Day 136: Waking Sleeping Beauty

Directed By- Don Hahn

Written By- Patrick Pacheco

Narrated By- Don Hahn

Critics Review- "Waking Sleeping Beauty will matter only to those who grew up on Walt Disney's animated films. In other words, all of us."- Robert W. Butler "Kansas City Star"

Rotten Tomatoes Rating- Critics- 71%

Out of a possible 5 stars- 5 stars

My Review-

This documentary is told entirely from archive footage by the people who worked at Disney Animation narrated by one of them. We get too see how the Disney Animation works, the people behind some of our favorite animated movies, what made them what they are. We also get a look at how the Animation at Disney was almost know more. The entrance of Eisner and Katzenberg, the riff between the animators and Katzenberg, the highs and lows of the great animation company and how they came back to be the makes of great animated features. We get a look at how The Little Mermaid was made along with Beauty and the Beast and what is considered their crowning achievement, The Lion King. This is what make this documentary works is that we see everything first hand and how everything worked at the Disney Animation Studio, and how for awhile it was not going so well, then boom everything starts falling into place, and if it was not for all the hard work of all the animators and the frustration that everyone went through you can tell that it all paid off for them. It was never boring it was always interesting to see what everyone thought about working there during that time, and how they had trouble with Katzenberg and what he was doing to the animation studio, how he moved and wanted to cut certain scenes out of movies, that today stand has some of the best ones in those animated features. This documentary is told from the year 1984-1994, from the first computer animated movie, The Rescuers: Down Under to the team up of Pixar, the Death of the man who made the music for 3 of Disney's most cherished films and how he helped the animator movies reach its glory again along with the animators who never gave up on making these films. This documentary made me respect animators and the animation they work so hard on even more. And if you watch this it will too, it seemed like this documentary was made for all Disney fans to see the hard work that was put into these movies that we love and how it is a long process filled with ups and downs and shows at the same time they can still find time to have fun. This is one documentary that should be watched by all Disney fans.