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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One

Adora, formerly a Force Captain for the evil Horde, fights for freedom and liberty in the mystical land of Etheria. With the magical Sword of Protection, she invokes the power of Castle Greyskull and becomes She-Ra, Princess of Power!

Surf’s Up

Original, well cast, beautiful to look at, and fun, Surf’s Up is a reminder of just why we love animation.

Wait Till Your Father Gets Home: The Complete First Season

Name the prime-time animated sitcom that arrived in-between The Flintstones and The Simpsons. Yep, it’s this show, one of the most topical and witty shows Hanna-Barbera ever produced.

Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume Two

The balance of episodes of this unique 1980s show features more zany team-up action with Flash Gordon, The Phantom, and Mandrake the Magician. Not a good show, really, but BCI still does their usual standout job.

American Legends (featuring John Henry)

Four classic stories combine as Disney mines the patriotism streak post September 11 2001, though this cheap program is worthy mainly for the chance to see the long-delayed short John Henry.

Arthur And The Invisibles

Luc Besson’s big budget CG feature is entertaining, but this US version came out at the mercy of the Weinsteins, who lost ten minutes of screen time. As such it’s a recommended rental.

Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End

Set sail with the Pirates Of The Caribbean for their third voyage, At World’s End. After all the hype and anticipation, does it fly the flag or should it walk the plank…?

Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection

An essential collection of Avery classics is marred only by surprisingly less than desirable image quality, but the debut of the better quality CinemaScope cartoons almost makes up for things.

Hero High: The Complete Series

This super teen comedy is great for nostalgia, but those with no previous love may find this set tough going. It has good extras, though, including live action wraparounds.

Shrek the Third

Like many of the “threes” in popular film franchises, Shrek the Third doesn’t match the standards of its predecessors.

Dinosaurs: The Complete Third And Fourth Seasons

The satire still plays well after all these years. For a show about animatronic dinosaurs, it manages to say a lot about our society today.

Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume One!

The other spook-bustin’ series comes to DVD and is a fun diversion that shows what was great (and not so great) about 1980s television animation.

The Venture Bros.: Season Two

Based on how the last season ended, this one shouldn’t have happened, but we’re glad it did. Season Two of one of television’s most unique cartoons is a blast for adult viewers.

Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition

Vanguard’s animated feature may push itself as “from a producer” of the Shrek series, but this is woefully short of the wit, technique or entertainment level of those films.

Spider-Man 3

How was the webbed-wonder’s latest? Spidey 3 gets the once over.

The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series

Filmation’s original spook chasers are on the job again in an odd curio that actually stands up pretty good as a piece of fun and harmless nostalgia.

Dinosaurs: The Complete First And Second Seasons

This one-of-a-kind Henson sitcom features fantastically funny scripts and performances.

Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition

George (Babe) Miller’s first foray into completely CG waters is a mix up of strange ideas clashing with too many themes and not enough restraint. How did this win the Oscar!?

Batman Beyond: Season Three

It rarely got the fan love of the other DC Comics shows, but this final set demonstrates that Batman Beyond was capable of some pretty strong stories.

Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection

Head on down to Horrible Hall for a frightfully entertaining mix of music and comedy with the most pun-tastic band of merry monsters you’re ever likely to meet!

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt

Mickey returns to his CGI Clubhouse for a fun little Easter adventure that may surprise with its sweet and good-natured intentions.

Justice League Unlimited: Season Two

The League gets a delightful send-off with a collection of episodes that explores all aspects of the DC Comics universe.

The Venture Bros.: Season One

Twin sons of a failed child genius engage in numerous adventures throughout the world, battling colorful foes with enough pop culture references to choke a bull moose.

Meet The Robinsons

Other than not living up to the title, Meet the Robinsons brings back a spark of that old Disney magic.

Chicken Little: Blu-ray Preview

A look at the Chicken Little Blu-ray disc, the first “Disney Classic” released in the new high definition disc format.

The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Complete Series, Vol. Two

Prince Valiant is already a knight in this second volume, but his friends continue their quest to join him at the Round Table. The serial storytelling gets even more involving with the addition of romance and higher stakes for Camelot.

Peter Pan: Platinum Edition

A favorite Walt Disney picture gets royally screwed up on DVD, and in a supposedly deluxe 2-disc set. Less Never Never-Land, you’ll wish this edition had never never-happened!

Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo

The Titans star in their first movie, which comes off as a standard episode that falls perhaps just below the middle in episode rankings. The season finales were better.

Flushed Away

Aardman/DreamWorks’ enormously entertaining collaboration could well be the criminally overlooked best animated film of the year!

The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition

The classic novel struggles a bit to come to life due to the low budget animation, but the story by Peter S. Beagle is still a winner.