What is up with new Disney movies? Frozen, brave, tangled?

Same as everyone else has said, they're trying to make the movies relevant to modern audiences. I guess they've stumbled upon a formula they like and audiences like and they're milking it as long as they can. Yeah, the classics were good. Plus, they want little boys not to be embarrassed to like the movies so they don't call it "rapunzel" but "tangled".

Fun fact: Pixar was going to call "brave" originally, "the bear and the bow".... I think that title is nicer....

But anyways, the next Disney Animation movies coming up are:

- Big Hero 6 - a Marvel superhero animated type movie

- Zootopia - set in an animal anthropomorphic world

- Giants - Jack and the Beanstalk type movie

- Moana - another princess movie, but set in the Islands so it should be a bit more original

Upcoming Pixars:

- Inside Out - set inside the human mind with emotions as characters (about as original as it gets)

- The Good Dinosaur - what if dinosaurs didn't go extinct?

- Finding Dory - sequel to Finding Nemo

- and a film about 'dida el muertos', a mexican festival

So here's to some good original movies in the coming years.

You apparently don't really know Disney movies then. The "old" movies were all the same - just the characters and locations changed. Otherwise same movie every time.

The movies you complain about were not even all done by the same production companies. Brave for example was a Pixar product. The others were in-house.

LOL! You say remember the -old- Disney movies but the OLD Disney movies are Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, Pinnochio, etc. They were originally fairy tales, set in 'Once up on a time in a land far far away'. Frozen, Tangled and Brave are just a return to Disney's old stomping grounds, but with a new, more modern view of the fairy tales, i.e. stronger female characters to identify with today's stronger female gender roles. (And who is complaining about that? Not me!)

I read somewhere that Tangled was going to be called Rapunzel, but they thought people would see it as a girls' movie! Which it isn't of course.

Mulan and Pocohantas and The Princess and the Frog were also in this vein, except not the tired old stereotype of virginal white medieval princesses. But they were strong, smart female lead characters to provide good role models for girls.

Even Maleficient (sp?) was much more sympathetic to women, both Malificient herself and the Elle Fanning 'Sleeping Beauty' character. They should have called Angelina Jolie -Magnificent-, not Malificent! 8^)

I think Disney finally realized that they could make more money if they made movies that people actualley wanted to see again.

Wreck It Ralph was good to.

Brave was made Pixar.

Of course, its Disney, if you want a different style then watch others movies from other great animated studio like Dreamworks, Sony, and etc....

The reason why they all have the same animation is because it's cheaper to do 3D animation nowadays. So unless they feel like being artsy or ambitious, don't expect the 2D art style to come back any time soon. And they all seem like conventional disney princesses to me. But I agree there's now a lack of variety especially disney movies aimed towards a male demographic. But I guess that's what Pixar is for..