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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…with a Blu-ray spot, Bambi: Diamond Edition, Tangled and Phineas And Ferb: A Very Perry Christmas playing on start-up and, from the menu option, previews for the Movie Reward program,… |
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Ho-ho-ho with our Best Of The Year!
December 23, 2009 — In our last update before the holidays, Animated Views wishes a very Merry Christmas to you all, plus we review the highs and lows of the… |
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He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…is actually a gem. He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown isn’t quite the classic that A Charlie Brown Christmas is— what is, after all?— but it stands tall as an entertaining… |
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Shrek Forever After coming to DVD and Blu-Ray in December
…movies on Blu-Ray. Both releases, for a limited time, will feature Donkey’s Christmas Shrektacular, a brand new animated short featuring “all of the characters from the franchise” singing Christmas carols…. |
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
…creep up on you, it’s actually quite nice to start receiving some more practical gifts for Christmas, and this year apart from a usual selection of asked-for books and discs,… |
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Stop-motion gets animated in NYC tonight!
…Christmas, Corpse Bride, James and the Giant Peach). Aurelio Voltaire, a filmmaker firmly entrenched in the world of dark, puppet animation takes us on a little tour of the genre… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…Peter Pan within the first three years of the decade, and added to this was Walt’s move into television, spearheaded by a Wonderland Christmas special, followed by The Mickey Mouse… |
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Pixar leads this week’s CG pack; plus a Fantastic Fox!
November 12, 2009 — Reviews for Fantastic Mr Fox, Ice Age 3, Cars, Peanuts and Tinker Bell, plus Zemeckis and Carrey on their Christmas Carol! It’s something of a CG… |
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More Nightmares, plus is The Chosen One worth choosing?
It’s a little early in the year, but tomorrow Tim Burton’s ultimate bad dream, The Nightmare Before Christmas finally comes to DVD and Blu-ray in the kind of collector’s package… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…joined by those of Dave Michener and Studio veteran Burny Mattinson (also director of Mickey’s Christmas Carol) on the final credits, it was Musker and Clements that had found Eve… |
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Back to the Park, more Peanuts announcements…
…bonus episode); and A Charlie Brown Christmas (another Emmy winner in which Charlie directs the school play, again with a new featurette, two downloadable songs and a bonus episode). Before… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…even more intrigued…who’da thunk it!? Also new today is the first of our Christmas Contests which we’ll be running from now until the holiday break. Coming on December 19 from… |
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How concept artist Dawn Brown transformed into a director for House Of Monsters
…described as Nightmare Before Christmas meets Looney Tunes, House Of Monsters follows these creatures and their friends through adventures in an ominous castle and its neighboring village. Dawn Brown kindly… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…television classics, a mixture of holdovers from the 1960s, the return of old friends, new creations and more feature-length specials – usually Christmas outings – and it would close to… |
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Maleficent
…Christmas with the Disneyfied screen version of Stephen Sondheim’s fairytale satire Into The Woods) and making Maleficent almost as big a hit. So, sure the movie has made a lot… |
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Animated Views 2.0 is here!
…best in the duo’s career. • Winnie The Pooh: Seasons Of Giving – Rodney’s back again to spread Christmas cheer with this repackaging of Pooh classics. • Michael Jackson’s This… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…Little Mermaid trailer to play since Disney films only came out a year later at Christmas time in France. — Olivier In the late 1990s he also got hooked on… |
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Peanuts: 1970’s Collection Volume 1
…a speech. The kid just doesn’t learn. After showing so much promise in A Charlie Brown Christmas, Linus really came to become less reliable as the voice of reason. The… |
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More new holiday animation on TV
…Landing to ABC this December 1st. “The half-hour holiday special reveals the never-before-told tale of an elite unit of Elves known as Prep & Landing. Every Christmas Eve, this high-tech… |
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The Grinch is returning to the big screen
…one more familier to most audiences. The site is saying that plans for an animated How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie are being made, with Pete Candeland (an animator on… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…green man approach perfectly compliments Crystal’s manic twenty-words-a-second delivery, and the whole Randall design (a very Tim Burton-Nightmare Before Christmas look here, I felt) makes your skin crawl – just… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…A Day At The Beach, The Captain’s Christmas, Seal Skinners and Mama’s New Hat. Looking back on the classic days of cartoons back at Warner Bros, Toon Heads: The Lost… |
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The Flintstones Prime-Time Specials Collection: Volume 1
…Two discs have been released, collecting a few of these specials, and the first disc is the subject of this review. The first Flintstones special (A Flintstone Christmas from 1977)… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…of Mickey’s Christmas Carol) on the final credits, it was Musker and Clements that had found Eve Titus and Paul Galdone’s Basil Of Baker Street children’s books, a mouse take… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…and Mickey’s Christmas Carol (1983). The introduction of new management and notorious disaster of The Black Cauldron in 1984 and ’85 set the Studio on a new course to try… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…is a lot of mileage to be had from these characters! Another Oscar nomination was due their way with The Night Before Christmas, a classic that still gets a lot… |
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Return To The Sea (again), plus Dr Horrible and another Nutty Professor…
…deleted song – shortly, but in the meantime, we’ve a copy to give away to one winning name in our Little Mermaid II contest! We’ve gone Christmas Contest crazy: also… |
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Don't Forget! Belleville screens tonight!
…running come next year’s handout of the Best Animated Feature Academy Award (the smart money is on this, or Nemo, to take home the gold), and is the perfect Christmas… |
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Ambitious plans for Portland-based animation studio Laika
…hard times. This fall the company is wrapping production on its first feature, the stop-motion Coraline, helmed by Laika supervising director Henry Selick (The Nightmare Before Christmas) Laika is financing… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…adaptation of Lost In Space, 1971’s A Christmas Story, and the Emmy-winning The Last Of The Curlews. The Flintstones specials began with 1977’s A Flintstone Christmas and 1978’s The Flintstones… |
