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Anomalisa
…as if each character is wearing glasses). All the wonderful, hand-crafted props and created sets (especially the run-off-the-mill hotel room, perfectly realised in its boring, cookie-cutter fashion) recall the extraordinary… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…stupid bald-headed kid finally got something right. Of course this couldn’t be a Charlie Brown story if it ended there. That would ruin the whole character, and he still had… |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…running. Fortunately, the film that would be released in 1950 was a major hit. The Charles Perrault version of Cinderella was an obvious choice. The story of Cinderella had much… |
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The Bob’s Burgers Movie trailer promises mystery, meat and mayhem
…Movie is an animated, big-screen, musical comedy-mystery-adventure based on the long-running Emmy®-winning series. The story begins when a ruptured water main creates an enormous sinkhole right in front of Bob’s… |
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Frankenweenie
…visual poke at Disney’s, via a ruined fairytale castle). The rest of the locations, even the digitally extended ones, just don’t seem that inspired, despite the no doubt impressive amount… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…he went on to other Brit-tinged projects as Chicken Run. Here his words mesh perfectly with the voice cast (also featuring Susan Sarandon, Jane Leeves, and David Thewlis, now best… |
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The Invincible Iron Man
…Johnson’s screenplay opens with a scene taking place in China, where a ruins excavation is encountering production delays due to the interference of a gang known as the Jade Dragons…. |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…latest plot, Batman tries to discover the identity of the mysterious Batwoman. The Sweatbox Review: Even as fans hear rumors of the newest (and hopefully better than the last) big… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons
…never too tough to solve. In fact, in most episodes, there was only one suspect introduced! Occasionally, the writers (mostly Joe Ruby and Ken Spears) would throw out a red… |
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Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
…airdrop off the coast of Norway, where the Nazis are rumored to have a super-weapon. Some feel that it is a suicide mission, while other soldiers have stark faith in… |
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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…of Meatballs, Enlightened, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic, Pee Wee’s Playhouse, and the hugely successful Rugrats television, stage and film franchise. Mothersbaugh received the BMI Richard Kirk Award… |
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Disney Legend Floyd Norman writes (and talks) about his Animated Life
…once told me that he felt sorry for Walt Disney because the Old Maestro must have had the weight of the world on his shoulders running the company. This person… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1
…a comedy. For more serious stories, there was Filmation’s The Hardy Boys that same fall on ABC. This show, based on the long-running juvenile book series, also had what may… |
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The Halloween Tree
…of Saturday morning cartoon fare we may be more accustomed to. Perhaps because it is clear that holiday specials can become perennials that can be re-run each year, producers tend… |
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Rise of the Guardians director Peter Ramsey assembles the Guardians of Childhood
…guy to voice a Russian Santa Claus”? PR: When Alec’s name first came up, we were thinking of candidates for Pitch. We thought, “We want to give him some personality…. |
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Secret Of The Wings
…winter, she is disappointed to find out that warm fairies are not allowed to cross over to the cold domain. This is a long-standing rule enforced by Lord Milori of… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part One
…is exactly the Batman of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. The title of the show is itself a reference to a long-running Batman team-up comic book which concluded its run… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Second Season
…have to admit that I found the emotional beats of this episode tough to swallow, as this whole storyline seemed overly rushed and a bit contrived due to the time… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…want to confuse him with the ruler of Haiti with that same name. A few of the song ideas evolved as well. Louis’s song originally was about how much he… |
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G.I. Joe: The Movie – Special Edition
…is an ancient civilization who used to rule the Earth until the last Ice Age when they retreated high into the Himalayas. They are masters of bio-organic technology and are… |
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Perils of Penelope Pitstop: The Complete Series
…make one wonder why the villain didn’t just use a gun and get it over with. Of course, that would ruin the fun of seeing Penelope escape from a ridiculously… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
…Bugs shouldn’t have all the fun on the court and introduced a line of collector’s cups pairing Daffy, Taz, Sylvester, Yosemite Sam, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner with NBA… |
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ParaNorman
…the movie with Universal’s excellent HD supplements. Heading the list is a nine-minute series of Preliminary Animatic Sequences with optional commentary from directors Butler and Fell, essentially running through three… |
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Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
…the biggest rush I got out of viewing this set was seeing the old Thames Television ident. Man, that brings back memories! I remember that ident from The Tomorrow People… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…“choice”, which of course is a fallacy — we all have to pay taxes, drive with insurance, not kill our neighbors, etc, so why not just follow “the rules” and… |
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey
…two Rugrats movies) keeping things well paced. The overall story may be slighter and more child-friendly than the more densely packed plots of some animated films, and some of the… |
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My Neighbors The Yamadas
…Yamadas are a typical Japanese family consisting of hard-working dad Takashi, his housekeeping-challenged wife Matsuko, disapproving son Noboru, noisy daughter Nonoko, and a blunt-speaking grandmother named Shige. In sitcom style,… |
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Welcome The Rotoscopers!
…podcast, which usually runs about ninety minutes, consists of a news roundup, a nerdy mini-segment (that can cover anything from animation principles to industry history), and a main discussion where… |
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Plot summary released for The Bob’s Burgers Movie; PG-13 rating confirmed
…The story begins when a ruptured water main creates an enormous sinkhole right in front of Bob’s Burgers, blocking the entrance indefinitely and ruining the Belchers’ plans for a successful… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Seventh Season
…and vain King of Oo, who has now christened himself a princess(!), shows daily why he is an unfit ruler. Jake and Finn now wear armor in their service of… |
