The 20 Best Disney Animated Features
Even if the positive reviews (our Russ Fischer was less enraptured than many, but still impressed) can't convince you that the prospect of Jon Favreau remaking "The Jungle Book" as a live-action extravaganza was a good idea, it's a phenomenon we're all going to to have to get used to. The classic Disneyverse is about to get a whole lot more photo-real, with live action remakes/prequels/versions of "Beauty and the Beast" (starring Emma Watson), "Mulan," "Aladdin," "Tinkerbell," "Winnie the Pooh" (focusing on Christopher Robin and to be penned by Alex Ross Perry), "Dumbo" and "Prince Charming" all in various stages of development right now. And this on the glass-slippered foot of Kenneth Branagh's triumphantly traditionalist 2015 take on "Cinderella" which made $542m worldwide, along with Angelina Jolie's $758 million worldwide earning "Maleficent."
You can either see it as a...