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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…Pleshette describes the film as “wonderful…I loved it”, while the rather annoying Jason Marsden agrees, saying “I love it, love it, love it”) you’d wonder if they’d actually SEEN Simba’s… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…it proves how great something like this can be achieved. As it is, this stage Poppins couldn’t win me over, and this dedicated section to the show strained my interest… |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
…– It’s stop-motion, but it isn’t goth!” All that said, there’s also an undercurrent of weirdness in our stuff as well, which keeps it from getting too soft. AV: How… |
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Raiders! The Story Of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
…for other Drafthouse films. While it would of course have been neat to also include The Adaptation itself, the likelihood is that it’s entangled in a myriad of rights with… |
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Back In Time
…when Back In Time fluxes it fluxes well, and the large roster of talking heads is impressive as it is extensive, even if I felt famous fan Dan Harmon came… |
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Spotlight on Mike Gerard
…Institute of the Arts, Gerard’s credits include: Beauty and the Beast, Mickey’s the Prince & the Pauper, The Simpsons, Tiny Toon Adventures, Angry Beavers, Animaniacs, Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries and… |
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The Animated Seuss
…I knew what I was going to say; however, I ended up having to add a few sections to accommodate the new information I was discovering during my research. I… |
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Biff! Pow! Zowie! Batman's coming back, and so is Freakazoid – and more!
…for $59.98, which will include a Hot Wheels Batmobile. Bonuses on the disc will include a tribute, featurettes, isolated audio score, interviews, commentaries, trivia track and galleries. Hopefully, this release,… |
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Warner Animation asks you to decide
…to this day have not yet seen a DVD release. The various cartoons listed include Freakazoid!, Tiny Toon Adventures, Shazzan, The Jetsons, Silverhawks and even the 70’s Harlem Globetrotters cartoon…. |
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More TV favorites coming soon to DVD
…In addition, details for the 2-disc George of the Jungle set, coming February 12, are now available. Meanwhile, rumors abound for DVD releases of Popeye, Tiny Toon Adventures and Freakazoid!… |
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TV to DVD: Freakazoid!, Voltron, Denver
…season will hit store shelves in mid-2008. the same day as Tiny Toon Adventures – Volume 1. Meanwhile, the word is out on a special deal for Voltron: Defender of… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…commentary for Fifth Column Mouse, which I would have been interested in, but it’s a no-show on the disc itself. I checked the cartoon to see if the track was… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2
…is driven to insanity. Invisible Mouse (1947) – Jerry finds invisible ink while running away from Tom and the chase is intensified. Tom must resort to deduction and his smarts… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete First Season
…better judge the show on its own merits. It still isn’t my idea of what a Teen Titans cartoon could have been, but it does have an inescapable energy that… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season
…quite different in the TV show, I did like his redesigned costume, which was inspired by the one worn in his first comics appearance. Kole is a pretty wild episode,… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…little more put into it. The added material could have been much more in depth, and instead of snippets of information contained in a couple of mini-length “documentaries”, perhaps a… |
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Let's end the week with a game of Cartoon Catch-up…!
…for The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning myself. Words of praise were in abundance for late July and August releases for Tiny Toon Adventures: Season One, Freakazoid Volume One, South Park:… |
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Madagascar Still Off to Strong Starts
DreamWorks’ hit CGI flick Madagascar is continuing to make a strong showing around the world. Opening number one this week in five European markets including Italy, the movie grossed $11.6… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…story is taking place. Imagine that! No, imagine the DreamWorks feedback meeting instead: “hey, the audience loved that old lady, let’s shove her in any old how!” So I’m maybe… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season One, Part Two
…meets Kamandi, The Last Boy On Earth. I loved seeing Kamandi in an earlier opening sequence, and I’d been wondering how they would use him in a full episode. Suffice… |
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The Zeta Project: Season One
…a standard keepcase with tray, and it slides into an identical but embossed slipcase. There is no insert, and there is no chapter listing except on the disc menus. Ink… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…so as such isn’t the rarity it once was. To be fair, it looks pretty decent here, even if detectable shimmering in the image suggests again this comes from a… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…while in captivity is the 1931 Silly Symphony Flowers And Trees – the first cartoon in Technicolor and here playing (in a wickedly ironic joke by the Disney team) in… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…did it well), while Atlantis took on mythology and wrapped it up in a Boy’s Own-styled romp. I’d put Sinbad on a level with Atlantis, though it is a little… |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…DVD is comprised of four sections. It looks at early experiments, including work from a couple of well-known names. There is then a selection of an interesting variety of work… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…Tintin, but I just don’t believe Sony Pictures Imageworks or its ImageMovers successor have what it takes to convey believable humans. But I was very impressed with elements of Zemeckis’… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…appreciating the information contained within them, adding up to over twenty minutes of material – a generous amount even if it is promotional in nature. In something of a rarity… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…Romans. However the style does hold it together and the voiced-over Narrator is used to bridge scenes like the captions in a comic book would. The English dub overall is… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…Morris and Goscinny with the best that the Idefix had to offer. Perhaps mindful of its international appeal – and the fact that it is set in the Old West… |
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The Fox And The Hound 2
…manage to rise above its questionable pedigree? In many ways, it does. The animation by the Philippines’ Toon City Animation Inc. (with DisneyToon Studios Australia and others) is remarkably good…. |
