Song of the South

(Clips from Disney live-action movies play as "The Egg Travels" from Dinosaur plays in the background) Doug (vo): So after reviewing the 2D animated films and the 3D animated films, I was trying to think what would be the next logical step for Disneycember, and everyone seemed to voice their opinion that they wanted to see the live-action films. Well, the problem with that is, well, there's, like, a bajillion of them. I have one month to get through these and it's just way too much. But at the same time, I was thinking to myself, "These movies have left a big impact, just as much as not bigger than the animated ones." So it did seem kind of a shame not to talk about them in more detail. So, here's what I decided to do: I'm gonna go through the live-action movies, but only the ones that are the best...no, the ones that left an impact, the ones that whether for better or worse, we remember. The Mary Poppins, the Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the Pirates of the Caribbean. The films we remember from childhood just as much as Peter Pan, Sleeping Beauty and so forth. Now the other catch to that is because, hey, being Disney, they like to do a lot of sequels, and keep in mind this wasn't just a newer thing, they did this a lot in the past, too. So what I'm gonna do for that is, if one of the movies I'm reviewing does have a sequel or even a remake, I'll do another video just quickly summing them up, quickly talking about it, but I won't go into as much detail as the main movies, because like I said, there's a lot of these, and we gotta get through them. And why shouldn't we? A lot of these films are like live-action versions of the animated films. It was so cool to see a woman actually fly, it was so cool to actually see the pirates come out and swordfight with skeletons and all the stuff that we saw in the ride. And, of course, we love our animated magic. But at the same time, there was something really cool about seeing that magic come to real life, or at least, a little closer to real life. It may be an illusion just seeming a bit more believable, and that's what we're gonna look over. We're gonna look over which ones worked, which ones didn't, and which ones left the biggest impact and why. So, get ready, everybody. This is the return of Disneycember: The Live-Action Films.

(The Disneycember logo is shown, before showing the poster and clips of The Reluctant Dragon, as well as a poster of Treasure Island)

Doug (vo): Believe it or not, there's some debate over what was actually the first live-action film. Technically, the first one they did was The Reluctant Dragon, but the majority of that is just showing how they made an animated film, that being The Reluctant Dragon, which is cute and okay, but not much of a narrative. Some argue that the first live-action film is Treasure Island, because it was the first one not to have any animated characters in it.

(The poster of Song of the South is shown, before showing clips from the film. The song "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" plays throughout)

Doug (vo): But I'm gonna go for the one that I declare the first actual live-action Disney film, and that's Song of the South.