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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…settles for cheap shots. Kung Fu Panda certainly deserves full consideration in joining 2008’s crop of exceptional animated features on your shelves! Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board?… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…documentary instead of just re-hashing previously issued material, and it’s all the more appreciated, even down to the animated captions that name the speakers. One highlight is the original animated… |
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Cartoon Network announces 2008 programming
…of 40 episodes now ordered. Ben 10: Alien Force Ben 10: Alien Force begins the next chapter in the continuing Ben 10 saga five years later when 15-year-old Ben Tennyson… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…dos and don’ts for creating animated ads for TV. Written in the 1960s and illustrated by Chad Grothkopf, who credits himself as creating the first animated television commercial in 1938,… |
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Animated Views 2.0 is here!
…to the Animated News and Animated Views pages has been long in the planning, and there are still many new additions and extra features to come. You’ll immediately notice our… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…Animated Movies site. I knew Rand from another reviews site and we melded things to become Animated News & Views first, then shortening to the Animated Views now celebrating 20… |
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Big Hero 6
…first time the same studio has taken away both the Best Animated Feature and Best Animated Short Oscars on the same night since the inception of the Feature award in… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…A contemporary musical version of Aida followed, once destined as a Disney animated film but consequently arriving on the Broadway stage, as well as non-Studio projects: songs for DreamWorks’ animated… |
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Looking at the Critical Role animated Kickstarter campaign with Sam Riegel
On April 18 at midnight Pacific standard time, the Critical Role Kickstarter campaign to fund an animated program came to an end. With an initial goal of raising $750,000 in… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…also the only animated role he performed, but it was the first animated production for a lot of the crew, and the first major British animation feature in a long… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…bringing to this film other than a slight hint of 20,000 Leagues-era Peter Lorre to it? Rand: Well, basically, that’s the Don Bluth character that inserts itself into the film…. |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…– BOTH SIGNED by the author! And if that wasn’t enough, Edwin George Lutz’s Animated Cartoons, from 1920, is right next to them, with Charlie Bowers’ Aesop’s Fables, from 1923… |
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Enchanted
…coupled with the decent track, is good value, running 3:30 in letterboxed 4:3 video. The only thing marring it is that the animated shots have been framed at the 2.40:1… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…rather tricky. Dungeons & Dragons Animated Series Dungeons & Dragons really started to surge in popularity in the early 1980’s. Alongside an impressive television commercial containing both live-action and animation,… |
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Cultoons! Volume 2: Animated Education
…silent print, with a crisp, authentic music track and spots added for effect. Family Album (1930, 10:06) is a sequel of sorts, or at least a follow up, to Finding… |
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Home On The Range
…5.1, Rated PG, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Famously the last – for a while at least – traditionally produced animated feature from the Mouse House, Home On The Range’s wild-west spoof… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…Of Oz that followed soon after in 1939, or perhaps many of Disney’s subsequent animated features. There is no question that Walt Disney would have eventually produced a full-length animated… |
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The Incredibles
…theatrically, the Oscar-nominated animated short Boundin’ is also included here, being the directorial debut of long-time storyman Bud Luckey, running 4:40 in HD. Presented in 1.85:1, the short split audiences… |
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D23 Expo 2019 Exclusive
…ground in over 90 minutes and managed to show them off in a way that it got the 7,000 in Hall D23 very excited, me included. It certainly made me… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…classic style, traditionally hand-animated movie. Late into pre-production, the producers felt it was clear that only 3D computer animated movies were being picked for distribution, so they refinanced and turned… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…out of a perfect 100. To break the tie, we go to first place votes, where The Mitchells was the clear winner, with 30% of voters choosing it as their… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…animated character was based on Prima’s animated performance that the singer’s estate later entered into the financial compensation business when it was felt he hadn’t received the full recognition he’d… |
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Here's to victory: Wallace and Gromit soak up the adulation
…an Animated Feature Production: Nick Park & Steve Box • Music in an Animated Feature Production: Julian Nott • Production Design in an Animated Feature Production: Phil Lewis • Storyboarding… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…their homes… The Sweatbox Review: Not so long ago I sat through – actually, make that endured – a “delightful” animated outing named Boo, Zino And The Snurks, or whatever… |
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Ratatouille
…They needn’t have worried…what Bird brings to the idea is his unparalleled eye for animated filmmaking. Ratatouille is easily his best computer animated film, though whether it touches the more… |
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Home On The Range
…recent animated features and just “do something fun”, plus the use of belching in animated films! Absurd as to why this is not mentioned anywhere in the point-of-sale material, it’s… |
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APRIL FOOL'S DAY – AOL Acquires Animated News
…run the website. About Animated News, Inc. Animated News, with bureaus stretching from California to London, is one of the internet’s premier sources for daily animation news. The Animated News… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…nominated for Best Short Subject, starting a long flirtation between the two entities that continues to this day. If Luxo Jr was big on personality, then Red’s Dream (4:10, 2.00:1,… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
Directors Chris Buck and Ash Brannon recently took time to talk with Animated News & Views’ Josh Armstrong about their latest feature, Surf’s Up. From Sony Pictures Animation, the animated… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…AristoCats and Disneynature’s Chimpanzee), one of the two stickers on the slipcover offers $10 off the title when purchased with another concurrent release, which is good up to September 30… |
