…page offers up the majority of extras, the most interesting of which are 18 minutes’ worth of three Fantasy Comes To Life featurettes, detailing what went into three of the…

…in the film, she never talks, leaving the vocals of the film down to a line-up of well-known Disney voices of the time. Driscoll, of course, creates the world’s first…

…of new animation. The Many Hats Of Mickey is perhaps the most meaty of the bonuses, at least for aficionados, due to the history of the character that is involved….

…Poppins-esque version of herself – who recreates some of the poses and lines from the original (“I have no intention of making a spectacle of myself, thank-you very much”). The…

…offer any reward, while much better is The World Of Mulan, a series of three featurettes adding up to around seven minutes of material, including Mushu’s introductions. Covering the Yin…

…the compassion of animals versus the inhumanity of humans. “Man…was in the forest” goes one of the film’s most memorable – and chilling – lines. The poetic tone of the…

…past this, it should be said that the designs of the animals themselves scream perfectly of classic animation, being the closest Disney has come to the feel of real, old-school…

…wand and undoes all of its magic, can true love prove to be the strongest power of all and the good of heart prevail over the sinister forces of evil?…

…in addition to offering a wrap up for one of the central characters, the final credits intersperse their names with snippets of original production concept art that really shows the…

…During a rendition of The Mickey Mouse Club theme, Donald gets a bad case of the hiccups, which soon spreads to the rest of the gang – just as they’re…

…Kingdom starts things off with the first half of this two-handed compilation. In a story reminiscent of one of the similar episodes in Cinderella II, the little woman is put…

…when the need arises. The rest of the cast, too, essentially continue the Jungle Book trend of playing caricatured versions of their established personalities, the most notable of which is…

…Exhibition Catalog tome is an absolute treasure trove of imagery, most of it full of exclusive stills of the art on show, from both the Disney Studios and the enormous…

…today have great trouble in replicating. Somewhere in the middle of all of this was The Sword In The Stone, an often underrated Disney picture that is all too seldom…

…and the meatiest of the extras as before, is a seven-minute Making Of “Dog-umentary”, covering the animation process from the eye view of a bunch of interested dogs. The featurette…

…of the Renée Zellweger-starring Miss Potter, an account of the creation of Peter Rabbit, Benjamin Bunny, Jemima Puddleduck and many more that also features touches of effective animation. It’s a…

…reminded me somewhat of John Kricfalusi’s Ren & Stimpy designs. Interestingly, in this day and age of computer animation breaking box office records, perhaps it’s the highly stylised look of…

…Brave Engineer (1950) and the recent short John Henry (2000). The Sweatbox Review: When Disney’s American Legends was announced way back at the end of 2001, the rumors of what…

…two instances of repeated gags: the “smell” of food, distinctively visualised in a swirl of warm, enticing imagery, and a terrific comedy line involving one character being another’s figment of…

…characters for the pre-school market, where the simplicity of Mickey’s circular features has always sparked a smile from even the youngest of children. I was and remain a fan of…

…they sound, the first of which is a selection of three Deleted Scenes, presented with optional introductions from director Du Chau, who comes off as someone who understands how to…

…the crew and its perfectionist director. It’s full of neat touches, from Samson’s visualisation of the direction his sense of smell is leading him in or some of the incredible…

…video fare, we’ve also been treated recently to other studios’ traditional offerings, some of which have been very poor television upgrades (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) and some of which have…