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Tarzan II
…and runs away, where he finds the mysterious, and supposedly evil Zugor, who unsurprisingly turns out to be simply a warm old grump. But when a dissident group of gorillas,… |
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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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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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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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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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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),… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…Dolby True-HD 7.1, Rated PG, Retail: $49.99 Storyboard: It’s “Mother Bear” as Pixar enters the fairytale business with a magical tale of witchcraft, ancient tradition and feisty heroines… The Sweatbox… |
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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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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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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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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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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…that’s all they do. A real treat is Tim Burton’s Original Poem Narrated By Christopher Lee, which runs for a generous 11 minutes and in HD to boot. With background… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…all of the above supplements are available, with the bonus shorts presented in HD and the Sneak Peeks replaced with trails (in HD) for Enchanted, WALL-E, Meet The Robinsons and… |
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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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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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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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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…down to a Digi-Beta center extraction. Unfortunately, distributors today demand that you deliver an HD master of the film. To telecine film in a HD bay is more expensive than… |
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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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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…ratio, DTS-HD 7.1 Master Audio and 5.1 Dolby Digital plus restored original mono soundtrack, Rated G, Retail: $35.99 Storyboard: Walt Disney’s brilliant take on Carlo Collodi’s story about a little… |
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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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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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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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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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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…Brave New Metropolis, in which she is transported into an alternate dimension in which Lex Luthor rules the planet…with a black-suited Superman at his side! Crossovers are always fun and… |
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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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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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2024 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…in its over 50 year run into the mecca of all things pop culture. More than 125,000 travel from around the globe to downtown San Diego and the San Diego… |
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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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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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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… |
