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Maleficent
…an average film leaving theaters, so they’ve had an exceptional run), so how do you bring new attention to them and breathe new life into a title to extend and… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…of the entire film’s preceding music. Used at the film’s close as a curtain call moment, the film suddenly seems lifeless, the lack of Foley effects for this final sequence… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…Hound perhaps feel “dated”, but it’s actually a very good film of its time. In fact, if there is anything the film does fault on, it’s the feeling that the… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!
…great A Bug’s Life, and one I don’t think it can ever escape from. With production on both films running at the same time and at the same pace, accusations… |
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Home On The Range
…The Princess And The Frog and through the Studio’s 50th animated film Tangled, albeit in CG. There are more hand-drawn films to come if the rumor mill is to be… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…several screenings of the Academy screener sent out for the film’s consideration for the Oscars. But I have to say that I just find the film inexcusably funny, and it… |
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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…a work in progress edition had been screened at the New York Film Festival, which created much word of mouth that Disney had topped Mermaid with a film that was… |
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The Jungle Book
…the deeper, depth-enhanced 3D animated films of today. Indeed, Walt was forever pushing boundaries and looking for ways to make his films more believable, often lamenting that an animated feature… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…studio especially to create it, and it was planned and animated in the style of the original film – then the biggest grossing animated film of all time – and… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…a sweet innocence and slight naiveté to both Lowery’s film and Elliot himself, who was largely hidden in the film’s pre-release marketing. In the film itself, Lowery doesn’t shy away… |
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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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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…been said already) that we are currently experiencing a golden age for comic book films. The biggest of the batch — and the third highest-grossing film of all time behind… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…(and they usually aren’t). Usually these films are studio tent-poles or “event” pictures, most likely sequels or first films in an intended blockbuster “franchises”, to use that very ugly when… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…ever done with an animated film. He began to re-cut it. By the very process of making them, animated films are produced “back to front”. After a script or outline… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…stuck in a rut. That film had outperformed Disney’s offerings in several markets, the slightly more mature story and enormous success and appeal of Linda Ronstadt and James Ingram’s smash… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…film of mine called Dog, and who told me about a filmed version of Peter & the Wolf. At that time, I was doing some commercial work without a big… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…didn’t enjoy the film immensely, but that line is just getting so clichéd! Batting five for five, the release of The Incredibles, Pixar’s sixth film for Disney, was seen as… |
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Tangled
…have ruffled many feathers, we can thank him for many others. Several films already in advanced development were too far into production to be canceled, but Lasseter’s Pixar-honed touch undoubtedly… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…In the original film, Bambi comes to adulthood, but not in this film. This film has much to do with Bambi’s relationship with his father, the Great Prince. As Bambi… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…moderate success of Universal’s saccharine Land Before Time continuing video franchise. Certainly the characterisations of The Good Dinosaur put the film in the latter camp, and aimed the film at… |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…conversion speedup, meaning that the film was further time compressed to just 81 minutes! Unsurprisingly, given the mess over the release of the film, director Rosen would only go on… |
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Home On The Range
…general dumbing-down of movies, due in part to special effects, where now anything is possible and every new film must top the last. Where CGI animated films have had most… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…very romantic approach to a modern animated film, what with it’s marvelously deep and rich color palette, especially. The film’s balance of Stevenson and Jules Verne-like elements also mix better… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…development works, paintings and moments from the finished film, while The 70/30 Rule highlights the choices made by the directors in bringing a 70 per cent traditional feel and a… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…a mouse (mice have habitually been good for Disney!) detective. Indeed, Disney’s own industry publicity for their first CG animated film, Dinosaur, marked The Great Mouse Detective as the film… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…non-Bluth American Tail sequels among other films, Bluth seemed to simply drift from production to production, seeking finance wherever possible. His deal with Goldcrest Films yielded the messy but popular… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…motion-captured films produced by Spielberg’s one-time protégé Robert Zemeckis. But whereas Zemeckis’ films (Polar Express, Beowulf and A Christmas Carol among them) simply transposed his mo-cap suited actors’ movements to… |
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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…Chomet’s film, released late last year, garnered much critical praise, a number of major awards, and found itself joining Finding Nemo and Brother Bear as one of the three films… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…Dumbo’s eventual length came in at a relatively paltry 64 minutes. Nervously, and only after seeing the film for themselves, RKO agreed, and put the film out with great fanfare…. |
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Speed Racer: Widescreen Edition
…the film between its theatrical and disc debuts – rewards as a filmgoing experience in spades. For a film concerned with speed, it certainly races along, filling in our hero… |
