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England is not a free-for-all regarding film censorship. The BBFC cut a lot of things that slid by in the US without an R rating, such as the "cunning linguistics" line from Mrs. Doubtfire.

Recently, I was filling up the gas tank in my car, and I heard some rap blasting out of someone else's car using the N-word so many times it almost sounded like one of the Mark Furhman tapes from the O.J. Simpson trial! A culture that draws the line at this movie doesn't draw it at that. I don't...

Yes, they do. The UK Blu-ray of Fawlty Towers has a warning about "racist language" on the box. I think I know which scene they mean, and the reason it was there was to make him look like a doddering old fool and thus by proxy to make racism look like an ideology solely of doddering old fools...

Not just the UK but much of Europe and even in Israel! I'm not sure about Australia, though, since the Australian and British box art tend to overlap on some of the other titles. When Disney made Bedknobs and Broomsticks, the UK was still making a show called The Black and White Minstrel Show...

Yes, it was. Several European nations practiced slavery. The main reason the US had it is because Great Britain did, except Britain abolished it first without a war.

And that was before the home video division got folded into consumer products. Now who knows who is in charge of anything. For all we know, actual monkeys could be picking the lucky few catalog titles that still get Blu-rays. That would explain how a minor-league title such as Monkeys Go Home, a...

If only they had the whole film there to do so with. The most brutal attacks were from the studio that made it…attacks that left it 20+ minutes shorter. And then another 20 minutes. And then (almost) fully restored. And then unrestored. By all accounts, Disney+ has not rectified that situation.

And completely G-rated and buttocks-free since this is Disneyland, not Touchstoneland. In all seriousness, it's not just the continued absence of this film that gets to me. It's Iger's thinly-veiled threat to treat other films similarly.

No one is also talking about religion or politics, either, and I get why HTF opts not to go there, yet it would contextualize why on multiple levels I find the studio's stance on the film hypocritical and short-sighted. Also keep in mind what they did to certain subsequent films that used...

It's still a post-production hackjob and it's still not a better film than Song of the South. Artistic merit doesn't enter into the equation at any point. When SotS was still part of the regular re-release rotation, it was not at the expense of new releases, by Disney or others. If that...

He worked on two of the later hybrids, so he's as good an authority as any considering most if not all of the actual SotS personnel are now deceased.* Which one got released on home video in the US? *During a sabbatical from Disney, he missed out on Pete's Dragon only to end up on It's Punky...

That's what I've heard over the years. Fox tried cutting them out of The Sound of Music but eventually put them back, except their it bombed because they have their own homegrown Von Trapp films…two of them in fact. But I digress, as Sophia might say. Mere intellectual consistency alone is...

Germany got this film, but they've never gotten Bedknobs and Broomsticks anything close to uncut for obvious reasons.

Where I first saw it in an integrated movie theatre in the South.

So Dear to My Heart has been on DVD for quite some time and has been on some of the same streaming/online venues in HD where other back catalog titles also were, but not Blu-ray. The footnotes are at a size 2. They used to be at size 1 because that was considered too small for information I...

Song of the South is locked up. Bedknobs and Broomsticks and Pete's Dragon got time off for good behavior. So Dear to My Heart served its sentence. That Woman is the only actual criminal. She killed all the other applicants for the job, she gaslights and threatens the children over a rigged...

It still glorifies a shameful period in English history: one where male homosexuality was illegal (but not female homosexuality, interesting enough). That period hadn't ended until 1967, four years before Bedknobs and Broomsticks came out and two years before the US saw the Stonewall riots. I...

That is the characters' prejudices more than the filmmakers' per se. They're calling out the boys for being bullies in a time when this was even more common than it is now. If you never experienced it yourself, it might go over your head. I do not believe the financial impact would be...

There were also those Leonard Maltin disclaimers on similar and concurrent Disney content, which were the product of white artists and actors. The Disney Treasures set would have been the perfect venue for this, but they let that opportunity pass them by. Eventually, they're going to have to...

Then Disney is dead. I couldn't care less about their legal rights. They forfeited any moral right to anything years ago. And please spare me the lie that what took its place is superior; it isn't. ALL these remakes are cheap imitations of heirlooms of old with no exceptions whatsoever. The new...

The "but Disney is a business" excuse gave us The Hunchback of Notre Dame II along with other almost-as-bad sequels. The "but Disney is a business" excuse gave us remake after remake after remake. The "but Disney is a business" excuse gave us labor disputes at the park. The "but Disney is a...

It's ironic that Dumbo was spared that kind of ostracism from the top corporate offices when the leader of the crows had a white man, Cliff Edwards, doing his voice. Being fully animated contributed to that. With Song of the South, they cast black actors as the voices of the animated characters.

So Disney believes this movie should be taboo but a 9-year-old Ricky Schroder in his underwear in The Last Flight of Noah's Ark, which couldn't even beat it at the box office as a new release, is just fine and dandy and worthy of a Blu-ray. That shows where their priorities lie. Especially when...

The race issue is (partially) a smokescreen for the other aspect of the film no one wants to talk about… Johnny's lace shirt collar. His being bullied over that is one of the reasons he seeks Uncle Remus's advice in the first place.