The renaissance era is honestly what made me love Disney a lot more, it’s sad to see what they’ve become now

One of the best moments in Disney history, I don’t think Disney can achieve stuff like this ever again.

It's crazy to think there was a time that Disney wasn't doing animated Broadway musicals when that's what most people now think of when they hear the word Disney.

it is shocking how decades ago we got films with better art/animation, great character motivations and arcs and they are able to be subtle with alot of stories as well.

Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame will forever be one of my most favorite pieces of fiction, truly a masterpiece.

The little mermaid, beauty and the beast, Aladdin, treasure planet, Tarzan and Hercules are my favorite Disney movies because they all have a theme of finding oneself and they have villains that actually challenge that!

It’s the way Disney wants to act like it’s allergic to 2D animation in cinema…they can make both 3D and 2D films at the same time…

So glad I grow up around this era of Disney I remember watching the lion King VHS over and over until it worn out 😂

This is the era of Disney I grew up with and I cannot agree more that this was Disney at its best. Tarzan, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and especially The Little Mermaid are favorite Disney movies of all time, and no amount of shoddy live-action remakes will change that.

Even though I was born in 1998, the Disney renaissance is my favorite era of Disney. They paid tribute to what Disney himself created with the use of then cutting edge animation techniques while still feeling modern, despite these ones coming out years ago. I appreciate the Renaissance movies more as an adult than when I was younger because of the sincere effort put into making them. You can see why Disney was once again the king of animation again during this period, particularly from Little Mermaid to The Lion King. Ironically, because they reached such heights early on with awards, critical, audience, and box office success that few at the time were very forgiving when their output from the 2nd half of the 90s failed to live up, eventually leading to the beginning of the end for hand drawn animation. Regardless, I still love every single film in the period.

I remember seeing The Little Mermaid in the theater when I was 7, and it was quite the experience. It was the first time I think I ever felt so immersed in a movie, especially the underwater scenes. Although i never got why Ariel wanted to live on land so much, i would have happily traded places with her (I even learned to snorkel just so I could pretend I was a mermaid). And now I can't even remember the last time I felt that way, especially with Disney, they have so many rules attached to their movies now that it completely kills the immersion.

During the renaissance, I think the mindset of Disney was just… different. They cared about the craftsmanship and love put into each story they told. It was a time where the company itself felt like it cared… not so much anymore, I think. Hardly anyone watched Strange New World, because it felt like it was rehashing old “generational trauma” tropes that Encanto and Turning Red already DID, but executed better imo. The company likely saw the success of Encanto and said “yeah, generational trauma works!” And rehashed it. Again and again. At least Wish is gonna be something kinda-new? Well, for modern Disney anyway. We’ll see how that goes :)

Lets not forget. The storytelling was amazing and the music was iconic but it was the animation, character design, use of color and craft of world-building that set Disney apart from everyone else. There was novelty in the structure of every Disney film during the Renaissance. They were made with love and care. That is no longer the case with the live remakes.

Despite how much effort those awful soulless remakes tried so hard to replace the originals to earn cheap cash, the one really good thing coming from these garbage is that they convince me to appreciate how wonderful and great the original where. It's so ironic.

Walt Disney would be proud of this era

So many of my childhood memories stem from the Disney Renaissance era. Not just watching movies but everything that went along with that: the promotional McDonald's toys, the Halloween costumes, the Valentines, renting the movies from video rentals, collecting the white VHS clam cases, watching the newly added music videos with Disney Channel stars when movies were released from the Disney vault, etc. We have so many "Disney adults" because of this era. Disney will never match the art, music, and talent from this period because the social landscape that allowed these movies to thrive doesn't exist anymore.

Yep, as I am glad I was born on the DIsney Renaissance Era and why I become a big Disney fan. Plus me & Scott did a retrospective of the Renaissance back in 2020 as we did a good job and why we hold the Era in high regard. :)

If only Walt Disney himself was alive during the Renaissance era.

