Everything about Curse of the Black Pearl screams “adventure,” but it’s all made with the slightest wink that says you, the audience member, are in on the joke.
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It was ridiculed before release-a movie based on a Disney ride? Starring Johnny Depp? About pirates? That was a formula for failure in 2003, and yet lo and behold director Gore Verbinski took turned the inspiration of an idea into a rip-roaring adventure buoyed by a truly iconic (and Oscar-nominated) performance from Depp. Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl was not supposed to be a good movie. And yet it also manages to be colorful and funny and visually dynamic, boasting one of composer Thomas Newman’s absolute best scores. Not everyone has to have lost a loved one to relate-themes of letting go, of growing, and of strained parental relationships are universal-but the emotional truth of Finding Nemo cuts deep. Indeed, Finding Nemo is really the story of a father suffering PTSD over his wife’s death, which in turn is manifesting in an unhealthy relationship with his son. That each facet of the film works as well as it does is a testament to Stanton and the filmmakers’ talents, but as with all the best Pixar movies this is one rooted in a harsh emotional truth: trauma cannot be wished away. Finding Nemo wears its filmic influences on its sleeve as it brings a father/son story, an epic cross-country adventure, and a buddy comedy together into one story. Andrew Stanton followed Pete Docter and John Lasseter as only the third director to helm a Pixar movie, and he brought his own sensibility to the material. Its popularity causes some to underestimate its value, but there’s a reason the movie was such a hit: it’s a genuinely great film. It was everywhere and everyone was obsessed. You could not escape Finding Nemo in 2003. The Toy Storymovies were definitely successful for Pixar, and the studio had created a track record of making great films, but 2003’s Finding Nemowas a global phenomenon. That’s a big idea for a “kids movie,” and this blend of raw, relatable emotions with terrific entertainment value is something Pixar would mine time and again. It’s ultimately a story about fear of the “other,” and how empathy provides a path towards understanding. Not only is it incredibly funny-casting John Goodman and Billy Crystal as a mismatched buddy duo was genius-but Monster’s Inc.
is full-on fantasy, building out an entire world that doesn’t exist and creating monstrous characters with whom audeinces need to relate. But he nailed it while also proving that Pixar had ambitions beyond anthropomorphized objects and animals. It was to be their first movie not directed by John Lasseter, who had made Pixar a household name with Toy Story, A Bug’s Life, and Toy Story 2, and thus the pressure was on for director Pete Docter to make something, well, great. It’s also important to note that Disney did not start releasing Marvel movies until 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers, so films like Iron Man and Captain America: The First Avengerare technically Paramount Pictures movies and were thus ruled ineligible. So sit back and peruse our not-at-all controversial list in which we pinpointed the 30 best Disney movies of the century so far.Īn Important Note on Eligibility: For the purposes of keeping this list a “Disney” list, we excluded adult films that were produced by labels like Touchstone Pictures (sorry, Unbreakable) and co-productions through said labels (sorry, The Royal Tenenbaums). This includes Disney originals-both animated and live-action-as well as output from Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, and even a few underrated gems that we feel still haven’t gotten the recognition they deserve. So as we head into a new decade, we decided to look back and curate a list of the very best Disney movies of the 21st century so far. In truth, the films of the 21st century so far has largely been dominated by Disney in one way or another, and while that kind of domination isn’t always something worth blindly celebrating, the fact of the matter is Disney has produced some very, very good films over the last 20 years. But even before the 2010s, Disney was churning out terrific films-largely thanks to the acquisition of Pixar.
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