The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 1
Two heroes of yesteryear see their legacies handled nicely by Filmation. |
Underdog (live-action movie)
Disney continues its streak of well-made, entertaining family comedies with a surprisingly winning combination of laughs, credible canine acting and fun special effects. Woof! |
Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season
This season has some of the dumbest episodes yet but also a scary season-long arc that ends with Raven’s demon father bringing armageddon. |
My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
Tigger and Pooh find the Hundred Acre Wood’s gone CGI and welcomed new friends in this charming outing which, for pre-schoolers, is a lot of very well made fun. |
The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season
The fourth time’s the charm for this series, which finally begins to emerge from the shadow of its predecessor at this point. It did this by developing better villains, better stories, and bringing Robin onto the show at last. Not only is Robin cool, he even makes Batgirl work better. |
Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition
Unless you really need this, pass on Cinderella II and save it for the much more intricate third film, A Twist In Time – that is, if you need a Cinders sequel on your shelf at all. |
Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
Walt’s fantastical institution is celebrated with a 50th Anniversary retrospective featuring documentaries, featurettes and TV shows, making this a Disneyland keepsake of its own. |
Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
Wat Disney’s fantastically entertaining first animated star historically comes to DVD in a stunning collection that also packs in the feature documentary The Hand Behind The Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story! |
Walt Disney Treasures: The Chronological Donald, Volume Three
Donald remains as entertaining as ever in this third volume of his classic shorts, and the specs on this one aren’t bad either. |
Return To Never-Land: Pixie-Powered Edition
Call us crazy, but we really liked this Disney sequel, though the special features don’t offer any sort of upgrade over the previous DVD edition. |
TaleSpin: Volume 2
This well-done, typical Disney Afternoon show comes in a pretty mediocre DVD set. |
Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
Mickey certainly isn’t the best he’s ever looked in this collection of Christmas tales that are sorely lacking the festive spirit or any other redeeming values. |
DuckTales: Volume 3
The initial season of the show comes to an end here, plus this set includes the two extended specials that comprised the series’ “second season” and introduced Bubba and Gizmoduck. Collectors will continue to be disappointed in the care Disney took with putting this show on DVD, but the quality of the series itself still shines through. |
Beetle Bailey: The Complete Collection
The comic strip army private struggles to satisfy his superiors, not to mention weak scripts and limited animation. |
Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
60 more Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts, and though the strike rate starts to slip with Volume 5, there are still some knockout cartoons in the bunch, served by some 14-carrot extras! |
The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
Firestorm joins the team in this last hurrah for The Super Friends. |
Shrek The Third
It’s third time unlucky for DreamWorks increasingly tired franchise with an uninspired movie coming to disc in an uninspired package. Must try harder! |
Ratatouille
Pixar’s hard sell comes to disc in a fairly uneventful package from Disney, but the movie is so delicious that it deserves to be on everyone’s list! |
Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
Pixar’s first 13 animated shorts, from SIGGRAPH tests to DVD extras, are bundled together in a cute but surprisingly lacklustre package with some curious transfer questions. |
The Adventures Of Aquaman: The Complete Collection
This early DC Comics cartoon holds up surprisingly well, in a goofy Silver Age comic kind of way, and the 2-disc set also offers up a nice featurette about the character. |
The Archie Show: The Complete Series
The first of a planned series of DVDs spotlighting the shows based on the Archie Comics series offers plenty of nostalgic fun in this nicely-packaged set. |
Josie And The Pussycats: The Complete Series
The legacy of Dan DeCarlo is celebrated by this DVD set of the cartoon show featuring his characters from Archie Comics. The show invites comparisons to both The Archie Show and Scooby-Doo, but these comparisons are favorable. |
Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
A wonderful collection of Alice Comedies, including some unique documentary segments, that’s another winner in the Inkwell Images releases. |
Superman – Doomsday
The first “DC Universe Animated Original Movie” takes on a story too big for its own good, but the extra features are very nice. |
Mickey’s House Of Villains
A fun entry in the tradition of Walt’s own anthology programs that mixed vintage footage with new, featuring Disney Animation Florida’s How To Haunt A House Goofy short as a real highlight. |
Meet The Robinsons
Disney’s whimsical comedy adventure doesn’t have the power of Pixar punch, but it’s accomplished enough and delivers more on a second viewing. |
Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
Michael Bay’s explosive blockbuster isn’t a cohesive classic by any stretch, but Paramount/DreamWorks’ extras package develops an appreciation for the sheer scale of filmmaking on show. |
The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
Walt’s swansong, and one of the best Disney animated features ever produced, The Jungle Book is here in a fairly decent collectors’ edition 2-disc set! |
Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume Three
The final volume of the Hanna-Barbera spoof delivers lots of yucks for adult viewers who can handle the desecrating of old favorites. |
The Reef
This melding of Finding Nemo and Shark Tale sensibilities is a fishy one to place, being totally derivative of those films but no-where near as bad as it could or indeed was expected to be. Younger audiences might well be hooked! |