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Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs trailer now online
Movie-List shares various links to the new trailer for Columbia Pictures and Sony Animation’s upcoming animated film Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Written and directed by Chris Miller and… |
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Family Guy breaks Emmy glass ceiling with Best Comedy Series nod
…Animated Series category. So in order to attempt the jump a show has to forego what might be an easier nomination in the animation category for a longer shot at… |
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Who are the top 25 animated film characters of all time?
…since 1988, and twenty-one are (at least in part) Disney creations. It’s an interesting idea and sure to cause discussion (in our forums, perhaps) among animation fans! Would you change… |
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Oobermind cast shuffled
Variety reports that Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill have joined a cast led by Tina Fey to lend their voices for Dreamworks Animation’s upcoming feature Oobermind. Ferrell reportedly… |
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Chicken Little: Blu-ray Preview
…from their internal feature animation department (the so-called “Disney Classics”) on Blu-ray disc – Chicken Little. While that may seem like an inauspicious title to launch things with, it was… |
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Shrek the Third
…any animation boundaries here. There is really noting to complain about as it appears to be at the relatively high level of the second film. But one of the downsides… |
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The Simpsons Movie
…it’s best to just enjoy the ride. Springfield has never looked better – before it is destroyed of course! While the animation retains the look and style of the original… |
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The Sword In The Stone and The Jungle Book 2 Contest – Winners Announced!
…Mowgli will need the help of both his old friends and his new family. About The Sword in the Stone: Modern animation wizardry meets medieval magic in the legendary classic… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2
…important because there was never intent to portray these characters as realistic-looking human beings. All episodes feature the show’s trademark vibrant colors and animation. The quality of the prints is… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…The El Kabong (5:57), which uses Paul Dini, Mark Evanier, and other animation experts to delve into the greatness of The Quickdraw McGraw Show. Disc Two offers two more similar… |
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Review Roundup: Up flies high, plus Hanna-Barbera classics
…to be impressive, not to mention Miyazaki’s Ponyo On The Cliff and Disney’s The Princess And The Frog coming yet, it looks like animation fans will be the clear winners… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…about steal the show! The animation in Ice Age 3 is some of the best Blue Sky Studios has done to date. White snow and ice is probably very limiting… |
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Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases: Volume 2
…releasing classic animation in one-disc sets, Warner’s latest targets are Tom and Jerry. After trying their luck with three “Spotlight” collection releases of the classic shorts (all three with some… |
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Watchmen: Director’s Cut
…on the foundations established by The Dark Knight earlier that year. I am not a huge comics fan. Aside from a hard-core interest in American animation, my tastes run to… |
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Miyazaki on Ponyo, plus Green Lantern's First Flight
…shine like he never has before in animation”, while the extras package also receive good words. “Movies like this show off what we comic fans always knew”, says Rand, “our… |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
…anything as awesome as this intro for the upcoming Beatles Rock Band game (pictured right), produced by the folks behind The Gorillaz animation – now I wanna see an animated… |
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Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
…all-out appearance by the Legion Of Doom. Unfortunately, one also has to contend with illogical scripts, weak animation, and barely one-dimensional characters. A number of the episodes, however, are actually… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…lightweight, but the textures to be found in the locations might just make you think you’re there. Despite all the wonderful animation and effects-driven sights seen recently on the Blu… |
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Sister Act‘s music supervisor Michael Kosarin takes us to Heaven!
…working on? MK: Right now, I’m working most heavily on Rapunzel for Walt Disney Pictures. It’s also Alan Menken and Glenn Slater, and it’s a 3D-digital animation project that’s gonna… |
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Winnie The Pooh and new announcements too!
…year before, this one mixes then-new animation with footage from the New Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh television series, but the result “does make up for some of its standard… |
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Thunderbirds International Rescue Edition Giftset
…now getting the same two-disc set as well. The Main Menus are nicely done, combining some animation with scenes from the films. The Main Menu for the first movie spotlights… |
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Batman Beyond: The Complete First Season
…set is even thinner than a regular DVD case. This package basically compacts the regular Warner animation DVD digipack-in-a-slipcover scheme, by using the overlapping technique for the two discs. If… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season One
…on the set too. It was produced in 2002, using Flash animation (the ongoing series is traditionally animated, however). The pilot is fairly polished, excepting for the limitations of Flash,… |
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Batman Beyond: Season Three
…next entry, Inqueling (nifty play on words, there), which shows us that Batman’s enemy Inque has a whole back-story we never suspected. Although the animation on Inque does not seem… |
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The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh: The Friendship Edition
…of Slesinger to capture the Pooh stories in animation, even he likely had little inkling that Pooh would become the most profitable character in the Disney empire. Under Walt’s guidance,… |
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Jason Of Star Command: The Complete Series
…yes there is animation on the show too, in the form of some stop-motion alien monsters. Considering the show’s budget and schedule the monsters actually come off quite well, being… |
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Ratatouille reviewed, catalog DVD reviews added
…arguments against animation as commerce, but this is the edition to get if you like the movie Metropolis – a visually stunning piece of anime from the creators behind Astro… |
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The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series
…a superheroine with the powers of an Egyptian goddess, using her abilities to help the students at her school. The Sweatbox Review: Filmation was one of the biggest animation studios… |
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The Tick Vs. Season Two
…season set. The main menu has some mildly amusing animation, but it’s pretty drab. At least we get chapter stops on the episodes, though there is no menu for them…. |
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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…smoothly. Of course, this is a matter of direction, too, although I do have to credit the directors with usually good staging of individual scenes. The animation, though obviously television… |
