Why Disney Live-Action Remakes Don't Work

Miczilla explores the core issues of the Disney Live-Action remakes
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[@cliffturbo2146]

Former fans: Let it go Disney. It's time we let the past behind us. Disney: I'll never let it go!

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

it is remember the past and make new things

[@alex.g7317]

THE SNOW GLOWS WHITE ON THE MOUNTAIN TONIGHT NOT A FOOTPRINT TO BE SEEN A KINGDOM OF ISOLATION AND IT LOOKS LIKE I'M THE QUEEN THE WIND IS HOWLING LIKE THIS SWIRLING STORM INSIDE COULDN'T KEEP IT IN HEAVEN KNOWS I TRIED... DON'T LET THEM IN DON'T LET THEM SEE BE THE GOOD GIRL YOU ALWAYS HAVE TO BE CONCEAL DON'T FEEL DON'T LET THEM KNOW WELL, NOW THEY KNOW LET IT GO, LET IT GO CAN'T HOLD IT BACK ANYMORE LET IT GO, LET IT GO TURN AWAY AND SLAM THE DOOR I DON'T CARE WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO SAY LET THE STORM RAGE ON THE COLD NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY IT'S FUNNY HOW SOME DISTANCE MAKES EVERYTHING SEEM SMALL AND THE FEARS THAT ONCE CONTROLLED ME CAN'T GET TO ME AT ALL IT'S TIME TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO TO TEST THE LIMITS AND BREAK THROUGH NO RIGHT, NO WRONG NO RULES FOR ME I'M FREE! LET IT GO! LET IT GO! I AM ONE WITH THE WIND AND SKY LET IT GO! LET IT GO! YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME CRY HERE, I STAND, AND HERE, I'LL STAY LET THE STORM RAGE ON... MY POWER FLURRIES THROUGH THE AIR INTO THE GROUND (AH...) MY SOUL IS SPIRALING IN FROZEN FRACTALS ALL AROUND (AH...) AND ONE THOUGHT CRYSTALLIZES LIKE AN ICY BLAST: (AH...) THE PAST IS IN THE PAST! LET IT GO! LET IT GO! AND I'LL RISE LIKE THE BREAK OF DAWN LET IT GO! LET IT GO! THAT PERFECT GIRL IS GONE I'M NEVER GOING BACK LET THE STORM RAGE ON! THE COLD NEVER BOTHERED ME ANYWAY!

[@adamshows1142]

Kylo Ren: Let the past die. Disney: *Palpatine’s voice:* No. Nooo! NOOOOOOOO! *Force lightning*

[@JulyBaby]

Eyy Lion King 2 reference! 🤣

[@cliffturbo2146]

@@JulyBaby Yup!

[@Jush0520]

10 bucks says, they’ll do a live action remake of Toy Story before 2030.

[@artbytesia]

Shhhhhh!

[@gordonfan2769]

Yeah, shhh! Cause that's not happening, Pixar's going to hell!

[@Chaotic_Sky245]

Don't give them ideas!

[@artbytesia]

@@Chaotic_Sky245 Exactly!

[@DragonGoddess18]

Please don't encourage them

[@OniBlinker]

What’s actually sad is that kids are gonna grow up with the remakes and not the originals

[@emhullum4120]

i don't think the kids are liking the remakes tho.

[@OniBlinker]

@@emhullum4120 yeah hopefully. I had the displeasure of growing up with the remakes too as a gen alpha. But i mean like 4-5 year olds who probably dont know that the original exists

[@Rainjojo]

Trust me, it’s consumer-driven adults who can’t tell what quality writing is who make the kids watch this crap :/

[@OniBlinker]

@@Rainjojo yeah, i know. My mom is a disney fangirl

[@FTChomp9980]

@Rain You are 100% correct most of Disneys Money nowadays comes from Disney Adults.

[@Rainjojo]

Mulan was a movie I was OBSESSED with when I was a kid, to see the way they’ve butchered her in the live-action broke my heart. After that, I never bothered with another live-action

[@artbytesia]

Mulan?! I decided I'd boycott them when I heard about Lady and the Tramp!

[@Rainjojo]

@@artbytesia I didn’t even know a live-action lady and the tramp existed till I watched this 💀

[@juliaalyssa2014]

it's awful

[@startheangel9760]

Remember when characters was realistic and relatable not full on Mary-Sues to pander to the audience?

[@Lalaloopsies_United]

I was kind of mad about one thing about the Mulan Live Action… MUSHU ISN’T EVEN IN IT 😔

[@vegetafan9922]

Tim Burton's Alice films and Christopher Robin are what Disney should be doing when making a live action adoption of their properties. TELLING A NEW STORY WITH THESE CHARACTERS! NOT JUST TELLING THE SAME STORY BUT ThIs TiMe It'S lIvE aCtIoN!!!

[@arielruh7773]

Yeah I like those

[@courage1363]

I do agree but they are live action SEQUELS, NOT REMAKES, stupid.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

Also, Cinderella. Sure it told a story we're all familiar with in almost the same way, but they take time to go more in depth into Ella's backstory, the ball (though I wish they had So This Is Love), and I like the lesson they added too. Same with Maleficent and Cruella

[@artbytesia]

I quite agree, that's why I don't mind those ones that much.

[@alexandralarsson7214]

Definitely! Also, it wasn't mentioned here (and rarely is when discussing Disney live-action movies), but the 101 dalmatians live-action was honestly great! I prefer the live-action story over the animated one.

[@neolunaticus]

My biggest problem? The color. All of them are devoid of it. Dumbo is the biggest example. So is Beauty And The Beast. The lack of color just adds to their soullessness.

[@lasercraft32]

I guess in a way soullessness is _realistic..._

[@vetarlittorf1807]

@@lasercraft32 But there's the problem, fantasy movies are not meant to reflect reality. If I wanted realism, I'd go watch a documentary.

[@lasercraft32]

@@vetarlittorf1807 Yeah I know... um... did you not realize what I meant by that? I meant the live action remakes (which are supposed to be "realistic") feel soulless and have less color.

