Conceived out of Disney’s attempts to crack the popular disaster film genre of the time, while incorporating space elements as well, 1979’s The Black Hole became Disney’s first PG film as it followed the crew of the USS Palomino (Robert Forster, Ernest Borgnine, Yvette Mimieux, and Joseph Bottoms) who encounter the long-lost USS Cygnus anchored in the wake of a gigantic black hole.
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It turns out even the weakest Toy Story film, two films after the franchise came to a natural conclusion, is still pretty good. More of a Jessie (Joan Cusack) and Bonnie (Scarlett Spears) movie than a Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz (Tim Allen) film, the story focuses an imaginative put lonely Bonnie struggling to make friends whose life is changed by the introduction of a new Lilypad (Greta Lee) tablet which draws her away from her toys.
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Made six years after The Love Bug, Herbie Rides Again brings back the willful Volkswagen Beetle, and the setting of the firehouse, but nothing else. With Jim Douglas having left to race in Europe. Herbie has been left in the hands of his landlady Mrs. Steinmetz (Helen Hayes) who he seems to enjoy driving around and who is the last holdout preventing Alonzo A. Hawk (Keenan Wynn) from demolishing the area to build a new skyscraper.
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Disney’s 1951 adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s novel is a fever dream dropping young Alice (Kathryn Beaumont) down the rabbit hole into a nonsensical world which is both everything she ever wanted and far more than she bargained for. The film follows Alice through a series of odd, mostly disconnected, and admittedly beautifully rendered, adventures coming across the likes of the Mad Hatter (Ed Wynn), the Cheshire Cat (Sterling Holloway), the Queen of Hearts (Verna Felton), and others, while following the White Rabbit (Bill Thompson).
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Largely forgotten, the 1997 entry in the Herbie franchise was a TV-movie which premiered on The Wonderful World of Disney. Perhaps the first requel, The Love Bug follows the same structure of the original film with Herbie falling through the hands of a villain (John Hannah) and into the possession of a mechanic and failed race car driver who has seen better days. While confused by the odd things which happen in the car, Hank Cooper (Bruce Campbell) refuses to acknowledge its sentience, or Herbie’s help in winning a race, leaving his wacky best bud (Kevin J. O’Connor) to be the one who first connects with the car. And, just for good measure, we get a romantic story thrown in as well.
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