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This is one of those legendary Disney TV series from the 80s. Disney started focusing on Winnie the Pooh as early as 1977 in the movie The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, but because kids from the nineties mostly only knew the TV production, it was hard to explain to them that old Disney canon. That's why some are still disappointed today when they remember the completely different poetics of Alan Alexander Milne's stories. As far as I remember, there was no disappointment at home, and I remember the series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh with love and I continuously supplement the whole phenomenon. Even if I leave out the puppets and 3D animation, there are still endless things to watch.

One of the many films about the Mayerling affair. And one of the best, because although it's again a family drama from the life of Sissi, it's nowhere near as sweet as the trilogy with Romy Schneider. The German-speaking space knew how to remember the crown prince as a human tragedy, it wasn't necessary to tell a novel for maids each time. Besides the pensive Rudolf played by Prack, there's the excellent Lil Dagover, who reprised her Sissi role years after Elisabeth von Österreich.

An act of kindness. Lalaloopsy are one of many toy lines produced by MGA, promoted by the eponymous series and films. The concept is based on the most classic rag dolls with button eyes, transformed in reality into plastic beauties. The Search for Pillow is their first film. The main heroine is Pillow Featherbed, sister of Blanket Featherbed from the pajama series. Absolutely ideal for preschoolers.

In the Disney television studio, it was decided that Beauty and the Beast would be exploited to the max. The Christmas special The Enchanted Christmas is definitely not enough, so it is necessary to insert additional chapters into the original story. This time, the new direct-to-video "film" is composed of 4 stories of various quality. I stopped looking for logic long ago, and this time I am terrified by the realization that the story Mrs. Potts' Party was inserted into this miracle retroactively. Originally, it was part of the 4th sequel, Belle's Tales of Friendship. If it was about loose sequels about the life of Belle and the prince after their wedding, I won't even say a word. I could even imagine a situation where the prince will not do a good deed and will again be threatened with transformation back, and Belle will have to try to reverse fate again (that could easily be the plot for a whole movie), I would definitely survive the individual stories of the transformed castle inhabitants, or the adventures from the lives of the common children of Belle and the prince (Disney can also do such sequels). But constantly expanding that time when Belle was a prisoner in the castle and inserting cute micro-stories into that drama is too much for me.

This TV transcript of the bestselling detective story by Michaela Klevisová is... weak. Unexpectedly. It's cringe-worthy, slow, illogical, and uninteresting. The individual characters seem to be from five different movies, and they have no chemistry. The humorous storyline at the end seems to suggest that we should expect a series with Luboš Veselý and Veronika Arichteva, but that really shouldn't be necessary.

n the 1990s, the Disney Renaissance era was marked by the successful continuation of Aladdin (1992) - The Return of Jafar (1994), which led to the opening of a Canadian Disney studio focused on direct-to-video films. One of such films was a Christmas special inserted as a flashback into Beauty and the Beast (1991). The original fairy tale is unlucky in a way that its brand is the status quo before the transformation of the beast into a prince, so the only way to write a sequel was to create a supposedly forgotten chapter from the main story (just so that the new film could be sold again as "Beauty and the Beast"). It doesn't make sense, and logic took a very long hike, but preschoolers and die-hard fans will certainly not miss out on such a travesty.

Beautiful work with an interesting genesis. Somewhere at the beginning was František Hrubín's dramatization of the classic material for a theater with a rotating stage in Český Krumlov. Based on it, the TV movie Beauty and the Beast was created first, followed by this movie for movie theaters. After several deviations during the normalization period, Herz returned in full force. In an attempt to differentiate from previous films on the same theme (especially from Jean Cocteau), he intensified the role of the beast, transforming it into a predator, as well as the role of the maiden. Harapes fully utilized his movement training, and Zdena Studenková her ideal beauty, perfectly delicate symmetrical face, and several years of acting experience. Despite some issues, the result is notably remarkable, practically a miracle for Czech normalization of the seventies. An atmospheric, even erotic experience.

A great new series that returns to an absolute classic. In the 1940s, the popularity of Donald Duck grew thanks to films like Saludos Amigos (1942), Three Caballeros (1944), and Melody Time (1948). Back then, his buddies were José Carioca and Panchito Pistoles, and this trio is back in its full glory.

The remake of the classic Disney animation is a category in itself. Some ideas were executed better here, while others were suppressed. The second half works slightly better thanks to the changes. At times, it is still horrible kitsch, and I mean absolutely horrible, and the casting is dreadful. Especially in the case of Emma Watson, who is indeed the perfect girl next door, but in no way a universal beauty. And Luke Evans? He is simply wasted on such an operetta villain. Fortunately, the theme has been done so many times that there is no reason to despair and outside of Disney, you can choose, for example, the impressionistic Beauty and the Beast, the Czech Beauty and the Beast or the modern Beauty and the Beast, which may look like a Disney clone, but is actually pure French.

30th full-length Disney film The classic French material inspired Disney in the 1930s, but the final premiere came many years after his death. The universal story somewhere at the beginning apparently drew from the real life of Petrus Gonsalvus (1537-1618), who suffered from hypertrichosis, as the desire of many playwrights to express their own ideas through "beauty" and "beast" had been erupting since the 18th century. Therefore, it is perhaps impossible to be angry at this animated film, because none of the stories told around the world can be determined as original. From a basic perspective, Beauty and the Beast is one of the greatest successes of the Disney Renaissance era, which spawned a trilogy of sequels and one live-action remake. In hindsight, it became the home of one of Disney's most beloved princesses, Belle, and an excellent soundtrack by Alan Menken, thanks to which Angela Lansbury added a teapot song to her immortal portfolio.