Flipping on The Disney Channel today, it’s almost hard to believe that the same corporation that produces Hannah Montana and High School Musical also produced some of the most beloved animated classics of all time. It would appear, according to these captions, that even some of our favorite Disney characters are dismayed at the current state of Disney (and of pop culture in general). Let us all fondly remember the classic movies that shaped our childhoods while trying to forget about Disney’s recent embarrassments.
Same Plot As Avatar…
Better Music
(Pocahantas)
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4th BOOK OF TWILIGHT
Yeah. That was my reaction, too.
(Belle and Gaston from Beauty and the Beast)
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Remember Disney BEFORE the Jonas Brothers?
Yeah, I miss it, too.
(Kiara and Kovu from The Lion King 2)
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in the last photo i’m pretty sure thats not simba!
Are you sure you’re sure?
Right sir, 10 points for you, that is simba’s cousin Koivu (son of scar) from the sequal.
indeed they say it in the movie too that he isn’t his son
In a lot of the foreign dubs Kovu is Scar’s son, which always makes me laugh a little inside since it makes a tad more sense that way. To me at least.
In the last one it’s not Nala and Simba, it’s Kiara and Kovu from The Lion King 2: Simba’s Pride. Cheese, Louise.
P.S. Kiara is Simba’s daughter.
so let me get this straight, she is dating her second cousin once removed…
well, i guess it is a royal family
Well, not that I’ve seen the Lion King 2 but if we’re operating under the assumption that this Kovu is Scar’s son then he’s Simba’s first cousin, which makes him Kiara’s first cousin once removed, not second. Second cousins once removed would be Kovu and Kiara’s kids, which since they’re married would also be siblings. Ew.
KOVU IS NOT SCAR’S SON!
Clearly in your nerd rage you missed the part where I said “if we’re operating under the assumption”. I never said he was. All I wanted to clarify was the familial relationship and the fact that the previous poster was wrong as to what defines second cousin once removed. I can give a flying fvck about Lion King 2.
We must keep the blood line pure!
Yeah, DEFINITELY not Nala and Simba. Lion King 1 and 2 are my favorite movies of all time ever. Kiara and Kovu are made of pure <3
How come Kovu looks like Scar?
Man I thought it WAS Scar. I never bothered with any of the sequels.
Because Scar is his dad.
Which actually makes Kiara and Kovu, what, first cousins once removed? I know that happens in actual lion prides, but Disney should have adapted that to suit their moral spectrum. They probably don’t want to encourage kids to date their cousins.
Better than half-siblings, I guess, like Nala and Simba.
Also, please give exact quotations from the film supporting this claim of yours that Kovu is not spawn of Scar. Or Youtube links.
I only remember them saying that he was “hand-picked” by Scar, which sort of maybe implies that he’s not his dad, if you squint.
While I agree what most of what’s on The Disney Channel these days is crap, I really like _Phineas & Ferb_.
“So long, Christmas! You’re Feliz Navi-dead to me!”
Tell me about it. I don’t even consider Phineas & Ferb part of Disney, because that puts it along the lines of Hannah Montana. But old Disney was beyond awesome before the teen shows and low-effort animation came in and beat the love involved to death with a stick. Hunchback to HSM? No comparison.
Nuka has a line in the movie where he complains about Kovu. I quote: “Scar wasn’t even his father.” Nuka always believed he should have been the one picked over Kovu as Zira’s firstborn.
Buddy. I hate to break it to you but… remember that scene at the beginning when Simba wakes up his parents? Mufasa is the only dude surrounded by oodles of female lions? Ask yourself this, who did you think Nala’s father was?
Visiting lions from other prides?? That’s my optimism kicking in … Okay it’s gone now.
I concur. Explanation fail? I did like the songs from Lion King 2 so much more than one though.
HAAAAAA SEBENYAAAAA incomprehnsibleswahili!
…So glad to see that, when I came to comment that that’s Kiara and Kovu, not Nala and Simba, all 4 of the comments already posted said the same thing
Rock on, Disney fans, rock on.
yeah, i had the same reaction. us hardcore disney kids do not like our characters messed with.
Recognising Nala and Simba fail DD:
That’s Kiara and Kovu -nod-
Glad it’s not just me being particular about this one.
Only an idiot would think that’s Simba. What, have you never seen the Lion King? Gah!
wtf? Those two are Kiara and Kovu!
omg i can’t believe they got that wrong.