The Disney renaissance formed my childhood. These were the Disney movies that I grew up with, with lion king being my favorite. The fox and the hound and Bambi were my favorites of the dark ages

The man besides him is the true disney legend. Mad respect for Howard! Disney always had "I want" songs since Snow White but only after The Little Mermaid and "Part of Your World" that it has been the formula ever since, thanks to Howard Ashman. The little mermaid, beauty and the beast and Aladdin's songs was written by Howard Ashman. Alan Menken is the one who composed the music. It's a shame that you're explaining about disney renaissance but you dont even mention Howard. It's a shame that just few of disney fans that recognized and talked about him. He was literally the reason why disney is still exist now. Howard Ashman is a legendary lyricist who made Disney rises from its downfall and started the renaissance era of Disney, who recently returned from his huge career in musical broadway theater world that time. He is the one who directing Jodi Benson to sing Part of Your World. We all know that the original Part of Your World will always be the best "I Want" song in the entire disney universe. Not just because the nostalgia vibe but also Jodi Benson was really well and carefully directed by Howard Ashman, that even her breaths, stress and pause on each syllable are really well and gently cared for. When he directed Jodi, he always said "don't focus to the song, now you're telling a story". Howard wasn't focusing of the song and what makes the song sounds good or what makes it a song but how it tells a story. That's why there are many imperfections in the song, because it's the main part of it. An important part of maintaining that type of reserved passion is also that Part of Your World does not change key. In the worlds of pop music and musical theater finishing off with a key change is a helpful tool for bringing songs to a heightened emotional level and when covering Part of Your World, some people have done exactly that but I don't really think that a key change is necessary because that wasn't the intent of the songwriters. Howard said that intensity is better than enormous in this song. Howard said that intensity is better than enormous in this song. In fact I think that's staying in the same key the whole time is what makes it work so well having it push and pull and eventually bring Ariel back down to where she started tells a story effectively it even ends with the same motif it began with showing the audience the life that she wants but then going back to the life that she has. You can know that Howard Ashman was a great lyricist that he can even tell a story from a song. He also made the song dynamically switching from singing to talking and vice versa but the transition between them is still unnoticeable. And it didn't happen once, literally he directed every songs in those 3 films. If you really search on youtube, there are many videos that show behind the scene of the songs making. Like in beauty and the beast, he directed Paige O'Hara the same way too. Just search "Howard Ashman demo" on youtube, you can see how may songs he sung really containts much emotion than current disney songs. Also this is how Jodi's said to him kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n9qReL2Wr9XVe2Q.html Hard to believe that this beautiful song, Part of Your World, was almost cut from the movie. Jeffrey Katzenberg hated it and thought that it not only slowed down the movie but was boring. Howard fought hard to convince Katzenberg that this song belonged in the movie. And I'm glad he did. Disney renaissance is mostly known by their songs. Before the little mermaid project, Howard gathered the whole disney crew for a meeting. He tell about broadway history to all the crew and they all were impressed at him. Fun fact: Howard did much more than write the songs on this movie, he also brought on board Jodi Benson, directed her during this song, changed an English butler crab named Clarence to be a Jamaican crab named Sebastian, wrote the dialog in the scene where Triton gives Ariel her legs, and also produced the movie with John Musker. After The Little Mermaid released and became a biggest success in box office, Howard Ashman and Alan Menken was going to make movie called Aladdin. They've come up with several of ideas and musical numbers but Jeffrey Katzenberg then dragging them to a new project, Beauty and The Beast. Unfortunately, Ashman passed away 6 month before beauty and the beast was released and that movie was dedicated to him that even in the credit scene you can see that they gaved him credit to honor him because of how important he was. After beauty and the beast released, Jeffrey then took away all of Ashman's idea and script, almost 99% of them. But sadly some of the songs were removed in the final film He is the one who bring the new element broadway musical to the movie. This is the bright spot where everyone started to watching to animated movies again, previously no one was at all interested in animated movies. That's why every single disney movie now has a song in it. Disney keep using this formula until now (but not as effective as in the renaissance) because it's Howard's legacy. You can tell how they respect Ashman that even in Beauty and The Beast credit scene, there's a statement to honor him "To our friend, Howard, who gave a mermaid her voice and a beast his soul, we will be forever grateful." Howard Ashman 1950-1991 No wonder why The Little Mermaid be the first disney animated classic who get an oscar nomination. Also Beauty and the Beast is Disney's 30th animated motion picture, a dedication to Howard Ashman before he had passed away and the only classic movie to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Picture. He was the one who brought “I Want” song to another level! I Want song is literally every disney movies now. "In almost every musical ever written... the leading lady usually sits down on something... and sings about what she wants in life, and the audience falls in love with her and roots for her to get for the rest of the night." - Howard Ashman. He and his partner, Alan Menken, is the greatest duo that anyone have ever recognized in animated movie history. Also gain respect to Alan Menken, The little mermaid is actually his first score yet he can bring the magic with that scores. You can said that Part of Your World orchestra in the opening scene is the best choir you have ever seen and heard. Have you ever heard about the quote "There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists." -Vladimir Horowitz That quote actually referring to Ashman because he was Jewish and gay but still doesnt changed the fact that he really put his care and love the the movies It's hard not to hear the parallels to his own life. To be a gay man in that day and age (and to be literally dying of AIDS) and to wrestle with that kind of longing, that kind of loneliness, that kind of confusion, that kind of self-hatred... The message comes loud and clear even when it's not sung by a mermaid. Tremendous achievement, brilliant man. RIP. I can't imagine how much more greater and better Disney would have been doing today if this great man was still alive. It hurts to actually wonder. I greatly recommend you to watch these videos kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h7x4msd6nbXdqHU.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r5Zkq8iBtseol3U.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdhjlJlqvtOZpGw.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/j9qeprafsq_eiqs.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gL5gmr2KnryvnIE.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/m81zopiCx8XKo2g.html Also films like Waking Sleeping Beauty and Howard's documenter film in Disney+ could really help you to know more about him.