[@everyrose3225]

Yes, all in The lion king have the color of dry dog´s poop

[@sebastiankulche]

​​@@lasercraft32That doesnt excuse it. The remake of the Lion King goes as far to look like an episode of Discovery Channel or Animal Planet. The lions dont even emit any kind of expressions. And being realistic to excuse its lack of artstyle its so dumb that only modernist people would think like that.

[@josiemystery]

I figured it out. They made ariel remake black and so different from the original in order cause controversy and nothing more in hopes to gain more attention and views because their live remakes have been doing poorly but they never stop to ask themselves the real reason why.

[@Zain-iv9yv]

No Disney has made over 1 billion with each live action remake. Their only goal is to make money and not create good content, since they bought half of the film industry, they have no competition left. Disney is destroying the film industry and once it’s fully destroyed, Disney will be a thing of the past and better companies will come along.

[@zalybrainlessgenius503]

bingo. As it was with every live action "controversy"

[@SeanWheeler100]

They really should stop giving attention to race. I don't want any more racism, and changing characters' skin colors is just baiting more racism.

[@Attmay]

They are pandering to Black women while still treating Black men with condescension.

[@mikubrot]

tbh i feel so bad for all the black actors who will have to deal with the horrible harassment from people online

[@APink176]

Most of the live action movies aren’t good, but I do want to give a shout out to live action Cinderella. I think Cinderella actually benefits from the live action expansions and character development.

[@sammyd6229]

I haven't watched Cinderella since its release. I remember not caring for it despite its great casting and costuming. I think I'll rewatch it soon. Maybe I'll like it more now that my standards have dropped. Lol

[@K0m30ng]

Cinderella is the best Disney remake ever made and gosh lucky that they released it in the perfect timing when Disney was atleast trying to make a live action remake as good as possible instead of just thinking about money

[@lessismore8533]

@@K0m30ngEXACTLY. Cinderella and Jungle book were decent

[@joshuaridgway3230]

Alice in Wonderland and Christopher Robin aren’t really remakes. Alice is really just another adaptation but Burtonized, and Christopher Robin is just an interesting concept that was well done.

[@Denchar1138]

Both are also really sequels to their source material.

[@gablit-gt8kk]

What about 101 Dalmatians

[@michaeljones7252]

@@gablit-gt8kkthat was shite.

[@teresadudley1524]

May I ask how Disney is still making so much money off of these remakes? I get that some people may like them but most people I know have stopped bothering to watch them.

[@SireneKalypso]

Yes! People HATE watch, parents idly put it on for their kids and Disney hosts life action events at the parks😊

[@BlueBlazeKing]

Easy, merchandise. From songs to all those redesigned dresses and dolls, Disney makes it money back

[@tototats16]

All because of the power of nostalgia when you can just watch the originals

[@seanmarks6304]

Disney isn’t the first and won’t be the last to remake older movies.

[@MisterAutist]

The lowest common denominator will eat it up as usual, so Disney will make more as long as they have source material left to adapt. Maybe they'll even remake the remakes at some point, who knows

[@haidergoraya3098]

I’ll never forgive Disney for ruining Mulan, one of my most favorite princesses, yet they’re about to ruin one of the most prettiest princesses from the classics.

[@wizardoferror9942]

Snow White right? Because I know they’re going to butcher one of animation’s biggest sweethearts and that burns me up.

[@everyrose3225]

Well, Disney don´t ruin anything but its reputation, Mulan is a beautiful movie and still is, they don´t erase every copy of the movie and disappear it from the world, we can watch it everyday if we want

[@KeirstenToons]

Ariel?

[@franciszekkapuscinski]

Maleficent remake gives me a lot of nostalgia. I never seen original tho. I heard that biggest change was subversion of a trope that Witch is a villan. It wasn't perfect but definitely had some magic in it.

[@miczilla_]

Oh yeah it takes me back as well

[@cometcal7387]

hehe magic

[@Mitsu2040]

In order to make her an anti-hero, they totally villainized the princess' father and had him viola te her. In the original, he is an honest, cheerful man who is a bit silly at times but in a charming way. I don't mind them telling her side of the story, but to completely assassinate another character to that end is just terrible, imo. Angelina's performance was great as usual and she did look great in the costume. I just wish they had done it differently.

[@DragonGoddess18]

I did like the Maleficent movie (even though it was made from Disney's envy of "Wicked") It not only gave her a more legitimate reason to be a villain, it also gave us something that the original movie never had: Aurora having an actual personality

[@ellencoleman4604]

​@@Mitsu2040 The worse assassination was the three fairies - they were basically the actual heroes of the original and the Malificent film made them so stupid and annoying.

[@styxxalembers]

with Live action Aladdin, Will Smith actually said that he didn't really want to take Robin Williams original role, also for the credits, he has his own remix of friend like me :]

[@marcusblackwell2372]

I didn't know that. At least with it being post-90's, he was able to do some references not possible in the '92 version. I'm referring to the Xena: Warrior Princess one near the end

[@styxxalembers]

@@marcusblackwell2372 Yeah. ^^

[@LottelinA]

I feel like disney has completely forgotten what it is: an ANIMATION studio. I get that movie styles change but they should leave the heavy cgi to other studios and go back to making original, well told, animated stories. I go to see a Disney film to see worlds and characters that aren't bound by our rules of reality and their live action stuff just doesn't do that as well as animation

[@SeanWheeler100]

Yeah, it's becoming hard to tell what Disney animated movies are Pixar or not.

[@cheezitthesquirrel3135]

I remember basically praying that Beauty and The Beast, and Aladdin, two of my favorite Disney Princess movies didn’t get live action adaptations, but they did. And it felt like Disney did everything in their power to ruin them for me.

[@kelleyceccato7025]

Halle Bailey could be a great Ariel, but the new Little Mermaid was doomed to be "yet another live-action Disney remake that SUCKS" the minute Melissa McCarthy was (mis)cast as Ursula. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for 1940's Pinocchio, thanks largely to the songs and to Walter Catlett's roguish, charismatic "Honest John." But purely in terms of film quality, I think you're right: Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio does manage to surpass it. It tells a deeper and more compelling story.

