Speaking as a former Disney artist, they don't hire any of the original talent that created these classic flicks. They tend to hire their " woke" twitter pals.

Although it’s newer, The Princess and the Frog will always be one of my favorite Disney films. The songs were fun and catchy. Tiana was such a good example of an empowered woman with her own goals and desires. The villain, Dr. Facilier was such an interesting character, not to mention his great design.

For years now, my non-white friends have been saying that they don't care for representation if it means taking well-known and beloved characters and suddenly making them black; what they would much, much prefer, are NEW characters who happen to be black, brown and are simultaneously well-developed, rounded and interesting characters you get invested in. Anything else feels like tokenism or like it might actually result in a backlash, because people will be sick of race-swapping for its own sake. This is what my black and Asian friends and colleagues have been saying for years - so I sometimes wonder who all this race-swapping is actually for.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is such an underrated classic. One of my favorite animated movies of all time. Thank you, Misha.

In my opinion, "the woke mob" should study how Enchanted subverted the classic fairytale tropes from Disney and made self-referential humors in the most entertaining way. I watched the movie as an adult and still love the movie today because I can feel the joy and creative energy that went into the movie. And of course, it never hurts to have Amy Adams in the lead role.

I was a Disney fan from the late 80s until very recently. I feel that their moves have become too predictable and boring, even the ones that aren't remakes. On the other hand, I'm beginning to enjoy movies from other studios such as Dreamworks (which I thought it would be inconceivable). It seems to me that Disney entered another dark age like it did in the 70s and 80s. Hopefully Disney will learn from these recent mistakes and bring about a new Disney renaissance like it did in the early 90s.

I think with movies like Encanto, it shows that there are good movies still being made, even if they aren't as financially successful as other projects, but with the way Disney is going, I just want them to go back to making more original animated movies. If they focused less on making a quick dollar and more on creating new stories that do fit into these diverse roles, then they could have their cake and eat it too. How come I'm making more sense than the multibillion-dollar company?

When you were talking about manly men being “toxic” in these movies and the emotional man being praised, it made me think of a John Wayne movie. As we know, you can’t get more manly than John Wayne, right? So there’s a scene where he wants to take revenge on a group of men who have kidnapped his nieces and raped and murdered one of them, but his traveling companion stops him, though they get into a huge fistfight. What’s really interesting about that scene is that you see the emotion in Wayne’s character - he’s clearly heartbroken about how these girls have been abused by other men, and while this emotion comes out in this urge to avenge them, he’s feeling great sorrow and righteous anger.

It's quite the shame. They can clearly make a great story that represents the culture of the country that it takes place in quite well (Lion King, Princess and the Frog, Lilo and Stitch, Vaiana) but instead they just choose to make the sexuality and skin colour of their main characters a priority. Characters like Mulan or Tiana were done well in this regard because the story focuses more on their characters and the fact that just like everyone else they have struggles and problems too.

Disney’s mindset: 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️=💵

My favourite Disney movie growing up was Mulan - she's a strong main character, she has a goal, and she uses her feminine strengths to succeed. It's much more progressive as far as gender roles go than all the woke idiots today. Of course woke people now are claiming she's trans because she had to dress up as a guy literally because women weren't allowed in the army 🤦🏻‍♀️

Even Encanto had me a bit pissed by the end. The entire family absolutely slandered Bruno when it's obvious that he was literally nothing like they said. Then, in a flip of a dime, they just act perfectly happy around him. They act like they didn't just collectively badmouth him, and he frankly just deserves better.

The funny thing about them race swapping the fairy (why 90% of the race swap are women?) is that they did it for "representing and inclusivity", but they also removed her other scenes from the original movie so the fairy appears only in one scene it's like in the littler mermaid they race swapped Airel to a black mermaid, but they also race-swapped Carlotta, the maid. a black woman is the servent of a white guy. this is so progressive from Disney (the second time a white maid was race swapped to be a black maid of a white prince) even with being Woke disney sucks

Hans as a villain confused me tbh because it came out of nowhere. I wish they had kept the original idea of making Elsa the villain because it makes more sense contextually. Elsa was shut away and taught to bottle up her emotions while Anna got to run free. Maybe Elsa was mad at her parents for treating her differently and caused the storm which killed them and then set off on a years long plan to kill Anna and place the kingdom in an eternal winter to push back on the fearful citizens. Let it go is a good song but that’s pretty much the only thing that makes Elsa palatable. Otherwise she’s a bad sister, an irresponsible ruler, and an example of what not to do when your emotions get the best of you. Elsa acted pretty selfishly in both movies and never even tried to talk to her sister or take responsibility as queen. Their parents kind of sucked but that didn’t mean Elsa had to be. Elsa is pretty much the dress, the hair, the song, and that’s it. Hans had no logical motivation because he could’ve just kissed Anna and saved summer and became prince of Arendelle.