FFS, and the caption is about remembering when Disney produced quality stuff. So what do they pick to make that point? One of the crappy straight-to-video sequels. Tschhh….
LOL.
Actually, as far as Disney sequels go, TLK2 wasn’t that bad. It had good music and didn’t completely ruin its predecessor. (At least, that’s my opinion.)
Not to mention, it didn’t have exactly the same plot as the lion king 1. Seriously if anything it sort of alluded to West Side Story and Romeo and Juliet but only kind of. Besides who doesn’t like classics like the those re-done for kids and animated?
and do you notice how TLK 1 slightly resembles Hamlet. king is killed by bro, bro becomes king, marries queen, tries to kill nephew. but its all disney-fied so simba (aka Hamlet) dosnt die.
I’m listing to the Avatar Soundtrack the whole time and i like it WAY much better then pocahontas… though i don’t like any of pocahontas songs and never watched the movie because i simply dont like it. But i love avatar!
I know its the same plot, but pocahontas totally sucks and the creppy music wind song or somehting totally sucks.
But i love arielle and beauty and the beast and lions king and aladin and and and
BUT I HATE POCAHONTAS!
The thing about the animated Pocahontas is that’s not what really happened. It’s the Disney version.
I think Avatar is more closely aligned with Fern Gully: The Last Rainforest than Pocahontas.
The plot of Avatar, though, is exactly what happened on Pandora. Seriously. Look it up in any history book.
Where did you mean to say Pocahontas?
There is a Russian fiction novel that takes place on a planet called Pandora, occupied by a race called Nave (with e rather than i).
I don’t know the name though…
First, don’t bash something you haven’t even seen. Second, learn to spell. It’s ARIEL and ALADDIN.
I can’t believe you didn’t pick up on “lions king” too.
If you never saw the movie… then how can you say you don’t like it? That’s total BS.
Yeah…that last photo is Kiara and Kovu. NOT Nala and Simba. >.<
Um… did Scar have a cub/kid before he died or something? I’ve never seen the second Lion King
I don’t think so. In the movie, Kovu (the dark lion in the picture) is groomed by his mother to be Scars successor, but Kovu’s older brother, at one point, says that Scar isnt Kovu’s father.
o so they just look alike, thx
Only you guys would think that this crap from the ’90′s and ’00′s is “Classic Disney.”
Old People Rage
It pops up everywhere.
Not always. I’m only 20 and my favorite movies are all from before I was born.
I’m only “OLD” if you’re 12.
REAL classics!
That was supposed to be pics of Fantasia, Dumbo, Peter Pan, 101 Dalmations, and Snow White. THOSE are classics. These, although good, are just too new to be called that already.
Pfft. Classic is a subjective term. I’ve heard Pearl Jam on the classic rock station. Everything 20th century seems to be automatically classic or retro these days.
You too?! I heard Stone Temple Pilots on my classic rock station. I had a sad.
Sadly no-one remembers another, more contraversial, less popular classic. If you dont know what im talking about, then remember the ride Splash Mountain? There is a movie to back that lil’ rabbit up. idk if im allowed to mention it, but i want to so bad.
I’ve always considered anything made before 1980 a “classic” Disney movie, seeing as the animators all started dying and retiring in the 80′s.
Then again, antiques are defined as anything made more than fifteen years ago, so why shouldn’t Disney have the same classification? If fifteen years is your limit, then you’re obligated to count everything made until Pocahontas (1995). But, hey, who am I to define your arbitrary classification system?
Also to consider… Disney renamed their “classics” collection to “Disney Classic Animation Collection,” so anything done in the traditional flat animation style is now considered a classic.
Prior to the renaming, Disney considered a movie a “classic” if it had been rereleased from the vault, where they stayed for only ten years. That’s everything up to and including The Emperor’s New Groove.
tbh lion king has earned it
Let’s go ahead and split hairs. The movies we call “Classic Disney” are actually categorized as part of the Disney Renaissance. The films made during the mid 60s and 70s didn’t receive the same enthusiasm as the first films.
The films made in the late 80s and 90s received the best awards Disney ever got (e.g. Best Picture nomination for Beauty and the Beast). Thus, they are classics in the film world. Also, for our age group, they provide nostalgia that makes them feel “classic.”