The renaissance era of disney is one of the most important happened in this world making our childhood and stories that you cannot forget everything about this era is wonderful masterpieces until all of this just turn into air the reason why there was disney renaissance era is because the animation is colorful and it focus on adventure,stories and characters like beauty and the beast,aladdin,the little mermaid,tarzan and especially the lion king not just because of the protagonist but it also worked with the main antagonists just like aladdin- jafar,simba- scar,ariel-ursula,beast- gaston and tarzan- clayton This one of the main reason disney renassaince era worked because theyre not just paying attention to protagonists,journey and stories but also focuses about the villains and their evil schemes And i hope soon that disney will change on its true self and i hope wish 2023 would be the beginning of disney's fresh start

For Lion King remember to give credit to Lebo M and his choir group, they elevated the music!

The Disney reisance era was truly an magical time to grow up during as a Disney fan. Going to the cinema to see the latest classic disney movie then going to Macdonald to get a Disney theme happy meal from the latest movie. Then to be able to rent the latest Disney movie on Vhs or buy the diamond/Gold edition. And if that wasn't enough, mega drive/Snes had quite decent Disney license games...Such as Aladin, Lion king,Beauty and thr beast + Disney heavily focus on children's programs at this time, such as Darkwin duck,Ducktales,Rescue rangers,

You know what's lacking from Disney? Passion. None of their movies have felt like someone wanted to tell a big grand epic on the big screen. Now it seems all they do is hire writers/directors who need to vent about how horrible their childhood was and so we get so many generational trauma movies that you go, can we have a singing princess again?

The Disney Renaissance Films, it's Animated Series Tie ins, Disney Afternoon, Saturday Morning/1Sat Morning, Disney Channel, & Toon Disney Is ALL the Disney that we needed !

The best era of disney

I‘m a 90s kid… I grew up with Disney films and I vividly remember being excited about every single movie they came out with! It was just one good movie after another! And then suddenly everything changed… Animation set in… CGI had the same effect on film that social media had on people‘s relationships: Flat, no real depth, constant overstimulation and no substance…

honestly I feel like one of the reasons Disney is the way it is is because of 3d animation. I feel like when you actually hand drew the movie you were putting a lot more on the line because its your own work not a computer. but with 3d animation I do feel like story writers have become lazy because of the lack of time and effort required. like compare princesse and the frog to modern movies

I love how your speak your soul. You grew up with the real Disney morals and it shines through. 💜

I'm Glad i'm being a 90's era kids raised by Disney Silver era and Rennaissance era 1939 -2015 simply a glory years when you can respect Disney as a company to sell entertaiment Sure Revival era might come with releases with expensive special effects but still can't rival the heart and soul that Rennaissance era have

Lion King: the best movie of the Renaissance Hunchback of Notre Dame: the darkest movie of the Renaissance

It was magical. That "magic" wasn't found after the Disney renaissance. Not even Disney "frozen" had that.

I thoroughly miss this Disney

Great video. Could you make a video discussing the Golden Age and Silver Age of Disney. Those eras are under appreciated.

I'll stand by Pocahontas until I die. I'm not saying it's a perfect film or story, I get it's problematic in so many ways. But it really was formative for me as to how I see the world. It was what taught me what hate can look like, that different is literally only that...different, that we're all connected, that nature has its own special powers. It truly taught me the power of empathy and compassion so I can't knock it very hard for teaching me how to not be racist, but also anti-racist. I'll argue Hercules is the weakest of the bunch, and I suggest watching Lindsay Ellis' video on that topic, but I still love it to death for being the fun and hilarious romp that it is :)

I loved the pre-renaissance era movies like Aristocats, Bambi, Fox&Hound and Oliver&Co. From the renaissance, Lion King, Tarzan, Hercules, Mulan and Hunchback are my favourites. Afterwards, I really appreciated Emperor's New Groove and Lilo&Stitch. The more recent 3D animated Disney movies are so much more forgettable to me, because while looking stunning, they all look and feel the same. I feel like the movies are missing individual identities that make them stand out and make me want to watch them. Yeah, I liked Moana, Rapunzel, Encanto and the first Frozen (with Rapunzel being my fav). But they are all so similar in style and execution. And the remakes? I hate most of them, thanks.

