Movies
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning
A 2008 prequel to the Disney film. The film starts with Queen Athena, Triton's wife, killed while trying to retrieve a musical box, a prized personal possession. Triton reacts by banning all music in his kingdom. A decade later, teenaged Ariel has her rebelion about it.
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The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea
A 2000 sequel to the Disney film. Years have passed since Ariel was a mermaid longing to stand on the land. Her daughter Melody is a surface human longing to return to the sea. But Morgana, sister of Ursula, is waiting for her.
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Belle's Magical World
An 1998 sequel to the Beauty and the Beast. Originally consisted of three featurettes. Its 2003 re-release added a fourth featurette. Intended as the pilot to a television series.
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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
An 1997 sequel to the Disney film. Actually events are supposed to take place within scenes of the original film. Belle spents Christmas as a prisoner to the Beast's castle. She wants to celebrate but for the Beast its the anniversary of his transformation, a particularly painful memory.
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Aladdin and the King of Thieves
A 1996 sequel to the Aladdin films. Aladdin and Jasmine are about to marry when Agrabah is raided by the Forty Thieves. Led by Cassim, Aladdin's long lost father. Aladdin leaves Agrabah to relocate the missing Cassim.
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The Return of Jafar
An 1994 sequel to Disney's Aladdin. Iago has dug himself out of the desert and attempts to join Aladdin's group. Back in the desert, Jafar the genie has managed to make a puppet of his new master. Returning to Agrabah to take his revenge.
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Lion King 1½
A 2004 direct-to-video sequel to the Lion King which actually takes a "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead" approach to the events of the original film. It has Pumbaa and Timon as bystanders to every important scene and their own perspective of them.
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The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
An 1998 sequel to the original film. Simba and Nala rule the Pride Land, having a single daughter called Kiara. But Scar's exiled family and supporters have not given up their claim to the succession. Supporting a young Scar look-alike called Kovu.
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Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World
An 1998 sequel to the Disney film. On the verge of a war between the English settlers and the Powhatan Nation, Pocahontas is sent on a diplomatic mission to England. She has to negotiate with James VI of Scotland/James I of England and Anne of Denmark, Queen consort.
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Black Scorpion Returns
Police officer by day, come nightfall Darcy Walker transforms into a masked avenger: mistress of the martial arts, Black Scorpion! Clad in black mask and leather bodysuit, she cruises Angel City in her Scorpio-mobile, scuppering the plots of the criminal classes
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Return to Never Land
A 2002 animated sequel to the Disney film. The film takes place during World War II. Growing up during the Blitz, Jane (the 11-year-old daughter of Wendy) has grown cynical. Until Hook arrives to abduct Wendy , mistakes Jane for her and takes her to Neverland.
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Peter Pan
An 1924 live-action adaptation of the James Matthew Barrie. Closely followed the theatrical play. Tiger Lily, the main Native American character, was notably played by a Chinese American.
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Hook
An 1991 live-action film. Peter Pan has long entered the adult world, forgotten about Neverland and became a corporate lawyer. But Neverland has not forgotten him and Hook abducts his children. Peter has to regain his memory beforte rescuing them.
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Neverland
An 2003 live-action film, modernizing the Peter Pan characters. The Darlings are adoptive children of wealthy socialites. Provided for but otherwise ignored. They follow Pan and Tinkerbell, respectively a juvenile delinquent and an alcoholic drug addict to a much darker Neverland.
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Peter Pan
An 2003 live-action adaptation of the novel. It features darker sublots such as Hook convincing Wendy to join him in piracy, leaving the unemotional Pan behind.
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure
A 2009 sequel to the Tinker Bell feature film. A blue moon is coming and its light, when passing through the moonstone, will produce blue pixie dust and rejuvenate the fairy dust tree.
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Tinker Bell
An 2008 animated film, featuring Tinker Bell's birth and introduction to the other fairies. As well as her struggles to find an occupation more respectable than tinkering.
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
A 2007 film. Features Aurora struggling with responsibilities as a regent and Jasmine trying her hand as an educator.
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Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
A 2004 film, featuring five Christmas-themed tales.
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
An 2004 animated feature, casting the Disney characters in the classic tale of "The Three Musketeers" (1844) by Alexandre Dumas, père.
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Pooh's Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin
An 1997 animated film. The animals of Hundred Acres Wood are seeking the missing Christopher Robin. Who is actually off to school.
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving
An 1999 video. It combines the television movie "A Winnie the Pooh Thanksgiving" (1998) with two episodes from Winnie's television series.
