Disney is FAILING! Here's Why... | Kenji Reacts

[@Kingyundi]

I mean a lot of Disney’s stories weren't originally their own stories just repurposed folk lore. So I think they just ran out of stories that would be worth animating

[@Meamery]

But their are still so many so that’s not a good enough reason

[@Velocityexits]

Dekuuuu

[@greatnessdelton1381]

@@Meamery There's not that many, and I don't know how you could make a satisfying feature length out of some of these. Dreamworks stole Puss in Boots, Rumplestiltskin and the Three Little Pigs, so you can rest assured Disney will never touch those with a 50-foot pole. Hansel and Gretel is extremely dark. It could maybe work as a live adaption, but it'd have to be toned down significantly? Tom Thumb/Thumbelina, but who even remembers that? The Pied Piper? Also very dark, and again, there's not really enough plot to stretch that into a movie. They axed the Jack and the Beanstalk movie they planned to make back in 2021, so cross that one off as well. The Princess and the Pea? But that's an extremely boring fairy tale that zero people remember very fondly. The Boy who cried wolf? Disney would have to Disneyfy the fuck out of this one, the original ending has the boy eaten by wolves and dying painfully. Beyond dark. The only notable ones left I can think of is Red Riding Hood, which seems more like a live-adaption rather than an animated one, and the Ugly Duckling, which, if done right, could be good.

[@GoodTimeForARoll]

​@@greatnessdelton1381I remember thumbelina but only because of the weird frogs

[@Neo-Queenserenityt2l]

​​@@greatnessdelton1381 I think they meant there is plenty of Folklore not from Europe, like there's some in Africa etc that Disney could animate

[@EmTParry]

I got to say that for Pocahontas if it was just a story that they were made up then that'd be one thing, but Pocahontas herself was an actual real life indigenous girl who was a child, while John Smith was a grown man. she was again, a child who was stolen from her Homeland forced to marry a white man, raped, beaten and eventually murdered and never once was returned to her Homeland, she was buried in England. So for Disney to make a romance movie based off a real life little girl and age her up to fall in love with the man who stole her is disgusting.

[@ReptilianTeaDrinker]

I agree with you. That's why Pocahontas gave me a really weird vibe. I couldn't like the film, because of how dark it actually was and the true story of the poor girl who went through all of that. Yeah... I ain't it. Even as a child, I knew something was up and then researched it when I got a little older and read a lot of stuff about it. It's fucked up.

[@Asirah_Veroskov]

@@ReptilianTeaDrinkersame

[@SasarasMic]

Disney currently has a mobile game with their movie villains as anime boys (twisted wonderland) and that game has me hooked ngl

[@Honeymilkteaaa]

So true Sasara pfp, twst is so much fun

[@alexandrarivera2332]

But like it’s so much fun, I wish our character was like more Interesting but I understand how hard it can be for games like that

[@dango9024]

Twisted wonderland is so gooddd

[@bored7286]

Was about to comment that too, it's soo good but takes away my storage

[@shuushii_]

Same but like isn't that Japan's Disney??? I feel like it's not the same tbh cuz ANIME MEN💪💪😤👍 and this like drop slop flip flop ahh Snow White :/

[@izzy_girl]

The fact that Frozen brought back the magic that Disney had in the 90s is not surprising! I never watched the movie(s), but I remember working retail around the time it came out. I couldn't escape the songs, the commercials, the merchandise! 😢 I was surrounded by Frozen 😂

[@eleventwelve2650]

The children dressed as anna and elsa were so cuuuute. Also them fighting over who's gonna be who brought back so many memories for me haha

[@msimetal]

@@eleventwelve2650 i remember watching Elsa with my dad when i was like 6 or 7,

[@skielah7998]