[@Thomasmemoryscentral]

Bailey deserved her own character and not a handemedown. Ariel to me is Jodie Bebson, her voice and a 2D drawing with red hair

[@TentenchiAMVs]

@@Thomasmemoryscentral I completely agree. I see Bailey and just think of how beautiful of a "the little mermaid" character she would make. The original film CREATED a character to fill a role. If that was done here, she may have had a chance to shine. But all we get is a movie made entirely of unfinished concept art that was copied from preexisting material. I see SO much potential, but they just don't care. >_>

[@dewolf123]

​@@Thomasmemoryscentral They just hate red heads honestly

[@K0m30ng]

To be fair, Melissa McCarthy is by far my least concern about the movie same goes to when Will Smith as Genie. Say whatever you want about the CGI all over her, but I think she's definitely gonna be a scene stealer, the laugh was pretty good

[@theswampfisher3253]

I really think queen Latifah would’ve made a great Ursula because she did so great in the live action performance on stage and I don’t care about Halle Berry. They could’ve just die her hair red for the Red Sea. My big problem is is the animals and how they messed up Sebastian so bad they messed up my boy.

[@twilightsilver6230]

You're the youtuber I started watching to cope with the realization that Ceave Gaming is going to be almost permanently inactive. I'm excited to watch this video.

[@miczilla_]

Thanks man

[@MoonieMuses]

Wait, what happened with Ceave Gaming?

[@alex.g7317]

Oh yeah, i forgot he stopped for some reason. Why did he stop?

[@brianedwardson8551]

​@@miczilla_ Disney:Let's make a noanimated classic.Also them make all the main characters CGI.

[@craonbox]

@@miczilla_3:02 Hi just a small critique, when you say original please be aware that many of Disney’s movies aren’t their own original fairy tales and stories but ones that they stole from the public domain

[@mcdonaldtrump228]

Disney before : 🥺😘🥰🤩😈 Disney now : 🤑💩💀🤡💰

[@benmcreynolds8581]

I miss 2D animation so much. I was a big Batman, Nightcrawler & X-Men the Animated series fan growing up. The story of mutants was universally relatable. Captain Planet. Thundercats, He-man, Spawn was so awesome and the entire world around him is so unique. It's such a creative range of character's, creatures, unique, weird, macabre things. I loved how things used to not be afraid to embrace difficult situations, odd things, eerie things. Good stories used to be told, in very creative intelligent ways. Nowadays everything is this cheap cop out shallow live action version nonsense. I miss the Era of creativity, of animated series, of things that made us utilize our intelligence and what makes us human that connects us to any character no matter what kind of character, creature, specie's they are. There is so many stories we could be telling and art that we could be creating but we are treating our entire audience like they are 2 yr olds that just need shiney keys waved in front of their face for entertainment.. But at the end of the day it's a very shallow cheap way to entertain... That's how I look at a lot of modern day media. ~~~~~~~~ I sincerely don't think kids who are younger than 20 understand just how open-minded & creative the 90's were. I was born in 1989 & I had a very diverse range of friends. The media, commercials, movies, TV shows were all Genuinely diverse and well made. Man I miss that era and I don't get how we have actually went BACKWARDS. Video games, animated series, TV shows, movies, things to do, everything was just so awesome and creative and people were real. I hope we reconnect with that.

[@alyssajones4368]

2D animation rocks!

[@davidcabreonmunoz6258]

Remember, pirate everything of Disney is always morally correct.

[@miczilla_]

Be careful now...

[@damiangaming5696]

@@miczilla_ Do what you want cause a pirate is free you are a pirate

[@marcusblackwell2372]

​@@damiangaming5696 Well, there's always more legal methods: Trade with someone who doesn't want any. Unless that's pirating too

[@Soprano1638]

@@damiangaming5696 yar har fiddle de dee, being a pirate is all right with me

[@PhilemonJackProductions]

I'm glad the rotten tomatoes for Mulan is less now. It was originally 91%.

[@miczilla_]

I find that baffling

[@adamshows1142]

Fans shouting at Disney what they’re doing wrong. While Bob Iger, Kathleen Kennedy, and every other executive are plugging their ears singing to the tune of “When You Wish Upon A Star”: 🎶 La la la la la la laaaaaaa La la la la la la laaaaaaa La la la la la la la La laaaaa laaaaa laaaaaaaaaaaa 🎶

[@kiwimellon5104]

If I remember correctly, Maleficent is one of the few remakes that doesn't copy the source material bar for bar. I can't say if it was good or not mind you, but it tried something different.

[@lollybirdy]

I will say that to add facial expressions to animals that don’t normally show those emotions is EXTREMELY hard. You have to give them expressions they don’t normally have while trying to make it look realistic. The chronicles of narnia struggled with that in the first 2 movies. Like how do you make a lion look sad?! But they managed to do it. But it’s very hard and I’m sure they tried their best. That’s about as much credit I’ll give disney.

[@miczilla_]

To me it only brings about the question, why? If the task is a monumental one why even bother trying to make them when they already did their job in the animated versions.

[@lollybirdy]

@@miczilla_ that's is a very good question and the answer is probably money

[@nicolestimothy9921]

Hell, Godzilla: King of the Monster had more facial expresion and colours compare the Lion King remake.

[@pizzarat3275]

Real animals can show emotions through their body language, movements and behavior. I had two cats that were best friends. When one of them passed away I had no trouble recognizing the other was sad his friend was gone even though he didn't understand why. I've seen real lions and meerkats show emotions in nature documentaries. I think in the case of the Lion King remake they just didn't do a very good job.

[@denizwithz9589]

The sad thing is that grown ups watch the remakes, because they tgink tgey are too "mature" for animation. And Disney just uses this issue

[@ethans1997]

Miczilla gives a heart-felt speech about what Disney should be doing to be great again. Disney: I'll ignore that.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

Disney *shouldn’t* be ignoring this.

[@ethans1997]

@velociraptor4you Actually, I enjoy watching the fall of the Disney empire from all their decisions.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

@@ethans1997 Now that's *pessimistic,* don't you think?

