CGI doesn't count. Choices:

The Little Mermaid (1989)
The Rescuers Down Under (1990)
Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Aladdin (1992)
The Lion King (1994)
Pocahontas (1995)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Hercules (1997)
Mulan (1998)
Tarzan (1999)

I gotta go with Aladdin first, then Lion King. What brought this up was me stumbling across a critic saying that Beauty and the Beast was the best of that era, because Beauty wasn't the generic damsel in distress type. Lame.

6/21/2010 2:09:51 AM

Aladdin.

Little Mermaid had the best music.

6/21/2010 2:14:02 AM

Anastasia gets no love ITT

6/21/2010 2:26:03 AM

Not Disney

6/21/2010 2:37:16 AM

my favorite, in order

Aladdin
Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Rescuers Down Under
Lion King
Pocahontas

...

Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mulan
Tarzan
Hercules

6/21/2010 3:10:32 AM

Quote :

"best 90s Disney animated movie"

Quote :

"The Little Mermaid (1989)"

6/21/2010 3:16:12 AM

Little Mermaid counts in that era, because it was the first in the resurgence of Disney back to making awesome movies.

I mean, compare the movies from Little Mermaid on to the ones from the previous 15 years

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features

[Edited on June 21, 2010 at 3:33 AM. Reason : lol wikipedia link is not an image, i'm drunk]

6/21/2010 3:33:08 AM

people not making Lion King #1 cause its cliche ITT

6/21/2010 3:59:09 AM

the songs in aladdin are on point

6/21/2010 4:10:51 AM

The Lion King and Tarzan

The Lion King was overall the best imo. Everything about it was done very well. It's one of the best movies of the 90's imo, not just animation. None of the other disney animated movies break into those ranks for me

I really liked Tarzan personally. It had a little different style to it and they did some really cool stuff with it animation-wise (check out Deep Canvas).

Deep Canvas clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZA6nitNeYw


there have been some old (and newer) disney pencil tests posted here, if anyone's interested:

http://www.penciltestdepot.com/

[Edited on June 21, 2010 at 5:55 AM. Reason : deep canvas demo clip]

6/21/2010 5:38:40 AM

Anything involving Don Bluth.

6/21/2010 6:31:07 AM

Aladdin

Quote :

"I mean, compare the movies from Little Mermaid on to the ones from the previous 15 years"

shheeeeeiiiiiiiittttttt, you're lucky Robin Hood was 16 years before Little Mermaid or i would have dropped gloves . That being said, The Great Mouse Detective and The Rescuers are both great. Hell, they only had 6 animated features in ~15 years before LM

22 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 1 March 11, 1977
23 The Rescuers June 22, 1977
24 The Fox and the Hound July 10, 1981
25 The Black Cauldron 4 July 24, 1985
26 The Great Mouse Detective July 2, 1986
27 Oliver & Company November 13, 1988

6/21/2010 7:52:14 AM

#1. Lion King
#2. Aladdin

Those 2 rankings with animated movies are pretty much locked in for me. Even with the CGI, those 2 are pretty much locks for the top 2 spots.

But after those two Beauty and the Beast would be pretty high on the list of animated 90s ones, probably competing for the #3 spot with The Little Mermaid.

6/21/2010 7:59:16 AM

lion king, then aladdin

6/21/2010 8:06:47 AM

^^, ^

6/21/2010 8:15:26 AM

You are crazy out of your head on drugs if you think The Lion King is better than Aladdin.

6/21/2010 8:21:35 AM

1 The Lion King
2 Aladdin

Those are the only two non-cg disney movies I'd stop to watch if I was flipping through channels - with the exception of The Emperor's New Groove (2000) and Pocahontas (cuz she's hot).

6/21/2010 9:09:10 AM

lion king
aladdin
beauty and the beast

6/21/2010 9:30:36 AM

Bambi



fuck yall i'm out

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6/21/2010 9:36:40 AM

lion king sucks. the music blows balls and the characters are annoying. hakuna matata is one of the gayest things i've seen in a disney movie.

1. aladdin
2. little mermaid
3. beauty and the beast

6/21/2010 9:55:03 AM

aladdin hands down

lion king can suck one

6/21/2010 9:59:00 AM

I don't understand the Beauty and the Beast nutswingers. I mean yeah Beauty likes the Beast because he has a gentle side (as opposed to him being just another "hot prince charming") but other than that difference it's just kind of lame.

6/21/2010 10:07:20 AM

Aladdin, and it's not even fucking close.

6/21/2010 10:09:40 AM

^

6/21/2010 10:40:18 AM

Ferngully?

6/21/2010 10:43:00 AM

The Great Mouse Detective, Jungle Book, and Robin Hood are better than any of the 90s movies (including Aladdin and Lion King).