Yeah, but avatar has a sex scene.
A hilariously awkward sex scene. I could stop laughing the whole time.
couldn’t rather. Changes the whole meaning.
I saw it and thougt “thats…. increadably tastefull”
The caption with Belle and Gaston made me lol hard.
Thank you!! I made that one.
Last photo is not Simba and Nala. SInce when was Simba a dark lion with a scar? It’s Kiara and Kovu from Lion King 2
REALLY I COULDNT TELL FROM THE OTHER COMMENTS!!11!
The last photo is from LK2. Its Kira and Kovu.. I think
not simba and nala in the last photo
I wanted to comment about the last photo too, but guys, people beat us to it. Read a few of them and try not to make repeats.
Yeah, I was juuuust about to comment that, no, that is definitely NOT Nala and Simba. Simba has yellow fur and a red mane, for goodness’ sake. I just couldn’t remember that this guy’s name was Kovu. So, thanks y’all! I’m not buying the “Scar isn’t actually Kovu’s dad” business, either; never have. However, I always liked Kovu; maybe it’s because of his voice. Jason Marsden, mmm… Not JAMES Marsden–JASON. They’re not even related. However, I do hear that they’re friends.
…what? If thousands of teenyboppers can think Edward Cullen is “soooooo sexayyyy,” then I can admire an animated lion! I always liked Simba, now that I think of it.
disney didn’t write anything the make just a cartoon musical out of it.
FAIL. None of these are “Classic” Disney; they were all made in the 90′s or later. The last Disney animated movie which can legitimately be considered “classic” is /The Aristocats/, which was the last one supervised by Uncle Walt himself.
Beauty and the Beast is considered a classic by financial and academy standards. Pocahontas, while having a good theater run, isn’t considered a classic because of the history nuts. And yeah, I wouldn’t consider a direct to video sequel a classic, a cult classic maybe.
Aristocats has some of the only jazz music I’ll (willingly) listen to in it. MAN I miss when Disney just tried and DID, unstead of trying too freakin’ hard and producing nothing but identical soundtracks by untalented prostitots singing wallpaper-like aural bleh.
Is there anyone else out there that liked Pocahontas as a kid? That was my first movie I remembered seeing in the theater!
Never actually watched it as a kid… watched it sometime in my teens and loved it ^^
I liked it! I just loved the music and the animation. (The sequel sucked, though.)
tarzan was a good movie that disney made as well as pixar’s toy story. The last GOOD film made by either of those was WALL-E. Meanwhile it pumps out the crap like monsters vs aliens, High school musical and many more extremely unoriginal classics. Lion king was my favourite film =D
Monsters VS Aliens was a DREAMWORKS movie. Not Pixar/Disney so you can’t blame them for that one.
The only involvement Disney has in any Pixar movie is the right to plaster their name all over the posters, and rake in the money after it’s another hit. They really don’t belong in the same category.
How come no one said anything about the twilight picture? I thought it was hilarious.
THANK YOU!
You get brownie points.
*Has been reading the entire comments section to see if anyone commented on the picture I made*
I did. And it is!
Well after Disney whored out their classics with sequels, and spin offs, where else can you go but to promoting ‘singers’.
Considering the amount of outrage already shown, I don’t really need to add it but I may as well, considering I came to this page.
So yeah, not Nala and Simba. Kiara and Kovu. *Nods*
Oh man, people need to realise that spotting that Avatar has the same plot as a few other films does not make you intelligent.
*Observant*, maybe.
I’m pretty sure Avatar (Project 880) was written well before Pocahontas. I think the plot was down, like, 14 years ago.
So Avatar was only written about 200 years after Pocohontas was outlined!
Classics? Beauty and the Beast, sure… Pocahontas, might be fudging it…The Lion King 2? What the heck is that doing in there, it was one of the direct-to-video sequel hack jobs!
Bring Disney back!
Pocahontas. Same plot as Avatar, except Avatar wasn’t a waste of my time and money and didn’t include underage sex. Oh wait, except Pocahontas was 18 or something in the movie, tee hee.
And like, 10-11 in real history.
As my (thirtysomething) niece said, “Dang big boobs for a 10-year-old!”
It’s them steroids that the pioneers shipped in from the mainland!
It says “Better Music”…
and what is “phocohantas”??
