Walt Disnizzle Mixtape!

Attention Disney hipsters: You’re already at least 20 seconds late for downloading Walt Disnizzle Mixtape. Here’s how to fix that.

Hat tip: BoingBoing.

Remixed Donald Duck Theme

The lyrics include the N-word, which I just can’t get comfortable with. But the mix is outstanding. Props to Ganderson360.

Pony Music Videos: Mulan/MLPFIM Mash-up

It may come as a surprise to the uninitiated that My Little Pony Friendship is Magic is a runaway hit with internet memesters. Rumor has it that the memetic primordial ooze that is 4chan has even put “pony limiting” rules into play, to prevent this show from flooding out all other content on some of their boards.

And finally somepony’s put together a good Disney/MLPFIM mashup video, not surprisingly to the tune of I’ll Make a Man Out of You from Mulan.

Thank you, chefmkt on YouTube! And I must say, having grown up in the 1970s, there’s just something so right about Donny Osmond and the ponies together.

Does the visual style here look somewhat familiar? Well, if you watched the Powerpuff Girls, it might be. Lauren Faust is the creator of MLPFIM (find her on DeviantArt), and also worked on Powerpuff Girls with her spouse, Craig McCracken (who happens to be on DeviantArt too).

And while we’re enjoying Pony Music Videos here, I’ll throw in two of my other favorites:

Courtesy of LM1313 on YouTube.

Plus you gotta go watch Rainbow Dash “Don’t Stop Me Now, courtesy of AngelicRobotDevice on YouTube, which I can’t embed here. When I’m having a bad day, nothing cheers me up like a little Rainbow Dash/Freddie Mercury moment.

Intrigued? I’d recommend a recent episode of the Geek Nights podcast. Or, check out the MLPFIM wiki, which has far more information than you’re likely to ever need on this show. (Geek Nights, by the way, inspired both the format for the How to Not Suck at Disneyland Paris episode of Those Darn Cats, and the recent formation of the Those Darn Cats bookclub, currently reading Cory Doctorow’s Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.)

Disney Punch Mash-Up Trailer

Courtesy of forensicator8 on YouTube. Hat tip to blastr, and to my beloved for sending the link.

Disney/Marvel Mashups

Just one of an amazing collection at Super Punch (pages one and two), via BoingBoing.

Not for the Disney Purist: Alice in Wonderland, Muppets Remixes

Both created by waambat, hat tip to BoingBoing.

David Lynch’s A Goofy Movie Mashup Trailer

My friend Geoff left this link in the comments on my last post….and it’s amusing enough that it really warrants a post of its own! Courtesy of CodyRicheson on YouTube.

Makes me want to watch Mullholland Drive again, actually.

WALL-E & Watchmen Mashup Trailer

Courtesy of TM2Megatron on YouTube. In high res no less, woot!

Is High School Musical 3 a “Modern-day ‘Grease’?”

I am embarrassingly fond of High School Musical and its sequel. So of course, one might expect that I was at the theaters last night, and ready to review the new installment. But instead, I was curled up on the couch watching Ninja Warrior (Shingo Yamamoto is my favorite!).

I could blame my inertia on the enormous amount of work that life has dealt me this fall, between my own professional life and supporting my kid in a new, highly competitive, very challenging school. But if it were a new Pixar flick that came out last night, you know I would’ve found the time.

My son believes I’m not going because I couldn’t borrow my young nieces, who have a rather busy social schedule. However, I didn’t even call to see if they were free. And my son, of course, is too old (and by his standards the wrong gender) to be interested in the movie, and (by my estimation) too young to enjoy it as camp, so I can’t use him as cover.

I don’t think that’s it, though. I think the heart of it is, in fact, HSM fatigue, exacerbated by high ticket prices and that darn economy. I woulda recorded it had it been on Disney Channel last night, but I can’t get myself to care enough to drive down to the theatre and plunk down those hard-earned bucks. I don’t really need to see another set of Ryan’s hats, at least not enough to get myself out the door. I can’t be bothered to worry about Troy and Gabriella’s relationship. I am a little curious to know whether there’s another homo-erotic dance number (ala “I Don’t Dance” from HSM2), but that can wait.

Now, I do figure the movie will be a smash hit, at least from a box office perspective. There’s not that much out there right now for kids, and listening to Kenny Ortega yesterday on NPR I understand that kids all over the world will be clamoring for another trip to the theatre, much as I somehow managed to see Grease fourteen and a half times the summer it opened (the half? we arrived too early for a matinee in Reno, and watched the second part of the movie while waiting for it to begin again).

So, I find myself on YouTube looking for the original Grease trailer, and instead stumble across a whole lotta Grease/HSM mashups! They’re a little frustrating because of course the lip synch doesn’t work…but they amuse me, and make me laugh so loud that my son is forced to drop his homework, and watch one with me (courtesy of SarBear4Ryan).

Now, the comparison with Grease had been brought to mind this morning by an ad in the paper, claiming that HSM3 is “A modern-day ‘Grease'” (Christopher Tookey, London Daily Mail). And in some ways the comparison is apt: Busby Berkeley dance numbers, high school drama, catchy tunes. But as I watch the mash-up, the differences are right up in my face, and feel rooted in the sexual angst of the 1970s, as if somebody had taken an eye-dropper’s worth of the tension of The Ice Storm and the bravado of real-life teenagers, and injected these directly into the script. Danny Zuko sang of the praises of this “pussy wagon” where he’d be “gettin’ lots of tit,” while Troy Bolton sings of, what exactly? Grease gives us a pregnancy scare, a good girl turning slut to win her man, a fabulously sassy Rizzo trading naughty quips with Zuko even in the all-audiences trailer. HSM2 gives us Troy corrupted by the influence of wealth and expensive Italian loafers.

Of course, it’s not impossible to completely neuter Grease, even without mashing it into HSM. My son pointed me at the truly amazing Lego Summer Nights video (courtesy of demondoggz), and I gotta say no matter how many times I hear Lego Zuko talk about the “horny details,” I just can’t think of Legos that way.

Yeah, I’ll probably get High School Musical 3 on Netflix as soon as it comes out on DVD. But I might well watch Grease again first. For the fifteenth-and-a-half time.

Mashup: Kill Bill vs. Beauty and the Beast

From withonea, who’s also got a pretty sweet Finding Nemo vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles trailer.