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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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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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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…this selected series of ten “shorts” are potted, re-voiced, re-scored and slightly rushed oddities, running around two and a half minutes each. Winnie The Pooh’s narrator John Cleese now narrates,… |
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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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The Smurfs, Vol. 1: True Blue Friends
…run. Johan is a young squire who travels the countryside looking for adventures with his sidekick Pewitt, a dwarf. In The Haunted Castle, Brainy, Papa Smurf, and Smurfette are in… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…turning you off of seeing them; and two, to go into greater detail in order to go beyond the simple descriptions could ruin the surprises that you have waiting for… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
…to develop feature-length films following the success of Chicken Run, Aardman decided to make their next project around their most popular characters in the cheese-loving inventor and his canine companion…. |
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When You Wish Upon A Star: The Musical Making of Walt Disney’s Pinocchio
…visuals and the music. And Pinocchio is far beyond being an exception to the rule. It is even more a precursor. As well as this narrative complexity, the music is… |
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Only Yesterday
On July 20, 1991, Studio Ghibli released an adaptation of the manga Omoide Poro Poro by Hotaru Okamoto and Yuko Tone. Directed by Isao Takahata and recognized by westerners as… |
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More Rings for your buck…
…on an extended version of Return Of The King for home video release later this year. In related news, a rumor that started at Ain’t It Cool News and was… |
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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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Klasky Csupo having troubles?
{{link http://www.animationblast.com/ Animation Blast}} reports that Klasky Csupo “is apparently not doing so well nowadays. Rumor has it that their staff has dwindled to around 30 people, and that they’re… |
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Nana’s back! Elisa Gabrielli on Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…Actually, both my Grandmothers…the Russian one, Lilly, who was tough and smart, and my Hungarian Granny, Elsa – whom I adored – who was all of that and had a… |
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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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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
…Harkening back to a sci-fi classic, Batman & Robin and Wonder Woman face an attack of The Fifty Foot Woman. Zan and Jayna help a cross-country runner who runs into… |
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Ratchet & Clank
…we’ve had a run of penguin movies, superheroes everywhere, just about every YA book getting an adaptation especially if there were multiple titles in a series, and way too many… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 2
…years that meant THE BUGS BUNNY/ROAD RUNNER HOUR. No Looney Tunes shows were on the previous 1970s volume, so even though we’ve seen these a million times it’s still very… |
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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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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… |
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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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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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Henry Selick speaks about Moongirl and more
…Coraline, well, it could just as well tilt to all-stop-motion versus all-CG or a combo of both. We’re running tests and crunching numbers. Can you tell us a little about… |
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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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Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
…a little girl who has run away from her rich but neglectful father. The Sweatbox Review: Sometimes Christmas specials are just stories with your favorite characters doing things at Christmas… |
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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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The Transformers: Season Two, Volume One (25th Anniversary Edition)
…in Attack of the Autobots (where Decepticons basically take over several Autobot members), Auto Beserk (where Red Alert malfunctions and teams up with Starscream), and in The Autobot Run (when… |
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Loads of Christmas DVDs
…Amazon | Barnes and Noble Short found on the Finding Nemo DVD. Rankin Bass: The Original Television Christmas Classics | Amazon | Barnes and Noble Rankin-Bass specials including Rudolph the… |
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Directors Chris Sanders and Kirk DeMicco introduce The Croods
…you joked that John Cleese is terrified of technology. KDM: Exactly! He’s completely convinced that technology is going to ruin the world – that it’s already ruined society to the… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
…all of the same run, with little continuity except for within sets of three or four episodes at a time that feature the same villain or plot points. One shouldn’t… |
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Stronger Than Spinach
…Fleischer Studio, when their distributor, Paramount, decided to muscle the Fleischers out and simply run a cartoon studio themselves. Many of the same folks stayed on to direct, draw, and… |
