'Drama]

next category: rant-o-rama

 

[Toni]

Can we expect a list of favourites from @Toni and @Karin Schill? Otherwise I'm going to wrap this up and move on to the next category: rant-o-rama

Yes please! Tonight I'll post mine!

 

[Toni]

1. If I Never Knew You - POCAHONTAS
2. Someday - THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
3. Proud of Your Boy - ALADDIN
4. Human Again - BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
5. Music In Your Soup - SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS

Thanks for waiting!

 

[Willie Oleson]

At long last it's a victory for Quasimodo and the gang



1. Hunchback Of Notre Dame "Someday" (21)

2. Mulan "Keep 'Em Guessing" (12)

3. The Little Mermaid "Silence Is Golden" (11)

4. Jungle Book "Brothers All" / Cinderella "The Dress That My Mother Wore" / Pocahontas "The Middle Of The River" (10)

5. Pocahontas "If I Never Knew You" / Hercules "I Can't Believe My Heart" / Cinderella "Work Song" / Fantasia "Claire De Lune" / Aladdin "Proud Of You Boy" (9)

6. Peter Pan "Neverland" (8)

7. Pinocchio "Rolling Along To Pleasure Island" (7)

8. Alice In Wonderland "So They Say" / Alice In Wonderland "Beyond The Laughing Sky" (6)

9. Aladdin "High Adventure" / Sleeping Beauty "Go To Sleep" / Alice In Wonderland "I'm Odd" (5)

10. Beauty And The Beast "Human Again" / One Hundred And One Dalmatians "Cheerio, Goodbye, Toodle-oo, Hip Hip" (4)​

 

[Willie Oleson]

After doing so much top 10 goodness I think it's time to address a lesser successful aspect of the animated Disney movies: the character(s) you can't stand.
Have fun....or not.

 

[Emelee]

1. Cinderella

That could have been the end of my list, but I'll add 9 more.

1. CINDERELLA, Cinderella
2. Anastasia, Cinderella
3. Drizella, Cinderella
4. John Smith, Pocahontas
5. Prince Charming, Cinderella
6. Flounder, Little Mermaid
7. Peter Pan, Peter Pan
8. Dopey, Snow White
9. Aurora, Sleeping Beauty
10. Nala, Lion King

 

[Angela Channing]

1. Darla - FINDING NEMO - Just ghastly, I hated how she looked, how she talked and I hated her spoilt behaviour.
2. Lefou - Beauty and the Beast - Just horrible.
3. Flit - POCAHONTAS - meant to add comic relief to the story but just annoyed me
4. Flounder - THE LITTLE MERMAID - The film already had Sebastian, so it didn't need another marine based annoying sidekick.
5. Iago - ALADDIN - Another annoying sidekick. Seemed to exist to add humour to the story but they tried too hard with this character and he just came off as being irritating
6. The Gargoyles - HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME - they were a pointless addition which trivialised the gothic tragedy of Victor Hugo's story.
7. Tigger - WINNIE THE POOH - I just don't get on with hyper over-excited individuals
8. Genie - ALADDIN - Controversial choice but he was way over the top and I wish they just reined him in a bit.
9. Mushu - MULAN - A bit like Genie in Aladdin but not as prominent in Mulan so ranked lower.
10. Ariel - THE LITTLE MERMAID - Another controversial choice especially as she is the lead character in one of my favourite Disney animations but she was a spoilt brat who had no pride in her heritage.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

1. Genie Of The Lamp
from Aladdin

If there’s one thing worse than a loud, attention-seeking little scrote, it’s a loud, attention-seeking little scrote who renders an otherwise-brilliant film unwatchable. During my chronological Disney watch a few years ago, Aladdin was well on the way to the very top of my ranking… until the moment this shrieking monstrosity appeared and destroyed my enjoyment with his distracting antics and “hilarious” Jack Nicholson impersonation. I know what my first wish would be.





