Underrated Disney Films

Underrated Disney films

Ok, so when someone says to me 'Disney', my mind automatically jumps to princesses. The usual ones like Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty. You then have the not-so-generic ones like Mulan, Pocahontas and Merida. I think these are the girls who need more recognition. These are the girls who didn't lie down and wait for a prince to rescue them. Mulan - pretends to be a man and saves the whole of china, and by the end of the film, still has no prince but no big deal. Pocahontas - never wanted to marry anyway. She just wanted to choose a different path to go down as opposed to what her father had chosen for her. Merida - hates the idea of being married. Just wants to enjoy the idea of life and being young and free. By the end of this film, she too doesn't have a prince, but has just rescued her mother from being a bear. Need I say more? Frozen is another amazing example of this. Admittedly it's not underrated, because everyone loves it, but at the end it does show that Anna didn't need true loves kiss to save we after all, just her sister to love her. 

Personally, I think the underrated Disney films are the best. Mary Poppins is the most innocent film known to man, and yet it's the Disney film no one really seems to remember. It's one of my favourite films of all time. A young nanny comes in and saves, not just the children, but the whole family by making Mr. Banks realise that family is more important than work. 

Brother bear is an adorable film in which we see how bear hunting really is in the perspective of a bear. It shows that we don't have to be the same species to get along. At the end of the film, after the main character has been turned back into a human after being turned into a bear in the first place (makes sense when watched), he still gets along with the baby bear cub who has started to call him brother. 

Bridge to Terrabithia, starring the Hunger Games hero, Josh Hutcherson, tells the story of 2 young school kids and how they escape the troubles of the real world and they make their own imaginary world. It shows that sometimes imagination really can take over and be better than reality. 

These are just a few out of the hundreds of Disney underrated films I could mention. You might just discard the thought of watching films that some people have ever heard of, but next time, you may want to think outside the box when someone says to you 'do you want to watch a Disney film'.