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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…of non-Disney animation do you like? AD: I like anything… AV: Like the Looney Tunes stuff? AD: I like all of that old stuff, all of it. I mean…nobody did… |
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A Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…animator and director Eric Goldberg, most recently a director-for-hire on Looney Tunes: Back in Action. During the informal chat at Walt’s old Tam O’Shanter haunt, Goldberg spoke about his career… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…animation, we talked about and looked at animation drawings of the classic films, a lot of Chuck Jones drawings from Looney Tunes, saying “that type of animation would fit with… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…Jam as well as numerous commercials featuring the Looney Tunes characters. His animation credits include work for DreamWorks Home Video on Joseph, King of Dreams and Pocahontas II for Disney…. |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…with new story ideas once you put the character in a new environment. The Looney Tunes characters exploited this to great effect in the 40s and 50s. AV:How was it… |
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Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation
…teaser – hopefully all the WB shorts will look as good as this on disc when those Looney Tunes collections start filtering through! No added DVD-ROM material has been included,… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…a laser collector and don’t already have it, it has recently been issued in two parts as one of the extras in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection #4 DVD set…. |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…their hands, the makers of the recent Looney Tunes movies still had the giant task of beating a true hand-crafted original. Although rivalry between Disney and Katzenberg’s studio DreamWorks means… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…Happy Harmonies, five volumes of the pre-1948 Golden Age Of Looney Tunes, an entire set dedicated to the genius of Tex Avery and, of course, the celebrated team of Thomas,… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…once the angles are very imaginative and the timing throughout does not play as just some Warner Brothers Looney Tunes-in-disguise moments, but that of classic Disney itself. Interestingly, apart from… |
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Home On The Range
…Range too, which does sport a simpler, more angular look that’s more associated by most to the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons (the backgrounds are very reminiscent of Chuck Jones’… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Dante’s Looney Tunes movie, Back In Action. Co-directing here with Mike Gabriel (The Rescuers Down Under, Lorenzo), there is little of the lively energy in the animation that usually personifies… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…(Lion King, Pocahontas, Roger Rabbit, Aladdin, Dinosaur, Fantasia/2000), DreamWorks (Prince Of Egypt, Antz, Spirit, Shrek) and Warners (Osmosis Jones, Looney Tunes: Back In Action, Son Of The Mask) and is… |
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Welcome to ANIMATED VIEWS!
…little mitts on one of two new Looney Tunes titles – and our extensive and ever growing DVD Reviews, you’ll find the Toon Review, a grouping of archive reviews that… |
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Pixar picking park rides?; Back to the Dungeons; Hi-def duos?
…able to enjoy the content we want – the Looney Tunes from HD-DVD’s Warners, the eventual Disney movie releases on Blu-Ray – without the confusion and inconvenience of two players…. |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 4, the Hanna-Barbera titles and Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies releases. Perhaps my pick of the bunch, though, might be the bulky but… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…looked, to my little eyes, like it mixed the characters from the Rankin/Bass stop-motion feature Mad Monster Party with the classic stable of Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes gang. I distinctly… |
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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
…show built on the resurgence of classic animation following the success of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, harking back to the great Looney Tunes of old, and arguably provided the most… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…such Shockwave animated content. However, the style suits this material miles better than Warner Brothers’ unfortunate attempts to update their Looney Tunes characters to the web, and sends Jay Sherman… |
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Shrek makes it 600 million; plus Jolson sings again!
…the Looney Tunes on DVD. As such, this issue of The Jazz Singer is sure to appeal not only to vintage film fans, but any animation enthusiasts genuinely interested in… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…series as the Disney Treasures and Golden Looney Tunes would be envious of, is as good as anything else out on the market prove that Steve and his Thunderbean collaborators… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…MGM catalogs for such gems as The Droopy Theatrical Collection. And don’t forget another round of Looney Tunes on the way, building on the sheer excitement of finally being able… |
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Ratatouille
…with the classic Looney Tunes, the film feels made with its crew in mind first and the needs of the young second, but never forgotten. I could keep gushing about… |
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Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!
…and the hi-def 2-Disc Blu-Ray format at very reasonable savings. I’ll be back later this week with a full look at WB’s Looney Tunes 5, so stay tooned! – Ben…. |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…as the Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Droopy, Superman and Popeye, as well as Tex Avery’s Little Johnny Jet and Chuck Jones’ High Note, plus over an hour of special… |
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And the Academy Awards went to…; plus much more in our Oscars Special!
…reveals, there are many reasons to pick up the set, not least some new to disc Looney Tunes, new commentaries on previously released cartoons, plus the Bugs classics A Wild… |
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Tweety and Sylvester back on DVD
…Tweety Mysteries, Warners’ 1990s repurposing of the classic Looney Tunes characters that follows them on some globe-trotting, crime-solving adventures with Granny. Like myself, Rand didn’t catch the show in its… |
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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
…on You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown. Also on the site, don’t forget that our Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 6 contest is still open until midnight this Friday, and that… |
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Indiana Jones and the alien borefest of doom…
Welcome to a new week, and we have a bunch of reviews on the way for you that should be up for the weekend: Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume 6… |
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Ben’s baaaa-aaaack!
…nicely with our choice of the recent Looney Tunes set in our 2008 picks, the original Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1 collection from Image. And Jeremie’s continuing series of fantastic interviews… |