[@leebulger7112]

Where can you find this speech? I want to read it or listen to it.

[@velociraptor4you3291]

@@leebulger7112 @ethans1997 here is referring to what Miczilla is talking about in this video.

[@nerdoftheatre]

The funniest problem with these movies is that... they all aren't live action action. They're live-action animated films. Hell! Lion King (2019) is nearly fully animated. The only thing that isn't animated is the sunrise in the VERY beginning. That's it. It's realistically animated, not live action. And doing so I believe discredits the animators that worked on it.

[@Trainboy452]

It is pretty clear that Disney doesn't really give two dumps about their audience, but rather pander them into watching these cash grabs of remakes. And they said the remakes are to "reinvent them for the next generation". If you want these stories told to the next generation, just go buy a DVD, Blu-Ray, VHS, or whatever of the original films. Kids need to be cultured, dang it! *CULTURED!*

[@AJonathanOnTheInternet]

No mention of the Jungle book? That one is a certified classic. It's the only reason I believed they could do Lion King right until they didn't

[@leebulger7112]

The Jungle Book remake is kinda the only remake that I like excluding Maleficent it actually improved some parts of the original including the ending.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

​@@leebulger7112 Well, watch Cinderella. The best of the bunch in my opinion

[@leebulger7112]

@@marcusblackwell2372 maybe I will when I have the opportunity.

[@Monkey1990100]

what? i watched the jungle book remake thats a great remake. but how do you think they could had the lion king right? when the jungle book remake is about human interaction with animals and the lion king remake just had animals in it and felt very heartless.

[@leebulger7112]

@@Monkey1990100 Okay, I haven't seen Lion King 2019 but you have a point I just think The Jungle Book remake made Sheerkahn more presence and Mowgli staying in the jungle I liked.

[@yoshifan3077]

You also forgot they made a live version of Kim Possible which I'm baffled they made something like this

[@lasercraft32]

You know... I GUARANTEE YOU if they remade the Disney classics by keeping the stories exactly the same but reanimated them with the same quality and style of Spider-verse or Puss in Boots, people would probably love them.

[@PineappleCool]

Quite underrated channel, deserve more subs

[@masterseal0418]

Actually in the beginning, the remakes didn't start with Tim Burton's Alice, it began with the 1994 Jungle Book movie, then ended after the live action 101 Dalmatians movies featuring Glenn Close as Cruella. But Disney brought the remakes back in the early 2010s tho.

[@MrBallerinakaka]

Yep It Was Kinda Weird Where Trend Started In 1994 😂

[@marcusblackwell2372]

​@@MrBallerinakaka Not as bad as what we have not

[@DapperPenguin47]

But the jungle book was good

[@miczilla_]

Forgot to mention it but yeah I liked it.

[@Captaincookie_yt]

I heard about the strange world six months before it came out and forgot about it until it released

[@Ishakai_]

can we all collectively agree that the best live action remake that disney did is cinderella back in 2015

[@pizzarat3275]

I recently watched Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. Late to the party, I know, but one of the things that struck me about the film is how much the backgrounds, lighting and colors impact the emotional weight of the scenes. Like in the scene where Puss first meets the wolf. The dark grays and browns with Puss sitting at the bar as the brightest object jr screen that immediately draws your attention. Then the wolf appears next to him reflected in the mirror behind the bar and you immediately know he's tiny and vulnerable and the wolf is up to no good before a single word has passed between the two. Scenes like this can only be effectively portrayed in animation and the animated original Disney films are also full of them. Think how much the volcano setting added to Be Prepared in The Lion King and the live action version just has the characters basically standing around.

[@cuteladybug8622]

"Pinocchio himself looks like doo doo". Pretty much sums up the live-action remake of this movie.

[@Attmay]

His real mother was an outhouse.

[@chrisgomez1840]

i found de "Pleasure Island"scene more haunting in de life action then they did for de animation

[@assassinelf02falla11]

I love this video and you make really great points, as much as I like cinderella 2015 and Christopher Robin, the others don’t make it as magical and sometimes it feels like they don’t even try to make it good.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

What about Alice In Wonderland?

[@kayleeholt0712]

Maleficent?

[@pennyblush98]

Hey hun ☺️ I'm glad ur latest video popped off, you deserve it and make great videos! If you liked Cruella, i think you'd love Maleficent! It's got its own story and doesn't feel like the rest of the live action slogs. THANK YOU SO MUCH for pronouncing Guillermo del Toro's name correctly! I've sadly gotten used to the way the majority say it that I actually had to rewind when u said it and be like "...no way" I know it's no big deal, but it's nice as a brown person when things are correctly said. Hope ur doing ok, keep up the good work hun 💞

[@rybackfrankie8679]

That's accurate. The classics and animation have so much magic and it's especially true for the Lion King. If I want to watch a realistic story about lions, I won't watch a live action CGI Lion King movie, I would just watch a documentary on National Geographic 🤷🏾‍♂️.

[@uwuuwu9104]

The only live-action Disney movie I actually inherently enjoyed was Cinderella. I didn't watch the original as much because I despised the mice and the 2015 remake allowed me to finally appreciate the characters and expound upon elements that weren't really explored. A bunch of Disney remakes is unnecessary because the originals are perfect but Cinderella is a case where it had some room to grow and change and Kenneth Branagh was able to capture that magic. I hope people stop falling for nostalgia (which Hollywood loves these days) and go see an original film with original stories.

[@lessismore8533]

Yes I loved Cinderella too

[@anthonybones272]

im more of a fan of the original movies

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Same

[@thesnesgeek]

The biggest fault why these remakes happens is because Disney owns waaaay too many properties to be able to focus on only one. That’s why they keep coming, they don’t have the time to come up with ideas for originals anymore.

[@Captaincookie_yt]

Are the Pinocchio movie on Netflix is good. watched it when it came out and it was good. I think that if they promoted it better, It would get more attraction.

[@Launchpad05]

Disney is just allergic to animation. Plain, and simple. It's A shame the former animators had no spine to protest against the live action train wrecks.