8:01 I feel like the thing about Pocahontas is that Pocahontas and John Smith were real people in real life except she was literally a child. She was like 12 and he was a grown ass man when they first met. So for Disney to depict a relationship between the two with an aged up Pocahontas is weird. Especially considering the relationship between the Europeans and the Natives. I watched the movie at a later age maybe around 13 or so and even then knowing the little knowledge I already had about the Native Americans as a non-American and what they had been through I found the premise of the movie very off-putting. They made a sensitive and serious topic into a sort of romeo and juliet situation. As far as I know, in reality Pocahontas and John Smith had no romantic relation, but at some point Pocahontas was kidnapped by the English and it is said that she was supposedly abused and raped by her English captors. The whole story has a lot more to it and is more complicated than Disney made it out to be. I don't think it was appropriate to depict a very real and important topic like that in the way they did in a movie for children and on top of that it's just disrespectful to real live Natives and what their ancestors had to deal with because of everything with the Europeans.

[@xK4R4x]

Back when i was little, i ran into my shelf full of dvds and they all feel over. One of the dvds sliced at my nose and now i have a scar. I don't think the fat tank sized TVs we used to have are the only danger lmao.

[@Basic_Jem]

I actually had one of those tvs fall on me when I was younger

[@RanLilly]

@@Basic_Jem same, my brother had to get it off of me 💀

[@Baydyn-6969]

Kenji never fails to make everyone’s day

[@GamerBunny2025]

Once they fired all their OG artists, they took a nose dive. Kingdom Hearts brought me back to classic Disney, but the terrible live actions drove me away again. I'll be back to Disney if they bring back hand drawn art & good stories ✌️

[@tootsierolls3683]

i hope your day is going well Kenji - in all seriousness, i was having a really bad day until i watched this, and you made me smile

[@YoshiPotter88]

Dude, the world right now is being weird because not too long ago in my Sociology class we legit did a whole map of what Disney (THEY LEGIT OWN A FREAKING JET COMPANY IT'S INSANE) owned and what not! But actually I agree with you Kenji they could DEFINITELY make Disney VTubers that would actually be very smart not going to lie, also actually I never really got into Disney that much (like the shows the only show I really watched was The Owl House, I have seen all of the classics though) but I was more of a Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network kid especially Nickelodeon (Victorious, SpongeBob, iCarly, Every Witch Way, Big Time Rush, Zoey 101, I Am Frankie, The Loud House, Drake and Josh, etc.) Anyways I can't wait for more Content from you and I hope that you are doing well and staying safe and healthy Kenji! P.S. Just saying... KENJI GO WATCH BRAVE IT IS VERY GOOD!!! Same with Raya and The Last Dragon, legit that was actually very cute I adore that film!

[@CilesteAndSheyn]

10:48 reminds me of something I experienced as a kid. My 5 year older male cousin(I think he was 12 at the time), was OBSESSED with Dragon Ball Z, especially when it was aired in Philippine television. When I visited them for a while, I remembered that he liked copying Goku's moves, especially the ones shown during fight scenes. So one day, I was watching Dragon Ball Z with my older cousin, and younger cousin. A scene showed up, I forgot which one it was(this memory is literally a decade old), and he jumped off the bed and started kicking the damn walls, acting like those kung fu masters in action movies, and the walls god damn SHOOK. My younger cousin was crying, I was panicking, and he continued to kick the frail ass walls until my grandma and uncle rushed up the stairs to turn off the TV and reprimand him

[@balenciagabucky]

I was born in ‘05 and still grew up with all the older Nick, CN, and Disney shows and movies 😭 I had a VCR player

[@ohvel101]

me tooo, I was born 2006, I had That big ass tv, crazy thing is we only replaced it in 2021 😭😭 it lived so long

[@Rhi_Rhi_Rhi_Rhi]

oh being in the '07 i was the same, the dvd playing old disney movies, still had the big back tv, days was fun

[@zuzu6864]

Same here 😭

[@ghosted4491]

Kenji: weird ahh sounds Kai: do you wanna build a snowmann? 🥺 I cant 😭😭

[@sevenlexar]

The thing about Strange World that I don't often see people mention is that, at least in my circles, noone knew it even EXISTED as a movie until people were talking about how badly it did in theaters. Half my friends said they would have absolutely seen it if they'd known it was a thing, and I'm pretty sure I've seen people theorizing that Disney intentionally sabotaged it by not marketing it anywhere.