2. Gus
from Cinderella

Where to start. Gus-Gus, Jaq and co. make parts of Cinderella a real chore to watch. All the cartoon mice irritate, but Gus wins out by virtue of the gormless “duh” sounds and stupid faces to drive home the fact that he’s there (in theory at least) to make us laugh. There’s also a rather cruel “let’s all laugh at the fat, stupid kid” undertone to his characterisation. I wonder how many playground bullies added "Gus-Gus" to their arsenal of taunts.





3. Winnie The Pooh
from The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh

Oh, I could roll up my sleeves and really get stuck into how the arrogant Americanisation of these quintessentially British characters ruins a potentially beautiful film for me. I may well have voted for Christopher Robin who simply needs to be English, no questions asked. But Christopher ends up in the mid-Atlantic (weirdly, it seems to be a British actor using American inflections at times) whereas every time Pooh speaks in that rhotic accent I want to vomit.




4. Mushu
from Mulan

We can file Mushu in the same drawer as Aladdin’s Genie. All was running perfectly well until he showed up like some unwelcome tipsy slurring gatecrasher at a civilised dinner party.





5. Michael Darling
from Peter Pan

This film is the reason I restricted myself to one character per film to prevent half my list being made up of Peter Pan characters. For a start, I think the entire concept of Nana is disturbingly perverse (it's a St Bernard. In a bonnet. Charged with looking after tiny human children) but at least she’s reasonably quiet. It really irks me that very few of the characters speak with British accents. I ran with Michael because his siblings at least do end up somewhere in the mid-Atlantic, while Peter Pan is magical and has been off somewhere strange (for all I know, Neverland could be an adjunct of California). But with Michael, there's not even a pretence of Britishness. It's rhoticity all the way. Dramamine, please.





6. Young Faline
from Bambi

I know I probably shouldn’t differentiate between characters at different ages, but I found a lot of the young voice actors in Bambi incredibly annoying. They all have those wobbly voices that people seemed to think were cute in American films of the era (think Baby Dumpling in the Blondie films), and they do pauses in weird places to take a deep breath, as precocious kids often do when they think they’re being adorable.

I really have no stomach for this kind of cutesy-wootsiness, and all the younger characters - including Thumper and Flower - are quite insufferable in their delivery much of the time. However, Young Faline also had that nauseatingly shrieky laugh which was just the last straw for me.





7. Rapunzel
from Tangled

A Disney princess really needs to be aspirational. Rapunzel being the kind of whiny, narcissistic teenage brat that Disney bods seemed to imagine makes up their core demographic was distracting and annoying. The contemporary vocal patterns and that patronising lisp simply went a step too far here in attempting to appeal to the young audience by showing them “us” when they came for the fantasy of “them”.






8. Timothy Q. Mouse
from Dumbo

One feels his only function is to nursemaid the young audience during moments of heightened emotion by reassuring them that it’s going to be OK. He’s the worst kind of sidekick because he’s a “fixer”, trying to prevent anyone from becoming too upset or frightened.

It’s a film. It’s a journey. It’s OK for children to experience being a little frightened or sad and realise that one survives these feelings. If they’re particularly sensitive then let the parent sitting next to them give them the spoilers that all will be fine in ten minutes’ time. But don’t dilute my cathartic cinematic experience with “nanny” characters telling me how to fricking feel. It’s the equivalent of someone passing you a tissue when you’re crying, or jumping in to fill a brief silence (which, more often than not, is about their own inability to deal with real feelings).






9. Gideon
from Pinocchio

Just like Gus, Gideon is a one-note unfunny joke. He’s slow and he makes funny faces. Oh, my sides.

On the plus side, at least he's quiet. Unlike...






10. Hades
from Hercules

He tests tolerance in the same fast-talking, smart-mouthed, attention-seeking way as Genie or Mushu. However he's in a far inferior film and so is easily avoided or forgotten about. Besides, I can cope with him when I think of him as a male Ursula.

(I almost included Kuzco from The Emperor's New Groove for having similar qualities but since everyone in the film's reality found him annoying that diffused my irritation at him).​

 

[Karin Schill]

Can we expect a list of favourites from @Toni and @Karin Schill? Otherwise I'm going to wrap this up and move on to the next category: rant-o-rama

Sorry I didn't see this until now. But it's fine. I'll see if I can join in this round.
Real life is really busy at the moment.