I think they don't take risks is because of cancel culture. They don't want to wake that dragon.But lately it's being proven that this cancel dragon is just a screeching lizard. We are seeing course corrections. Firing of Victoria Alonso, a key creative in marvel and ordering more phineas and ferb are just recent examples. Honestly this is the beginning of the end of an Era and I am relieved

I primarily like the old Disney cartoons and movies. Robin Hood Cinderella Snow White The Sword in the Stone Alice in Wonderland. I also liked Lilo and Stitch, Beauty and the Beast, The Tigger Movie, The Emperors New Groove, and the Disney short cartoons with Goofy being my favourite character.

A prerequisite for being a good writer was to be well versed in the classics and drawing inspiration from them. I feel today's writers only interact with people who are of the same mindset and their work is limited by that interaction.

As a 'feminine' man, thank you for speaking about how black and white media's takes on masculinity are. I work as a therapist but I also love camping and the outdoors. Masculinity, confidence, taking a leadership role, and other masculine traits (especially physical ones) are not bad. Anything dont to excess is bad, we just need a good cast and story to highlight where that line might be in masculinity without needing a purely feminine man as a foil, just a well-adjusted masculine male. Also I fucking love Claude Frollo, especially Hellfire. Ive explored other languages of Hellfire and the heavy-handed emotional deliveries are amazing. Edit: I think a great example of a well-adjusted masculine man is George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life. Takes charge, provides for and loves his family, is a hero, but struggles with things he cant control. Doesn't take it out on other people as a character trait though. Is willing to listen to others.

OH MY GOD!!! You mentioned the Hunchback!!! My all time favourite Disney movie- amazing backstory, great villain and amazing villain song!!!!!

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of my all-time favorites as well. It was so experimental and risky for a company like Disney because of its dark themes but it’s also very beautiful and has a moral that leaves enough room for the viewer to sit and ponder it. “What makes a monster and what makes a man?” After all, Frollo is a villain who is fully convinced that he’s doing what’s best for Paris without realizing until it’s too late that he’s only doing what’s in his interest only while Quasimodo’s actions are more thoughtful and empathetic compared to his adopted father. I’ll tolerate the gargoyles any day to watch that movie all the way through. It’s such an underrated accomplishment from Disney and I wish they had tried to do more projects like The Hunchback of Notre Dame instead of the remakes and lackluster social justice checklist movies.

I’m 25, about to be 26, and grew up with cartoons that were actually decent. Why can’t we go back to those???

I hated Lightyear. They said it was the movie that inspired Andy to buy the toy, how did Andy come away from that movie wanting anything to do with it? I'm in the camp they shoulda just made a more serious version of the Buzz Lightyear of Star Command tv movie/series. Also the Zurg twist was one of the worst things I've seen in a LONG TIME.

Disney used to be so beloved and told good stories. It’s so depressing to see Disney change for the worse, focusing on Identity politics and SJW virtue signaling instead of telling good stories. And they even got rid of making villains! They made so many memorable villains but now they’ve just stopped and it’s sad to see everything from Disney just get destroyed

The Little Mermaid was always my favorite. Ariel was adventurous and curious about learning. She's beautiful and sweet. I loved her bright red hair as a child and she was the first princess to save the prince. She wasn't afraid to go after what she wanted. And the whole movies fun and beautiful and wonderful music. I just love it. Plus she a Mermaid. Who doesn't love that? I'm big into fantasy stuff as an adult I have no doubt Ariel helped that along. 😊

I'm glad that I'm a 90s kid because that was Disney's golden age! Tarzan is still to this day my favorite disney movie!

Literally went to Disney world this weekend for my bday! But regardless, above all Walt was a family man, he believed in the American dream, he was a true American. It’s so sad to see what’s happening with something people have loved and cherished for literal generations. Walt would be turning in his grave. Oops I mean his frozen chamber lol 😂

I love your videos!! As soon as I came across it I was thinking “thank god finally common sense” can’t wait to watch this one!

