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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…the Story, Research, the Look, Designing Characters, the Voices and Music, it’s clear from Don and Gary’s comments that their segments were recorded recently, while the other cast and crew… |
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Flushed Away
…Aardman and their partners at DreamWorks, since the movie is another winner from the stop-motion masters and better than the recent influx of computer animated fare from both DreamWorks and… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
…to them, Jasmine’s Dad the Sultan suggests working at the local school, presumably so the women of the world grow up longing to become the teachers that learn the boys… |
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Ratatouille, Tinker Bell problems?; NIMH DVD!
…and unexpected bonus features, and it seems they’re prepared to do the same for their MGM pickups. Of course, this comes after decent sales of their other Bluth property, the… |
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I want me a fur coat – we've hit 101 reviews!
…new to the site: Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary and its direct-to-video sequel Scamp’s Adventure, as well as Pixar’s fishy-fun smash Finding Nemo and The Lion King and its… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…to the screen, and the result is Señor Droopy (1949), with the pooch up against The Wolf in the bullring for the hand of the lovely Latin star Lina Romay…. |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…the multiple takes here is to do with getting the animal stars to hit their marks and perform the right tricks at the right time, and while there are only… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…the home video and the then-growing DVD market. The Aladdin spin-off, The Return Of Jafar, had been an experiment, and a highly successful one at that, and though its animation… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…and subsequent fare such as Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure. The conceit is simple, essentially taking the original story and moving it on to “the next generation”, so… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…on the princesses to follow, how did Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs influence the animators and the creators of The Princess and the Frog? LS: Well, they always come… |
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Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!
…gone into them than meets the eye, and Rodney notes the “complex storylines” and “plenty of entertainment value. I would rate this season among the best of the show”. Also… |
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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…Hanna-Barbera team, Joe Ruby and Ken Spears moved into the writing department, and are now rightfully credited as the creators of Scooby-Doo among their other achievements at the Studio. They… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…to just before John Byrne and Marv Wolfman reinvented him in 1986, and the various animated series like Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, The Fantastic Four and little odds and… |
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The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti
…their references come from Walt’s classics (the research on Princess and the Frog, inspired by Lady and the Tramp, Tangled, inspired by Cinderella or Sleeping Beauty among others). How do… |
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Tangled
…the moment and with the character, and again the direction, which uniquely used 3D to very good effect in the theater and has been replicated very smoothly and remarkably effectively… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…African Cats, the Disney Movie Rewards program, Cars 2, SpookyBuddies, and the debut announcement for Lady And The Tramp’s Diamond Edition. On the Blu-ray Disc, and with the film being… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…The Pixie Hollow Games, Jake And The Neverland Pirates, Beauty And The Beast’s Enchanted Christmas, Lady And The Tramp, the next Indiana Jones-light styled TreasureBuddies (when will it ever end!?),… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…Beauty And The Beast, the Studio’s celebrated 1991 hand-drawn animated feature, and the 1994 The Lion King (both produced by Don Hahn, also the supervisor of the 3D Nightmare conversion)… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…is Hamlet and Simba’s Pride is Romeo And Juliet, then Timon and Pumbaa’s viewpoint is the Rosencrantz and Guildenstern of the Pride Lands – remains perhaps the best of the… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…too high at the forefront and is like the equivalent of graffiti sprayed all over the artwork. But the other song contributions, from husband and wife team Kristen Anderson-Lopez and… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…thin premise. There is an unwritten “rule” than the Lion King films all follow Shakespearian themes, with the 1994 original loosely following the plot and events of Hamlet, and the… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Blu-ray previews for the Cinderella Diamond Edition, Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure, Tinker Bell’s Secret Of The Wings, the Pocahontas and The Rescuers 2-Movie Collections, The Tigger Movie,… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…and return to the traditional values of Disney’s past, and the very reason many of the artists had joined the Studio in the first place. The “animation renaissance” of the… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…sets, then widescreens, then flatscreens, and through the migration to HD and the slow swapping of our VHS machines to DVD and now Blu-ray, is it any wonder, especially in… |
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Monsters, Inc.: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…in HD and 3D formats, and the promise of Nemo’s release already confirmed, these theatrical reissues were easily spotted by the general public as the quick-buck generators and, basically, home… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…away from the Gothic, grungy and more earthy feel of the old film prints. Color is stable and vibrant throughout, and the film’s animation – among the best and most… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…which Richard and the late Robert explain their involvement in The Sword In The Stone, their first animated picture, and how they came to write the songs for the movie…. |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…with the classics, such as Lady And The Tramp, Peter Pan and the eventual Jungle Book and Bambi sequels, and you’re messing with animation history and the memories of some… |
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Toy Story Of Terror!
…their mortality-dwelling funk and are clearly enjoying their new home, and there are some great gags, both in the animation and from the vocal performances, though I’m thankful that Spanish… |
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Big Hero 6
…luckily they’re all pretty well sketched out and Freddie and Wasabi especially get enough quips to make sure they land the most impact, leaving the girls to handle the more… |