I remember seing Bernard & Bianca- what an amazingly beautiful and powerful story. Im surprised it doesn't get more attention.

GREAT MOUSE DECTEVIVE APPRECIATION YAYYY that one is one of my faves lol

The quality of these Videos is incredible

Boy was I lucky to have grown up during that era of Disney. Beauty and the Beast will always be the GOAT in my book (plus the reason I became a movie fan in the first place) and I totally agree that Disney peaked with the Lion King. Aladdin and Hercules have always been great light-hearted entertainment for me too.

They need to bring back real villains. Villains were one of the best parts of classic Disney. Camp, terrifying villains. Ursula, gaston, scar. All amazing villains that you hate to love

The Little Mermaid started the Renaissance.....and now a live action remake of it is coming in 4 days

I was born in 1994 and definitely grew up with the Renaissance Era; I still have my VHS collection of The Lion King (both the original and sequel), Mulan, Hercules, and Tarzan

Regarding Pocahontas: speak for yourself. I still love this movie so much

BRO TAKE A REST HOW ARE YOU SO CONSISTENT WITH YOUR QUALITY AND QUANTITY ARE YOU NOT BURNT OUT? WHAT ENERGY DRINKS ARE YOU TAKING?

Being born in 83, the renaissance hit when I was a kid. Aladdin and The Lion King were HUGE!! Everything up until Tarzan, Hercules and Treasure Planet, which was about the time I stopped keeping up with Disney cartoons.

I'm glad I was born in 1991 to experience most of this. When it was about telling a good stories with the best artists, not wokism with lack of an interesting story line.

I miss Vincent Price I liked Down Under more than the first actually. It seemed more adventurous- more to see

Its my favoutite era

I'm so glad I was born in the 90s and I love most of these movies. The Lion King though is my number 1 favourite.

Personally I think one of the reasons why the Disney Renaissance flourished was because it took traditional ideas and modern ideas and put them together in a way that works. The new artists and writers worked with old ones from Walt Disney’s time and together they compromised, because both have something beautiful and meaningful to offer. But nowadays, these movies only care about incorporating what’s modern and throwing away anything traditional. Because apparently anything from the past is bad. But it’s not. Yes some views are outdated but not all of them. Not things like romance, and fairy tales, and chivalry and expressive animation, and bright color and dark shadows and warmth. These elements were used to help bring new modern ideas, views, and culture into light and it worked. To me, without some elements of tradition, a Disney movie can’t work. I’m sorry.

Disney should attempt to make a live action Tarzan. I wanna see them attempt to race swap Tarzan

disneys A team is kinda/mostly incompetent and the B team are actually good at doing what they do

Maybe next video you should talk about the Disney cartoons classic or modern or more about Kingdom Hearts.

Back then Disney thought “what do people want to see?” then hired the best of the best. Now it’s telling people what they want and meant to teach lessons people don’t want to learn and brought to you by diversity hires.

I grew up in the Disney renaissance. We had no idea how good we had it

Tarzan wasn’t the end of the Renaissance, Treasure Planet was

Great music, thats why

Because they were structured around a typical broadway musical.

Just waiting for this second rennaisance to happen

Have you made of video of how to make a proper female protagonists; and how not to?

Because they were good movies with good characters in a good story. Plain and simple, unlike most of today's Disney movies.

I was born in 1996 this is era I grew up with because I used to watch the Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and Aladdin and Mulan and Tarzan. Because their were way better then those CG cartoons movies. Because I wish I can go back and be a kid again

I’m really sick of people acting as if Pocahontas wasn’t an amazing film with an amazing soundtrack and powerful messaging

These movies may not have been the first ever animated movies to have tighter scripts, with movies like The Secret of NIMH and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind being some of those early examples, but they sure did inspire many cartoon directors to mesh beautiful animation with deeper stories. This is something that was not at its best in the Golden Era of Disney.

Pocahontas will always be my top Disney film. The animation, the music, the story! Simply beautiful! Pocahontas, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Little Mermaid, Lion King and Hunchback were it for me growing up.

All good things come to an end

I really like this Disney era of the 90s, because I was just born in 1997.