Aladdin, Hunchback and Lilo and Stitch are my top favorites. They all took chances with themes. Stitch portrayed a very non-traditional family and had space aliens. Aladdin had a snake getting impaled. And well, you know why Hunchback took chances. 😊

As you can probably guess by my username, my most favourite Disney movie is The Great Mouse Detective. It came out at a very interesting time for the Disney studio: not quite before the "Renaissance" era (between this movie and The Little Mermaid was Oliver and Company) but also right after the disasterous failure that was The Black Cauldron. Even if it's just a retelling of the Sherlock Holmes story, but with little critters like mice, rats and what not, it's still a very great movie with wonderful characters, score and animation! It saved the studio after its last financial flop, and I find it sad that many people write this movie off as a product of Disney's last stages of its "Dark era". Still, it's so, SO much better than what Disney does today. God I can't imagine a remake of TGMD with realistic-looking rodents! Yuck!

Interestingly, Avatar 2 (owned by Disney), had a scene where Jake had to apologize for his wife acting up in front of the (male) chief. He also exhibited a lot of masculinity and traditional values, particularly around raising his family right and honoring the tribe's religion and practices. He was a leader, loving father, and a man of some station. I was honestly waiting for some articles to drop about how "problematic" he was.

Favorite Disney movie is The Emperor's New Groove. It absolutely made me laugh out loud.

When you go far to one side or the other, you can never understand the other side because it's so polarizing to you, and even trying to come to a balanced ideal is highly unlikely to happen.

My favorite Disney movie is Tangled and I think it's actually the LAST "classic" movie Disney has made: it has a well-written story and well-written characters (the characters' personal journeys are incorporated into the plot without overshadowing it), it has a real/truly evil villain, a main female character who's both feminine and strong, no feminism, no random POCs in a medieval-fantasy European setting, and the "prince" saves the princess/true (romantic) love saves the day at the end!

It’s good to see someone who still enjoys Disney but is still willing to call out or critique the bad parts of it. I am actually a fan of Twisted Wonderland, and for those who don’t know is a Japanese mobile game where they make new (mainly male) characters based off of the Disney villains. It’s kind of an obscure part of Disney, and not everyone will like the premise, but for me it’s honestly so good that I would argue that it’s one of the best things to come out of recent Disney and it’s not even from the U.S. Otherwise though, I think most of the other things to come out of Disney are just mediocre to bad, and I never liked the turn they tried going on to try making everything politically correct or doing what is trending rather than making endearing stories. Does Disney deserve to be sorely criticized or even boycotted, yes, at least enough for an acknowledgment that this is current method needs to be changed or adjusted. However, I wouldn’t go as far as to say Disney deserves to grow bankrupt as despite its very controversial it’s business practices has been, they are still responsible for creating other characters and series that are still admired by many people, including myself, and wouldn’t want them taken away from them so soon or abruptly. I just want them to stop the current crap they are pulling off.

Encanto and Hunchback of Notre Dame are definitely up there in high quality Disney movies.

"We are not trying to entertain the critics. We'll take our chances with the public" - Walt Disney We are not trying to entertain the public. We'll take our chances with the critics - Bob Iger

Zippity Do Da, Zippity Eh. My oh my, what a wonderful day 🎶

The ballet commentary was spot on. The lift is a very dangerous part for the ballarinas and being overweight would NOT help them to get a part because the male counter-part would have even more dificulty to lift them up

Dreamworks recently with Puss in Boots 2 was very exciting and a clear villain that was badass

I’m a 2008 kid, and my whole life I’ve absolutely loved Disney. Encanto was an absolute gem of a modern animated film. Me and the rest of my theater troupe were completely obsessed with it in early 2022

Coming from a 26 year old who grew up in the early 2000s, my favorite thing to do after school, one of my favorite things was to pick out a Disney movie and put the vhs tape in the tv and they were usually the 90s classics. That and lilo and stitch that got me to wear hula dance costumes when I went to the beach one time with my friend. I would even go to Disney world every year until I was 17. It’s such a shame that Disney went from being a good impact on my childhood to something I almost despise

your points are spot on, plus disney isnt creative as it used to be

Yes I thought I was the only one to have noticed this with Disney thank you for bringing it out in one of your videos keep up the good work we love you

Appearance, voice and message everything is perfect.

