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200 Shrek fans have remade the film, and the results are surreal
200 Shrek fans across the internet have banded together to produce a “remake” of the Oscar-winning film, and the results are bizarre to say the least. The film–titled Shrek Retold–uses… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…have always had a reputation for the strange and surrealistic, even from when they first left the “factory” back at the time of their creation. But they must have been… |
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Noveltoons: Original Classics
…the Famous cartoons still looked and provoked laughs about as well as the Fleischer cartoons of yore had, minus some of the New York hipness and the surreal edge and… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…orchestra. Giant series hopping another 30 or so cartoons forward, Grandma’s Pet, from 1932, has a fairly pointless and redundant bedtime bookend set up that leads into a surreal and… |
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Animator/Director Nassos Vakalis invites us to his Dinner for Few
…of the characters eating at the table and consuming the wealth. However, I was not happy with a human look and I wanted something more surreal. I remembered the animated… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…thanks to the co-production involvement of the BBC. It’s a bit of an unnerving project, and the surreal characters do nothing to take that feeling away. Madame Souza has a… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…the form, the cartoons in the series did nevertheless include some creative animation and surrealism that on occasion rivalled what the Fleischers were doing. Sure, the series has more than… |
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The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…This is a very bizarre and surreal episode with a silly plot (giant bunny rabbits?). I guess this one became memorable because of its surreal plot, but it’s not my… |
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Anomalisa
…and his slightly surreal arrival at the wittily pronounced Fregoli hotel, all delivered in a knowing, droll way by the performers who pull out every nuance from the wry and… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete First Season
…surreal. Mad Mod is played by Malcolm McDowell, which was delicious casting, considering the anarchic role he played in Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange. Car Trouble: Cyborg completes his work… |
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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…try to avoid work, get the best of their boss, and accidentally have surreal adventures. The Sweatbox Review: I’m on quite a roll right now with getting review copies of… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…pretty female rabbit takes his fancy on the beach but gets into trouble in the water. The cartoon is a pretty routine picture, but is enlivened by some typically surreal… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…Jones playing with Daffy at his looniest) and Jumpin’ Jupiter (a pretty surreal Jones effort) follow, but it’s Freleng’s Satan’s Waitin’ that really stands out, mainly for the animation of… |
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Frankenweenie
…through many of Max and Dave Fleischer’s strange excursions into the surreal in their Betty Boop cartoons, to George Pal’s Puppetoon series in the 1930s, which often featured a terrified… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…gamble. This brilliantly surreal adventure sees giant dice form trains, and Jasper finds himself in a pinball machine. The fantasy sequence in this short is one of the top joys… |
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ParaNorman
…films over the next decade, to many of Max and Dave Fleischer’s strange excursions into the surreal in their Betty Boop cartoons. Out of all the animated methods, stop-motion seems… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…of years (as well as a multiple Emmy and Annie awards), the surreal and oddly splendid Adventure Time. Creator Pendleton Ward, a CalArts grad, first mapped out the Land Of… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…spoof at a movie theater, while Carrie is also amusingly touched upon. Towards the end of the second season things get a little surreal, even for Tiny Toons! Kon Ducki… |
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First look at Escape from Tomorrow trailer
…family vacation he has been fired and the surreal insanity that follows. The film premiered at Sundance earlier this year to a mixed response and many thought it would not… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Third Season
…is that, no matter how surreal the stories get, they still hold together pretty well, even if you feel like your brain might pop if it gets any stranger (or… |
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Plympton’s Cheatin’ to be crowdfunded
…adult tale of love, jealousy, revenge, and murder – full of nudity and violence, but also with my surreal sense of humor. The story is inspired by the work of… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…be excised or skipped over if you prefer not to listen; but then you would be depriving yourself of the show’s most energetic and surreal moments, like Darthenshmirtz being backed… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…those that were quietly (and not so quietly) surreal: the animals on the subway, or Marty’s slow-mo dreams of Africa, for instance, and here they return with aplomb. The action… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…to fit the new decade. This approach serves the source material well – Smith’s original book sets the action in a contemporary world and this abstract, sometimes surreal setting is… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…to enter a surreal nightmare by accident seems like a lot of money wasted on a movie that just wouldn’t have found an audience. Once the idea to incorporate animation… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…time, leaving it to Avery to break away with some typically surreal and sometimes unexpected gags in The Mice Will Play of 1938. Freleng responds with Little Blabbermouse (shades of… |
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Strange Magic
…in a CG version of some surreal nightmare version of a bad Don Bluth movie and making sudden character trait changes amongst other random choices. For instance, our supposed hero… |
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The High Fructose Adventures Of Annoying Orange: Season 1
…his role. Given the premise, this is probably the best one could hope for out of a webisode-derived series about talking fruit having surreal adventures. The four-disc DVD set contains… |
