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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
Warner’s multi-disc serving of classic shorts offers a step back in time to when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s stars would hang out in Hollywood and enjoy entertainment at the most exclusive locations! |
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Composer Harry Gregson-Williams takes us far, far away, from Prince of Persia to Shrek Forever After
Jeremie Noyer speaks with the prolific composer about scoring two of this summer’s biggest movies! |
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The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
Lavishly illustrated on quality paper, Jerry Beck’s new book unfortunately doesn’t bring an awfully lot new to the published Looney Tunes canon, though it is undeniably exceptional value for money. |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
An enticing prospect, this career retrospective is ruined by poor presentation and, seven Oscar winners aside, weak and random cartoon choices, barely saved by one lone decent supplement. |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
Red “I dood it!” Skelton, the comic that launched numerous classic cartoon catchphrases, stars in his signature Whistling trilogy, here fittingly collected in the Warner Archive Collection. |
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Toy Story 3: Animator Victor Navone talks about his “Favorite Toys”
Jeremie Noyer speaks with Toy Story 3 animator Victor Navone about the challenge of bringing back established characters for Pixar’s latest! |
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Win a signed Secret Of Kells theatrical poster – Winner Announced!
Win a signed theatrical poster for this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar nominated The Secret Of Kells – Winner Announced! |
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Toy Story 3
Toy Story 3 is that rare second sequel that tops its predecessors. At times a laugh out loud comedy and an edge of your seat thriller, all tied together with a moving storyline that will touch both young and old. |
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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time illustrator Julian Caldow talks Persia…and Brueghel and India!
Jeremie Noyer speaks with production illustrator Julian Caldow about his trip through the Sands of Time for Disney’s current blockbuster, Prince Of Persia! |
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The Art of Toy Story 3: animation historian Charles Solomon tells about his “Favorite Toys”
Jeremie Noyer speaks exclusively with the author of a unique insight into the artistic creation of Disney/Pixar’s upcoming Toy Story 3! |
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Peanuts: 1970s Collection Volume 2 – Winners Announced!
Your chance to enjoy the company of Charlie Brown and Snoopy is right here — Animated Views has five copies of Peanuts: 1970s Collection Volume 2 – Winners Announced! |
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Shrek Forever After
Despite a few bumps along the way, Shrek Forever After is a fine and fitting final outing. Things have wrapped up fairly happily ever after for fans of the franchise. |
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Alice In Wonderland
Tim Burton’s visually striking take on Lewis Carroll’s Alice books mixes in a bit of the previous 1951 and 1972 features to come up with a compelling continuation of sorts. The disc includes a number of interesting extras, none of which are quite in-depth enough. |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
In celebration of the international home video release of their latest film, Jeremie Noyer joins a roundtable interview with Disney directors Musker and Clements! |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 5
X-Men: The Animated Series is finally complete with this two disc set making up the show’s final season. |
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Peanuts 1970’s Collection: Vol. 2
The biggest classics may have gone before, but this selection of specials is still quintessential Peanuts, with only one weak one in the batch. And check out that remastered video! |
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Iron Man – Armored Adventures: The Complete Season One
The show is quite enjoyable, but it really should be called Iron Boy. The lack of widescreen video or any decent extras are other knocks against what is otherwise a nice set of 26 episodes. |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
Eleven Saturday Morning cartoons from the 1980s are combined in this two disc set featuring some of the many shows produced by Hanna-Barbera and Ruby-Spears during the decade. |
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Iron Man: The Complete 1994 Animated Television Series
This version stays reasonably true to the comics, but fails to reach the heights of its contemporaries. Season Two improves with better stories and animation, but weak video and a lack of extras hurt this DVD release. |
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My Life With Charlie Brown
This collection of prose writings from Charles Schulz provides the next-best thing to a true autobiography. It also finally made me understand why I love Peanuts so much. |
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Armageddon
Touchstone Pictures’ explosively entertaining end of the world epic should be quite the experience on hi-def Blu-ray, but the treatment it receives here is far from spectacular, with only so-so sound and vision, and a complete lack of extras. |
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Tombstone
Another Buena Vista title gets a Blu-ray upgrade, but once again the excellent hi-def picture and sound are supported by a lackluster extras package that leaves much to be desired. |
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Iron Man Armored Adventures: Complete First Season – Winners Announced!
We had five copies of Iron Man Armored Adventures: Complete First Season plus five original character sketch posters to give away – Winners Announced! |
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The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!
There’s a good story outline in here somewhere, but being totally uncensored did this direct-to-video title no favors. |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
Artist and cartoonist Robert L Ripley’s famed oddities and trivia discoveries began their screen life here, and though this set shows its vintage it does so very entertainingly. |
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Warner Archive: The Amazing Captain Nemo
Producer Irwin Allen earns his Master Of Disaster tag for all the wrong reasons in this unintentionally hilarious slice of classic kitsch. They sure don’t make ’em like this anymore! |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrators Kei Acedera and Bobby Chiu shaped the Characters’ Designs
Jeremie Noyer speaks exclusively to concept illustrators Kei Acedera and Bobby Chiu about their work on Tim Burton’s latest! |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: The Complete First Season
The complete first season of the 2006 series, Tom and Jerry Tales, finally makes its way on DVD in this two-disc set. |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
Ralph Bakshi’s ambitious but wildly uneven animated take on the first half of Tolkien’s trilogy remains a frustrating work, but Warners’ new Blu-ray and DVD combo at least offers the opportunity of a fresh look. |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
Disney’s “greatest little mystery in history” is given the short thrift, with a decent new transfer wasted on a pointless disc that just can’t really be recommended. |
