


Such tragic sorrows! Such scary villains! So much death and evildoing!īut with the new live-action retreads of recent years, where does that put us on the bland-wimp scale? Off the charts, I’d say. People used to complain about how defanged they all were - imagine that! Now old Disney animated classics like Pinocchio, Bambi, Dumbo, and Sleeping Beauty seem daring, almost ferocious. Especially considering that Walt Disney himself built his empire by taking bloody-minded old European fairy tales and making them blander and more sanitized for a wimpier generation. These insipid Disney live-action remakes of their own animated films are now a blight on civilization.
