Hi all. My favourite Disney film (excluding short films) when I was a child must have been Fantasia. It's still a strong contender. But I'm also very fond of Snow White, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Dumbo, and Alice in Wonderland (which may be the only animated Disney film I've seen without a love story, which is a HUGE point in its favour.) Aladdin is one of the few films I've seen more than once in the cinema - I think I saw it five times when it came.
Foreign movies are not dubbed in Sweden, except for films targetted at small children. However, in recent years the cinemas have realised that there's a largish audience who want to watch the original versions of Disney and Pixar movies, so those are generally shown both in a dubbed and a subtitled version. That's great, not least because it means the showings tend to have very few children in the audience.
I watched Bedknobs and Broomsticks for the first time a few months ago. There are some really wonderful musical numbers in there. I've looked up the Portobello Road scene on Youtube; it's not as good as watching it on a bigger screen, but still really good and funny. I like Mary Poppins a lot, too. (I'm no fan of the movie version of the Wizard of Oz, though, partly because of the horrible ending which rather ruins it. Also, I knew the book pretty much by heart as a kid, and watched the film for the first time in my 20s, so for me the book version is the canonical one and I find the film version stupid.)
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