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== Animated Films ==
* [[Disney Animated Canon|Disney]]:
** ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'', ''[[Fantasia]]'' and ''[[Bambi]]'' are nowadays regarded as three of the [[The Golden Age of Animation|greatest animated films]] of all time, but were all huge flops, both critically and financially, on their original releases. [[World War II]] cost Disney the foreign market (that helped make ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs]]'' so successful), although other factors contributed to the films' failures (listed below with each film). Their combined failures nearly destroyed [[Disney|Walt Disney Studios]]. Even after they recovered from the debacle, Disney never again experimented with such risky films, opting for safer, more commercial and profitable ventures instead. However, Walt ''did'' live to see the films gain the reputations they truly deserved.
*** ''[[Pinocchio (Disney film)|Pinocchio]]'' (1940) was considered too episodic by some critics, and audiences proved to NOT be in the mood for such fanciful fare during WWII.
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*** While not panned - they're both graded Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes - ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' and ''[[Hercules (1997 film)||Hercules]]'' were widely criticized for [[Bowdlerization|Bowdlerizing]] a classic work of literature and classical mythology, respectively. Both, however, are now often viewed as being massive steps in the right direction after the disappointing ''[[Pocahontas]]'', and genuinely good films in their own right: ''Hunchback'' gets a lot of praise for being one of the [[Darker and Edgier|darkest]] Disney films and quite possibly having [[Alan Menken]]'s greatest soundtrack, while ''Herc'' is often viewed as one of the funniest films in the canon, as well as providing the most [[Affably Evil|genuinely likeable]] villain since [[The Great Mouse Detective|Ratigan]] in Hades.
*** Some other Disney flops from the [[Turn of the Millennium]], such as ''[[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|Atlantis the Lost Empire]]'' and ''[[Treasure Planet]]'' have gained a lot of fans ''because'' they aren't musicals. ''[[The Emperor's New Groove]]'' is even more vindicated - it's nowadays viewed as being one of the best animated comedies of all time, and considered an unsung classic.
* ''[[What's Opera, Doc?]]'' by [[Chuck Jones]] took several weeks longer to make than the standard [[Looney
** Similarly, two particular characters from Warner's Golden Age, Marvin the Martian and Tasmanian Devil, each appeared in only five shorts in the
* ''[[Yellow Submarine]]'', released near the peak of Beatlemania, was nevertheless compared
* [[Tim Burton]]'s stop-motion short film ''Vincent''.
* [[Don Bluth]]:
** ''[[The Secret of NIMH]]''. It was a hit with the critics but financially the results were less than impressive against Disney Studio fare of the time, and (because it was 1982) against ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]''). ''NIMH'' is currently the most popular work of [[Don Bluth]], Disney's fiercest competitor.
** ''[[All Dogs Go to Heaven]]'' (1989) earned about 27 million in the United States market and the professional reviews were mostly negative, but it became a smash hit when released on video, considered "one of the top-selling VHS releases of all time". It is currently highly regarded by animation fans.
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