For me Disney movies were a big part of growing up. Of course you watched a lot of other cartoons, but those long movies were fun to watch. I can remember watching Robin Hood at school or collecting stickers from The Great Mouse Detective. As a kid you felt the magic these movies had and couldn’t get enough of them. I’m still a big fan of them now (although I don’t watch them as much any more), but there was a time when the animation studios had a lot of trouble. The quality of their movies was getting worse and there were talks of a takeover and splitting up the company. Something needed to be done to get everything on the rails again. Sleeping Beauty shows what was done between 1984 and 1994, a period in which Disney managed to get back on top with movies like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Lion King. Continue reading →