Cinderella (1950) - Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske

I'm not a princess, but I like the characters of the mice, and I've met them when I went to Disneyworld all those years ago. Disneyworld, Florida is honestly the best place in the world. And it always will be, no matter how old I get. However, this film doesn't appeal to me as much as others. Maybe it's the female lead, or I just don't get it.
Anyway, the similarities between the king and the walrus from Alice in Wonderland (1951) - also Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson, Hamilton Luske are too much to get away from.

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆

Oz the Great and Powerful (2013) - Sam Raimi

One expects something from Sam Raimi, and no, I'm not talking about a Bruce Campbell cameo, (which this has, by the way).We do get what we want. We do get a good film. The only problem is it's not The Wizard of Oz (1939) - Victor Fleming, nor is it another Evil Dead (1981) - Raimi. Raimi seems to have become over reliant on CGI in recent years, and whether that's the studio (probably Disney doing the same thing they did to Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland [2010]) or himself, it just seems a little lazy.
James Franco wasn't quirky or fun enough to pull off a film set in a magical land, and it made me think how much better the film could have been, if it had been Zach Braff in the lead role. He was way underused, as a flying monkey, but did his best to show off his signature JD-ness, that he does so well.

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