Jim Korkis gives his spin to Disney animation history in Everything I Know I Learned from Disney Animated Feature Films: Advice for Living Happily Every After. Korkis provides readers with a chapter for all 54 current Disney animated films from Snow White to Big Hero 6. Every chapter provides the reader with a summary of the movie, five facts and four quotes. The facts include a number of new to me facts and the quotes tend to be ones that challenge readers in contemplation not just the popular most known lines.
I am honestly a little disappointed with this offering. When I saw the title, I thought the book would be an animation companion to Korkis' Who's the Leader of the Club, where life lessons would be strongly connected to each film. But really the text is closer to a statement on the cover "A Disney Historian FUN FACT Book" as the quotes and facts really are not accompanied by much commentary. A slight re-titling of the book could help readers to understand the book's contents and value. The book offers the sort of facts that one has come to expect from Korkis in interviews and articles. And therefore, the facts are at times truly fun and often engaging.
Korkis fans will definitely want to pick up a copy of Everything I Know I Learned from Disney Animated Feature Films. But for most Disney fans or those interested casually in animation history I would recommend a Kindle edition. The chapters are short, and easy to jump in and out of. So it can be a filler time read. But for those wishing to improve or grow by being directly lead through the material, perhaps another book will come in the future from Korkis.
Review Copy Provided by Theme Park Press
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