[@Attmay]

That’s like Willy Wonka suddenly becoming allergic to chocolate.

[@Your_Folk011]

Unpopular opinion. Dumbo live action is actually good (about how they portralled dumbo's energy)

[@presseagainidareyou4704]

I think it was just okay, but by the standards or Disney remakes that is VERY good

[@mechaYeet56]

Honestly the dumbo remake is better than a lot of other Disney remakes simply because it was original in a way that didn't completely butcher the original

[@LadyDecember]

I'm glad you like the Dumbo live-action, I guess there should be some people who like it. Unfortunately, I'm one of those who reeeally did not. But on that note I also have an unpopular Disney Live-Action opinion.... I liked the Lion King. _Not_ more than the original, never, but I don't think the Lion King remake was at all as bad as everyone made it out to be. I didn't find the animals not emoting in their faces a problem, because if you know how animals emote, it's not much of a bother. Also the photo-realistic environments and animation is quite breathtaking to look at.

[@marcusblackwell2372]

​@@presseagainidareyou4704 What about Cinderella?

[@Your_Folk011]

@@LadyDecember And I totally reaspect that opinion. =]

[@salvadorfofinho773]

Totaly agree but the jungle book live action is actually very good (in my opinion)

[@artsveiman7776]

And the sin is, they could work, they have potential to work. Not as reboots of the originals but as original retellings of those same stories. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, the Little Mermaid, theyve all had films about them before and you can make new and very interesting live action films about them while pushing new artistic grounds, something which Disney had once been famous for.

[@jamlym4974]

"You can't top pigs with pigs." -Walt Disney

[@Hadraniel94]

The reason these don’t work is simple. You cannot make things that happen in 2d animation look realistic in 3d let alone give off the same energy. Think about every single scene in the animated where there was a lot of emotion; scary moments, sad moments even happy moments. The entire ENTIRE color scheme of the whole scene including background changed. In 3d you cannot make the world turn black and blue for sad scenes for example. Also the expression in animation includes body “contortion” if you will the scene show here where Iago slams into a wall and turns into a pancake, you can’t get that in real life, think tom and jerry the exaggerated animation isn’t possible in 3d. So 3d will always ALWAYS look boring compared to the animated, because it is simply impossible to give the same energy, emotion and exaggeration into “real life”.

[@bonnieraggett8235]

I maybe alone in enjoying SOME of the remakes. This maybe because I never really grew up on the original films as a kid, but I did enjoy some of them. Cruella and Maleficent are definitely my favourites, and I like that they actually tried to be creative. I did like Aladdin remake too, and the new songs. But that's about it. The rest are just copies of the originals just to make money....and you can understand why Disney keeps doing them; the lion King remake is their best movie for box office success, and Beauty and The Beast is up there too I'm pretty sure. Disney won't stop until these remakes stop making money.

[@austinreed7343]

Furthermore, there do still exist some original animated films, but in many cases they’re just as bad as these remakes.

[@Riley98414]

Disney made their downfall when they made Turning Red💀(I kinda liked Lady and The Tramp)

[@icomeandgobybubble87]

Anyone remember the 101 Dalmatian remake in the 90's? It was actually entertaining. Far better than any of their other remakes.

[@tiamystic]

Honestly the only thing that should be adapted to live action were the broadway musicals. Those were better, and enough.

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Yeah. Theatre could work with impressive stage work, beautiful costumes, awesome scenic designs, etc.!

[@Surya-uj7re]

No mention of the Jungle Book? I grew up with the original animated movie, but I still loved the live-action adaptation. I'd say it's one of the few good ones. Original was fun and goofy, this one was deeper and more mature, which actually worked really well with the live action look.

[@Nameless_mixes]

As someone that’s watched almost all of the remakes, I will say that the two Maleficent movies were actually amazing in my opinion! Most of these films tried to move away from the source material, but not toooo far away as to create an entirely different story. But that’s where they lost a lot of the charm. With the Maleficent films, they changed them so much that you could see there was actually that same passion for story telling as they had in the 90s! I felt the same thing about the Alice In Wonderland films! And then you have Cinderella. They kept things more faithful to the original film and it works! Aladdin, Beauty And The Beast, The Lion King, Dumbo, Pinocchio, etc. They tried way to hard to modernize aspects of the films that they sacrificed how those aspects worked. And we’re already seeing this with the new Peter Pan movie. And we might possibly see that with The Little Mermaid (although, nothing’s stood out to me thus far that would indicate it, but ya never know). My point is, the early to mid 2010s showed Disney actually making an effort with these films! Late 2010s to present is just Disney pandering to the general public with identity marketing and not actually using those changes to make a better movie. And it sucks because Disney/Pixar has given us Moana, Coco, Encanto, Turning Red and so many other amazing films during this time period. So, it’s not like they’re incapable of making bad films. They just seem to really be going for guaranteed box office successes.

[@FTChomp9980]

Disney animated Movies in the past were just beautiful to look at and everything was good to! Especially the performance. Then on the other hand the lifeless CGI Barf of Live Action Remakes that truly end up well terrible.

[@oksanavolkova3336]

Does Cruella count? I loved that movie to the smallest bits!

[@courage1363]

That was actually prequel to the original story since its origin story of the villainess.

[@oksanavolkova3336]

@@courage1363 yeah you're right. Love it nonetheless!

[@cartooncentral263]

If Disney wants to do more live action movies, stick with Pirates of the Caribbean. Or make new original live action movies like they did in the 1990s and the 2000s. Or make a movie based on a Disney Channel original show and movie. We haven’t had one since Hannah Montana The Movie and High School Musical 3: Senior Year.

[@moonlight_haze]

i would love for them to make another pirates of the caribbean but johnny depp doesn't want to play captain jack sparrow anymore. well, he mainly just doesn't want to work with disney ever again. so if they ever create a new one, and he isn't captain jack sparrow in it, then i ain't watching it. cuz no one can ever be captain jack sparrow better than johnny depp

[@lessismore8533]

@@moonlight_hazeamen no one bears Johnny

[@sixarmedpsycho_9]

The Super Mario Bros. Movie will forever beat ANY live-action Disney movie.

