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The Ten Commandments
Moses gets the short thrift in this budget adaptation that boasts a solid cast but can’t match the strength of the soundtrack with its sometimes painfully amateur visuals. |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One
Camp reigns supreme in the second incarnation of Super Friends, where we meet to the lame yet appealing Wonder Twins for the first time. |
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Hobbits, Floyd Norman, Lone Ranger, Zorro, Moses…what a line-up!
Thoughts on Guillermo del Toro directing The Hobbit movies, an interview with Disney Legend Floyd Norman, The Lone Ranger and Zorro reviewed, plus new giveaways! |
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The AristoCats Special Edition – Winners Announced!
Catnap The AristoCats – Winning Names Announced! |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
Disney Legend Floyd Norman speaks to Animated Views about his career at the Disney Studios, including his experiences working on Walt’s final animated classic The Jungle Book. |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 1
Two heroes of yesteryear see their legacies handled nicely by Filmation. |
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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! |
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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. |
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Batman, Pixar, Pooh…and Cinders two!
My Friends Tigger And Pooh and Cinderella II reviewed, plus a chat with Pixar Shorts’ composer Michael Giacchino! |
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Michael Giacchino: not so short on ideas for Pixar Shorts!
Michael Giacchino speaks to us about creating his creatively entertaining music scores for Pixar’s recent short films One Man Band and Lifted. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Director Steve Anderson meets the Robinsons, and we meet a new contributor!
We welcome aboard Jeremie Noyer as our new resident interviewer as he speaks to Disney’s Robinsons director Steve Anderson, plus the Disneyland Treasures tin reviewed! |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
Meet The Robinsons‘ director Steve Anderson talks to Animated Views about creating his first feature and how personally the film’s story resonated with him. |
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Walt Disney Treasures…live again!
Walt Disney Treasures 2007: Oswald and Donald reviewed, plus The Chestnut Tree creators speak! |
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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! |
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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. |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
With her film The Chestnut Tree nominated for the 35th Annie Awards, Animated Views speaks to the film’s creator Hyun-Min Lee and colleagues Jennifer Cardon Klein and Bert Klein. |
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Jerry's new book, and Warner's Blu announcement
Unfortunately, the slowness of holiday mail has meant that our latest supply of screeners is quite late, so the promised reviews are…still being promised! I did receive one wonderful surprise, though, on Christmas Eve. Insight Editions, publisher of an astounding array of fine books (including a couple of very cool Star Wars limited editions) was […] |
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The Hanna-Barbera Treasury
Jerry Beck brings animation fans another treat. The text in this one may not bring any revelations, but the book fulfills its intended purpose as a very cool scrapbook. |
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Just a quick note to wish all our readers and forum posters a very happy new year! We’ll keep the reviews coming in 2008 and have some exciting new interviews and features in the works too! If you haven’t had a chance to catch up, our Best Of 2007: The Year In Review looks back […] |
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High-Def Animation Took Off in 2007
Take a look back at the big year animation had on both high-def optical disc formats — Blu-ray and HD-DVD. |
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Ho-ho-ho! Season's Greetings, an' all that jazz!
TaleSpin 2, Return To Never-Land‘s Pixie-Powered Edition reviewed, Disney and Filmation giveaway contests, and our extensive pick of The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review! |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
From the best to the worst, here are our top ten DVD picks of the year, including some other worthy titles and those to stay clear of, as well as our top three motion pictures! |
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Disney Channel Giveaway – Winner Announced!
A Disney Channel grab bag: Wish Gone Amiss, Johnny Kapahala, Hannah Montana and Halloweentown – winner announced! |

