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Home on the Range was a trainwreck of a film. I can hardly even call it a film, since it’s more like a patchwork quilt of bad decisions. Joe Mosier’s designs were great, sure, like always. There were some nice layouts. And as usual,the good old-school Disney animators did some good old-school Disney animation. But the story was nonsensical & convoluted, the characters were annoying one-note catch-phrase machines, and if that wasnt enough, I have four words for you: Rosanne as a cow. One of the worst decisions ever made at Disney, a company whose specialty in recent years has been making horrible creative decisions.

I’d agree with most of that, but I do think folks have been overly harsh about Atlantis and Treasure Planet.
I wouldn’t say I have a soft spot for them as such, but I’m less likely to change the channel if I stumble across them on the television than other much more popular Disney fare.

Also - I thought Rosanne as a cow was a great idea. I mean she’s unlikely to be asked to play a swan or a butterfly.

Yeah, i didn’t like any of those movies. The number one spot is pretty true, but would have been cool to see what they think is the absolute worst.

I LOVED Treasure Planet and I almost directed the sequel - which had a better script than the original, actually, but couldn’t have been made without the original either. They pulled the plug on the sequel after 6 months cause the original didn’t perform at the box office. Suckage. I totally disagree with its spot on this so called list. Another movie I don’t think deserves to be there is Hunchback.

Wow. I didn’t know that, Jun. I worked on some promo stuff for that film in conjunction with a studio in NYC. Disney sent us the Maya character and animation files of B.E.N. to use as a starting point. I was amazed at how the animators were moving that guy around! It totally changed the way I worked on my own stuff.

I would’ve thought Song of the South a shoe-in at number one.

While I absolutely agree with the number one spot…cause it has annoyed me for years!…I also TOTALLY disagree with Treasure Planet and Atlantis being in that list. Maybe…just maybe… I can let Atlantis slide being in there…but Treasure Planet!! The Hunchback of Notre Dame! What?! Who the hell came up with this list???

From their site:

Chelsea ‘Dee’ Doyle

Chelsea ‘Dee’ Doyle has a BA in Literature and Creative Writing from Bard College, and an MA in Creative Writing from Roehampton University in London. Her vast love for classical literature is matched only by her affinity for television and comic books. Currently residing in Cambridge, MA, Dee freelances for various websites, and can happily write on anything if given the incentive to do so. She dreams of some day becoming a college professor and a fantasy novelist.

Wow…a BA …AND an MA…That means that she must be right then, huh?…my bad. (not) Just because she got some letters behind her name don’t make everything she say right. Ppl is ppl…and ppl can be wrong…even the edumacated ones. ‘Nuff said.