[@tonyilias2561]

The movie was still shit, same with Wish XD

[@sevenlexar]

@@tonyilias2561 Oh I won't deny that looking back on it, it doesn't seem like it was that good, but my point remains. Noone I knew was aware of it as a property until after it had come and gone from theaters almost entirely.

[@Vetti_Pinkie]

right like I think there was barley any marketing towards it besides a single trailer, but the story wasn't exciting, it was bland

[@LivPC]

Fr, I didn't even know this movie existed before I saw some youtubers doing a review on it. Compared to Encanto, that they even had subway doors/windows promoting it (where I live).

[@crimson_ruino]

did you know that Disney had an Otome like game called Disney Twisted-Wonderland and the characters were designed by Yana Toboso, the creator of Black Butler. like Disney tryna go to the deep end even if its not available in some countries

[@SeokjinShizun]

I love twisted wonder land they should definitely make an anime or a movie

[@purple66666]

Shitty the fridge!! I have to search this up now

[@SeraidenAF]

Man if only it were a full otome and not just a still great joseimuke. Villain descendant full on romance sim'd be great.

[@laylaflofeild3342]

its not an otome game, its just a plain visual novel

[@tylercoep0588]

​@@SeokjinShizun the anime got announced recently

[@hiccup7457]

disney is forgetting they can make some good ass storylines and still use diverse characters fr

[@spiritsandsuch]

based mob pfp

[@hiccup7457]

@@spiritsandsuch thanks

[@Vetti_Pinkie]

right, like they are known pushing boundaries and giving the wow factor, but their playing it safe and not being experimental enough. The diverse characters was never the problem, its the fact that the story could've been a whole lot more grand if the story was written correctly

[@ebel-mt2dm]

Will disney get into vtubing? Oh honey... disney twisted wonderland...

[@sofialopes5873]

If they are going to change something from Snow White I would prefer it to be the age gap

[@Vetti_Pinkie]

yea that is a major problem, still Im hoping it gets recasted and rewritten because from what we heard, Im not even interested in watching it

[@Izzy-8906hj7]

Yes bc ik that he’s 18 but an 18 and 14 yr old is still really damn weird😭😭

[@GrapeDragon-k9g]

@@Izzy-8906hj7I’m sorry to break it to you but he’s 31 years old… and yes, it is true that Snow White was 14..

[@Izzy-8906hj7]

@@GrapeDragon-k9g sorry to break it to you... he was 18 not 31 idk where yall got 31 from

[@Izzy-8906hj7]

@@GrapeDragon-k9g a lot of you are just spreading misinformation the Disney version is 18 someone just said he was 30 and y’all ran with it, there’s a Walt Disney book clearly stating their ages lol

[@kiwinootfound]

I’m glad I finally get to watch Kenji right when he uploads now that I have time to watch them!

[@RoseOfAtom]

Kenji speaking facts. Just like how Disney was making bank with their stars they can do it with a Vtuber fr. They have the studios, money and staff to make lore videos and push more content with New and Their old properties. Hell they can probably do it without ever having to scout talents or host auditions.

[@samanthabrown8690]

Exactly Disneys problem isn't inclusion, it's that they prioritize that over making a good story. Like Kenji said Spiderman with Miles was dope as hell and I could not give two shits if he was black because the movie never made it a big deal that he was. Where as every time Disney does it they make it seem like we should be applauding them for something. That goes for the LGBT stuff too, and that's literally coming from a lesbian. I also hate that their changing peoples races, idc that Ariel was black I care that they did that to seem diverse like hey fellas maybe MAKE AN ORIGINAL POC CHARACTER INSTEAD OF REHASHING?? We have how many white princesses and only one black princess, Tiana (fire movie btw).