These woke activists have destroyed walt disney's legacy and that's very sad

Hunchback is one of the best Disney movies ever made. I remember when I was little back when it came out they had the puppets/dolls at Burger King or McDonald’s. I had every single one lol

The music in hunchback of Notre Dame still gives me chills to this day. That opening song is 🔥

Just found your channel and so glad I did! Well said and looking forward to checking out and liking your previous ones! 😊❤

Love your content. We need women like you help bring normalcy to this wokeness that is screaming for attention.

I watched Lightyear with the version where all the woke parts cut. I'd say it's a good movie, how Buzz is portrayed to be first not trusting other people but himself to him understanding that he needs to open for other people especially his teammates.

Love your channel Misha!

I know it's not a Disney movie but have you ever seen "The Last Unicorn?" It is my favorite animated film and just one of my favorite movies in general. I would highly recommend it!!! P.S. "Hellfire" is my favorite Disney song as well❤

You have great taste Misha. I’ll be honest, I’ve been avoiding the recent Disney movies instead of giving them a chance which is really silly of me.

>strong independent male character OMG get that toxic masculinity out of here!!!11 >strong independent female character OMG so strong and amazing!!!!1 Why are males not allowed?

Hi Misha, My name is Shaun. I forget now how I stumbled on your channel, but I’m glad I did. I’m enjoying the way you get right to the point and bring up topics most people are afraid to approach. Keep up the good work.

You bought my subscription with this video. Never seen any other content by you but i respect your truth!!

my favorite disney animated movie is Tangled, Rapunzel is my favorite princess, Flynn/Eugene is my favorite prince and I hope they don't do a live action remake of this movie because they would definitely butcher and destroy everything i like about it

I am proud to be white

You said everything we've all been thinking for several years now. Thanks for putting it into words so eloquently.

I saw The Hunchback of Notre Dame when it came out in theatres. I had an Esmeralda doll when I was a little girl.

Hunchback of Notre Dame was one of my absolute favorites as a kid. Its still one of my favorite movies of all time. They took a huge risk with that one, and it really paid off for them. On the topic of the live action movies, while I don't like any of them really at all and think they're all generally soulless to just plain bad, I actually do like the Alice in Wonderland ones. They may not be that great of movies, but they at least tried something different, which I appreciate, even if it didn't quite work out well.

I think Disney should make more movies from traditional fairytales like they used to (like a Hansel and Gretel animated movie for example). Also, I’ve really wanted to see for a long time (live-action Tomorrowland doesn’t count) movies based on original rides/stories from Disney theme parks. Would I love to see an animated space mountain movie with brand new, original characters? Heck yes I would!

I've been reading a book series about a group of retired military men who take on mercenary contracts -- it's time-killing reading, nothing earth-shaking but enjoyable. But the men deal with loss (three original characters are dead, a fourth permanently disabled as a result of their missions), with the stress and uncertainty of what they're doing (they're hired by the government, but strictly "unofficially"), one character's wife just had a baby, and another's adult son just joined the group. There's more REAL emotion and vulnerability in these characters in popcorn books than in most recent Disney movies.

I was ALL ABOUT Mulan when I was little. I liked how she used her prain to get that arrow w. She wasn't just automatically better like how Disney made her in the live action debacle of a remake.

Just found your channel... thank YOU for what you create! And no... don't really watch too many of the newer movies from Disney... 😔My favorite? Probably the original Mulan... just so fun... good music... a real hero who learns to face her weaknesses while learning about her strengths.💕

“There’s something called gravity”…Mischa this is why you’re great.

Wow your eyes change color dramatically. In the video where you wear the green dress they’re like bright, bright green and in this with the blue vest it brings out the blue almost exclusively. You have amazing eyes and I’m majorly jealous!

I absolutely love the honesty of these reviews! Not afraid to complain or compliment

I am a Disney nerd.Pocahontas Hunchback of Notre dame and Beauty and the beast are my favourite Disney movies and i absolutely adored them as a kid too. Yeah i know Pocahontas the story isn’t true and in reality it’s something else but why we have to “cancel”(i didn’t cancel it) a whole movie just bcuz it didn’t happen like that in real life. And like it’s a beautiful movie from which we can learn a couple things too about not judging ppl based on race and Ethnicity(pretty much like what’s happening today still in 2023 ppl judge and put names on others bcuz they’re black white native asian or whatever).In my opinion Belle Esmeralda and Pocahontas are the perfect example of strong women who are feminine dreamy imaginative but also smart justice oriented strong and assertive when needed but not overly bratty and always looking for a fight like woke mobs

Anyone who grew up as kids 90s-early 2010s had the best Disney movies

I was watching shorts and came across one of yours. I was intrigued so I went to your channel and watched a couple of your videos. I don’t want to make any assumptions about your age because I’m afraid that I might offend you? This is the world we live in now. You have to be aware of every word you say because you might offend or belittle someone. I’m in my fifties and I have to tell you; it’s refreshing to see a younger person with so much sense! I think a lot of your opinions are on point. This isn’t the kind of channel I usually watch. But you drew me in with good old common sense.

