The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan
Perhaps the most widely agreed upon era in Disney filmmaking, the Disney Renaissance is considered the pinnacle of Disney films. It saw profound success in the box office, with its movies returning to the musical fairy-tale storytelling that Disney was known for.
With The Little Mermaid, Disney had produced the best achievement using xerography. It also was the first Disney fairytale movie in almost twenty years. Disney also began the Broadway formula, with the idea that any of the films using this idea could easily be translated into a Broadway musical (which four of the films during this time have done). This was also the first films that Howard Ashman and Alan Menken worked on, both of whom would soon prove to be Disney masterminds and a key element in Disney’s musical success. All movies during this era are considered to be huge box-office hits.
Here are a few scenes taken from the Disney Renaissance films:
Also at this time, Pixar began making digitally animated movies, with Toy Story, A Bug’s Life and Toy Story 2 all releasing during the Disney Renaissance period. Pixar films began rivaling that of the Disney Studios with their complex and in-depth story lines and their fantastic digital animation.
Disney Eras 