Not So Timeless

On Sundays lately, the kids have been going through and watching the old Disney movies we have on VHS.  Yes, we still have a working tape machine in our house. (!) Yesterday she got through a handful of flicks, mostly becasue her brother has a novel he has to read for his English class that he just started Thrusday.  It is due in two weeks, and he isn't the fastest reader around here.  So he wasn't arguing her selections yesterday.

Anyhow, she started with "Beauty and the Beast" which is definitely a classic. 

 
However, she shifted to the Christmas  version--direct to video--sequel.  Not so classic.  It did give me a few good memory shots of her being a little girl and watching it and loving it.  But now?  Not so much.

 

Another one she watched was "Little Mermaid".  Again, a timeless classic.  So clever and the music is SO good. 

 

"The Little Mermaid 2" however, is forgettable at best and the music isn't even worth mentioning.  I hadn't even remembered we had that one.

 

She also caught up with "Sleeping Beauty"--one of my total favorites from being a kid, thanks to an LP version with the follow along booklet, even if it skipped and I thought there were 4 good fairies : Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather, and Merryweather.

And she watched "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" which, while classic, has some musical eccentricities.  The Girl even mentioned that she had forgotten how nasally the Snow White voice is.  When I told her that it was from a different musical time period, she asked "How old IS this movie?"  When I told her, she was surprised and seemed to accept the crazy singing voice.

I'm glad she is watching some of these, just so I can remember tiny moments of her childhood, and mine at times.  The classics are classic for a good reason.  The sequels, well, they leave much to be desired.