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Rupert coming home again!
Famed English adventurer Rupert The Bear is coming back home, with the issue of Paul McCartney’s Rupert And The Frog Song, the first time the little bear was animated on… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…Rufle, who assisted animation director John Foster in developing the studio’s first headliners. Even then, the pair they came up with was somewhat derivative, clearly evoking Mutt and Jeff (as… |
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Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken sinks deeper as film doesn’t see holiday boost
The news for DreamWorks Animation’s Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken didn’t get better on Independence Day, with the movie ranking in ninth place for the holiday. Even worse, it could only… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…same leaning is in evidence, albeit less so. Not that this is all “bad news”: Jones’ shorts are often among the very best in the series, if your tastes run… |
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Pirates avoiding Rush-ing into a sequel?
…has not even been formally approached to do the projects, despite constant internet rumors stating otherwise. Noting the rumor that Rush pulled out of Eucalyptus to do the Pirates sequels,… |
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Ratatouille
…were used in its production! From the perfectly French stylised humans and Remy’s beating heart breathing, to the onslaught of a rabble of running rats, Ratatouille inevitably succeeds in looking… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…other voices in the film were somewhat easier to find. The Dwarfs’ roles had been given to popular radio names, with Pinto Colvig in the running due to his performances… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…be Walt’s greatest lasting accomplishment. The Sweatbox Review: Although the series runs a wide gamut of topics, the Walt Disney Treasures DVD line – now in its seventh year –… |
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Rumor mill: American Dog, The Smurfs
…(The Rugrats Movie, Rugrats Go Wild!) directing the feature. One should take a grain of salt with these news tidbits, for they remain merely rumors until confirmed by proper sources…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…are under the supervision of the same director, Charles Nichols, who here employs the remarkably detailed backgrounds and uses them ingeniously for running gags. A terrific short, this one seems… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series
…rumors surrounding the cancellation itself and the supposed unaired finale. One popular rumor was that the children were in fact dead and were in some sort of purgatory. Another rumor… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…favorably and audiences loved the characters even more. More importantly, it had a greater commercial run that was roughly equal to the Shrek films and Kung Fu Panda. Coming off… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…Platinum Editions. These releases have been spotty so far, going from a strong start to some downright weak entries in the run, so big things were hoped for from Pinocchio’s… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…from the absolutely pristine transfer, this could run in a block of classic Road Runner/Coyote cartoons and one wouldn’t be able to tell the difference. John Frizzell’s score matches the… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…scam to oust Minnie so that he can rule all. He awards them Musketeer positions as Minnie’s private bodyguards, knowing that their ineptitude will play a big part in his… |
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Russia's \\Little Longnose\\ coming to America
…Melnitsa Animation’s}} first full-length animated feature \\{{link http://karliknos.spb.ru/eng/mult Little Longnose}}\\ (\\Karlik Nos\\ in Russian) premiered in Russia in March 2003. BCDB contacted Melnitsa Animation about a possible American release and… |
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Disney tins, rumors, and the Shrek 3 trailer…what’s up with that?
…up as a Christmas treat! In the meantime, we’re back with a new Rumored Rumblings that points to jaw-dropping swing in production for Disney’s currently-titled American Dog, though until this… |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…excerpted on a laserdisc of The Lost World years ago, and it’s nice to see it included here for a new audience. Here, it runs four minutes. There are two… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…Movie: Sponge On The Run March 4th / FORUM DISCUSSION I reviewed this movie back in March. Read the full review here. BOTTOM LINE: With a mess of a story,… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…on high commanded that the film be shorn of six-months production time and rush-released to coincide with the DVD and home video release of The Lion King last fall, in… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…1.33:1 original full frame), Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Rated G, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Opening with the fall of the Russian Empire, it’s established early on in Anastasia that this is… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…humor, violent images and language), Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: The Aqua Teen Hunger Force swing into big screen action…and that’s it. The Sweatbox Review: The first, generally unwritten rule about television… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…run both units. The results have been mixed, to be fair: after Lasseter was charged with “rescuing” a couple of already-in-production films he had more say over the reintroduction of… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…far too soon, opening the film in a bit of a rush so as to explain the hows and the whys, but feeling quicker than it did in the previews… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…run-through of other projects, name checking them instead of shedding any new information on them, such as the fact (as nicely mentioned in Walt’s Time) that Walt had given them… |
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2017 D23 Expo Exclusive
…with them was brief, as convention staff was trying to run a sign-and-go pace even through the end, it was a joy to be able to speak with them and… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…creating DreamWorks. During all of that big ruckus. Cats kind of got spun out the back door, during the process. I think if that hadn’t happened, we probably would have… |
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The Ten Commandments
…Storyboard: Reluctant prophet Moses becomes a hero of the people when he is thrown out of his adopted Egyptian home by the Pharaoh ruler, learning his true heritage and discovering… |
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2006: A Year In Review
…lives of private citizens are being monitored daily and corporations rule the world. Director Christian Volckman used innovative motion capture techniques that allowed animators to capture clothing as well as… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…television, with a long run of animated holiday specials, including Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town (and one feature, the very amusing Mad Monster Party),… |