With the exceptions of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, Disney pulled an epic suck in the 80′s and 90′s.
they didn’t suck in the 80s and 90s, save for maybe the mid to late 90s with more or less the live action films. most of the animated movies during that time, save for the sequels, were pretty epic win.
it’s in the past decade that they’ve pulled epic suck
Am I the only one here who actually liked The Lion King 2 just as much as the original? I think I watched that one more than I did the first. I never cared much for Pocahontas…it’s probably my least favorite Disney movie.
And the Twilight one was pretty LOLtastic, too. X3
Pocahontas’ music sucks compared to Avatar’s, wtf?
And come on, Pocahontas, Ferngully, Dances with Wolves; can we be a little more creative here? And the plot, no. Maybe half of the two are similar, but still no.
The last pic was too easy as a dis, and it’s not a classic, as everyone has already stated..
Though the Beauty and the Beast one was good.
ferngully was completely ridiculous. its like they didnt even try to make it remotely entertaining, non-irritating, or at the very least, not creepy
Wadda ya mean, classics like Pocahantas, Lion King any number, or Beauty and the Beast? They are not REAL Disney classics. The REAL Disney classics are movies like The Fox and The Hound, Fantasia, Robin Hood, The Aristocats….. The three you mention are late comers, LATE COMERS, not the REAL classics!!!!:):)
Excellent! I love the one with Belle & Gaston. That was everyone’s reaction! But JayPea is right. Those are the “NEW” Classics.
I don’t agree about Avatar, but the other 2 totally.
You guys suck! I’m not going to be a stupid teen saying that all disney is horrible because its too happy (I just got in that argument) but the Lion King was evil!!! Does anyone know Osamu Tezuka’s Kimba the white Lion? OF COURSE NOT! If they did the Lion king wouldn’t have worked. Tezuka was inspired by Pinochio, but I think Roy E. got a little too inspired by Kimba. It is a complete rip off (and also not as good)!
Hakuna Matata! And take your pill.
Actually, The Lion King is based on Hamlet, not Kimba.
People just assume it’s the same because it has lions in it. I have seen the comparison pictures and frankly, they’re totally different.
Depends. The story between Lion King and Kimba is very different. That Disney took Designs of various scenes as well as whole characters, on the other hand, is pretty obvious. Alone the (original Japanese) opening sequence has scenes that are almost identical to the (still beautiful) opening sequence of the Lion King. hey sure got some inspiration out of it and the whole claims “we don’t know Tezuka, who is he anyway” were just as ridiculous.
wtf?! how does that make it evil?
one, no they didn’t steal it. practically all TLK fans have seen Kimba too. TLK has an entirely different plot, and is WAAAAAAAAAAAY frickin better. TLK has beautiful music, epicly better art (anime animals just look weird), a WAY better plot, and is more accurate to real lions.
you realize Kimba is Swahili for “crap” right? whereas Simba is Swahili for “lion.” that’s pretty fail on Tezuka’s part. plus, lions don’t live in jungles but on the savanna like in TLK. plus the names of the characters are much better. Kitty and Snowene are like the lamest names ever for a lion cub and a white lioness. like no creativity there.
the plotline is like 98% different, it’s hardly similar. so yeah, TLK DID work, because it kicks Kimba’s butt. besides, it was a tv show not a movie. Tezuka’s own wife didn’t even want to sue Disney, she had enough sense to realize the similarities are minor and that Disney did a way better job anyways.
what few similarities there are lay in the fact that both movies are set in Africa with lions.
***takes a bow***
Im honored!
So…has anyone pointed out that it’s Keira & Kovu yet?
Apparently after a couple hundred posts complaining about the same thing the admins changed the description of the pic.
It’s doubly redundant when you consider the fact that whatever was up there originally, the admins have since replaced it with the proper names.
I loved Beauty and the Beast.
I don’t care if it was made in the 80s or 90s, it was classic enough for me! D:
These are funny, but the title is inaccurate. This isn’t classic Disney. Way to make me feel old before I’m even 30.
Remember when “Lion King 2″ still sucked?
Hear, hear! Definite fanart grab.
Double FAIL on the Lion King selection for 1) using the second movie instead of the first and 2) not using official art. The highlights on that image are atrocious.