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

disney became successful because they made new movies

[@engirish1977]

Damn it Disney!! You used to be sooo good!! Can we go back to those days, please?

[@thedinosaurmann2436]

You forgot one 2016, the jungle book, the only one of the live action remakes I enjoyed due to its good effects and fluid storyline. Even if the 2016 j.b is good, it is nowhere near the masterpiece that is mogli on Netflix so pretty and realistic but not too realistic like 2019 lion king

[@KingBobaFett434]

Personally I think the live action remakes are terrible.

[@KingBobaFett434]

If they decide to do a Disney live action remake of Tarzan then they should make it 2 hours and 42 minutes long so it will have enough action and adventure in it and it would also be a musical as well. That way all the characters can sing their own songs. I would also throw in a Disney live action version of Queen La from Disney’s Legend of Tarzan series in this movie and have her be played by Estelle. The main antagonist in this film would be Queen La the second one would be her pet leopard 🐆 Sabor and the third and final one would be Clayton.

[@majorknight859]

I prefer animation because it has a lot more freedom in what it can present. From an Artistic perspective, it's literally the best choice. Live Action movies only beat animation when it comes to acting. No 3D/2D animated character can ever match the detail of Joseph Morgan (klaus Michaelson) shedding a tear

[@Everyonesbuddy829]

Everything wrong with every Disney movie remake: NOTE: I'M NOT GONNA MENTION THOSE MOVIES THAT I DIDN'T WATCH. Beauty & the Beast I think this movie is fine some people say that the singing of the beauty & the beast song is kinda slow but it's fine to me overall movie is fine. I don't like the man version of the beast though he looks gay to me his movement looks gay I don't know maybe it's just me maybe I'm just judgemental. Aladdin. I have many problem with this movie. First of all in the beginning of the animation we saw Jafar got a magical insect thingy I think it's a cricket he attached it & followed it so the Caves of Wonder was formed. He told the thief that was with him to go to that Cave of Wonders the cave said something like this " Know this only one may enter here the diamond in the rough." The thief then confidently entered the caved & was killed because he is not the cave's chosen one. Now let's compare that to how the Live Action movie starts. The movie starts with Will Smith who plays as the gienie sailing in a ship with his wife & children & he sang the intro song Arabian Knight. Then the movie jumps to the scene of Aladdin stealing bread with Abu his pet monkey. See what's wrong? The animated actually tells lots of things set up the story first not rush into the story. Also not to mention, Remember that scene when they put Aladdin in jail & Jafar disguised himself as an old man to tell Aladdin to get the lamp from the Caves of Wonder. Well in this movie he just goes to Aladdin while still being Jafar & when the cave collapsed & Aladdin met Jafar, the sultan & Jasmin in the castle why Aladdin didn't told the sultan that his Vizier / Advisor was searching for treasure in some magical cave. The best & most scary part of the Aladdin for me is when Jafar turned himself into a giant Cobra a poisonous snake & they didn't do that. Also Lago, Jafar's parrot is very intelligent in the movie he is even the one who suggested to Jafar that he marry Jasmin & kill the sultan but in the live action he's just a normal parrot. Dosen't make sense to me that when Aladdin freed the gienie he became a human & had wife & kids. Lion King You know what ruined this movie? Not The acting, not the effects, not the marketing but racism. When they made this movie I saw some videos here on KZbin especially from Jeremy Irons the man who played as Scar in the animated. He said that he receive news that Disney hired back James Earl Jones the original actor who voiced Mufasa Simba's father but they didn't hire him back. ALSO SIDE NOTE ONE OF THE MOST UNFORGIVABLE THING DISNEY BUTCHER IS THE BE PREPARED SONG OF SCAR THE ANIMATED VERSION IS PERFECT THIS ONE IS JUST PATHETIC. ALSO WHAT ARE YOU GUYS FROM DISNEY TRYING TO PULL HERE IN THE ANIMATED SCAR ALREADY KNEW THE HAYENAS FOR A VERY LONG TIME IN THIS MOVIE SCAR JUST MET THE HAYENA HE CONVINCED THEM TO JOIN HIM BY SINGING THE PATHETIC VERSION OF BE PREPARED. If it ain't broken don't fix it. ( Thomas Bertram Lance). Mulan ( 2020) This is the worst of all remakes. There's no music form the original animated, Mulan herself dosen't have struggles & mushu the naughty talking dragon wasn't even in this movie for comedic relief. Disney said that this remake is different from the original animated because this is from the original Mulan ballad. But the problem is they removed mushu for the movie to become more realistic but they included a shape shifting witch. The motivation of the witch to fight is I guess not totally nonsense but he just hate feminist people or people who hate calling women weak I guess it's fine since it's a real life issue. What I can't forgive about her though is her dumbest move ever when Bori Khan the main antagonist shot an arrow to Mulan she decide to shapeshift to a bird & catch the arrow with her tiny bird body. YOU GOT A WITCH THAT CAN TURN INTO MULTIPLE BIRDS & HER DECISION TO SAVE MULAN IS TO CATCH THE ARROW WITH HER TINY BIRD BODY! Anyway let's talk about other characters. Mulan, there's nothing likeable about her. First of all in the animated her other comrades or the other soldiers where a jerk to her but eventually they became friends they even idolized her. In this movie they were actually nice to her & she's the who is kind of a bully. Remember that pole climbing scene from the movie where Mulan & her fellow soldiers have to climb a pole with dambels on their arms. Well that was replaced with a mountain that they need to climb while carrying two full buckets on the side of their arms. I don't like this change it has nothing to do with applying critical thinking it just pure physical strength. I also don't like their commander in this movie he literally has no authority over his troops. In the animated when Mulan was revealed to be a lady the Li Shang took the sword from Mulan's horse & actually planning to chop her head off. But he has a reason to spare her since she save him form an avalanche. But in this movie he isn't even the love interest & he dosen't owe her anything he just let her off with a warning. Also what's wrong with Mulan she was spared & she literally said " I would rather be executed." I mean even the animated Mulan is human & actually feared death. Another side note: WHY WOULD SOMEONE INCLUDE AN ARROW KICKING MECHANIC IN THIS MOVIE ONE OF MULAN'S CHI ABILITY IS TO SHOOT AN ARROW WITH HER FEET BY KICKING IT ON HER TOE! To those people wondering if you can do that in real life you can't if you try to do that you'll most likely injure your foot. ALSO THE EMPEROR IS A FABRIC BENDER NOW I WASN'T JOKING I JUST WISH I COULD TELL YOU GUYS I'M JOKING BUT NO HE PICK UP THE CARPET & HE USED IT TO FIGHT THE RORAN ARMY. ONE OF THE DUMBEST DECISION OF MULAN IS REMOVING HER ARMOR BECAUSE JUST AS WHAT THE DUMB WITCH HAS SAID YOUR DECEIT IT WEAKENS YOU IT PPOISONS YOUR CHI BUT WE CAN CLEARLY SEE SHE'S DOING THOSE MARTIAL ARTS WHEN SHE'S STILL WEARING THE SOLDIER ARMOR & THE CHI IS STILL STRONG SHE CAN FIGHT WITHOUT TRAINING. ALSO LET'S TALK ABOUT THE BEGINING SCENE THE RORAN ARMY ARE INVADING. In the animated they use grappling hooks. A metal hook with a rope attached to it used for climbing walls & boarding ships. BUT IN THE MOVIE BORI KHAN CLIMBS THE WALL WHILE RUNNING WHICH MAKES THE MEDIEVAL WALLS PRETTY MUCH USELESS SINCE ENEMIES CAN JUST CLIMB IT.

