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Tom & Jerry Tales: Volume 2

…the eyestrain I have now! Scratch Tracks: Dolby Digital Surround Sound definitely offers quality. Yet again, the music was well-placed and fit the animation very well. I believe the music…

The Animated Views 300 Giveaway – Winner!

…assaults the screen with the blood, thunder and awe of its ferocious visual style faithfully recreated in an intense blend of live-action and CGI animation. Retelling the ancient Battle of…

Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series – Winners!

…DVD set includes all 16 episodes from the popular Archie’s Funhouse series which combines live-action elements with traditional animation. Hosted by Archie and friends, each episode features a winning combination…

The Classic Cabelleros Collection Contest – Winners!

…dazzling blend of live action and classic Disney animation is a celebration the whole family will enjoy! The Three Cabelleros received two Academy Award nominations, for Best Musical Score and…

The Nutty Professor (2008)

…original that bypasses the Murphy films entirely – isn’t the complete nightmare that many may well have expected, coming from the Weinstein company as it does. Sure the animation doesn’t…

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

…Burton’s wonderful Corpse Bride. Randall also takes a look back at the career of a pair of animation legends, one of which, the irreplaceable Joe Barbera, we only lost recently,…

Pixar picking park rides?; Back to the Dungeons; Hi-def duos?

…could this have anything to do with Lasseter’s position of being both head of the company’s animation and Imagineering arms? In fairness, it seems there’s a fine line to walk…

New Hardy, Scanner Reviews; Snakes On A Plane; Post Updates

…a tired and somewhat bored performance, and in the last few minutes of the movie, he doesn’t even do anything. Bringing it back to animation (okay, it’s a stretch!), and…

Disney on the web; Night At The Museum; Oscar noms 2007

…AMPAS, announce their Academy Awards, or the Oscar nominations to you and me. After a packed year in terms of animation, it will be interesting to see who’ll be amongst…

And the Oscar nominations are…

…the short animation category, I’m very happy to see Disney’s The Little Matchgirl in the running, even if it won’t win. Matchgirl will battle it out against hopefuls The Danish…

Treasures saved?; Number one Night; Iron Man reviewed!

…At The Museum continues to hold the number one position internationally. While the animation link is perhaps tenuous, Night is the most animated fun I’ve had in a movie theater…

Win Peter Pan, plus more archive reviews and site updates

Animation Collection and, a personal fave, The Triplets Of Belleville today, with more to come over the next couple of days. And, yes, I’m getting around to that big MIA-DVD…

Blu-Ray Pans and Chickens…

…high-definition disc releases, including one of immense interest to us animation geeks. Now, don’t get excited…this past Tuesday’s issue of Peter Pan is not among them, but the story behind…

Ghibli reviews; Animatrix revisited; and win Pan!

…production processes, from black-and-white manga-styled artwork, to saturated colored traditional animation and state-of-the-art computer imagery. Rodney gives the disc high marks across the board and I must say I was…

Pan panned…!?!??

…I love the film for sure – it is pure Disney magic captured in beautiful frames of animation – but the treatment it has gotten here is vastly disappointing when…

Happily N'Ever After n'ow on DVD…

…to remind you that Lionsgate’s DVD issue of Vanguard Animation’s Happily N’Ever After is out today (Amazon have it for around ten bucks off list price). Though the big-screen released…

We need your help!

…spend with us, and we’re not against the odd one-off submission either. So if you’ve got an itching to write about specific areas of animation, or been thinking about setting…

Jackson up for Tintin; plus Venture and Ghostbusters reviews

Hey folks! We’ve a couple of television animation reviews for you today, covering series old and new. First up, Randall Cyrenne cracks open The Venture Bros: Season Two, the final…

Shrek's directors talk, Dinosaurs, Droopy – and Shrek! – reviewed…

We’ve got a few cool updates for you today! It seems, based on Shrek The Third‘s box office numbers, that you were all good animation fans and all went out…

Surf's Up at Animated Views!

Just checking in with a quick nod to James’ review of Sony Animation’s second in-house feature Surf’s Up, which opened to a solid, if unspectacular $18 million this past weekend….

Giveaway crazy! Plus the old American Dog/Bolt switcheroo!

…2008 slot by its “story problems” and Disney Animation’s Pixar bosses’ own Wall-E) on November 26, 2008, will there actually have been a point in persisting with the making of…

More Transformers; Frog villain cast; DVD sales and more!

…Martin?), the villain in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ return to traditionally animated fare, The Princess And The Frog. The film is now said to be “based on an original story…

Mickey quits…

…hot properties and animation shows filling the halls. As always, we’ll be tracking the latest news of interest on the Animated News page and keeping you up to date with…

Time for a Renaissance and another Amazon sale!

…some older titles, including several well recommended ones and animation releases you may have been waiting for such a price drop on. Here are my personal picks of the bunch,…

Popeye (live-action movie)

…that. Paramount thought that teaming up with another studio would be the answer and a suitable candidate, due to their knowledge of animation, was The Walt Disney Studio. Quite how…

I Yam What I Yam…Popeye's here!

…of the collection along with the rest of us vintage animation die-hards (look for his review soon). He’s certainly been eating his spinach though, and those bulging arms of his…

Appreciation for Filmation!

…We’re also sticking with television animation, of the slightly more generously budgeted kind I grant you, for a new Darkwing Duck giveaway. Get your mits on Volume 2 of the…

Treasures found!

…– Rodney Figueiredo jumps in for five hours of pure animated gold, a series of cartoons that will “forever sit in animation history as inspiration to the animators of their…

Looney replacements; New reviews: Darkwing and TMNT!

…video game background and the influence is clearly felt in the design and animation of the picture, but there’s a certain nostalgic feel about the lighter than light story, and…

When good cartoons go bad: review roundup…

…don’t forget our exclusive conversation with the man who makes many of those classic cartoon sets the must-haves they are: animation historian Jerry Beck! Have a great weekend! – Ben….