Something for Walt to be proud of, finally

Rating: Null/10 (30 July 2002)

I like every Disney film I've seen but of course the new classics, The Lion King, Aladdin, and The Little Mermaid have gotten a tiny bit of bad press, and I don't think they're the way Walt would have done them.
This one takes the taco. It's not necessarily better than the three I mentioned, and definitely not better than the ones Walt made, but this one is definitely the one that would have made Walt proudest (except Beauty and the Beast, which I'm sure he was looking down and proud of). I can not think of a time when I did not like any part of this movie. In fact I cried when I saw this with my 11 year old niece, who loved this far more than I did, which is funny cause we don't usually agree on animated films.
One thing I rolled my eyes about was the overkill of pop songs, though the Elvis ones did have relavance to characterization at least. *shrugs* I still prefer score over pop. At least the score was better than Menken's atrocity he calls score (though Hercules is an exception), but I would rather James Newton Howard bring the same score magic he brought to Atlantis and Dinosaur, here. But Silverstn did a better job than expected.
In terms of the movie, plot and characters, just check the other reviews, they say it all!