[@TeaCatsss]

I was lowkey stressed af today but then I saw that sir kenglesticks the third posted and now I’m still stressed but also happy 😼

[@K_XEZZ]

40:02 imo they didn’t need to change cast for live action of movies. they can just make a original black character with a good story, and snow whites is called snow white becuase her skin was ‘snow white’ !!

[@cinnusia]

18:05 actually, oshi no ko's mem cho, a character acually has a live 2d and as far as i am aware she actually is a vtuber irl

[@NubcakeOfficialOG]

Disney was switching up every second in this video poor Kenji didn't know what to say😂

[@HeppMeow]

NO CHICKEN RUN SCARED ME AS A KID. I think I probably was too young for it 😂

[@headspace8833]

I know its a bit off, but Kenji has a point. For example, Baldurs Gate got SO much attention bc the actors started their own streams playing the game and that promoted tf out of the game. Neil aka Astarion is so popular and people are watching him bc they love his voice and character. The next level would be streams with the actual characters of games, anime etc. with the voice actors or even people with voice changers or whatever. I bet people would love that.

[@Starlight_Offical_44]

3:08 Woody's boot is clipping through his leg

[@wingfirewarriorkat9831]

Kanji, is your friend Kai single?

[@Bingusflamgius]

Get out.

[@narutolover4694]

10:40 One of those TV's actually almost fell on me when I was 12 but I barely managed to get out of the way as it fell on the floor. And funny enough the TV still worked after.

[@3_clips3]

"I'll eat it, I luv banana bread..* *I'll gargle it and spit it at chu." Time stamp; 3:26

[@narrowhall0507]

40:27 i had never seen the snow white girl or any clips of her and instantly after that first clip and her toothy ass laugh i started hating her. i also just hate “feminists” that tear down old movies bc they’re too dense to see past the surface level relationship. like demi lovato calling ariel a “hoe mermaid”. feminists don’t tear other women down for being happy. regardless of whether the character is animated, they’re trying to pretend a woman can’t be independent and fall in love simultaneously. just bc you feel unlovable/unloved, doesn’t mean other women should feel that way. someone tried to say princess and the frog would’ve been “better” if she stayed single. like dawg did you not watch the movie??

[@aLeonLover]

41:15 To be fair, I found that scene with the evil trees to be very scary as a kid.

[@rinneamagishusband]

disney already has an anime based game and its called twisted wonderland though its mainly disney japan that did it

[@mollymoua4437]

lol Kenji didn’t know that Rapunzel and Elsa is related 😱😱😱

[@azimochaa]

After Frozen and Tangled it wasn't the same Hell, even Princess and the Frog because that was their last 2D animated movie

[@tpgcandy]

Funny Kenji makes jokes about tv’s hurting kids. I had a box tv fall on my head when I was 4. Lmao.

[@Drakestorm87]

7:00 omg I remember that blooper!!! 7:32 Ohh…

[@GhostlyGhost707]

I remember being scared of all the Halloween comerciales as a kid and would only watch Disney and then got scared of some Liv and Maddie episode then switched to Disney Jr 😭

[@irlizuru]

7:02 i still have that part of the bloopers on dvd in my house :)

[@Rinsolie5306]

Nice!!! New Kenji vid!!! Kai avatar looking so cute tho🤭🤭🤭🤭

[@ModelA69420]

disney vtubing with the twisted wonderland boys

[@ash1x11]

9:17 NOT BOLT STOP THAT MAFE ME CRY SO BAD😭

[@enszaiy6141]

kenji videos always make my day

[@beomcub]

SAMEE 😭😭

[@NotM3li]

Funny how I got an Disney ad while watching this stream recap

[@monkeyfacex3]

whenever kenji's mouse is on the screen, i like to hover my mouse over his mouse. it's like we're holding hands ^.^

[@ghosted4491]

Only the real ogs still got cassettes on old disney movies 🤞😔

[@c7iC]

fun little thing the amazing digital circus has done better money-wise than any two disney movies in the last year

[@saraayala7283]

I remember those big ass box tvs. I got too excited at a movie and shook the tv and the whole dresser fell on me.

