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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…missteps later on, which led to its financial ruin. It declared bankruptcy in 1973, three years after Tezuka had stepped down in 1970 and founded a new company, Tezuka Productions…. |
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TaleSpin: Volume 2
…think? Disc 1 Nevertheless, there is a nice mix of adventures on this set of 27 episodes (out of a 65-episode run), which starts out strongly with the Indiana Jones-like… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…upon the four thrones, her rule will be over. Reunited, the children discover that Aslan has made the ultimate sacrifice to save Edmund and must face the Witch with their… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…the more I ponder over it. I still “enjoyed” it, for what it was, but nothing more. As for the past several years, superheroes ruled the box-office, with a mix… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…target, both having, in a way, too big an ego to lend themselves to an animated character and give up some of the spotlight. Originally, Gladiator Maximus himself, Russell Crowe,… |
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The Tick Vs. Season One
…episodes, although its last original episodes were run on Comedy Central in 1996 (while Fox was content to run repeats). The chief reason for the change of networks was that… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…Wallace & Gromit being two characters that mean a great deal personally to Nick Park. It was a shorter than we have become accustomed to film, running under 20 minutes,… |
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The Reef
…comedies to Marvel adventures. Co-director Howard E Baker has an equal sporadic résumé, from animating on Disney’s Hercules, to directing episodes of MTV’s Aeon Flux, and working on Rugrats (for… |
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Tales From Earthsea
…project on to his son Goro, who had never directed a film before. (This was during one of those times that Hayao Miyazaki claimed to have retired.) The somewhat rushed… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…a unique look and style from one another. Seven well-known anime studios, such as Production I.G, Science SARU, and Studio Trigger, provide the animation produced by nine directors who have… |
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The Day The Earth Stood Still: Blu-ray Disc Special Edition
…starts to feel like a retread. Once alien Keanu finds himself on the run, the film seems so intent on making itself different from the original that it eventually runs… |
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Sing
…the cartoon karaoke aspect takes up a huge chunk of the movie’s longer than expected, near two hour runtime, but right from the start (with a sly poke at the… |
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The Animatrix
…humanoid robots that want to resemble humans out of respect, to very ruthless, inhuman robots by the end. Kid’s Story, is one of the most visually creative films, and all… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…the cartoons without the need to actually run a cartoon unit was to lease the characters to Czech animator/director Gene Deitch, who created a short-lived series of such lacklustre shorts… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…started running out of new ideas, a purely animated series was called for. Already rivalling Alice for attention in the cartoons was Julius The Cat, but Winkler had married Universal… |
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2023 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…into figuring which positions the Critical Role characters would play in football, an appreciation for Riegel’s sponsorship ads, and further interest in the way Mercer runs games. Fan interactions like… |
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The Road To Broadway And Beyond: Disney’s Aladdin – A Whole New World
…Seattle and Toronto tryouts, and the final Broadway incarnation, as well as further changes once the production had been running for a length of time and additional tweaks to the… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
…Belgium, Russia, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa, Australia, Argentina, Brazil, Spain and more also contributed in a variety of ways. In all, they have grown to a crew of about 250… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…standard for the modern family film template. A live-action Scooby-Doo, based on the popular and very long running cartoon mystery show, was announced and turned out to be quite a… |
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Margaret Kerry – The Original Tinker Bell
…AV: There’s an urban legend that Tinker Bell was modeled after Marilyn Monroe. How did that rumor start? MK: No one can really agree on it. I worked with Marilyn… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…movie The Great Rupert. It’s a release that was nearly usurped by Thunderbean’s issue of Fleischer’s Gulliver’s Travels – had our copies of that disc arrived in time! In the… |
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Aeon Flux: The Complete Collection
…part of MTV’s Liquid Television show. At the time, Chung was working on Rugrats and was excited to have the opportunity to work with an animation vehicle that would be… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…for better or for worse one of the movie’s highlights). But the story quickly runs out of gas, and even re-introducing Shaw into the franchise in an attempt to help… |
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Back In Time
…other, hugely enthusiastic tie-ins. After all, when else are we likely to meet up with another movie future-date anytime soon, aside from the dystopian 2019 of Blade Runner, which doesn’t… |
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Captain America: Civil War
…is thrilling and exciting to watch. Directors Anthony and Joe Russo clearly understand how to visualize the film in such a way that audiences are engrossed with what is happening… |
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UPDATED: Animated Film Disqualified from Oscar Consideration
…publication of this article, ToonZone.net reported that The Missing Lynx: Paws on the Run (which opened in Spain on December 25, 2008) is in the midst of a qualifying run… |
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The Rescuers
…that The Rescuers pioneered the use of songs on the soundtrack as opposed to having the characters actually mouthing the words. Another recently broken “rule”, that animated films don’t usually… |
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The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…with toy-maker Mattel who had come up with the toys to go along with the show. Rumor has it that Mattel had created toys for Arnold Schwarzenneger’s Conan The Barbarian… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…the weirdest platypus I’ve ever seen, for instance, while Candace is more traditional. I’m not sure there’s such a strong line running through everything, but most elements feel like they… |
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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
…Enforcers jet, they had Dark Kat targeted, but their superior officer Commander Feral demanded that they let him fly in and save the day. Feral ended up ruining everything, as… |