 

[Willie Oleson]

1. Iago - ALADDIN

The parrot community demands this hysterically screaming piece of sh*t to be cancelled, banned and hated out of existence.
No warning sign could have been big enough to prepare me for this ongoing torture poorly disguised as comic relief. I can't think of a single Iago moment that I didn't despise - utterly.

2. Genie - ALADDIN
Well, I can sort of understand why they chose this particular character to pull out all the stops, but since he's a main character it overshadows all the exotic magic that was already very much available in the Aladdin World.
What's the point of going there if you're going to give it a complete contemporary American make-over? Why not just move Aladdin to California and get it over with.
Not to shade American culture - as I've said before, the unintentional American feel of Disney movies such as Snow White and Cinderella makes them look charmingly vintage and Jiminy Cricket was perfect as the mini-American in an Italian story.
But there's nothing exotic or clever or sophisticated about Genie, he's just a tasteless, rambling stand up comedian, and to add insult to injury they also came up with the ghastly idea to visualize every word he speaks.

3. Elsa - FROZEN
The Ice Princess who never became the evil Snow Queen. Boo! Hiss! Her fabulosity was determined by that overrated Eurovision moment of "Let It Go" and that's it.
The story arc, the way she acts, the way she looks - everything about her is just so lame. Barf!

4. Thumper - BAMBI
Deserves to be in my top 5 for being the first Disney character that I disliked. As Mel pointed out, the saccharine cuteness is simply too much to bear.

5. The Horned King - THE BLACK CAULDRON
What is this character supposed to be? A previous human or beast? I just didn't get it and I also didn't understand who were supposed to be defeated by his undead soldiers.
I do like the mysterious cauldron itself but overall it feels like much ado about nothing.

6. Gargoyle Hugo - HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME
One of several "the Bronx" stereotypes used in Disney movies, sort of a Iago-lite. I do like Laverne and I don't dislike Victor and that's why Hugo sticks out like a sore thumb.

7. Gus - CINDERELLA
I don't mind the other mice, but the unnecessary drama created by this cheese-chasing creature takes quite a bite out of my Cinderella pleasure.

8. Pongo - ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS
The love life of a dog (or any animal) is the one thing we don't want to think about when it comes to our favourite pets, and Pongo's narrative feels a little bit in/on my face in some parts of the movie. Eww.

9. Phil - HERCULES
Omg, it's Ron Jeremy. Eww Part II.

10. Dopey - SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS
He's that additional gimmick that the dwarfs really don't need. I wonder, was he the result of inbreeding? Eww Part III.

 

[Toni]

My choices:

1- Genie (Aladdin)
2- Mushu (Mulan)
3- Maul (Moana)
4- Stitch (Lilo & Stitch)
5- Hades (Hercules)
6- Madame Pompadour (The Aristocats)
7- Panchito (The 3 Caballeros)
8- Miguel´s complete token family (Coco)
9- Aunt Sarah (Lady and the Tramp)
10- Slavers Centaurs (Fantasia)

And very especially, Denise:

 

[Willie Oleson]

I pitifully present....our Disney Hall Of Shame

1. Genie - Aladdin (32)

He still doesn't get it...

2. Mushu - Mulan (18)

3. Iago - Aladdin (16)

4. Gus - Cinderella (13)

5. Flounder - The Little Mermaid (12)

6. Cinderella - Cinderella / Darla - Finding Nemo (10)

7. Anastasia - Cinderella / Lefou - Beauty And The Beast (9)

8. Drizella - Cinderella / Flit - Pocahontas / Winnie The Pooh - Winnie The Pooh / Elsa - Frozen / Maul - Moana (8)

9. John Smith - Pocahontas / Thumper - Bambi / Stitch - Lilo & Stitch / Hades - Hercules (7)​

10. Prince Charming - Cinderella / Michael Darling - Peter Pan / The Horned King - The Black Cauldron (6)
​

 

[Willie Oleson]

Boss, you really got a way with kids.