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Tinker Bell honored at United Nations
…has agreed to be our Honorary Ambassador of Green,” said Mr. Akasaka. “This beloved animated character can help us inspire kids and their parents to nurture nature and do what… |
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Nicktoons Channel calls for entries for first-ever Nicktoons Film Festival
Kids animation channel Nicktoons “has joined forces with Frederator Studios and Animation Magazine to showcase the diversity of independent cartoon filmmaking with a one-of-a-kind competition: The Nicktoons Film Festival. Animators… |
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What’s your view? Tell us in the comments!
…kids are into! OK, so in reality we’re way behind the times when it comes this! While we’ve had message boards since our launch in 2003, we’ve been reluctant to… |
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Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie
…have is the more gentle humor of Aardman. Don’t take that the wrong way. This isn’t a movie only kids will enjoy… What I mean is Aardman doesn’t go for… |
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
…been talking about Winner’s film as the family classic it seems intended as. As such, it straddles an uneasy polarity of coming across as a wannabe cute kids comedy and… |
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Toy Story 4, Hair Love, 1917 win animation Oscars
…is for our kids, we love you. MARK NIELSEN: We want to thank the moviegoing audience so much especially those that grew up with Toy Story. We hope that your… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…forward moments”, as we used to call them as kids. These were the sequences in movies, like Lovely Lonely Man from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which indicated a good couple… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…a full-on pitch of a “little kids” movie. Bob went, “Eh, not really interested in that.” We thought, “Oh, okay. All right.” So we thought out a completely different storyline,… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…to say there’s anything profane or in bad taste about Freakazoid!, but it might just be one for the more appreciative and mature animation fan. While younger kids might enjoy… |
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Au clair de La Luna with director Enrico Casarosa
…as inspiring as possible. I hope to do that and I hope to show it to kids. I really feel that inspiring kids is the big one on my list!… |
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Dora recovers $17 million treasure; Toy Story 4 now biggest in franchise
…matters was director James Bobin–who had previously helmed 2011’s The Muppets as well as 2016’s Alice Through the Looking Glass–and an appealing marketing campaign which targeted both current kids and… |
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Ratatouille
…can enjoy. It is smart: a rare animated film that’s never in danger of being dumbed down for the kids and indeed feels more sophisticated than many “adult” comedies; as… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…of all is meeting the precocious kids behind Bambi and Thumper’s voices, most notably Alexander Gould, who also brought a rounded performance to his role of Nemo in Pixar’s Finding… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…just plain bad. And, since the first film’s intentionally clunky animation, even lower budgeted CGI fare aimed directly at the youngest kids, such as The Reef or Alpha And Omega,… |
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TMNT
…over a minute. A series of deleted, extended or rough test scenes follow, the first of which is Mikey’s Birthday Party: Full Sequence (3:14), that elaborates on the kids’ birthday… |
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Soul
…better phrase. Hollywood has simplistic morals that usually get repeated over and over again in media for kids. Pixar sometimes gives kids a little more nuanced message. In Soul, the… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…also make fun of her baby, Mrs Jumbo finally breaks and attacks one of the kids, leading to her eventual incarceration. Lost and alone, the little elephant is befriended by… |
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The Emperor's New Groove TV series coming to Disney Channel
Disney Channel has given the go-ahead to a cartoon series based on the 2000 theatrical release The Emperor’s New Groove. The kids’ cable network has ordered 21 episodes of Emperor’s… |
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Batman: Year One
…rescuing Batman from being solely a camp icon, Batman could still be viewed then as a comic book that kids could enjoy. Once Frank Miller hit the character, though, Batman… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…the kids. Fans, of course, will have no hesitation in grabbing their copy, and while such features would have been enlightening, they somehow do not come across as missing here…. |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…kids and babysitting-needy families, also diluting the vintage material by mixing in newer television cartoons and direct-to-video outings. A token “Deluxe Anniversary Collection” came last year to DVD, but the… |
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Home On The Range
…new kids on the block, providing the whiz-bang fireworks of Toy Story and Shrek, no wonder the handcrafted, staunchly traditional Disney began to look old hat. Now, I loved the… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…digging on this, but quite how an American kids cartoon score can end up as being the most recognisable news theme on British TV is a mystery that I believe… |
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Introducing The Batman's Batgirl
TV Guide introduces readers to the newest Batgirl, featured in the Kids’ WB’s animated The Batman. Along with a shot of the ‘Dark Knight Damsel’, the article reveals her launch… |
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The Lego Ninjago Movie
…movies have all had an interesting thread running through them — kids dealing with their parents. In the original film it was a kid trying to make a connection with… |
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A tribute to X. Atencio
…animate titles and sequences for such Disney live-action films as The Parent Trap, Babes In Toyland, and Mary Poppins, and he contributed his artistic skill to the “I’m No Fool”… |
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Jakers! moving to weekdays on PBS this September
AWN reports that starting on September 5, 2005, Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks will begin airing Mondays through Fridays on PBS Kids, after playing on weekends for two years…. |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…with its otherwise deeper exploration of what is essentially conformist mind-control: big themes for little kids (and just as it should be)! More redundant since it keeps turning up on… |
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Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie
…bodily humor, that is impressive. Kids may love it. And adults with kids can feel safe knowing there’s enough here that they won’t be bored, even if they don’t plan… |
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Cartoon Network Wins Three Pulcinella Awards
…Network’s Tickle U block targeted to kids 2-5 launching on August 22, 2005. This marked the first time that Cartoon Network original programming was honored at Cartoons on the Bay,… |
