Disney Film Project - var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-9823925-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}This week the DFFP team heads back in time to the Scottish Highlands to help a local legend, but can’t find anyone using that name and when the local Duke won’t help them they go straigh... Read more

Disney Film Project - Goofy’s evolution into the suburban dad George Geef has been a strange transition to say the least.  After all, this is a character who flew to fame on the back of being a bumbling fool, making all kinds of mistakes on various sports or other tasks.  To make him then a part of a suburban community seems a bit awkward.  In Hello Aloha, the Disney team managed to make it fit better by having George Geef experience something universal – the desire to escape the daily grind for a tropical par... Read more

Disney Film Project - From time to time, Disney did experiment with different things in the late 1940s and early 1950s.  Part of it was just having the time to do things, as Walt turned his eye more towards Disneyland, and part of it was the ability to look back at other things they had done and mirror that.  Lambert, the Sheepish Lion, is pretty much something straight from the package features like Melody Time and Make Mine Music.  It’s a simple fable based around a simple song, and honestly becomes one of the... Read more

Disney Film Project - This week the DFPP team heads out on the road to start checking out colleges for Her Majesty when they realize that what would really make the trip better for them is a police cruiser, a pig, and some skydiving in the 2008 comedy College Road Trip.Listen, download, etc.Show notes:IMDbWikipediaOfficial SiteTrailerDouble Dutch BusSuper Sneak!Enjoy the show!... Read more

Disney Film Project - Donald Applecore represents the way that Donald’s shorts have devolved in this period of Disney history.  For this era, it’s all about Donald fighting Chip and Dale over some food item.  There’s been nuts, pancakes, pies and now apples.  The problem is that there is not much different between each of them.   Donald is either doing a business or growing things, the chipmunks come and interrupt that, then they fight, and the chipmunks usually get the upper hand.For Donald Applecore, ... Read more

Disney Film Project - Goofy’s evolution from Dippy Dawg to George Geef has been quite the sight to behold, and with Father Lion, the complete transformation takes place.  Goofy now has a son, and has become the typical suburban father, complete with the white lies that fatherhood entails.  Every father has stretched the truth a bit about what they have done to impress their child, and that simple idea is the core of what makes Father Lion such a funny short.Goofy and his new son (who I assume is named Max) are going ... Read more

Disney Film Project - var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-9823925-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}This week the DFPP team takes a well earned vacation on the glacial plains to milk some caribou when they come across woolly mammoths being ridden by moose and bears that are  following... Read more

Disney Film Project - This sequel from 2004 should show us what happens to Mulan after saving China.  We would naturally expect to see events which happened in the life of Mulan herself.  Surprisingly, we see a follow up on how her life affects Mushu.  In a way, this film technically could have been called Mushu.  Let me explain why.The film opens with a cheesy Mushu entrance as he is surrounded by the ancestors who hate his guts.  The beginning credits are actually the most beautiful part of the film, a... Read more

Disney Film Project - var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); try { var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-9823925-1"); pageTracker._trackPageview(); } catch(err) {}This week the DFPP team heads back to ancient China to have some dim sum with the famed Great Golden Dragon of Unity and finds themselves in the middle of an invisible Mongol invasion in the... Read more

Disney Film Project - Donald Duck’s career has been one of battles with other people or animals.  In the beginning, it was teaming up with Mickey and Goofy to battle Pete or other menaces, but his solo career was different.  The idea in Donald’s latest solo shorts is to show him as a suburban man tending to a garden or trying to take a rest.  Inevitably either Chip and Dale or someone else gets in the way, and in Bee On Guard, it’s yet another encounter with bees.  Donald apparently has quite the taste ... Read more