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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…Tex Avery’s Droopy: The Theatrical Collection will lead to Warners’ promised collection of the other Avery shorts. Though there are some absolute gems here, and any Avery collection should automatically… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…It remains a cartoon for which not many words can be found. A complete opposite is unquestionably the first official Bugs Bunny cartoon, Tex Avery’s 1940 A Wild Hare –… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…of Wallace’s more successful inventions! Read the full Wallace & Gromit: The Complete Collection Animated View here! 7. Sesame Street: 40 Years Of Sunny Days Sesame Workshop/Genius Products (November 10… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…here! Read the full Kung Fu Panda Animated View here! 4. Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six – Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection Volume Two Warner Home Video,… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…Entertainment (December 14, January 5, December 7 2010) Mutli-disc sets, 95, 90 and 369 mins plus supplements, $40, $40, $77 Contemporary animation also took on new dimensions from other studios… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…they beat the pants off the earlier shorts in the recent and disappointing Tex Avery’s Droopy collection. Although there are more than a few nicks and scratches earlier in the… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…by Jones and Clampett) again features Beans, in Tex Avery’s first cartoon for Warners. The disc continues with more bacon: Pilgrim Porky, Wise Quacks and Porky’s Preview – Avery’s terrifically… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…double dip coming when baby Maggie’s “sequel” prophecy inevitably comes true. Ho-hum… Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete / Pixar Short Films Collections Some old and new in our choice of the… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…Wild Wild World, which places modern-day conveniences into a prehistoric setting, and a cartoon from MGM the following year, Tex Avery’s The First Bad Man, with designs by Ed Benedict,… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…serious appraisal of Avery’s work, even when debating the merits of giant canaries and wolf-whistle takes! In short, the inclusion of Tex Avery (later subtitled King Of Cartoons to tie… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…Series went on to almost 100 successful episodes, including follow up series, The Adventures Of Batman And Robin and The New Batman Adventures (all released as Batman: The Complete Animated… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…can’t come soon enough! Support Animated Views and buy Technicolor Dreams And Black And White Nightmares or Gulliver’s Travels from Amazon.com now! 2. Mr Magoo: The Theatrical Collection What’s new,… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…– Theatrical (1987, 90 mins) Lightweight and completely different in tone to the first two films notwithstanding, Superman III was still a box-office hit, and the Salkinds were eager to… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…Florida expanded to about 400 artists in a new $70 million, 200,000-square-foot, four-story animation building. “A great way to spend your life” But Mulan had taken its toll on Cook,… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…so good! Read the full Adventures Of Tintin Animated View here! 6. UPA: The Jolly Frolics Collection TCM Archives/Sony (March 15 2012) 3-disc DVD set, 270 mins plus supplements, $40… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…“animatednews.com” was already taken. So we stuck with Olivier’s nomenclature and went with “animated-news.com”. When the original Animated Views launched both “animatedviews.com” and “animated-views.com” were available and we snapped up… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…and, indeed, as appeared back in the LaserDisc days? Supposedly, this Deluxe Anniversary Collection offers the “cream-of-the-crop” picks from the duo’s long career, taking in Hanna-Barbera’s original theatrical animated shorts,… |
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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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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Bros. Silver Screen Collection sets from Universal. Otherwise, home video stayed pretty stagnant this year, with an almost complete lack of “great” titles coming to Blu-ray, especially as far as… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…new titles. Ben Simon and Randall Cyrenne review Uncensored Animation From The Van Beuren Studio, The Complete Animated Adventures Of Van Beuren’s Tom And Jerry, The Strangest Cartoons Ever Made,… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…card like a half-baked direct-to-video cartoon supplement might have done. Certainly it’s not the pick of the bunch in this collection of post-2000 animated curios from the revitalized Disney Studio,… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…classic stories and for the Mouse House itself, seeing as this was their proving ground on a completely computer animated movie away from Pixar. It was also a milestone turning… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…Milkczerk, Empty Places (2020) by Geoffroy de Crécy, Yes-People (2020) by Gísli Darri Halldórsson, Ties (2019) by Dina Velikovskaya, Aurora (2020) by Jo Meuris, and The Man Who Planted Trees… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…it was the first to use the later abstract opening for the Looney Tunes cartoons, and the soundtrack is often left silent for long stretches, recalling Sh-h-h-h-h-h, Tex Avery’s 1955… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…kinds of animation anthologies. Back in the DVD days, Disney Home Video was at the forefront, serving up the wonderful Treasures line of character collections featuring their top-tier animated stars:… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…few years – the first 20 of Pixar’s extraordinary existence and success, actually – are well covered in that first Shorts Collection, highlighting the breakthrough of Luxo Jr and development… |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…Animated News’ first complete one! – and another selection of all fine things animated. The Animated News team have once again taken a look back at the wonderful offerings presented… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…success perhaps proving a theatrical reissue could be worthy. Disney’s change of heart indicates so: Beauty And The Beast has been announced for 3D theatrical reissue early next year. Both… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…a nice price point, this is a great deal whether you’re looking to sell your old sets or to complete your collection. Animated Classic or Back To The Drawing Board?… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…They feel there would be no sales. It’s not worth $25,000 per cartoon to restore each cartoon and release a set of 60 or 90 cartoons. That’s cost prohibitive. They’re… |
