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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys

This true piece of Americana still holds up today as fine family viewing.

Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series

Nostalgia rules again in this fine BCI release.

The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Crime Series

Dick Tracy is relegated to a supporting player in this early 1960’s kiddie show. Despite the presence of many of Dick’s famous rogues, the cartoon lacks any of the intensity or interest of the comic strip.

The Fox And The Hound 2

The “mid-quel” follow-up to the original bypasses the melancholy feelings of the first to present a fun if quiet adventure whose greatest attribute is its country soundtrack.

Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas

The Looney Tunes gang is all here to tell their own version of Dicken’s A Christmas Carol. Gee, that’s never been told in animation before!

DuckTales: Volume 2

The second helping of the TV classic is even better than the first, though the DVD presentation is about on par.

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa

Mickey and the gang help find Santa, plus two more episodes from the Disney Channel preschooler show.

Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1–3

Disney’s candy-colored bears return to the screen in their first three seasons. Despite poor image quality, it’s a fun return to visit to Gummi Glen…

Cars

Though it’s no wreck, Pixar had to get a dent in its gleaming fender and Cars is it, running out of mileage before the final flag signals despite excellent voice performances.

Monster House: Widescreen Edition

Motion capture doesn’t seem so bad when the movie comes out as good as this one. While its box office take was more moderate than monstrous, we find it worth a look on DVD.

Space Sentinels & The Freedom Force: The Complete Series

Two obscure Filmation shows in one fine set from BCI, who doesn’t seem to realize that these aren’t fan favorites on the same level as He-Man. They pull out all the stops anyway, and reward Filmation fans with nice transfers and bonus features.

Teen Titans: The Complete First Season

We look at the origins of the show and judge how it stacks up to its source material.

Teen Titans: The Complete Second Season

While the first season had a mishmash of tones that covered the gamut from goofy to the very serious, the second season… well, actually more of the same. But, except for a couple of episodes, it’s all good.

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

The award-winning series comes to DVD in the first of two five-disc sets. The show apparently won awards on the strength of its writing, not its animation. BCI delivers another great effort in the packaging and extras department, though the video is disappointing.

Flash Gordon: The Complete Series

One of the greatest cartoon shows of all time comes gift-wrapped and feature-laden from the fine folks at BCI.

The Tick Vs. Season One

The mighty blue bug of justice crashes onto DVD. But what nefarious arch-criminal stole all the extras?

Ultimate Avengers 2

Not as good as the first, but Marvel fans will want to check it out, if only for the Ultimates featurette.

Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set

An alien race sends one of their own down to Earth to conquer the entire human race. Fortunately for the human race, they send Zim who, together with his robot GIR, attempts to overcome scary Chihuahuas, mall security, Earth holidays, school, meat, and of course, his own incompetence.

Anastasia: Family Fun Edition

Don Bluth directs 20th Century Fox’s big budget move into animated features and Disneyfies the Anastasia mystery to engaging effect.

Superman: Brainiac Attacks

Fans had hoped for a fine send-off to the animated Superman series, but instead got a turkey with little in common with the beloved show.

The Chipmunk Adventure

Alvin And The Chipmunks built on their television success with this movie, and the big screen feature turned out surprisingly well. This is a gem.

A Boy Named Charlie Brown

Charles Schulz’s lovable loser stars in his first feature film, shown on a sadly understated DVD.

Batman Beyond: The Complete First Season

The Batman of the future has his own style, but if you have an open mind you may find this version quite appealing.

Justice League: Season One

The first season of Justice League is probably better than a lot of us gave it credit for, as one can see on this fine DVD set.

Chicken Little

Disney jumps into full-blown CGI features with a loud, aggressive and sporadically entertaining alternate take on the sky-is-falling classic.

Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition

Walt Disney’s first widescreen picture is better than you remember it and this disc shines…too bad about the lack of the original “flat” version, though…

Whisper Of The Heart

This is Studio Ghibli at its most tender, a charming departure from the eco-princesses and fairy tales for which the studio is largely known.

Ultimate Avengers: The Movie

The first animated movie from the Marvel/Lionsgate deal is a good start, solidly adapting the first storyline from Marvel’s Ultimates comic book.

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride

Tim Burton returns to his roots with this stop-motion wonder.

Bambi II

Does the final result reflect the good word of mouth this project picked up in production? We take a look at Bambi’s return to the screen…