Dumbo, Alice and More Come To Netflix

I was pretty happy yesterday to see some honest-to-goodness Disney Classics arrive on the Netflix streaming service. Hopefully this is the start of a beautiful relationship between the two entertainment giants and more titles both popular and obscure will start to surface!

Some major titles making their debut on Netflix:

• Dumbo (1941)
• Alice In Wonderland (1951)
• The Aristocats (1970)
• The Fox and the Hound (1981)
• The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
• The Rescuers Down Under (1991)
• Pocahontas (1995)
• The Tigger Movie (2000)

And then some other goodies from the studio:

• One Magic Christmas (1985)
• Pocahontas II: Journey To A New World (1998)
• The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars (1998)
• The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue (1999)
• Air Bud: World Pup (2000)
• Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch (2002)
• Tarzan & Jane (2002)
• Air Bud: Spikes Back (2003)
• Air Buddies (2006)
• Tinker Bell (2008)
• The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos (2008)
• Mickey Mouse Club House: Road Rally (2010)
• Car Toons: Mater's Tall Tales (2010)
• Spooky Buddies (2011)

I was surprised to see some of Disney's real animated treasures like Dumbo and Alice in Wonderland available and pleased to find some off-beat titles as well. It looks like this could be the start of something magical...

Preview of 10 Upcoming Disney Films

Here's a quick link to a brief (but to the point) article at Yahoo Movies about 10 films on the horizon from Walt Disney Pictures. Oddly enough, the one I'm most excited to hear about is a reissue!

College Road Trip

If you find yourself at the multiplex this weekend, you can't go wrong with Disney's latest offering College Road Trip. While this film probably won't inspire theme park attractions or live stage shows it does offer some good ol' Disney fun of the G-rated variety. A blend of old school slapstick and family warmth mixed with a High School Musical style hipness, Martin Lawrence and Raven-Symone make their way on a 700 mile journey to Georgetown University for a college interview. There is lots of wackiness along the way including a pig destroying a wedding, sing alongs with Donny Osmond and more taser guns than any other movie I've ever seen. The humor is silly and gentle and appropriate for everyone in the family. There isn't even as much as one bodily function joke. And whoever the casting director was that had the idea to pair Martin Lawrence and Donny Osmond together, they should get a special Oscar award.