[@vampariic]

Speaking of the them becoming Vtubers when i played vrchat a decent amount i ran into a official disney employee basically just advertising and answering questions in a black cat

[@sidra_0_0]

keep going kenji for make my day happy 💗🥺🫂❕

[@NonOblige]

10:37 One time it almost fell on my brother but just barely missed him, it was hovering a couple inches above him. He got saved bc the TV was so fucking big it got stuck between our dresser and bunk beds

[@crossanddream2]

I honestly miss the movies they made in the 90s and some of the early 2000s, compared to more recent ones are honestly just cr×ppy. I do feel bad for those who will grow up on those movies, I'm happy I was raised up on the 90s and some of the early 2000s movies

[@chaotic_despot]

i agree that the pocohantas movie is fucked up bcs its basically an adaptation of john smith's weird perverted stories that depicted pocohantas, A CHILD, as bring one of the alleged many native women that were attracted to him. Now this poor child is immortalized as that disgusting creep's mutual lover.

[@kitsune_cutie]

wait until he hears about twisted wonderland anime game owned by Disney

[@lilevil8608]

Ngl Elemental is probably the best I've seen from Disney these years and it's made by the Pixar group 💀

[@Pickle_leaf_22]

Thank you for making my day, I had a great laugh 😂❤

[@Theo_Yt1530]

At my school, my epic teacher Mr. P is our PE, Drama and Flyfishing teacher, he’s really cool and he let us watch high-school musical for our Drama class, it was pretty chill :)

[@icurus8978]

10:40 i remember when i was like 12 or something and my brother was playing with it and I pushed him out of the why and it fell on my legs that shit was heavy asf 😭

[@chococofffee]

Tarzan almost look like Eren Jaeger 4s

[@purpee6]

I mean Disney already dipped their toes into live2d with a game called twisted wonderland +there’s already a gamer guy in said game that just LOOKS like he’d be a vtuber for sure 💀

[@tylercoep0588]

It was Disney Japan tho. But damn they cooked when they got Yana in that game (from Black Butler)

[@ChelseaSanchez-lv3jy]

Watching this and I get a crap ton of ads from Disney saying ‘wanna be a Disney actor!!??’

[@FaralinTheseDays]

10:47 fun little back story: my 1 year old brother proceeded to shove at big backed tv on me 2 times (I was 3 at the time) and idk how he was a hulk back then and still to this day a menace

[@GXRYZgg]

26:00 bruh I´ve been in cinema with school at that film and i gotta be honest, I can´t remember anything😂

[@iaminaconstantstateofdread]

I still have some of the VHS tapes, I'm gonna have too see which ones I have.

[@LuvMeeka]

There's a channel with itachi reacting to things. It's not actually Itachi of course but the entire Naruto world got their own channels on yt with voice actors, not the actual ones but quite close.

[@YuuTheBeetle]

because of this video and those old ass tvs I remember putting my head close to the screen because the static would make my hair stick to the tv screen

[@xelaine_yukox8560]

NAH MAN IF WOODY WAS THAT MEAN, I WOULD'VE BEEN OBSESSED

[@RobinPlaysGames2002]

8:57 The lyrical change is actually inaccurate? At least as far as I know- before the song begins- the men are talking about how the natives are violently going to kill John Smith and one of the men responded with "this is what you get when the races are diverse" which becomes the introduction: "What can you expect-"

[@HimaTheBunny]

I remeber sitting in front of the TV 6 inches from the screen watching Disney chanel

[@ZeeSashi]

40:19 she hasn't read huanting adaline yet

[@cosmo1434]

I got a Disney ad watching this

[@salyzsomethingz768]

41:31 1 of the worst things about this ungrateful girl is she wants to complain about not getting paid enough but the original Snow White actress was only paid $20. & Disney didn't allow her to act in anything else because they wanted to own her voice. So I want her to imagine how it would be like to live off $20 for the rest of her life...

