Yeah, I was out of college and had started adulting when these both came out.
Babies, so many babies here. You all make me feel ancient!
My kids were born in 2001 & 2005. They watched all the movies on VHS, then DVD.
My favorite animated film gets very little love… Sleeping Beauty. I love the fairies, how they took a piece of classical music and gave it lyrics, and the animation is amazing. The work with the multiplane camera (especially in the beginning of the movie) is just so well done.
I like BatB and LK a lot. I think I have to give the nod to BatB because of the soundtrack (not that LK’s soundtrack isn’t excellent). I really love Alan Menken & Howard Ashman’s work (even have a cd set that includes some of their working recordings), it is so layered and intentional. I love learning about their whys and hows. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out the documentary, Howard, on Disney+.
To add on to the pile, I was 9 when TLK came out. My family are huge Elton John fans also so it was a match made in heaven for us. It was released in theater when my son was younger and the Circle of Life song hit hard!
Yes, she was the perfect Mrs. Potts. Love her, but not a main character, while Jeremy Irons is the difference for me, making Scar, and the movie, way better than they would have been with someone else.
Except Angela Lansbury did all her own singing, Jeremy Irons did not. Granted he would have but something happened (don’t remember) where he only sang part of Scar’s big number. I agree that someone else in either would be bad. Also, Taylor-Thomas did a great job with the voice acting but also did not do his own singing.