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Besides, each time Disney attempt to break or bend the rules the movie tends to be pretty lame i.e. But the formula works and audiences connect with it. Becoming seperated from one's family, rediscovering the meaning of family and finding ones own identity through regaining family. The tried and tested formula, used from Snow White right through to modern movies today was the same. The "choices for voices" were spot on and delivered very effectively.Īlthough the setting is somewhat different, the story itself is nothing new from Disney. You have James Earl Jones, Matthew Boderick, Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane, Ernie Sabella, Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg and the list goes on. The Animation was groundbreaking, the songs were catchy (Elton John's imput was top-notch), the humour was for adults too and the vocal cast was astounding. Movies like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Pocahontas, Mulan, Tarzan, Hercules, The Hunchback of Notre Dame to name but a few.įor my money The Lion King is the pick of the bunch or the pick of the pride if you will. They churned out a string of popular, traditionally animated movies that had children and adults alike flocking to the cinema like never before.

Originally released as a single film, Les Miserables was usually offered as a two-parter outside of France.The 1990's were a great decade for Disney. Valjean’s efforts to create a new life for himself despite the omnipresence of Javert is meticulously detailed in this film, which utilizes several episodes from the Hugo original that had hitherto never been dramatized. Even upon his release, his trail is dogged by relentless Inspector Javert. Arrested for a petty crime, Valjean spends years 20 in the brutal French penal system. One of the best and most faithful adaptations is this 240-minute French production, starring Jean Gabin as the beleaguered Jean Valjean. Victor Hugo’s monumental novel Les Miserables has been filmed so often that sometimes it’s hard to tell one version from another. Serena / Künstlerische Arbeitsgruppe ”Babelsberg” / Production: DEFA / Société Nouvelle Pathé Cinéma / P.A.C.