A certain millennial generation grew up on a series of Disney-produced Saturday-morning cartoons - Chip & Dale Rescue Rangers, Darkwing Duck, Tailspin, Gummy Bears, and the like. Let’s first answer the question of why this movie exists in the first place. In an era of Disney magic, it truly stands out above the crowd(!). It’s a Disney cult classic featuring a story of teenage romance, parenting nightmares, family systems, and grace for sinners. Let me tell you about A Goofy Movie, which turned 25 years old this month. It’s so ’90s that Pauly Shore voices one of the characters. It has excellent music, gorgeous animation, quotable quotes, and laugh-out-loud sight gags. It’s not an animated fairy tale or updated folk tale, but a feature-length spinoff of a Saturday-morning cartoon. Tucked away in the era’s second tier movies, beyond the acclaimed classics and tentpole favorites, is the real king of ’90s Disney cinema. ![]() ![]() The true Disney fans, however, know a secret. All of them drew critical acclaim and awards. These were animated Broadway-caliber musicals featuring gorgeous animation. The era gave the world beloved films like The Lion King, Mulan, and chief among them, Beauty and the Beast. Among the most ardent of Disney fans, the series of films produced by the studio from 1989 to 1999 have been dubbed “the Disney Renaissance.” That string of films, starting with The Little Mermaid and ending with Tarzan, mimicked classic animated musicals like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.
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