Disney is a company that as been around for all of our lives and has been their when we needed that extra little bit of magic to help us to get through the day. Well now that exact same company in question is also celebrating it's one hundredth anniversary and to celebrate such a huge anniversary the house of mouse have released a brand new short film and well you all just new that I had to take a look at this very short the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I review the film that features close to five hundred and fifty animated Disney characters with the film in question being called simply just "Once Upon A Studio" enjoy.
The plot of this film is Mickey and Minnie try to get as many Disney characters together in order to take one big family photo. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I inn all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty rather simple but simple in the best way possible as that's really the kind of plot that work best for a special like this one not one that's deep and complicated just one that's simple and that reminds you of what Disney can be like when it's at it's absolutely best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this film is Scott Adsit as Baymax , Stephen J. Anderson as Bowler Hat Guy and Tony Anselmo as Donald Duck. Also starring in this film is Awkwafina as Sisu , Jason Bateman as Nick Wilde , Kristen Bell as Anna , Jodi Benson as Ariel , Robby Benson as Beast , Auliʻi Cravalho as Moana , Ravi Cabot-Conyers as Antonio Madrigal , Jim Cummings as Baloo and Winnie the Pooh , Ariana DeBose as Asha , Chris Diamantopoulos as Mickey Mouse , Richard Epcar as Little John , Bill Farmer as Goofy and Pluto , Keith Ferguson as Prince Charming , Santino Fontana as Hans , Josh Gad as Olaf , Ginnifer Goodwin as Judy Hopps , Jonathan Groff as Kristoff , Jennifer Hale as Cinderella , Jess Harnell as Scuttle , Tom Hulce as Quasimodo , Jeremy Irons as Scar , Dwayne Johnson as Maui , Bob Joles as Cogsworth , Judy Kuhn as Pocahontas , Nathan Lane as Timon , Luke Lowe as Flounder , Burny Mattinson as Himself , Idina Menzel as Elsa , Jim Meskimen as Eeyore and Merlin , Piotr Michael as Iago , Mandy Moore as Rapunzel , Paige O'Hara as Belle , Raymond S. Persi as Flash , Ian R'Mante as Thumper , John C. Reilly as Wreck-It Ralph , Phoenix Reisser as Mowgli , Kaitlyn Robrock as Minnie Mouse , Anika Noni Rose as Tiana , Lea Salonga as Mulan , Lee Slobotkin as Peter Pan , Natalie Babbitt Taylor as Snow White , Josh Robert Thompson as Grumpy , Kelly Marie Tran as Raya , Alan Tudyk as The Mad Hatter , Scott Weinger as Aladdin , Richard White as Gaston , Harland Williams as Carl , Renika Williams as A Disney Intern , Daniel Woolf as Robin Hood , James Woods as Hades and Michael-Leon Wooley as Louis.
Now the interms of what I personally thought / felt abut the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us un this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Which really isn't all that surprising as alot of this films cat have either been playing there respective characters for quite some time or were the original voices for their respective which means that they would of course no what performance would best suit there characters in any given situation and when you add in the fact that alot of this films cast members are a bunch of really good voice actors it's no wonder that the acting in this film is as good as it is.
Doing the animation for this film,is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Walt Disney Animation Studios and Creative Capers Entertainment. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the film using a blend of 2D traditional hand drawn animation and 3D CGI animation with the two styles blending together really well.
What I really loved about this film is the fact that didn't just use the popular Disney characters and call it a day. Nope they went and used some pretty obscure characters from the Disney canon with the main characters from Home On The Range and Dodger from Oliver And Company getting a cameo during the film of course it would have been nice if we got to see more obscure Disney characters but the fact that just those two sets of characters got mentioned is a miracle in of itself as the characters haven't really been seen since their respective movies came out with the characters themselves only being remembered by die hard Disney fans which means that the fact that they were included in this short film just goes to show that the makers behind this film really did want to truly really honor all things Disney.
If you were expecting this film to only feature a handful of animated characters from Disney's past then be prepared to be blown away. As this film features a grand total of five hundred and forty three characters all of which are fully animated which is just insane as that would be an insane amount of work to do for a short film heck it would be an insane amount of work for a full length feature film and yet they included this amount of characters in a short film that not alot of people are fully aware about and because of that I have to give the makers of the film alot of credit as that really does allow them to go deep into the Disney vault and pull out some of the more obscure characters that don't usually get alot of love.
For some strange reason they chose to make this film a musical film with songs written by Ned Washington , Howard Ashman , Richard M. Sherman and Richard B. Sherman. This film really didn't need to be a musical especially as they aren't using any new songs for this film all there doing is just reusing songs from Disney's past which is fine for "When You Wish Upon A Star" as that is the theme song for Disney but we didn't need to hear songs from The Jungle Book or Mary Poppins as those are songs that have no connection to Disney outside of one of the songs from Mary Poppins being Walt Disney personal favorite song and heck this film would have worked just as fine if it wasn't a musical short film.
Now then this film has / had an exact gran total running time of exactly eight minuets and forty seven seconds. Which for me is another issue that I had with this film as that is such a short running time as this film was just so good that I wanted it to be longer and heck you could have very easily have gotten this film up to twenty two minuets by showing the villains of past Disney films trying to stop the heroes from taking the picture which then would have allowed you to use alot more villains and alot more obscure villains at that and t would have given the short film some stakes as well which is something that is very sadly lacking from this film but will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.
So now then as this is a comedy that means that I gave to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film having alot of really cute jokes that i'm sure will get a laugh out of lot of people with alot of those jokes being the kind of jokes that you'd expect to see in a short film like this with nearly all of them managing to get a smile out of me as they really were just all of that good of a really funny joke to begin with in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall this is a great way for Disney to celebrate it's entire history as the film doesn't disrespect the past and prop up the future it instead treats them both equally and reminds of just how good Disney can be when it's at it's absolutely best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful the official Disney fandom wiki page since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on freaking the official Disney fandom wiki page are all really fairly freaking high in freaking quality and as well as being really very fairly freaking high in definition.