Luke & Ben’s Fluco Top 10: Favorite Childhood Flick

Welcome back to our second edition of the Fluco Top 10. This week, we polled students to find out their favorite animated movies. So here they are.

 

10.

Lady & The Tramp: This classic love story between a back-alley mutt and a high class Cocker Spaniel (released in 1955) was a classic portrayal of forbidden romance. Surprisingly, the iconic spaghetti scene was almost cut from the movie, because Walt Disney didn’t like it.

9.

How to Train Your Dragon: Produced by Dreamworks Animation, this movie follows a young Viking who aspires to be a dragon hunter, but ends up befriending a young dragon. This film was the first film released to use Technicolor 3D. Interestingly enough, the title of the movie does not appear until the end credits.

8.

Brave: Produced by Disney Pixar, which is known for their movies like Toy Story, and A Bug’s Life, Brave focuses on a young Scottish princess who takes destiny in her own hands, without realizing the consequences. Set in medieval Scotland, this is the first Pixar film to be set entirely in the historic past. It was also the first film with a female main character and protagonist.

7.

Pocahontas: This Disney film from 1995 is based on the real-life colonization of Jamestown, Virginia. The film focuses on the love affair between Pocahontas and John Smith. This film was the first to feature Mel Gibson (John Smith) singing and this was the first animated Disney movie to show an interracial romance. It also highlighted the intricacies of the American Indian civilization; they weren’t just portrayed as mindless savages.

6.

The Road to El Dorado: Two swindlers, Miguel and Tulio, find a map to the fabled city of El Dorado and go on a quest to steal the natives’ gold. Produced by Dreamworks, the film failed to make any profit.

5.

Alice in Wonderland: This film is based on Lewis Carroll’s books Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. The film was released on July 26, 1951 and earned an estimated $3 million dollars at the box office.

4.

Tangled: Tangled puts a spin on the typical fairy tale. Tangled does not follow the typical damsel in distress format. In this movie, Rapunzel fights back. Tangled teaches you to follow your dreams no matter where they take you. Tangled was the second Disney movie to feature a female lead.

3.

Finding Nemo: Disney journeyed to the land down under for this film, setting this fishy story in the Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Marlin, a clown fish, loses his son, Nemo, and goes on a journey to find him with the help of Dory, a fish with short term memory loss. Finding Nemo surpassed the Lion King as the highest-grossing animated film.

2.

The Lion King: Until recently, nothing beat the popularity of this movie for our generation. This film is full of lovable characters like Timone and Pumba, and the musical numbers are catchy. You can always catch someone belting out “I just can’t wait to be king!”

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Frozen: This is the newest Disney film and it is a favorite among many kids and kids at heart. Like many Disney movies, Frozen is full of catchy songs, the most popular being Let It Go. This film doesn’t have an “evil” queen, breaking all Disney stereotypes. Add a wise-cracking snowman and you have the recipe for a great movie.