I took Jack Zipes thesis to be: The great "magic" of the Disney spell is that he animated the fairy tale only to transfix audiences and divert their potential Utopian dreams and hopes through false promises of the images he cast upon the screen.

Given the thesis above I am inclined to disagree with his statement. His thinking that Disney stripped the fairy tales of their values as they altered them is missing a few important things to consider. First, fairy tales, as they have been from the beginning, have been used as a tool to reflect the culture. Disney took the tales and did just that. Many other countries had done the same before, but only now, because it was portrayed on the screen, does he think to condemn Disney's attempt at making various fairy tales reflect the culture. Second, many of these fairy tales would never have been exposed if it weren't for the Disney versions. To this avail, I find it hard to see how Zipes completely overlooks the fact that Disney promoted awareness through making these fairy tales. Zipes should see that Disney took these fairy tales to reflect their culture and, while innately promoting awareness through the release of the movies, they on the simplest level were saying that there was a story to tell, that 'story' being the differnt versions prior to the release of the movie.

Disney was telling the fairy tale that Americans needed. It reflected American dreams, American values. Zipes focues on the fact that these dreams and values were different from the ones like in the Grimms version, but he never fully acknowledges that they were from a different culture. Thus, Disney is not altering these stories for their own self-interest, but rather, they are telling these wonderful fairy tales to the American people, for American people. Fairy tales that most likely would never see their way out of the attic otherwise.