…own door – a door that resides in the absolutely huge warehouse storage of Monsters Inc… The Sweatbox Review: The third in the trio of this year’s nominations for the…

…the Jones-directed The Grinch. Much of the animation is completed, although some music and dialog is missing. The clip condenses the first half of the story down adequately for the…

…is the inclusion of the three full-length Maroon Cartoons (accessible from the Acme menu) that were produced as “mini-sequels” after the huge success of the feature in theaters (and to…

…time to just over an hour! Very reminiscent of the later “Specials” that the Studio would produce (many of these, such as Mickey And The Beanstalk, Bongo, The Wind In…

…rich and deep full animation and employing all the tricks of the trade at their disposal. At the other end of the spectrum is the TV division, which produce the…

…standards (witness the attempt to imitate their classic Baloo The Bear in The Jungle Book with the faded impression of the same character in the recent sequel). The “Doctor Frankenollie”…

…video and DVD (the previous release, The Return Of Jafar was composed of the first five episodes of the Aladdin spin-off TV show, though Simba’s Pride was designed as a…

…Set at the turn of the century, the short finds Mr and Ms Mouse out on a jaunty trip in their horseless carriage, to the strains of In The Good…

…of the year is doomed to fail. There are none of the zip and spark in the characters, but the delivery, and certainly the look of the short is very…

…from the main menu. And…speaking of which: the disc then kicks in with the aforementioned menus, and anyone who saw the images before will know that the characters from the…

…as Siegfried & Roy themselves, saving the show from the brink. Their crazy, random inserts are as aloof and mysterious as the real-life duo, and the obscurity of the language,…

…inflated for the amount of material on the disc, but the high quality of the animation, coupled with the total reunion of the original voice cast (however small some of…

…wand and undoes all of its magic, can true love prove to be the strongest power of all and the good of heart prevail over the sinister forces of evil?…

…the process that shows off the tricks of the trade and reveals how some of the effects were achieved. Running the scene’s full three minute-plus length, a fifth angle setting…

…During a rendition of The Mickey Mouse Club theme, Donald gets a bad case of the hiccups, which soon spreads to the rest of the gang – just as they’re…

…a fair chunk of them! Topics explored include the sources of the studio’s stories, celebrations of the theme park, and hopping behind the scenes on one of his most enjoyable…

…when the need arises. The rest of the cast, too, essentially continue the Jungle Book trend of playing caricatured versions of their established personalities, the most notable of which is…

…On their annual trek across the white wilderness, Memphis the Emperor Penguin stumbles in the snow and loses hold of the egg he is protecting. When the egg hatches, out…

…Bowie, there’s lots of footage of the rest of the cast in the recording booth miming their lines to pre-rendered animation. Serial voice-offender Jimmy Fallon, who actually doesn’t grate as…

…of the commentaries or the participants, and it’s a case of inserting the disc and finding which shows feature these extra audio tracks (for the record, they feature on the…

…be created in the computer graphics realm. With the low-budget feel of the original live-action movies and the cheesy nature of the cartoon show scripts consigned to the rubbish heap,…

…emphasis on the Oswald short Confidence, the two-strip opening to the Universal feature The King Of Jazz, the birth of Andy Panda, Woody’s debut of course, and the story of…

…parents into questioning such weighty themes as the very nature of reality and, not least, the idea of the quantum multiverse! Not wishing to partake in these theories is Jane…

…MacGuffin is all about what the stories are about, belying an understanding of their use, on Lucas’ part. The Ark Of The Covenant, the Ankara Stones, the Holy Grail…these are…