And that's just Disney! My favourite bits: The song "Wishing", and looking up the well at SW the dwarfs first seeing her SW in their beds asleep the dwarfs' washing sequence and song. Gentle humour that the entire family can appreciate has given way to appreciation of smut and cynicism. Ditto music with tunes and marvellous lyrics played well. For good or bad SW will never be surpassed, because of capitalist pressures to ensure everything makes money: animation designed and drawn by human beings has lost out to the precise but soulless computer. All available positive epithets (magnificent, amazing, stupendous etc) apply to this one, nearly a 10 in my book. The best place to see it is in a cinema of course, the same as my daughter and I did over and over again before Disney released it on video in '94. The music, humour, and animation are stuck magically in the 1930's but it all seems as timeless as the story itself. It's spellbinding! I've just watched Snow White for the umpteenth time, and decided it's still as wondrous and lustrous as ever.
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