Well, in this episode of “Tops and Bottoms,” we move from the Top grossing film of 1959 to . . . well, the bottom grossing film. Hoo boy, this is gonna be painful. What’s it going to be? Some late-career Ed Wood movie? Ooo, are we going to get another entry from the Cor-man? There are so many of his we still haven’t endured, I mean, seen! Heh, I bet it’s some teen movie or cheap science fiction dreck. Let’s check the Max-O-Tron 9000000 . . . oh . . . huh. “Sleeping Beauty.” Ok, sure this must be some sort of knockoff from some cheesy Latvian or Upper Voltan animation studio, right? Sort of thing they used to sell on the streets of Times Square? Ok, so who produced this . . . wait . . . Walt Disney? Not Wahllte Dizney? Or Wal Tdisney? It was, you know, Disney Disney? Uh . . . wow . . . so, “Snow White,” “Cinderella” . . . that Disney. How . . . what . . . when . . . plankton . . . uh, give a listen, ok? We gotta work on this for a while.
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I have a huge spot in my heard for Mrs. Brisby in “The Secret of Nimb”. She is a true hero and despite her own fears will do anything to save her child. I also love “Bolt” is anyone else has seen it. He looks like my dog Watson (RIP) and I can’t separate them. In general, much like in Sleeping Beauty, the hero of the fim is sort of dull and it’s the villians that really make the film. I LOVE Sleeping Beauty. I saw in the theatre as a kid and the villian is really amazing. No one else could be in the film and I would still watch it. I do not reccomend the live action version of her however.
Mrs. Brizby (or, I think, Frisbee, from the book?) rocks! Bolt is just adorable, which is probably the only time a John Travolta movie has made me use the word “adorable.”