Ok, I guess my list shows my preference pretty clearly:
1. Beauty and The Beast
2. The Little Mermaid
3. Aladdin
4. Mulan
5. Pocahontas
And I really want to go back and watch Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, and a few others. I really like Treasure Planet and Atlantis a lot as well. And if Road to El Dorado was a Disney film I would definitely put it in my top five.
As for the singing.... Even though Beauty and The Beast is #1 on my list I could do without most of the songs... but I think the songs in The Little Mermaid and Pocahontas were fantastic. Aladdin had entertaining songs (though not as good as Mermaid and Pocahontas), and for some reason I don't remember the songs in Mulan.
Overall I feel that musicals decide to have a certain number of songs but too often the songs aren't very good. If a song is going to be in a movie or play I think it makes a big difference for it to be good enough to be on the radio or on a good album.
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