As the fourth animated feature film for Disney (I’m skipping Fantasia), Dumbo just had to be the next Evangeline Files review.  While Dumbo himself is one of the most adorable characters Disney has ever created, I think, the movie does have some content that makes me more than a little uncomfortable; and I have to believe that my friends would agree, most especially my friends who are not Caucasian.  I would love to hear your thoughts on this Disney film! Dumbo is about an elephant who is born with much larger ears than your average elephant and is bullied because of the size of his ears.  Dumbo has his mom…

As the second animated feature film for Disney, Pinocchio just had to be the second Evangeline Files review.  Pinocchio, I think, would be considered rather edgy today (for a kid’s movie)—I actually didn’t see it myself until I was older and had read the book on which it was based.  I would love to hear your thoughts on this classic Disney film! Pinocchio review: Pinocchio (based on a dark Italian novel) is about a lonely toymaker, Geppetto, who makes a wooden puppet whom he names Pinocchio.  When Geppetto wishes on a star for Pinocchio to become a real boy, he comes to life as a talking puppet with the help…

As the very first animated feature film of all time and the very first animated full-length Disney movie (they did only short films before this one), it seems only fitting to start the Evangeline Files with a review of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  I hope others out there love this movie as much as I always have.  Whatever your thoughts, I would love to hear from you! Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs review: Snow White (based on a German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm) is about a 14-year old girl who has to escape the wickedness of her evil stepmother, which is super sad; the stepmother…