Richard Rich
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Frozen (2013)
Directed by Chris Buck
influenced by The Fox and the Hound (1981), The Black Cauldron (1985)
Characters
For Buck, who’s been in Disney’s animation trenches since 1981’s “The Fox and the Hound,” “Frozen” is his third feature — and his best — as a director.
Instead, writer-directors Chris Buck (a veteran Disney animator with credits dating back to “The Fox and the Hound”) and Jennifer Lee (who co-scripted “Wreck-It Ralph”) give us a more conventional tale of two sisters, younger Anna (Kristen Bell) and elder Elsa (Idina Menzel), heirs to the enchanted Scandinavian kingdom of Arendelle (also a return of sorts to Disney tradition after the dutiful PC dues-paying of “Pocahontas,” “Mulan” and “The Princess and the Frog”).
She and co-director Chris Buck, a Disney veteran whose credits date back to The Fox and the Hound, make a compatible team who understand how to balance the traditional and the new.
While he's not nearly as annoying as, say, Gurgi from The Black Cauldron , Frozen 's living wisecracking snowman Olaf (Josh Gad) is still a non-entertaining and pusillanimous presence.
Nevertheless, this is the first big-budget full fantasy animated movie since 1985's tragically ignored The Black Cauldron .
Both directors came out of Disney: Chris Buck goes back as far as The Fox and the Hound (1981) and has extensive credits in cel animation but slim computer animation credits.
It recalls the classic Disney animated features The Sword and the Stone, The Black Cauldron, and The Fox and the Hound (that the picture was originally titled The Bear and the Bow implies the similarities are intentional).
Despite a comfortably profitable run in theaters, Pocahontas was still regarded as the first significant box-office disappointment at Disney in years, and it was one of only two films to violate an otherwise uninterrupted run of Disney features each outgrossing their immediate predecessors that began when The Great Mouse Detective outperformed The Black Cauldron .
Treasure Planet (2002)
Directed by Ron Clements
influenced by The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Characters
His whole career was founded on two stones: his characters like the bear in The Fox and the Hound or the Beast, large and imposing physical presences that dominate and threaten; and his characters like Ariel and Aladdin, characters with a tremendous collection of facial expressions, delicate and subtle, and greatly evocative.
The best way I can think of to describe the plot is a metrosexual update of the Disney classic “The Fox and the Hound”, in which two best friends sadly learn over time that their roles in life as adults will pit them against one another as mortal enemies.
The Fox and the Hound, released in 1981, would prove to be Disney's last solid effort prior to their current renaissance (which kicked off a few years later with the release of The Little Mermaid), and there's little doubt that the film possesses the feel and tone of the studio's earlier work.
While it's true that there have been animated fantasy movies before, they have either been hampered by poor production values (Ralph Bakshi's The Lord of the Rings) or aimed at a less mature audience (Disney's The Black Cauldron).
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Directed by Henry Selick
influenced by The Black Cauldron (1985)
Burton, a graduate of the Disney factory (he worked on "The Black Cauldron," among many films, and made a memorable short called "Frankenweenie"), fills the movie with unforgettable compositions: Jack's poetic posings against the moon, for one thing, are aesthetically stunning.