Because it was the Disney Renaissance. The 90s. Nuff said.

DISNEY'S CLASSIC MOVIES, SUCCESSFUL.

I'm just looking at them and thinking, who will be next to be a live action remake?

The reason it works because they focused on story arch and character instead of political ideology

Thanks for not hating on Pocahontas, but just saying it was weaker. It wasn't a bad film. If it was released during the dark ages? I would've been like, a huge success by comparison, someone mentioned once. It's true.

They didn’t need to make Pocahontas completely accurate to real life, they just needed to make it darker and more mature than it ended up being. They managed to do that by adapting a famous novel with The Hunchback of Notre Dame, even though the film would not obviously be no where near as dark as the book itself.

And thus it’s only logical that Disney goes back to basics and if I am not mistaken, we might see that with Wish but we won’t know for sure until we see it.

It was great back then because three words, “hand drawn animation.” Also creativity. I think creativity kinda died over the years. Although animation has been really good lately with different companies.

Man, Mulan's live action was so bad that I actually forgot it existed until you mentioned it LMFAOOO

I find myself gravitating more towards the underrated gems such Tarzan, Hercules and Notre Dame. The setting, action and themes of those three are a bit overlooked.

Someone wished on a monkey's paw for their favorite Disney movies to return to popularity.

I didn’t realize while we were in the renaissance era that it would ever end

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I don’t miss the renaissance, I miss the people.

They will never be another decade of great animated 2D movies ever again.

Fun Fact: Jason Weaver, the singer who performed "I can't wait to be king" got an offer of $2 million to do the song, but his mother stepped in to change that deal and got him $100,000 with royalties instead. 👍👍 😁

Personally frollo in my opinion was one of, if not the greatest villain Disney ever made. He was evil and got his comeuppance, but also had times of pause when he second guess his actions, but still thought he was doing the right thing. Seems like most other times, Disney tends to just make them evil and not care/love it, or go overboard with the sympathetic part.

I can sum it up very easily: They were charming, funny, wholesome and family-friendly. Everything that Disney today is not.

I see a lot of people thinking Disney management was responsible for the Disney Renaissance, if you watch the behind the scenes of all these movies you'll learn that all of them were made "despise" and not "thanks to" the bosses. It were the artists who made these movies great.

Does anyone now if the mufasa movie will be lion Macbeth? Cuz if the original is Lion hamlet, and 2 is lion romeo and juliet, then we’re missing lion Othello, Macbeth, Tempest, midsummers night dream, etc. I mean an original story would be nice, But I would also accept any retelling of shakephere we haven’t covered yet

Damn, Beauty and the Beast gets shafted in the thumbnail lol

Treasure planet and Atlantis are in my personal best, a simple adventure. Rennaissance are my childhood and my favourites happened in my make believe/adventure phase. I'm' really glad I grown up in that era and not with Frozen decade and such. After looking at a list of their movies there aren't even 5 I think are good in the last decade, if we add Pixar now we can triple the ammount but this is ridiculous.

No pun intended but Howard Ashman and Alan Menken really were an instrumental part of the reason why the Disney renaissance even exists can we agree on that

Honestly, most of the best Disney films came from the 90s and the 00s. If only the heads of Disney now would take a page from what made them brilliant back then, we would actually see a return to form for the studio

I actually liked alot of the movies in the dark period

It annoys me how people want to act like Pocahontas doesn’t exist because of this era of virtue signaling. Since the beginning of time, humans have been taking real stories and making folklore out of them. Pocahontas was never marketed as a historical documentary. It’s a love story with a big message. Doesn’t matter what skin color you have, we are all the same. It’s one of the most beautiful Disney movies with incredible animation and moving music. Time to start appreciating it.

Not not first.

This video feels like a big run on sentence with not much room to breathe as you transition from movie to movie

classic thematics like saving a princess falling in love defeating the evil queen are over.

Well hold on show a little bit respectful for Pocahontas. Like I know people want to try to get mad about the historical context of Pocahontas character but let's be honest that movie was gorgeous and the soundtrack was amazing like let's stop trying to pretend like Pocahontas was in a good movie Just because it didn't meet the expectations of Lion King doesn't mean that it was a terrible movie I'm so tired of everybody ignoring that movie or disrespecting it because some people want to cry about their feelings about what happened to the real Pocahontas like a lot of these stories are based off of fairy tales in real life people but come on now a little bit respect for Pocahontas. Lord knows Disney disrespect her nowadays

Pocahontas doesn't deserve all the hate.. So underrated

Thank god i was born in 1990