6/21/2010 10:52:23 AM

I only own one of the movies on that list, and it's Aladdin

6/21/2010 10:56:41 AM

Grown men reveal their love for animated Disney movies itt.

[Edited on June 21, 2010 at 11:22 AM. Reason : l]

6/21/2010 11:15:43 AM

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"I only own one of the movies on that list, and it's Aladdin"

this.

and it's not Disney, but Fievel Goes West pwns all

6/21/2010 11:42:27 AM

FernGully is not a Disney movie.

6/21/2010 11:53:58 AM

Aladdin for guys
BandtheB for girls

6/21/2010 12:16:08 PM

Aladdin followed by Little Mermaid.

6/21/2010 3:50:45 PM

Beauty and the Beast. Hands down.

6/21/2010 4:30:54 PM

1. The Lion King
2. Aladdin

- More emotional story (I don't get misty-eyed at any point in Aladdin, but show me the scene where Mufasa is laying there dead and Simba is trying to wake him up...)
- Aladdin has some great songs, but Lion King has a better soundtrack overall.
- I hate to use it as a positive, but Lion King has better voices/star power. Robin Williams and Gilber Godfried are great, but they can't touch the all-star cast of Lion King. James Earl Jones, Matthew Broderick, Rowan Atkinson, Cheech Marin, JTT, Nathan Lane. Hell, I just found out that Rafiki was voiced by Benson! (Robert Guillaume) And you can't tell me that Jeremy Irons isn't a perfect villain.

6/21/2010 4:46:55 PM

Ferngully is such a horrible fucking movie, I wanted to strangle robin williams' bat character so bad when I was a kid.

6/21/2010 4:47:30 PM

lion king
beauty and the beast
aladdin
little mermaid

all the rest are shit. They're all basically the same movie over and over again.

6/21/2010 4:57:18 PM

lion king
aladdin
the little mermaid
beauty & the beast

the rest don't count.

6/21/2010 5:04:43 PM

Aladdin
The Lion King
Beauty & the Beast
The Little Mermaid
The Rescuers Down Under

6/21/2010 5:18:09 PM

someone explain the love of aladdin for me

the lion king for the fucking win

6/21/2010 6:29:26 PM

Beauty and the Beast
.
.
.
The Little Mermaid
The Lion King
Aladdin
.
.
.
the rest

6/21/2010 8:10:35 PM

Fantasia 2000 (1999)

[Edited on June 21, 2010 at 8:28 PM. Reason : +]

6/21/2010 8:28:05 PM

i used to play the shit out of Pocahontas songs at my piano lessons in 5th grade

6/21/2010 8:37:50 PM

Beauty and the Beast
...
...
Aladdin
Lion King
...
...
Fantasia 2000
...
...
And the rest.

6/21/2010 8:43:31 PM

i have a weakness for hercules. it's goofy and silly and got the ball rolling on that whole "pop culture in-joke" thing that seems to be popular with animated movies these days.

plus the songs are really catchy. <3 alan menken.

6/21/2010 9:10:15 PM

Quote :

"Aladdin, and it's not even fucking close."

6/21/2010 9:26:30 PM

Beauty and the Beast
The Lion King
Little Mermaid
Aladdin

I didn't realize Sleeping Beauty was 1959, wow.

[Edited on June 21, 2010 at 9:43 PM. Reason : ]

6/21/2010 9:43:03 PM

Looks like a fairly weak decade. I don't understand the infatuation most people have with Little Mermaid and BatB. Not a big Robin Williams fan.

Guess I'll go with Lion King or Mulan.

6/21/2010 10:03:41 PM

Other than The Little Mermaid, all of these feel really dated to me...something about the "all-star" casts and the crossover radio hits makes them seem more like relics of a specific time than Disney's earlier stuff.

6/21/2010 10:40:46 PM

Quote :

"I hate to use it as a positive, but Lion King has better voices/star power. Robin Williams and Gilber Godfried are great, but they can't touch the all-star cast of Lion King. James Earl Jones, Matthew Broderick, Rowan Atkinson, Cheech Marin, JTT, Nathan Lane. Hell, I just found out that Rafiki was voiced by Benson! (Robert Guillaume) And you can't tell me that Jeremy Irons isn't a perfect villain."

yeah Lion King was the first movie that I know of to feature so many big name actors as voices, and it worked out great IMO

I don't like the trend though. Regular actors can suck big time at voice acting. Prime example - Owen Wilson as the main character in Cars. WTF? The 40 second cameo by Click & Clack had more personality than Owen Wilson did in the entire move.

6/21/2010 11:10:34 PM

Quote :

"Looks like a fairly weak decade."

It was stronger than any other decade except perhaps the 50's.

6/21/2010 11:19:17 PM