Recommend This: DISNEY films

SkullCap

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Okay, okay like I promised from my Recommend This: ANIMATED films thread, which I asked everyone to not post any Disney animated, live action, or Pixar films, thanks for waiting because today we can share our reserved choices. First off thanks for all the great choices from the last two threads (FOREIGN & ANIMATED). If you haven't checked them out just follow the links below:

FOREIGN films
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.219959-Recommend-This-FOREIGN-films?page=1

ANIMATED films
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.223072-Recommend-This-ANIMATED-films

Now let's take a look at the most magical (and financially intimidating) corporation on Earth, the Walt Disney Company. Ever since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Disney's first full-length animated film, aired in 1937, Disney has been creating some of the most beloved films of childhood. Spanning over the globe for several decades, the company created tear jerking moments, devilish villains, and all around classics that have become household names in dozens of countries. Today we're gonna honor these films and I mean ALL OF THEM. There will be no Recommend This: PIXAR or DISNEY PRINCESS films. No, we're doing everything from Disney animation, live-action, and Pixar. Let's begin.

Bedknobs & Broomsticks 1971
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You want to talk to me about underrated films then look no further then this forgotten gem of a classic. Loosely (I use that term reservedly) based on a series of children's books, this film is always compared to Mary Poppins because of the similar techniques used in both films. I, like many others, hate to hear people compare works with one another because that is just senseless grouping where people place two films on scales to see which one is superior. Based in 1940s small coastal settlement in England three little children have to be watched over by Miss Brisby (Angela Lansbury), a woman with an amazing secret, she's a witch in-training (potions, black cat, and a flying broomstick). When the kids find this out they try to blackmail her, but that doesn't go over too well as one of them is briefly turned into a rabbit. As payment for their silence she casts a travelling spell on a bedknob from an upstairs bed. Whenever they reattach the bedknob to the bed they can travel to wherever they want. Filled with magic, wonderful songs, excellent animation, likable characters, and an army of magically controlled suits of armor and museum exhibits fighting Nazis what more can you want? Bedknobs & Broomsticks is a good film for everyone, because it has something for everyone.

Anyway that's my choice so let's hear some others (my second choice was Atlantis: The Lost Empire, but I'll let someone else have that one.