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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume One
…Marvel Films, and his influence seems to have rubbed off on the writers. Story ideas are often bold and melodramatic— and frequently silly— and dialog tends towards being unnatural. Of… |
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Joe Barbera; Gremlins and Disney's Dog
…American Dog turned out to be…true! However, as our second Rumored Rumblings update reveals, the underlying reason that this is the case could be that John Lasseter and Ed Catmull… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…sticks to – its own rules. It’s filled with tiny, intricate details, and when I saw it for the first time in a theater last year, I wanted to go… |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…Volume 2, were equally a joy to behold, full of truly rarely seen programs and shorts, especially EPCOT, the last time Walt presented in front of a camera, and Runaway… |
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Animated Comic-Con coverage!
…the visual effects-heavy film. Met with an overwhelming round of applause, the teaser exhibited a first look at Spidey’s popular nemesis Venom. It is rumored that the new trailer may… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: Studio Cast Recording
…into a stage musical in Germany. Being closer to the original source material in tone, it had a successful three-year run. In the years that followed, Alan Menken and Stephen… |
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Ghost In The Shell 2: Innocence and Shrek 2 to compete at Cannes
…sixth time that an animated film of any kind has been chosen for competition at Cannes. Director Mamoru Oshii says of the nomination, “I am proud to be in the… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…shocked discussion between the evil faction? Sure, she seems to have relaxed her rules of appearance as of the second film, but we’re not counting that here, it seems, since… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete First Season
…by a number of new and old teen heroes. The series had a couple of runs in the psychedelic 1960s and the groovy 1970s before petering out… and then writer… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…Storyboard: Young Jim Hawkins is your usual Disney loner, although this time around he’s living on an isolated spaceport with his Mom, who runs the Benbow Inn, a popular boarding… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…running times of each special, at 23 minutes each, stretches things a little (they both run around 21:30). Better value can be found inside: as well as the Movie Rewards… |
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Justice League: Season One
…It was to be a dream come true for DC Comics fans. After years of producing the definitive Batman cartoon, and a pretty decent Superman show, it was rumored that… |
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Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2
…Bill of Rights has been announced. Civil liberties for robots will continue to be a running theme on the show, obviously meant to provide the same social commentary that appeared… |
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Astro Boy (1980): The Collection Box Set
…Japanese 52-episode run, that being the second one, which introduced Atlas. I do not know why this was missing, as it apparently showed up on the Australian set (on an… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season One
…his son Thaddeus becomes ever more apparent. Our Doctor Venture (called Rusty by his dad) is neurotic, impatient, and treats those around him with disdain and impatience. He also isn’t… |
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Dinotrux
…TV series since 2004’s Father of the Pride. Featuring dinosaurs that are made out of construction vehicles (or is it the other way around?), the show centers around Ty Rux,… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
…the first disc also has the twelve quarter-hour segments done for the following season. This makes for a total of seventeen Lone Ranger tales, and over four hours of runtime… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez reveals the hidden art of Disney’s late golden age
…were secured by John Clarke Rose. Do you know if some, like Robinson Crusoe and The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam, went to the “concept” phase or did they just stay… |
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Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire
…named Jesper Poubelle. In opposition to the protesters is Lita Rutland, the owner of the festival. After meeting Van Helsing outside (where he is failing in his efforts to hawk… |
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Two New Series Coming to NickToons
…LEADER DOG episode is three minutes, while each TORTELLINI WESTERN runs two minutes. Schwarz continued, “THE SIMPSONS, SOUTH PARK and even MICKEY MOUSE all started out as shorts. We hope… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…on in such leaps and bounds compared to the “rubber hose” animation of less than a decade before was sadly overlooked. A surprisingly introspective film, Bambi arrived at a time… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…this winsome wench?”, and my character says: ” Six bottles o’ rum!” Then the Captain answers: “I’m not spongin’ for rum! It be gold I’m after!” I also did the… |
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Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem
…the Batmen running around the video aisles. With several TV series under his bat-belt already, not to mention Robot Chicken, video game, and Lego versions, there is now a direct-to-video… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…stuff), running three-and-a-half minutes. Moving onto the main menu proper, and the first extra to grab my attention was the collection of Deleted Scenes, and here we get a glimpse… |
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From Up On Poppy Hill
…and declared the junior Miyazaki a failure who might never be allowed to direct again. Rumors also swirled, suggesting that production on Earthsea had been so rocky, that the father… |
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A Christmas Carol
…it is. Another example is a terrific chase sequence towards the end, ruined by some bits of business for Scrooge that feels tacked on and drops some hideous video game… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…version of those stories that is its own thing, but doesn’t visually contradict the books. The basic rule was: When you go back to the book after seeing the film,… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…a boat, but needed a man who knew how to sail it. Searching around for a suitable-looking fellow, Castor spied a runty-looking older fellow with one eye, smoking a corncob… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume Two
…to whether or not I think it was a good idea. The execution hasn’t changed either, given that the 65-episode run was all basically a single “season” created for the… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…Hyde Pierce a run for his money. His mad scientist (played with shades of his similar character in Mickey Mouse’s 1995 short Runaway Brain) is great value, and, as with… |