I just came across you and you make so much sense 💯 again with you I had to subscribe

I love how you point out the emotional support animals, something a lot of people miss. I'm a big animal person too, but seeing how woke types get attached to them is beyond creepy at times and obviously worrisome from a psychological standpoint. Plus I've known far too many who end up neglecting their dog's need for lots of exercise and outdoor activity because, well, THEY neglect exercise and outdoor activity😯🙄🫡

Yea Disney does not care about children anymore over there own toxic agenda. They are starting to go bankrupt and actually letting go some of the companies they bought out. While I feel extremely bad for the animating team forced to adjust for money the management gets what they deserve.

my favorite Disney movie of all time is Brother bear❤ still makes me cry every time and has so much deep meaning

Great interview and video!!

Great content, I share your suitable videos with my children often, thank you 🙏

Disney is bleeding and I'm happy... I'm not emotionally attached to anything, not even when my favorite group split up, and my favorite band's lead singer died. I moved on throughout the day as if it's nothing... when things are ruined for me, I just leave them be or just let them die. And that's Disney.

You reminded me how amazing Hunchback of Notre Dam is! I need to watch it again

I like hearing your views to which I understand. Can't wait for a review on upcoming little mermaid as it's already caused so much controversy

That non binary bison was probably going to higher the bar for Disney, I'd expect to see more non binary "things" from other animation studios too.

i honestly like gay rep when it isnt forced. like writing a good well developed character that so happens to be gay, instead of only focusing on making a gay character. like instead of making being gay the whole part of a character, simply make it a factor of that character. same with strong independent women, movies like mulan, brave tangled, etc were so well done with the way they wrote the female characters, they didnt just write the females to be the "strong female lead", but actually gave them depth and a story, and development. now a days i find they just throw rep in without actually making a fully fleshed out character, its so annoying. its as if writing has just been replaced with mindless regressive activism

That shade of blue looks fantastic Misha.

Brother Bear is an easy favorite. Good message about brotherhood and stunning visuals.

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS.

DreamWorks 🗿

I did find a lot of very good points in your video

The Italian 2019 Pinocchio was really good,I never knew the original story was so dark. I also saw the 40's classic, the animation was wonderful!

why do they always have to make live action films? lol why can't they simply create new films?

Disney should cast Misha as Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Alice in Wonderland! Disney would be a success once gain!

Thank you for doing this

I wasn’t even alive when the old Disney movies were made and even I miss it😭 I have hope for the Hunchback live action. I’ll be so sad if they mess it up. I heard rumors they were gonna cast a non Romani woman for Esmeralda🙁

I literally stopped paying for Disney. It’s so sad what has become of that lovable company. Thank you for your videos, love your work ✝️💙

I love Disney, but they have been declining in recent years. I really did enjoy Encanto & Turning Red though. I loved Frozen. Dreamworks pushed things to the next level with Puss in boots the Last wish.

I love your views, you speak the truth, and i really enjoyed your takes thank you for being real!

I’ve found a fellow Hunchback of Notre Dame lover! 😄 The animation and the music really is top notch.

The race swapping thing is really weird. If they want to include more black characters and/or other races, they should create new movies and characters. Being inclusive is a great thing, but they don't need to change everything in order to accomplish this. I grew up in the 90s, so thankfully I got to watch all the good Disney movies. All on VHS!! 😊

You should check out Everything Everywhere all at once. That movie has a lesbian character. However, it’s done WELL! It’s not just to mark off a checkbox. Having diversity is fine, but STORY ALWAYS comes first.

I grew up being enthralled with the Disney animated films. My favourite Disney film was Song of the South but Disney shelved it. I wish they would re-release it. But out of my Disney library my favourite animated film behind Song of the South is Robin Hood.

Not just weight, but height. I had a friend that struggled for years to become a professional ballerina. They said simply that she was too short.