[@SilviaNight99]

All i know is that when i saw their announcement in that the princess and the frog ws going to be the last true 2d animated film, i cried. 2d animation is what we want and crav, and while adding some 3d elements isn't necessarily bad, Live Action films do not hit the same whatsoever. it lost it's unique spark and touch that comes from the art of animaiton. I hope some of the new generation that want to becoma part of Disney push for animation to thrive again. :(

[@whyrwehere]

Winnie the Pooh was the last 2D animated film

[@mikekelley2877]

I'm not going to allow my kids to go anywhere near these remakes, they're going to be raised on the classics only. Besides, it's not just a cash grab for Disney, they also cater to modern beliefs who want to view the original as a bad thing. I've never seen any of the live actions, nothing about them appealed to me, which is why I will never go see the Little Mermaid, I loved the original 1989 film and even had a crush on Ariel (I had an Ariel Christmas ornament from 1990 as a result, I was 6); the point is, modern day live action remakes fail to capture the magic and seriously lack in imagination and creativity, almost every Disney movie, these days, does.

[@kaikei1013]

Honestly with Mulan they should have stayed more true to the animated version instead of trying to make a Wuxia esque film. Who was that film even for? Fans of the animated movie won't like the major changes and imagine Disney attempting to sell a "Wuxia" film to a Chinese audience of all people.

[@gcs7817]

The only good live action remake was Cinderella directed by Kenneth Branagh

[@CoolDude-ox3wm]

I remember taking my 10 year old daughter to go see the new live action remake of Aladdin. When the movie was over we of course talked about it, and she said she thought it was lame and cringey 😂😂 And I agreed

[@everyrose3225]

Smart kid

[@17jacoyne]

well the live action disney remakes were doing fine at first, but ever since the unnecessary live action remastering of the lion king the Disney remakes after that one starting to severely crash and burn, how much should i wager that the live action little mermaid is gonna bomb at the box office?

[@sir.confident]

Would I be awful to speak of a life action version of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins?

[@Doleryn]

People who critic the Live Actions always, ALWAYS forget the amazing Cinderella Live Action film, that I will NEVER stop recommending.

[@miczilla_]

I saw Cinderella and it was alright to me

[@lessismore8533]

Loved Cinderella

[@bluejay1153]

To think it’s only going downhill from here even moreso because they’ve announced Moana getting one now

[@JK.318]

I can't wait to see how they butcher Pocahontas, The Emperor's New Groove, Lilo and Stitch, Up, Tangled, the Princess and the Frog, Wreck-It-Ralph, Zootopia, Big Hero 6, Frozen, Moana, Coco, Luca, Encanto, Turning Red, and Raya and the Last Dragon with the live-action remakes. Not. I've continued editing as I remember more of them.

[@jackcarraway4707]

They should just do a live action remake of Home on the Range just to piss everyone off.

[@clairelin0216]

Lion King live action version can't even count as a live action, there's no human beings except for the voice actors that are voicing those CGI animals, and those CGI animals, while looking realistic in their own right, have literally no life in their eyes like the original animated version did. I understand it is hard to find an actor or actress that looks exactly like the original animated version, have a great singing voice, and great at acting out the emotions that were presented in the original animations, but I do feel that I'm robbed by Disney, they tried to make changes to their own original characters that people accepted and don't have a problem grew up watching them as the way they were. And in those live action remakes, they cut out the songs that were necessary in the animation medium and necessary for the plot to move forward because they think it will work better. Like in The Little Mermaid and the scene that took place in the lagoon with the song "kiss the girl". For me, growing up watching the scene in the lagoon is one of the most romantic animated scenes I've ever seen and one of my favorite scenes, and "kiss the girl" is one of my favorite Disney songs. Those animators back in those days know how to make the magic and love and romance show in the animations, I've seen stage shows of Disney's The Little Mermaid, and those are far better than the remake version that Disney made, I really see the respect for Disney's original characters in those stage shows, and then I look at Disney's version and they just suck. I also feel like during the renaissance era and before the renaissance era, those animators just know how romance and magic works in animations. But today, with their remakes of the original version of their animations, live actions, and somehow-we-have-to-show-the-world-we're-not-racist attitude, constant race swapping, changing the original songs and message that they wanted to send in those animations, the magic and romance and love just vanished from the original version. The Little Mermaid was my entire childhood, I've been watching it since I was 6 years old, and I still love it just as much as I did now that I'm an adult. But their live action remakes really make me ask did they ever watch the animations they made, because I can promise you I understand why the plot of the original ones were the way they were and why the animations were drawn the way they were, I can understand all that as a 6 year old girl and Disney can't understand it. Not to mention that The Little Mermaid was the first animation that pulled Disney up from being almost bankrupt to making money again and making an iconic character that people can recognize just by some simple features, and that's all the respect that she receive when making it into the live action? They changed the songs, they changed Ariel's look, and then put on CGI animals trying to tell me those are better than the original animations and they still have the nerve to call it The Little Mermaid and use Ariel's name? It's like they ruined my childhood, which I remembered clearly just like it had just happened, and tell me that their live action remake of it is good. Yeah, I love Disney's animated original version of The Little Mermaid, but I'm not watching their live action remake of it. Constant race swapping is going to backfire eventually, just try to make original stories, if people don't have a problem with the original character designs then just stick with it, don't try to change it and then accuse people of overreacting and being racist after the movies are released.

