Soul (2020)
Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner, a middle-aged music teacher at a New York public middle school. Joe is frustrated by his lack of success toward becoming a professional jazz club musician and trying to...
2020s / Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy / Musical
by Vincent Leo · Published January 18, 2021
Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner, a middle-aged music teacher at a New York public middle school. Joe is frustrated by his lack of success toward becoming a professional jazz club musician and trying to...
Two teenage elf brothers in a town called New Mushroomton go on a quest that requires them to tap into the long-forgotten magic in the world to have one more day with the father...
by Vincent Leo · Published February 20, 2019 · Last modified February 21, 2019
Set in the fictional British kingdom of Urland in the 6th Century, Peter MacNicol stars as Galen, apprentice to an aging sorcerer named Ulrich (Richardson). Ulrich has been enlisted for help in trying to stop...
1980s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published April 14, 2018 · Last modified July 11, 2018
Turning around the reputation of Disney animation in 1989, The Little Mermaid, the studio’s loose and much more upbeat take on the Hans Christian Andersen tale originally published in 1837 that looked to restore their more...
1990s / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published March 20, 2017 · Last modified July 10, 2018
A key entry in the Disney revival of the 1990s, Beauty and the Beast retells the old French fairytale, originally written centuries before, to a new generation. Paige O’Hara voices Belle, a provincial French...
2010s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
by Vincent Leo · Published November 25, 2016 · Last modified July 16, 2018
Moana (Cravalho, her debut) is the chief’s daughter within her tribe on the New Zealand island of Motunui. Unlike most girls in her Maori village, she is destined to be the chief of her...
1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published March 18, 2015 · Last modified August 20, 2019
Introductions are hardly necessary for the venerable animated classic Cinderella, Disney’s second “Princess” movie (after Snow White), and the one that took the company that had been struggling to survive through the 1940s back to prominence and financial...
by Vincent Leo · Published October 11, 2014 · Last modified January 15, 2020
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day is a loose Disney adaptation of the 1972 children’s book by Judith Viorst, expanded greatly to fill up a (still short-ish) full-length run time. In...
1950s / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy / Romance
by Vincent Leo · Published May 29, 2014 · Last modified August 20, 2019
Very loosely based on the story by Charles Perrault, as well as the reinterpretation by the Brothers Grimm, this now-classic Disney film would initially prove a financial disappointment that would see the studio get...
2010s / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published March 21, 2010 · Last modified February 6, 2020
Director Tim Burton teams up with Disney scribe Linda Woolverton in a visual tour-de-force telling of the classic story, which combines elements of the two Lewis Carroll allegories, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its...
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Film reviews from Vince Leo, from classics to new releases, since 1996.