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Hero High: The Complete Series

…set fits into a regular two-disc keepcase, packed inside an identical slip sleeve. A terrific, well-designed episode guide is inside, just to remind us of how good BCI is at…

Pooh review, big things happening at Views

I promised Ben I’d try to help out more with these posts, especially this week while he is working on that big film fest of his over in merry ol’…

Ratatouille reviewed, catalog DVD reviews added

…reviews. There is something here for every taste I think, but if not, maybe it’s time you tasted something new. After all, here at Animated Views we feel it’s part…

The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series

…out of innocent nostalgia or simply out of curiosity. If it’s been a while since you’ve seen the show, you may have forgotten how little action is in it, or…

TaleSpin: Volume 2

…sitcom as it is adventure show, so I’m happy to take the standout audio where I can get it. English and French subtitles are available. Final Cut: This is an…

Return To Never-Land: Pixie-Powered Edition

…of smacking its suckers in time with the music. Where some might take issue with the film is in its tone, which is a partial departure from Peter Pan. Everything…

The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season

…into The Batman. While Two Of A Kind falls short of brilliance (I liked Dini’s comic book story Mad Love better), it is plenty fun and succeeds at introducing Harley…

What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season

…the series back to its roots. Every week, the Mystery, Inc. gang would find itself travelling the countryside (or to different countries), encountering all manners of monsters. The original show’s…

Turok: Son Of Stone

…severely limited their target audience. One thing I appreciated is that it was decided that Turok largely eschew the usual hokey pseudo-mysticism often included in animated tales of American Indians….

Bravestarr: Volume One

…it to the similarly-themed 1999 DiC series Sherlock Holmes In The 22nd Century. From the first time I watched this show, I thought it had a unique quality, what with…

Anything on DVD this week?

…DVD this week… well, it’s pretty slim pickings, actually. Sci-fi buffs who have HD DVD players can finally check out I Am Legend, and plenty of us are interested in…

George Of The Jungle: The Complete Original Series

…The one thing I do appreciate on this set is that not only is there an episode menu listing each individual cartoon for each episode, each cartoon is selectable from…

It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition

…in the Christmas show. Even if he is somewhat misguided in The Great Pumpkin, his faith remains endearing and even inspiring. Sometimes, it seems, it is simply important to believe…

Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat

…(I found mention of this in a couple of places, but cannot recall the show, nor could I find more information on it aside from its theme song.) He returned…

Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume Six

…mouse hidden in one of the caves in the mountain. My favorite of these is Snow Brawl, with the animated snowmen waging a full-out-war in the snow. It is very…

Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!

…end. But for the film itself, we wanted it to have its own integrity and its own new material. And I also think that it makes it more effective when…

Mary Poppins’ Richard M. Sherman: A Practically Perfect Songwriter!

…also involved in the story process. The result is a practically perfect Disney film in every way, and it is our pleasure to talk about it with one of its…

The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection

…where the animation looks laboured and directionless. Other scenes show up the over-ambitious nature of the project itself. However, when it works, it works well, and despite its shortcomings, The…

Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition

…a great deal of information, as well as some insights from the next generation of Disney artists on how the film has influenced them (Eric Goldberg, for instance, cites it…

Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron

…– I didn’t hate Spirit at all. I didn’t think it was either good, or bad. It was just somewhere in the middle there. I was just “whelmed”… Is This…

The DisneyLand Anthology

…of Ward Kimball’s previously rarely found special Mars And Beyond, in color! A curious little film (the last time I saw it I was around seven, when it played as…

Treasure Planet: Special Edition

…step forward, though why do they always pick non-appropriate images to illustrate how much is being chopped off!? Ink And Paint: I originally saw Treasure Planet on its release into…

The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two

…were appearing in CinemaScope by this time, many of the live-action films remained photographed in the standard Academy frame ratio, and this is how this clip is correctly presented. Running…

Looney Tunes: Back In Action

…and the Studio went ahead with the well intentioned, but ultimately hollow Space Jam (though it shows how powerful the legacy of Roger is in that it seems any modern…

Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)

…humor to be included. Thankfully, it’s not fart jokes (I don’t think I even spotted one!) and is more playful innuendo rather than anything truly offensive. All of these elements…

The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)

…subsequently been issued in Australia in its original uncut version, though the print used has not been cleaned up in any way and is lacking in color correction. It does…

Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin

…mentioned in original press notes for this disc) to see if it indeed added anything top and bottom or further cropped left and right. However, it is also more than…

Bambi II

…sub-TV styled “features” such as Pocahontas II, Hunchback II and the downright frankly awful Cinderella II (notice a theme here?). Somewhere in the middle stand such timewasters, if not classics,…

Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios

…Ivo Caprino’s work is celebrated in a lavish multi-disc DVD box set. The films – including Caprino’s international success Pinchcliffe Grand Prix – have all been extensively restored by the…

Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams

…Art Garfunkel – remains a wholesale part of the film and an important element in its more widespread public identity. In speaking about the music, I should also make a…