[@Min-su-defender]

That is a little too real kenji😢 😂5:12

[@titanlight87489]

The fucked up thing is that no matter what they do, it always got fucked up. Gay shows and movies, some striving well! Like the owl house, but then Disney itself cutting down a profitable show by canceling, calling it “not fit for the name brand.” They did that to do themselves. Than when they now try making movies, it’s all shitty and unoriginal.

[@yvastel8153]

There was a standup comedian who pointed the same thing with gingers and said they were just a few letters rearranged to be treated like-- urk!

[@LoseLover-x4z]

You know ur days lucky when kenji posts

[@comeonanadventure9598]

I feel instead of turning iconic character black what about making a movie of African/Caribbean fairy tale and folklore because hell i would watch that

[@beomcub]

WAKE UP KENJI POOKIE POSTED

[@foreverfizz8]

I had no idea the Mighty Ducks was actually talked about. I just worked with the director of that for another hockey film. Thought him talking about the Mighty Ducks was some no name indie film

[@Kikoumi]

I have a story about those huge box tvs. When I was I wanna say between 2-4 I was in my room watching one of those Pokémon movies (the one about the red and blue flying Pokémon’s ). I was a Little bored as the movie was ending and I had opened all of the drawers that the tv was on top of (I at the time didn’t know how physics worked). A couple of seconds later the dresser fell over and fell on top of my legs. luckily the tv missed my head. My parents then got me a small flatscreen and screwed the dressers on to the wall.

[@ChaosRyu]

Kenji Jokes about Disney being EA, yet they trying to buy EA.

[@kurumi-san5993]

When I heard the word "Social Credits", I know it's fcked up

[@Imjustacutegurl]

To be honest in my family, we didn’t even have a normal TV so we weren’t watching anything, except for the channels, which is PBS Kids and whatever else, and the only other thing that we had was VHS and CD

[@sleeping_pills2795]

the "not gay enough" had me 🤣🤣🤣

[@selselslel]

AYY 58 MINUTES AGO??? RAHHH KENJI POSTED AGAIN 🗣🗣

[@Uchiha.watashi]

i think it’s okay if they make live action movies as long as it follows the story exactly and the CHARACTERS are the same races.

[@Velocityexits]

Kenji never fails to make a smile every day when he posted a video Kenji never fails to make us laugh

[@FaralinTheseDays]

10:47 my 1 year old brother at the time push that big ass tv on me who was 3, two separate times for no reason

[@ANDLAURENSS]

Oh! I just watched this video yesterday! Lol

[@sueflewelling3657]

Great video ken

[@meraki0w0]

dude i miss kai

[@Jadeeyn]

BRO I USEED TO WATCH THE LION KING ALLLL THE TIME . i was a 2000's kid, but omfggg that was a BANGERRRR i was eating that shi up and watching it on REPEATTTT all day every day. i was like idk 5 when i saw that and my obsession lasted yearss anyways i was dignosed w autism LMFAO

[@qvnjjo]

23:02 the singing😂

[@Poshiuwa]

As a major star wars nerd and as a person who devoted themself to know so much lore, the lore in Ahsoka is crazy, and it's not trash. All i personally did not like is how they made Sabine and Ahsoka look.But the Ray movies: trash af

[@Skullshriekx33]

being early to Kenjis vids is the best🙏

[@rubii_games]

NOOOO ! I just rewatched Pocahontas, which used to be my fave film as a Indigenous kid because I felt seen even if I was Indigenous to another country, but farkkkk is that movie so problematic - even the lyrics to the song "Savages". The first line in the song left me shocked 'What can you expect from filthy little heathens? Their whole disgusting race is like a curse'

[@supaalink9151]

MJ from Spider-Man was a red head that was changed & I think it all started with little Annie

[@user-uj6nq8bi3p]

Soul was a masterpiece and I refuse to believe otherwise

[@Aziza_Nyxie_Jynx_Ashling]

Kenji keep those ideas to itself and make bank later! Ah! I can see the future where all those cast member who play princess get paid to be vtubers versions of their princess (they could keep in character for hours at the parks they can definitely do so online.