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The Tigger Movie
An 2000 animated film. Tigger realizes that he has never had contact with anyone from the same species. He feels lonely and tries to locate relatives.
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Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year
An 2002 film. Combines an 1991 Christmas special with new material concerning the New Year celebration.
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Piglet's Big Movie
An 2003 animated film. Feeling belittled and ignored by his friends, Piglet wanders away. His friends think he has been lost and try to find him by using Piglet's scrapbook as a guide. Inside are recordings of their memorable adventures.
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Tigger and Pooh and A Musical Too
A 2009 film. Rabbit is named Mayor of Hundred Acre Wood and immediately imposes a set of unpopular rules. Eventually to be Mayor of half the territory, ceeding the rest to Tigger. The catch is that no resident is allowed to cross the border line.
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My Friends Tigger & Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
A 2007 animated film. Follows the continuity of the more recent Winnie television series. Christopher Robin has been replaced by Darby, a 6-year-old girl.
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Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie
A 2006 animated film. Its Halloween and the residents of the Hundred Acre Wood are bound to enjoy the holiday. But Roo and Lumpy the Heffalump have to face their fear of the Gobloon (Goblin).
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Pooh's Heffalump Movie
An 2005 animated film. Winnie and his friends encounter their first actual heffalump. (Elephants as described in the Winnie novels.) Roo befriends him, while the others are convinced the creature is a threat.
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Winnie the Pooh: Springtime with Roo
A 2004 animated film. A variation of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. When Rabbit refuses to celebrate Easter, his friends remind of his past memories of the festivity. Which are actually negative. A peak into his future convinces him that his friends would abandon him if he doesn't comply.
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Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
An 1999 video film, featuring three Christmas-related featurettes.
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An Extremely Goofy Movie
An 2000 sequel to the Goofy Movie. Max has graduated high school and starts college. Goofy suffers from the empty nest syndrome and soon looses his job. Being a college dropout himself, Goofy has trouble finding a decent job. So he decides to complete his college education.
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A Goofy Movie
An 1995 film, following the "Goof Troop" animated series. On the last day of the school year, Max hijacks the auditorium stage in the middle of his principal's speech. Turning a boring event to a musical concert. All to impress Roxanne.
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DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp
An 1990 film based on the "DuckTales" television series. Scrooge McDuck discovers a magic lamp containing a genie. But the discovery sets up a confrontation with Merlock the Magician, an immortal sorcerer who happens to be a previous owner of the lamp.
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City Hunter
Live-action adaptation of Tsukasa Hojo's City Hunter.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame II
A 2002 sequel to the Disney film. Years have passed since the previous film. Esmeralda and Phoebus are happily married and have a son. Quasimodo finds a new love interest in the person of Madeleine, a reluctant young thief.
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Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Topsy Turvy
An 1996 video collecting songs from Disney's films.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
An 1996 animated film adaptation of the Victor Hugo novel. Praised for its lavish animation and realistic obsession of Frollo's obsession with Esmeralda. Criticised for making the archedeacon a mere judge and completely avoiding the anti-clerical themes of the novel.
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Pocahontas
An 1995 animated film, loosely based on the life of Pocahontas (c. 1595 - 1617), a Native American woman of the Powhatan. The film depicts the 1607 settlement of Jamestown, Virginia. The love interest of the lady is Captain John Smith (c. 1580 - 1631).
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The Lion King
An 1994 animated feature film by Disney. A self-described tale of kings and succession. Mufasa, king of the lions is assassinated by his brother Scar. The latter proceeds to claim the throne while nephew Simba goes into exile. Years later, Simba returns to claim the throne.
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Aladdin
An 1992 animated feature film by Disney, loosely based on the folktale from "One Thousand and One Nights". Aladdin is a young lad manipulated by Jafar, the Grand Vizier of Agrabah, to retrieve a magic lamp for him. But he keeps the lamp and genie for himself.
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Beauty and the Beast
An 1991 animated film by Disney. Based on the fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711 - 1780). Belle is a young woman, offering herself prisoner to the Beast in exchange for her father's freedom. The two have to learn to live with each other.
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Pryde of the X-Men
Pryde of the X-Men is an 1989 animated, television film. It was intended as the pilot for a series that never materialized. The film features Kitty Pryde joining the X-Men in their conflict with the Brotherhood of Terrorist Mutants.
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KISS Meets The Phantom of the Park
A television movie. Super-hero style KISS face Abner Devereaux, a scientist threatening their fans with his robots.
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