Author: Andrew Carrieri

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A live action comedy based on Gladys Bronwyn Stern’s 1938 novel of the same name, The Ugly Dachshund was theatrically released on February 16, 1966. The 93-minute film was accompanied by the short “Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree,” which was re-utilized as the first of four segments in the…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A sequel to Disney’s 1975 film Escape to Witch Mountain, Return from Witch Mountain was theatrically released on March 10, 1978. The live action flick is 94 minutes in length. Plot Summary Pasadena, California; the Rose Bowl. No, Michigan State is not playing Stanford in a New Year’s Day college football…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Based on Alexander Key’s 1969 novel of the same name, Escape to Witch Mountain was theatrically released on March 21, 1975. The live action flick is 97 minutes in length. Plot Summary and Opinion In California, young siblings, Tony Malone (Ike Eisenmann) and Tia Malone (Kim Richards), enter the Pine Woods…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A live action adaptation of Eleanor H. Porter’s 1913 novel of the same name, Disney’s Pollyanna was theatrically released on May 19, 1960. The film, which marked the Disney debut of legendary teen actor Hayley Mills, is 134 minutes in length. Plot Summary Following the death of her parents, a preteen…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney A “doubly delightful” live action comedy, The Parent Trap was theatrically released on June 19, 1961. (1) It is based on Erich Kastner’s 1949 novel Das doppelte Lottchen (Lottie and Lisa) and is 128 minutes in length. Plot Summary A teenage girl from Boston, Sharon McKendrick (Hayley Mills), endures a disastrous…

DVD Cover ©Disney Based loosely on Johann David Wyss’s 1812 novel Der Schweizerische Robinson, The Swiss Family Robinson was theatrically released on December 21, 1960. The live action flick is 126 minutes in length. Plot Summary In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars, the Robinson family, which includes a father, a mother, and three sons,…

DVD cover copyright Disney Big Hero 6 was theatrically released as Disney’s fifty-fourth and most recent full length animated feature on November 7, 2014. It is based on the Marvel comic series of the same name and clocks in at 102 minutes. Disney’s fifty-fifth full length animated feature, Zootopia, is scheduled to be released on…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney The subject of one of the greatest entertainment frenzies in recent memory, Frozen was theatrically released as the fifty-third full length animated feature in Disney history on November 27, 2013. The film is 102 minutes in length. Plot Summary The grand day has finally arrived, the day when Princess Elsa is…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney The thirty-ninth full length animated feature in Disney history, Dinosaur was theatrically released on May 19, 2000. It is eighty-two minutes in length. Quiet, It’s a Secret…Lab Upon its release, critics marveled at Dinosaur’s visuals, and for good reason. Rather than utilizing only animation, Dinosaur incorporated an amalgamation of animation and…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney Centered in the world of classic arcade games, Wreck-It Ralph was theatrically released on November 2, 2012 as the fifty-second full length animated feature in Disney history. The film is 101 minutes in length. Development In 2008, Disney Chief Creative Officer John Lasseter asked Rich Moore, a longtime director of popular…

  DVD Cover Copyright Disney The thirty-ninth full length animated feature in Disney history, Dinosaur was theatrically released on May 19, 2000. It is eighty-two minutes in length. Quiet, It’s a Secret…Lab Upon its release, critics marveled at Dinosaur’s visuals, and for good reason. Rather than utilizing only animation, Dinosaur incorporated an amalgamation of animation…

DVD Cover Copyright Disney It is golden anniversary time! Based on the Brothers Grimm fairy tale “Rapunzel,” Tangled was theatrically released on November 24, 2010 as the fiftieth full length animated feature in Disney history, an occasion acknowledged through the Walt Disney Animation Studios card prior to the movie. At 100 minutes in length, Tangled…