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Osmosis Jones

The Brothers Warner and Farrelly attempt a big animated gross-out comedy, but even with Bill Murray’s involvement it turns out to be just a gooey, if slightly amusing, mess…

Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios

Go behind the scenes at the world’s premiere animation film factory in its heyday with this terrific tour through the ages!

Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy

Goofy, one of Disney’s most entertaining and popular cartoon stars finally gets the royal treatment with a complete collection of his greatest misadventures in one set.

Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron

Ben Simon takes a look at DreamWorks’ mature western adventure and finds it perfunctory if not spectacular entertainment that’s a little bogged down in sand.

Bugs Bunny Superstar

What’s up, Doc? The LaserDisc Archives spins this retrospective on da wabbit’s early career for Toon Review.

Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition

A pack of mismatched ice age mammals must face ice, fire, a flock of dodos, and each other in order to deliver a human baby back to his family.

Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition

The LaserDisc Archives opens up the CAV boxset for the Toon Review, and asks just how better could this set get on DVD?

Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation

Chuck Jones’ life and career is reviewed in this wonderful tribute to the man himself.

Beauty And The Beast

The Toon Review‘s LaserDisc Archives looks at the theatrical and work in progress releases of this classic on LD.

A Goofy Movie

The LaserDisc Archives pull out the widescreen LD edition of this very goofy movie for Toon Review!

Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition

Belle, an intelligent young woman is forced to live in an enchanted castle with a hideous Beast. As they grow closer, they learn that true beauty lies within.

Cats Don’t Dance

The Toon Review‘s LaserDisc Archives looks up Mark Dindal’s 1997 feature, in widescreen on LD.

The Incredible Mr Limpet

Ben Simon finds his fins with Don Knotts’ classic animation and live-action combination comedy.

Cats Don’t Dance

First-time director Mark Dindal was given the difficult task of tackling a musical comedy called Cats Don’t Dance about a cat named Danny who tries to make it in Hollywood.

DisneyMania

15 Disney classics get the modern day treatment from some of today’s brightest artists, and the results are bubblegum pop you might just have fun with!

Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition

Disney/Pixar’s monstrous hit makes it to DVD in a monster of a package!

LaserDisc Archives: A Primer On The LD Format

The first in our LaserDisc Archives feature for Toon Review looks back on the original movie-disc format and teases some titles that have still not been outshone by their DVD “upgrades”.

Mad Monster Party

The original stop-motion musical frightfest comes to disc with a spookily sharp transfer and a mini-monster selection of spooktacular video and printed supplements.

Winnie the Pooh: Frankenpooh/Spookable Pooh

Disney releases two popular Halloween Winnie the Pooh stories to DVD for the first time. Frankenpooh and Spookable Pooh have been bundled together as a double feature for the delight of little kids (and adults) everywhere this Halloween. Both stories feature a lighthearted and positive spin to scary stories and situations in a way that Winnie the Pooh has always managed to do. 2

Schoolhouse Rock!: Special 30th Anniversary Edition

Schoolhouse Rock! was a series of musical shorts that both entertained and educated children and adults ever since their creation in the 1970s. They focused on topics ranging from arithmetic to grammar and were wildly popular in both classrooms and living rooms across the country.

Fantasia 2000

Fantasia 2000 was finally released in IMAX theatres worldwide on January 1st 2000 after a series of live multimedia performances held around the world (New York City, London, Paris, Tokyo and Los Angeles). The IMAX experience really made it into an event for those in the audience. The DVD edition is still an experience and those who did not see it on IMAX one can only imagine what it looked like on the very big screen.

Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land

This DTV effort was upgraded to theatrical status with good reason, and though by no means an essential or needed addition to the Disney library, this belated follow-up is much better than it has any right to be!

The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection

Bernard and Bianca are back in Disney’s all-action, exciting adventure sequel packed with groundbreaking, stunning computer assisted scenes.

The Care Bears Movie

The success of the Care Bears toys and television specials finally led to a movie in 1985, which then led to a show aimed at toddlers around the world. The movie was so successful that it led to two sequels, as well as two different shows featuring the Care Bears.

The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition

Warner Bros. sets out to find the magic that made Disney animation so successful in the 1990s, but this Quest ends without much hope.

The Great Mouse Detective

The much requested kick-starter to Disney’s animation renaissance finds itself on DVD without a clue when it comes to bonus features!

Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies

Between 1929 and 1939, Disney released several cartoons as an experiment in the field of animation. The Silly Symphonies were created to experiment with music, animation, and color in cartoons. They were a suggestion made by Disney’s music director Carl W. Stalling to Walt Disney about cartoons without a central character and where the main focus would be on music.

The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection

Disney’s darkest feature gets a welcome but barren DVD showing.

Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection

Lots of fun to be had in this 1940s Disney “Package Feature” that combines the stories of Mickey And The Beanstalk with the circus-themed Bongo.

Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius

A surprise entry in the Best Animated Feature stakes turns out to be well worth its nomination.