Disney or Don Bluth movies?

[James]

This is something I like to argue about all the time, what is better, the Disney or the Don Bluth movies? If you don't remember who Don Bluth is, refresh your memory by looking him up and you'd be bound to find movies you loved by him.

Discuss this, so many factors for this.

[James]

Whenever a discussion arrives of my favorite animated Disney cartoon I instantly say either Thumbelina, or Dogs go to Heaven, and add on "they aren't even Disney but they're better at being Disney."

For Disney we've got the "girl falls in love" demographic (Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and the Beast, Little Mermaid... Mulan do you see the pattern here?) and the "boy/man/girl/woman returns home" series (Bambi, Pinocchio, The Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan... the guys who went to Neverneverland that is). Think about that for a second, is there any variation in most Disney movies except the characters and settings?

Don Bluth adds a lot of soul to the original Disney formula, especially with his classic Land Before Time and his widely regarded masterpiece Anastasia. He was an artist and animator of Disney studios you see and one of their best, but was fucked around with so many pieces and remained uncredited for their work (some of the best scenes in Sleeping Beauty were single handily animated by his genius.) So like anyone he fucked them off and made a new animating studio and released what we know today as the successful (and now cash cow) Land Before Time series. But before that he made an important arcade videogame which at the time had FANTASTIC graphics thanks to his Disney touch, you should know it as Dragon's Lair. (You see by now you know he is very important.)

Anyway, compare a film like Thumbelina to Little Mermaid, and All Dogs go to Heaven to The Fox and the Hound or something like wise similar. I have all faith that most people would prefer Don Bluth's movies because of the soul and more mature feeling to the entire film and more than Disney magic to the animation. The acting is a lot more superb and doesn't ever take itself seriously, I mean...
In Thumbelina they try to marry off the title character to a blind ugly mole.
In All Dogs go to Heaven dogs own a casino.
In Anastasia, Grigori Rasputin is an evil sorcerer.

I think Don Bluth makes the Disney touch better than Disney.

[MrBlackDX]

If Disney includes Pixar, then Disney, other a land before time and an american tail are two iconic films of my childhood

Not an easy vote dude

[Tantalus]

ANYONE who had a hand in The Secret of Nimh gets my vote.