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Pollitt, Katha | July 21, 1997 issue

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This article focuses on the works of the director Walt Disney. The author says that he tried to like The movie "Little Mermaid," which struck him for reasons that now elude him as less monolithically sexist than the movie "Cinderella," or "Sleeping Beauty," the Disney movies of his youth. He says that he enjoyed bits of Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin--the funny sidekicks and comic show tunes, the inventive visuals, and the amusing repartee. The author shares his experience of seeing the cartoon animated movie Hercules taking his small daughter, and says that he did a big mistake.

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DISNEY, Walt, 1901-1966; ANIMATION (Cinematography); LITTLE Mermaid, The (Film); CINDERELLA (Film); SLEEPING Beauty (Film); HERCULES (Film)
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