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Gulliver’s Travels
…“hap-hap-happy” town crier Gabby, star in his own series of short films. Previously released on LaserDisc during Republic Home Video’s excellent wave of Fleischer mania, which also saw releases for… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…Saturday mornings, its run in that part of the week began with reruns of the original shows. The Happy Household initially appeared near the end of the show’s second season,… |
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Grave Of The Fireflies: Collector’s Series
…becomes a struggle to survive at all. One of their few happy moments comes when they fill a cave with Fireflies, but the fate of the fireflies serves to give… |
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Space Jam: 2-Disc Special Edition
…in a Pulp Fiction riff. – Richard Simmons is in it. Good things: Lots of bit players appear as players or spectators, to make cartoon fans happy. This includes Hubie… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…of the observers inside. One man attending the rehearsal, however, is quite happy at the turn of events— Barkis Bittern is in fact oddly pleased. Victor runs straight into the… |
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Flash Gordon: The Complete Series
…fortune to do in live action. He sheepishly told NBC that the movie would have to be done in animation, and fortunately NBC was happy to do it that way…. |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…were generally very happy ones, as he apprenticed in several areas of animation production and found himself a good fit in the family atmosphere that the studio had. He routinely… |
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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
…some happy and others regretful, as the focus stays on core members Superman, Batman (sometimes with Robin), and Wonder Woman, as well as the newer members Firestorm and Cyborg. We… |
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TaleSpin: Volume 2
…sitcom as it is adventure show, so I’m happy to take the standout audio where I can get it. English and French subtitles are available. Final Cut: This is an… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…in Fox, who were happy to promote a daily afternoon line-up with one of the hottest properties around— and they didn’t mind skewing towards an older demographic. Warner Bros. Animation… |
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Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet
…like a completely different process in many ways. I think it requires skills that I’m not sure I have. For the time being, I’m really happy just working with a… |
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Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third
…“I’m happy to say that, especially having seen it, you know, some 400-500 times over the course of the last three years. The very last session we had with it,… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…account ran out. You think, ‘What kind of character can I animate other than, say, beans, circles or happy faces?’ I thought, ‘You know, undersea creatures.’ Aqua dynamics being what… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…to them that we were including that wasn’t just “Disnefying” stuff. There was a point where some people were in tears because they were so happy that it had been… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…great number. However, what seems to be comedy, played in major keys, masks sort of the heart of Ursula is. So, even though it might seem like a happy-go-lucky number… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…of the extracts from the live-action feature The Reluctant Dragon. Made in 1941, just before the Studio Strike burst the bubble at the supposedly happy campus the world knew as… |
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The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane
…and so was his family, and they always had been. But he was with Mom and he was happy to be home. They were wonderful companions, sweethearts forever and I… |
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The Jungle Book 2
…a new loincloth to replace the one from the first movie). As it turns out, Mowgli’s none too happy living in the man village, and longs for the freedom and… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…for itself with the issues of a collection of its earliest animated shorts, under the title MGM Cartoon Classics: Happy Harmonies (which contained many of the Hugh Harmon-Rudy Ising cartoons),… |
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The Lion King 1½
…were happy with the restoration done on the original Lion King for its DVD issue last October, then you’ll be more than happy with this. A top-notch and very vibrant… |
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Shrek 2
…to play around with fairy-tale film conventions while also being part and parcel of that genre (thus wanting its cake and to eat it too), Shrek 2 is more happy… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…a failure, not least because the “happy ending” version was still a dark film and wasn’t able to either appeal to families nor those adults who might have made the… |
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Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille
…was boarding all we had was Rémy walking down the street, and he’s all really confident and happy that he’s going to work at the restaurant, and I just added… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…Harman and Rudy Ising, responsible for the Happy Harmonies; a series of well intentioned and expertly made (Disney himself outsourced one of the Silly Symphonies to Harman-Ising) cartoons, but which… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…Oswald’s happy farm is threatened by the skeletal Depression and he turns to President Franklin D Roosevelt, who urges the Rabbit to have “confidence” and beat the situation. While it… |
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Ratatouille
…well as a few passing references throughout, there’s also a starkly shocking moment that comes and goes all too fast in an otherwise bright and happy movie. I also noted… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…fans happy enough. This ain’t your grandfather’s Pooh, your mother’s, or even – for those of an old enough persuasion – your own, but without continuing steps like these it’s… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…was the process of creating the personalities of the dwarfs like? LS: Many, many, many, many names that were considered. We had Jumpy, Baldy, Grumpy, Happy, Doc, and Sleepy… Well,… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…tinker fairy brings her acclaim, and we get our happy ending. Nearing the end of the movie, I felt a little stunned at just how good it was, particularly from… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…standouts are The Schizoid Man, Many Happy Returns, Hammer Into Anvil (with a returning Patrick Cargill mysteriously taking up Number 2’s role but having the tables turned upon him by… |
