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A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa
…in a computer drive, but attempting to manoeuvre around on a set-top machine’s remote keypad means many of the options are missed. In addition to the artificial running-time extension collection… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…opener for Season Five, Finn The Human and Jake The Dog, effectively resetting everything to be back as it was. There are far too many episodes in this two-disc set… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…whereas Aardman parlayed whatever concepts they had been nurturing into the slightly similar inventor-caveman stop-motion feature Early Man (with Aardman’s Peter Lord and David Sproxton still receiving thanks in The… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…The Sweatbox Review: And so the last taboo of Disney Animation has been broken. Recently we’ve said goodbye to animated musicals, and even the traditionally drawn 2D feature itself, replaced… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Review: In the grand scheme of things, Chuck Jones will always be remembered chiefly as the instigator behind many of the best Looney Tunes cartoon shorts, and the best animated-cats-in-France-musical… |
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Abominable
…spread out evenly and in a manner that makes it all easy to follow without being overwhelming. It manages to time when to go from dramatic sequence to character moment… |
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Stan Berkowitz recieves WGA animation award
…was written under a Writers Guild contract. Berkowitz’s many animated TV writing and/or co-writing credits include Legion of Super Heroes, The Batman, Transformers: Animated, Superman, Spider-Man, Justice League, The New… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…very beautiful film to watch, and the performances are terrific. It works effectively on many different levels. It was very well directed, and very well produced. The Bambi II DVD… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…up to a supervising director. This took many years and lots of dedication. During this process, I learned to work with many different types of personalities, which helped me understand… |
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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
With Lilo & Stitch ready to gain new appreciation in a special Big-Wave 2-Disc Edition on DVD, it is clear that the unique personality of the movie is first and… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…they were wonderful. They were so supportive of this film from the very beginning, and they allowed us to do so many things that are very unusual: have this many… |
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Lego Star Wars – The Freemaker Adventures: Complete Season One
…a comedy either, as it encompasses many things that make Star Wars so popular. Given a chance, the show can surprise and thrill, even as it winks to the audience…. |
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Timmy Time
…making: after the show run on television, Lionsgate will issue a DVD compilation in 2011, with Timmy toys set to join Aardman’s merchandising ranks next spring. Timmy Time may not… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…are pretending to be monkeys. Many animators would rely on video reference for the human shots, but not so much for the mind world shots (unless it was a very… |
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Spider-Mouse: the ultimate character crossover team-up as Disney buys Marvel!
…Disney has obviously noticed the good sales of all those Marvel animated properties they own already on home video through their acquisition of the Fox Kids network a few years… |
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Metropolis
…and Japanese 5.1 DTS tracks, Rated PG-13, Retail: $24.95 Storyboard: Osamu Tezuka’s classic manga is brought to life in a state-of-the-art animated epic. In a future society, a madman’s plan… |
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The Herculoids: The Complete Series
…electrode men, and many, many more. Just looking at the episode titles is enough to make one smile, but the true treat is actually seeing the designs. It’s hard to… |
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I want me a fur coat – we've hit 101 reviews!
Actually it’s 102, but that didn’t sound so good! You can thank Randall for the big push into triple digits for our DVD database, as he’s recently added several reviews… |
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Oscars, LaserDiscs, Lost Chords, and Wild animals!
…all those wonderful animated boxsets that we used to drool over, with many of them containing material still unavailable on DVD. And while we’re nosing around the forums, I’ve been… |
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Once Upon A Time…; Peter Pan specs…what's up with that?
…am a little disappointed to say the least. Many of the features are holdovers and carry-ons from previous LaserDisc or DVD editions (the always excellent John Canemaker’s audio commentary, a… |
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Whisper Of The Heart
…with Baron had its elements combined using a computer. Whisper Of The Heart, like many anime films, began as a manga; this one’s title actually translates to “If You Listen… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume Six
…It was a good update on an old classic which has had many ups and downs over the years. Tom and Jerry finish up this show with a great set… |
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All Things Must Pass: The Rise And Fall Of Tower Records
…review, if you will, since Tower Records was the formative place that many of us would have purchased our first CDs, LaserDiscs and DVDs of all the films, animated or… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…to DVD, some fans have been left wondering what has happened to the series that was somewhat sandwiched between the old and new, Tiny Toons Adventures, which saw exec producer… |
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Astro Boy (1980): The Collection Box Set
…ability to harm itself. Still, he remains dedicated, like Pinocchio, to becoming more human himself. And, like Superman, he can still kick butt when he needs to. The flip side… |
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Potter, Austen, de Vil…and lots of spots!
It only seems yesterday that we were excited about the Platinum Edition of The Jungle Book coming to DVD, but the series is back already with the big new release… |
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X-Men Anime
…few highlights, including the respectful 1990s adaptations (though there were a couple of lousy shows back then, too), and a few recent direct-to-video offerings that have gotten good notices. Still,… |
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Warners on new toon DVDs, plus the DisneyLand…bootleg!?
A mixed bag of stuff for you today… First up is the good (and not so good news) from our friends at The Digital Bits, who have posted a transcript… |
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Azur & Asmar: Michel Ocelot’s Quest For Tolerance
“Once upon a time there were two children brought up by the same woman. Azur, a blond blue-eyed son of a nobleman and Asmar, the dark skinned and dark-eyed child… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…as a bonus feature on The Little Mermaid Platinum Edition DVD. It would later garner an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Short. Days before this year’s Oscar ceremony took… |
