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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…GKids. Those who saw it had the opportunity to be enamored with a strong plot with a love story you haven’t seen before in animation, and with it a confirmation… |
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Frozen tops New Year’s box office; beats Monsters University
…to $271 million, topping the total gross of 2013’s Monsters University. With school out for most kids until Monday, the movie is now almost certainly a lock for $300 million…. |
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Frozen catches fire at the box office
…Desolation of Smaug opens, but with Chrismas break coming up and kids being out of school, Frozen probably has a lot more to put in the bank before it’s done…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #53: Charlie Brown Holiday Specials – 1/2 Star for Nostalgia
…the football. • 60s thing to be a sheet ghost, embarrassing to have the same costume as your friends. • It’s never a good thing when the cool kids suddenly… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #46: Meet the Robinsons – ‘Blame You’ Wins Hands Down!
…bubble tavel, and segways. • Things Mason doesn’t get, Chelsea gets cynical, Tom Selleck. • “You lied to me?!” Most overused line in kids’ movies. • Lewis chills under a… |
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Planes
…of creating original characterizations. The film is mildly amusing. Kids ten and under that aren’t captivated with it will at the very least be diverted for ninety minutes. But in… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…of years earlier, Disney had been given a wake-up call by Steven Spielberg and Don Bluth’s An American Tail, which had proven animation wasn’t just for kids, a popularly conceived… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…and take the kids to. On the other hand, the animated films that were the cornerstone of the company were more costly to produce, and the expense lost on Chanticleer… |
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Season premieres for Aqua TV Show Show and Squidbillies to air tonight
Two of Adult Swim’s most popular cartoon shows “for big kids” have season premieres tonight. First up is the latest version of Aqua Teen Hunger Force–this time titled Aqua TV… |
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Free Birds creators explain why Reel FX’s first theatrical feature is no turkey
…Studios’ Frozen could provide serious competition later in the month. Parents fearing the movie might encourage their kids to skip the big Thanksgiving meal need not worry: Hayward insists the… |
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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
…the depiction of that young couple expecting a baby, of the arrival of the Smurfs into their lives, and how they interacted. VC: Exactly. That’s something I realized: the kids… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…movie’s few anachronisms that may have kids today wondering what a “record” is). As Lilo further discovers that her “dog” isn’t the pet she thought he was, and the galactic… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Fifth Season
…Cut: I continue to really enjoy this show. The humor only occasionally goes “too far,” though this is definitely not a show for kids, based on subject matter, one instance… |
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Blu-Ray dates for Robot Chicken and South Park
Release dates for two popular cartoon shows “for big kids” were announced today, and Blu-Ray.com has the news on both. First up is Robot Chicken: Season 6, which will give… |
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Monsters University
…understand there’s not too many ways to show the change in a way that makes it obvious to even kids. But it still seemed like taking the easy way out…. |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #39: Rise of the Guardians – Guardians of Liberty
…‘Night-Mares’ or ‘The Night Mayor?!’ • Simpsons references, Mason’s animation pet peeves & Aladdin flashbacks. • “You dare have fun in MY presence?!” -Pitch, you’re a nerd. • “Kids rule!”… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…to Disa, the responses ranged from, “Well, you don’t have to be dark about it,” to, “Introduce the comedy and then slip in the mother thing. Kids won’t notice.” The… |
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Planes rated PG, with Blu-ray coming this December?
…and its 2011 sequel were rated G – a rating which proved controversial for the latter film as parents found it too violent for younger kids. Interestingly, IGN also lists… |
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Superman Unbound
…Son Of Krypton (introducing that series’ concept of Brainiac), New Kids On The Block (more Brainiac, this time also with teenage Clark Kent meeting the Legion Of Superheroes), and both… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #38: How To Train Your Dragonite…I Mean, Dragon
…parallels to life. • Would Stoick the Vast get along with Gaston? More Pokemon tangents! • Holy Dragon! Stoick’s got problems. • ”Kids Rule!” The motto of the 90s. •… |
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Monsters University gets USA Today profile, Disney World monorail
…are, instead of what you’re expected to be,” Scanlon explains. “It might be a slightly heavier theme than the first movie, but I think kids are more aware than we… |
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Choose which Amazon.com pilots become series
…the lineup include the adult comedy Supanatural as well as kids series Positively Ozitively, Sara Solves It, Creative Galaxy, Teeny Tiny Dogs and Tumbleaf. During its selection process, Amazon will… |
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Director Bergeron, actress Paradis talk A Monster in Paris
…the monster. The first big question, therefore, was what the monster would look like. Initially, I saw him as a kind of vampire, but it wasn’t very appealing for kids,… |
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DeGeneres announces Finding Dory with funny montage
…sequel, on her show. “So, kids, let that be a lesson to you: Anything is possible if you’re patient and you beg hard enough on national television,” she joked. The… |
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The Croods
…case of kids, their parent’s wallets. The thing you absolutely want to avoid is making a good film look bad. All the work the artists put in on a movie… |
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Despicable Me 2’s Despicablimp to tour U.S.
…and 46 feet wide – made its first official public appearance at Nickelodeon’s Kids’ Choice Awards in L.A. last weekend. The Despicablimp’s scheduled stops include Telemundo’s Billboard Latin Music Awards,… |
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Andre discusses song written for Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…this partnership. Kid is a song about the adventure of being a dad, the mischief, the fun, the exhausting joy of what kids bring, and it’s very up-tempo to match.”… |
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The Pirate Fairy
…fans, too. This fifth film in the fairies franchise upholds the strong tradition of the series. While grown-up fans may still feel better about watching this with their kids, the… |
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The Angry Birds Movie
…the rest of the country is that in to it? Especially kids? All in all though, this half is inventive and imaginative enough to where you can see how a… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…interactive project Playmation. What really helped the presentation was showing off footage of kids trying it out, allowing us to get a feel for how this would be done. I… |
