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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Captain Jake And The Never-Land Pirates, once again, ended up providing Saturday morning-style adventures that both kids and big kids could enjoy. In terms of discs, it was great to… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…surprising tone that caused word of mouth to be less than stellar, although my own feeling was always that this looked like a kids’ cartoon, fair and square…and I couldn’t… |
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
…of their slow journey to independence. For many kids, myself included, camp was about something new, exciting, and really a kind of vacation from the doldrums of Summer vacation. It… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…and has over the years – give children nightmares. But, in all honesty, they’re the kind of nightmares that I think kids, if not the youngest of children, can handle,… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…the plastic babe sets out to serve justice with an all-girl trio (naturally) of swordswomen, and there are pushes for Bionicle: A Legend Reborn, and spots for the PBS Kids… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…though the only place that catered for that side of me were the original comic books, where I read Spider-Man and made the not-so-smart move of following Superman right up… |
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Bolt: Cinzia Angelini – one bold, Bolt animator!
…Stallion Of The Cimarron and then Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas. She joined Sony Imageworks in 2002, completed Spider-Man 2 (“Best Visual Effects” Oscar Winner, 2004), Open Season and… |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…Disc One, for Chicken Little, Chronicles Of Narnia, Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Spider-Man: The ’67 Collection, Spider-Man: The Venom Saga, Scrubs: Season One, The Pacifier, and Power Rangers SPD…. |
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Oscar noms for 2018 movies announced
…Breaks the Internet – Rich Moore, Phil Johnston and Clark Spencer Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey, Rodney Rothman, Phil Lord and Christopher Miller Achievement in cinematography… |
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Iron Man – Armored Adventures: The Complete Season One
…of comic book characters in mass media has proven to be a double-edged sword. We (or at least the majority of us) loved Spider-Man and The Dark Knight, but we… |
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Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
…the masses. But as much as I have thrilled to the Spider-Man movies (and tolerated the rest), I have had a hankering to see a big Marvel cartoon that could… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…become the soundstage-bound Babes In Toyland instead. Here things get murky: the Disney Studio retained certain rights for a good many years before Warners reasserted theirs after purchasing the classic… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…had been sorely missing. None was more beloved than Ultimate Spider-Man [above right]. Writer Jonathan Hickman, artist Marco Checchetto, and the rest of the team would present some much appreciated… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…of films that ranged from the perfectly fine (the otherwise heralded Spider-Man: Homecomimg, which didn’t ultimately make the best use of its basic concept and boringly resorted to a usual… |
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Super Hero Squad Show: Volume One
…every superhero movie they have released has also been accompanied by an animated series. X-Men spawned X-Men: Evolution. Spider-Man led to Spider-Man: The Animated Series on MTV. Most recently, Iron… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…those visuals (tagged “supercrappymation” by the boys)! Most remarkable of all is director of photography Bill Pope’s attachment. As the cinematographer of the Matrix and Spider-Man sequels, he was itching… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…to retain the Madagascar reference of the title, which lead to a long and laborious film bogged down in self-referential gloom surprising for an animated kids movie, and not in… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…an animated film for kids – the fact that Starchaser has been issued on MGM’s regular DVD film label as opposed to the child-friendly MGM Kids line should alert one… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…from the toy commercial aspect of kids television cartoons, and the writing reflected the darker, more mature world that Batman inhabited, and I felt the continuation from Burton’s movies in… |
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Shazzan: The Complete Series
…in the time slot immediately after Herculoids, and went up against reruns of The Flintstones, and the first season of Spider-Man. In my view, Shazzan is the least of any… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…over the seven minute mark). DisneyPedia: The Life Of A Pirate Revealed is a kids’ look at Pirate lore, although adults may get a kick out of guessing the names… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…tying in with the movie, Fox was hoping to attract younger kids to the show, as the demographics had been skewing more towards older kids until that point. The show… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…that a lot of animated stories (which are usually aimed at kids) ignore: parents. Parents get short shrift in a lot of animated films. But here, not only does the… |
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Around the world with Mila: Writer (and Director) Cinzia Angelini
…Angelini, writer and director of Mila, has worked as an animator and story artist in feature productions for more than twenty years. Her Hollywood career includes work on Spider-Man 2,… |
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Wizards
…America and, most memorably, Spider-Man honed his abilities, though after Fritz The Cat, he concentrated exclusively on his own kind of provocative features. Heavy Traffic, Coonskin, American Pop and, most… |