[@d.n.3652]

The only ones I liked were Maleficent and Christopher Robin. Because they weren’t just remakes, they were different stories

[@Ahalaya]

The Lion King remake was just a demo for Prehistoric Planet.

[@carminecdinoproductions]

Right.

[@discorabbit]

I wish they’d go back to drawn animation

[@LadyB_20]

Cinderella 2015 is still above most of the remakes for me. Even if it wasn't under Disney it could have been a great stand alone film. Unlike the other retellings, it adds twists and turns and makes every moment just imapctful for me at least.

[@Patchouliprince]

The only live action I bothered watching was those original Alice in wonderland ones, they were, meh. I just care about myself and my time way too much to subject myself to this. If I really want to watch the movies I’ll watch the original they really do have so much charm and it’s vibes all around!

[@thedeutschman9905]

Disney animated movies are like meals at a restaurant and the live action remakes are the leftovers put in a microwave.

[@lessismore8533]

😂😂😂

[@nicolascangele5548]

Favorite cartoons: Looney Tunes Animaniacs Roger Rabbit Lion King Aladdin Hunchback Hercules Nightmare Before Christmas Sword Stone Jungle Book Peter Pan Bambi Dumbo Pinocchio Winnie Pooh Robin Hood Fox Hound Great Mouse Detective Fantasia Tarzan Atlantis Treasure Planet Brother Bear Chicken Little Meet Robinsons Bolt Wreck-it Ralph Big Hero 6 Toy Story Bug's Life Coco Up Monsters inc Finding Nemo incredibles Cars Ratatouille ice Age Rio Ferdinand Horton Robots Popeye Felix Cat Shrek Madagascar Kung Fu Panda HTTYD Despicable Me Secret Life Pets Tom Jerry Tex Avery Smurfs Angry Birds Freakazoid Muppets Open Season Regular Show Uncle Grandpa Futurama Family Guy American Dad Ben 10 Courage Camp Lazlo Chowder Samurai Jack Frankenweenie Gnomeo & Juliet Happy Feet Small Soldiers Steven Universe Clarence Gumball We Bare Bears OK KO Gym Partner's a Monkey Billy Mandy Foster's Home Codename Kids Next Door Spongebob Squarepants Jimmy Neutron Tuff Puppy Danny Phantom Fairly Oddparents Peabody Sherman Over Hedge Bee Movie Megamind Spirit Turbo Captain Underpants Boss Baby Sinbad Prince Egypt Road Dorado Barnyard invader Zim Hey Arnold Phineas Ferb Wander Over Yonder Randy Cunningham Gravity Falls Recess Fillmore Milo Murphy's Law Kick Buttowski Frankenweenie Planes Felidae Cats Don't Dance Noah's Ark Wallace Gromit Tiny Toons Dexter's Lab Cow Chicken Weasel Mario Donkey Kong Pacman Rayman Ratchet Clank Spyro Conker's Bad Fur Day Kirby Crash Bandicoot Astroboy many more

[@Donaven619]

I think we might have a new trend that might be worse. Recently, the winnie the pooh books became public domain, and there was a horror film that got released. Winnie the Pooh Blood and honey. It beat the movie budget in box office and they plan to add more to it. A sequel and even crossovers with different characters.

[@jamesgoodwin4543]

The only Snow White live action movie I will ever watch and not done by Disney is called Snow White: A Tale of Terror. I love it.

[@lollybirdy]

The remakes just feel so cheep now. Like no love is put into them. It hurts me as someone who grew up with Disney and their original movies. I miss that era.

[@RubyTrashWolf]

what about beauty and the beast

[@miczilla_]

It was alright

[@Ezioauditore5678]

And now moana… which isn’t even 10 years old yet

[@fujizetttheultra.941]

As Arin from Game Grumps once said, "You know when you have one of those moments where you're like, I guess I just don't care any more." This perfectly describes how I feel about Disney these days.

[@dreamguardian8320]

Just goes to show that Disney really needs to go back to good old 2D hand drawn animation, before it falls harder than Rome did.

[@4dojo]

They'll never work partly because they're not original, and partly because the thing they are copying is more fun to watch animated in the first place.

[@emilyriley6029]

“A beloved classic.” Yeah, so leave it alone. That’s your sign to leave it alone

[@MewDenise]

To some extent they do, looking at the money they make. Best one is Aladdin, but I hope the little mermaid will be good

[@l.salisbury1253]

5:04 - "KEEP MY HUSBAND'S NAME OUTTA YOUR F__KIN' MOUTH!!!!" -Jada Pinket Smith

[@Attmay]

Now I actually want them to make *G.I. Jane 2* with a cameo by Mel Brooks since his late wife, Anne Bancroft, is in the original.

[@Lari_crescent_moon]

I miss 2D animation. That’s what I loved. ❤ I hate the live action, I wish we could go back. Imagine a live action of trolls (ik it’s not Disney but still) 😭 To be fair I really liked Cruella though. It was not a remake more as a origin story. I also liked mistress of evil. It wasn’t Aurora, more like a different version of it.

[@moonlight_haze]

omg a live action of trolls would be a nightmare 💀