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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…has to give shape stylistically to his vision to his movie. But rarely are they invited to speak about their musical influences and how music drives them in their creative… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…and bass is pleasing, but it’s never going to blow your house away! Final Cut: For a chance to own one of the early and more rarely seen Disney features… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…to pluck up the courage to pop the big M question to Bianca. Unfortunately, before he’s had time to show her the ring, they are whisked off to save Cody:… |
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Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition
…be believed. Every one of the 10,800,320 frames of the film were individually scanned into the computers at Disney, after which each character was rotoscoped and removed from the scene…. |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…to get the required spits and growls needed to bring Sinbad’s pooch to animated life. There’s the usual “oh, how he’s trouble on set” and star attention paid to the… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…I won’t continue to gush about Mulan’s merits as a great Disney animated film – it’s recent enough for most to have seen it and for you to have formulated… |
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Mulan II
…them both recalled to the Chinese Army, where the Emperor declares them the only ones he can trust to escort three princesses across the country to the opposing Mongol borders,… |
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Shark Tale
…tabs that could ruin your cover if any kid is too desperate to get to the disc, adorns the Shark Tale cover art. No insert or coupons are offered. Ink… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…(sound familiar yet?), who all team up to return to the Mine-World, defeat Zygon and free Orin’s enslaved people. Throw into the mix your classic dark-caped villain (and his fully… |
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Shrek The Third
…indeed, screen time… The Sweatbox Review: It’s hard to come up with something truly positive to say about Shrek The Third that’s going to make you jump up from your… |
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Enchanted‘s Visual Heritage
…be sealed before the clock strikes midnight! Narissa’s plan foiled, she exacts revenge by transforming herself into a malevolent dragon, just like in Sleeping Beauty! As Narissa crawls out into… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…rejected, expect the unexpected, ’cause this review of Tiny Toons is about to start! The Sweatbox Review: An instant smash when it premiered on television in 1990, Tiny Toon Adventures… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…included below) to be nominated for an Academy Award, and the only one to take home the prize. Part of this has to be down to Freleng’s direction, seemingly channelling… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…Here, though, instead of trying to make an animated Tom Hanks look like the real Tom Hanks, or even more bafflingly trying to make the actions of an adult-sized Tom… |
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It's the great review stack-up, Charlie Brown!
…top of the pile. Most importantly, we’re also delighted to welcome back our old pal Rodney Figueiredo to the reviewer’s circle. He’s had a busy old past few months –… |
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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
…Colonel Jim Rhodes, replacing Terrence Howard from the first film, and set to become the suit-wearing War Machine. Iron Man 2 is expected to lead to at least one further… |
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Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!
…“scene” as I want it to be very free, although we may expect the moment to last a certain length of time. So, I’m asking you to select your 20… |
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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…sometimes fantastical they may be, and there’s a level of maturity to them that feels, to me at least, to be a clear precursor to the later Bruce Timm editions… |
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Miyazaki’s first is revisted by a new contributor!
…review of The Astro Boy Essays to Animated Views last year, we’re delighted to welcome Raz Greenberg to our motley crew. A writer and lecturer on animation, we can be… |
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
…length and travel to the nearest Imax to experience fully. I can’t exactly say reviews have been “mixed”, though they do stretch from good to the not so good, which… |
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The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…
…a coherent 80-minute-or-so story out of the five volumes of the original material? And how to experiment something fresh without discarding the Disney heritage? It was back in those days… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…this isn’t a “game” at all, being a video collection of voiceover and photo stills that seem to promise the chance to try your hand at solving a light-hearted crime…. |
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Iron Man: The Complete 1994 Animated Television Series
…Man) had. The Mandarin used his supervillain colleagues to try to steal Stark’s technology, apparently thinking that the tech was all that he needed to put him over the top… |
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Christmas goes Pink!
…to providing quality programming to family audiences around the world. Rubicon is a trusted production partner that is certain to once again deliver an evergreen production of one of MGM’s… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…when reviewing any multi-disc set that one must begin to take considerations of the clock into account and start to skim more and more of the content in order to… |
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The Pirates of Dark Water: The Complete Series
…one step closer to the next treasure. Meanwhile, we also got to meet new characters and find out how they were connected to the legend of the thirteen treasures, and… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…antiquity. In the voice cast, there’s not much to get excited about if you’re into your celebrity voices; to its credit The Black Cauldron sticks to vocalists who are instead… |
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Walt & El Grupo / The Boys / Waking Sleeping Beauty
…a quick trip to the Hundred Acre Wood and a dip into The Jungle Book, when it comes to having to say goodbye to Walt, both Dick and Bob’s genuine… |
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Space: 1999: Season One
…to take place entirely off Earth. They also wanted an American to direct the pilot, to make sure that the show would cater to American sensibilities. Additionally, they wanted Martin… |
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Tales From Earthsea
…“Ged” from the books). They head into the unfortunately named city of Hort Town, and Arren has the opportunity to save a girl who is trying to escape from slave… |

