Youtuber Massive Joel watched 34 Disney animated sequels and has posted a marathon 73-minute assessment of the lot.
The character of the video and Joel’s typically sarcastic or glib humorousness may give off the impression that he’s approached the duty from a cynical place, particularly given his selection to begin with considered one of his least favourite sequels, Atlantis: Milo’s Return. As one watches, nevertheless, the intuition to dismiss Joel’s video as comical or satire dissolves shortly as he presents sharp, insightful insights on lots of the movies’ aesthetic, narrative, musical, and extra esoteric selections.
It’s not all the time completely clear when Joel is being glib or when he’s being honest, however the unsure nature of his takes helps make the video all of the extra fulfilling and its lengthy runtime fly by. That mentioned, there are quite a few segments through which it’s abundantly clear that he’s providing up real takes which add actual worth to any dialogue concerning the movies he’s reviewing and the bigger Disney animated sequel catalog as a complete.
Some highlights embrace Joel breaking down the stark variations between Bambi and Bambi II (beginning on the 7:50 mark), his ideas on how Max treats his dad in An Extraordinarily Goofy Film (22:00), and the problematic relationship between Belle and Beast in each Magnificence and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (26:00) and particularly in Belles Magical World (1:01:45).
However maybe essentially the most thought-provoking portion of the video is Joel’s breakdown of Fantasia 2000, the one movie he says he’s watched a number of instances only for enjoyable (52:00). Based on Joel, this was essentially the most tough movie for him to speak about, so he selected to talk about every section which seems within the movie individually. The total vary of Joel’s important type and his distinctive humorousness each seem within the Fantasia 2000 portion of the video and stand out because the spotlight of the marathon assessment.
Pictured at prime: Massive Joel struggling via considered one of his least-favorite gags from Atlantis: Milo’s Return.