I’m not sure which Lion King fanartist drew that last one, but I bet aquainferno13 found it on the prideandoutlands proboard forum because that’s what came up in basic googling. Shame on both aquainferno13 and the RP forum for not citing your source. I’m a fanartist myself and it tends to suck when people use or edit your work without your permission…I’d imagine even worse when they add stupid captioning bubbles like that.
HEY! Koraden
It’s AnnieHyena ^^
It was Banzai that drew the picture ^^
I don’t think that the Lion King sequel was really good, nor does it stand for the “classic Disney”. This movie already was during the “Disney releases one sequel after the other” phase, which imho was one of the reasons for Disney’s downfall in 2D animation.
That Pocahontas has better music than Avatar isn’t really true either. So it’s not funny…
Liked the Beauty and the Beast one though
aside from the whole screw up on who the characters were, the TLK one is STOLEN ART! so epicly clear that it’s not a screengrab. you can’t just going around taking someone’s art and using it, it violates their copyrights. if you get permission from them, hey go ahead. but if not, take it down and avoid any almost certain conflict. way to be a n00b.
and no, they’re not classic Disney. if you go to the Disney website and click the classic categorey, you won’t find any of these. they’re not new, but they’re not THAT old. there should be some in-between categorey for them or something. they ARE classicly animated, but that doesn’t make them a classic. they were during the “Disney Decade” as it was called, except TLK2, so perhaps that would be a good classification.
as to the Avatar thing, it’s not exactly the same. but honestly I prefer Pocahontas for the plot, even if it doesn’t match history correctly. the music is better, but Avatar does have a much more awesome look and feel to it.
the TLK2 sequel does have its faults, and certainly doesn’t measure up to its original, but for those of us who are fans it’s better than no sequel at all. it was TLK1.5 that was useless. but hey, even that’s better than the crappy HSM or Camp Rock.
all in all, only the Beauty and the Beast one is funny
yall hav no fhuckin lives do u?
how long do you stay on this waitin for somone to post somethin?????
There were something like 50 posts I’d not seen before when I logged in this morning.
interesting point about avatar.
I feel like Disney has abandoned the over-30 crowd………………..
To all those saying the 80′s/90′s movies were not good, shame on you. Aladdin, Beauty and the beast, Hercules, The little mermaid, the hunchback of Notre dame, Tarzan, 101 and The Lion King are some of Disney’s best.
The movies they make now on the other hand are just terrible, HSM just made me want pull my ears off. And what’s with all the live action movies when they are supposed to be famous for beautiful animation!?
Tangled was ok, but it was just a shell of what Disney used to be.
The last good non-3D movie they made was Lilo and stitch in my opinion, totally underrated movie. Disney just needs to stop doing cheesy live action movies and start doing good animation again.
Pocahontas does not have the same plot as Avatar, merely similarities as most movies these days do. Pocahontas turned her back on her own people in reality. Jake in Avatar went through a profound spiritual change as much as a physical one and found something and someone worth fighting for. Nga tute lu ayskwang. Avatar had much better, much richer and more emotional music and spoke about what we humans are doing to our earth. It is a warning of what will happen if we do not stop our greed and hate. Nice try, though.
Actually, part of what made Avatar better than Pocahontas was the music, which was incredible (I thought).
Also the visuals were stunning, the message more accurate and pointed, and, honestly, if James Cameron had called it “Avatar: The Modern Pocahontas” or something, then no one would care.
Kurosawa, the great Japanese film director, used Shakespeare as an inspiration for his work, and people don’t say he copied the plays. Obviously Cameron is not Kurosawa, but still, I liked Avatar better than Pocahontas. And the sequel to Avatar can’t possibly follow the same plotline as Pocahontas, so I think it will be really good.
And in Pocahontas, the whole (yes, I know it was predictable, but still) Toruk Mak-To thing; John Smith didn’t assume some legendary role and he didn’t stay in America, either, so…
Yeah.
What I don’t understand is how the top picture even made it here. Avatar wasn’t made by Disney, and had nothing to do with it. Why is the captioned image in a post that’s labeled as “Disney’s embarassments”. The proper caption for the pic would be “Takes story from history, makes a sh*t movie that makes no sense and doesn’t follow history’s storylines.”
If Disney were to make Pocahontas a true story, they would have made her a little girl and she would have married John Rolfe. She only saved John Smith according to history books. I think Pocahontas falls under Disney’s embarassments, lol. I wish we did still have the old disney, be it movies or the channel.