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Batman Beyond: The Complete First Season

…fellow at Terry’s school who succumbs to despair at the hand of bullies and an overbearing father. To get even he steals a two-story “Galvanic Lifter Machine” robot and sends…

Hero High: The Complete Series

…of the hero trade at their own high school. The Sweatbox Review: Filmation did a lot of television shows over the course of about three decades. Some are remembered very…

Darkwing Duck: Volume 2

…a half-generation’s worth of school kids who enjoyed Darkwing’s exploits every day after school. The first DVD set included the first 27 episodes by airdate order, and this second volume…

Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2

…abilities. Eventually, his supporting cast grows to include a robotic family, classmates from a local elementary school, their teacher Mr. Mustachio, and assorted friends and foes. Mighty Atom’s futuristic world…

The Animatrix

…about the difference between his dreams and reality. He manages to feel the power of the Matrix and begins to seek for the answer to everything. At school, his cell…

Schoolhouse Rock!: The Election Collection

…and the most entertaining way I learned about it was by watching Schoolhouse Rock as a kid. Schoolhouse Rock made its television debut on ABC in 1973 with their first…

Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet

…course at the animation school at the Concordia University in Montréal. A lot of people who teach there often also make films for the Film Board. So, I met a…

Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies

…high school student in real-life. Afterward, she obtained a teaching credential via the University of Southern California. In the early ’80s, Beaumont returned to voice acting for Disney. Since then,…

Directors Miller and Hui on Shrek the Third

…it. But one of the scenes involved Arthur trying to woo Guinevere, at the high school. It was Shrek, Puss and Donkey in the bushes, giving love advice to Arthur…

A Conversation with Andreas Deja

school and he would, I guess maybe for like Abraham Lincoln’s birthday or something, he would dress up as Abraham Lincoln and deliver the Gettysburg Address. And his teachers were…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…’85, something like that? EG: Yeah, I met him when I was in high school, in ’72. I never met Woolie, never met Ken Anderson or Les Clark. AV: What…

A Conversation with Ben Balistreri

…business? Ben Balistreri: I was starting to look into the idea of a career in animation as a senior in High School. I read The Illusion of Life and was…

Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane

…meet while he was in Germany, was Andreas Deja. HS: Same thing. Andreas left the school when I came in. So we just briefly met the university and then Andreas…

DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter

…After a few years of school, I had decided that I would pursue a career in film as a Director of Photography in live action. I was convinced that my…

The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two

School Mouse, with the mouse previously known as Nibbles this time known as Tuffy for some reason. This is a very funny cartoon and shows that things do not always…

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt

…of the characters perfectly suits the set up of the show, which is to entertain and interact with a pre-school audience. I wasn’t too keen to raise my hand to…

Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille

…the first thing I did was go to Boston for a summer workshop in animation at the school of the Museum of Fine Arts and that was really fun got…

Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss

…away from its creator/director and handed to those with less critically perfectionists’ eyes to finish off. While the point of Williams’ ambitions was to create a feature with old-school traditions,…

The Reef

…in which a little orange fish loses a parent (actually, both of them here)? Check. The dashing through the waves and playful friendships between young, school age fish? Check again,…

Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2

…others. But this is no Baby Looney Tunes, since the spin on the show has these little guys turning up for school at Acme Looniversity, where “the teaching staff’s been…

Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection

…old self here, and the imaginative cartooning feels more like the true classics. Woody then gets in touch with Mother Nature in The Redwood Sap, which continues the old-school gags…

My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie

…Winnie The Pooh, Tigger and the rest of the gang go CGI in this delightful pre-school outing for the latest television incarnation for AA Milne’s characters. The Sweatbox Review: In…

Beowulf: Director’s Cut

…fancy name you give it, is like old-school pencil drawn rotoscoping, where the movement is so tailored to reality that it then doesn’t actually fit in a cartoon world. And…

Disney channel snags Fish Hooks

…collage, takes place at a high school in a fish tanks at a pet store. Gary Marsh, president entertainment at Disney Channels Worldwide, said, “The Fish Hooks team has created…

Shorts

…DVD that comes with the Blu-ray— got it?) are two featurettes. The more pertinent of these is Ten-Minute Film School: Shorts (actually running 8:54), which carries home movies made by…

The Princess And The Frog

…old-school Disney feel than a truly old-school endeavor like this could. Ultimately, this film really needed to Wow. It wasn’t ever going to be enough to simply serve up a…

My Life With Charlie Brown

school at which he taught. He also brings up his time in World War II and various moves he made with his family. This little fifteen-page essay is packed with…

Peanuts 1970’s Collection: Vol. 2

…of Charlie and the gang. Two main plots do emerge, with Charlie Brown hoping for a Valentine at school, and Linus experiencing puppy love for his teacher, Miss Othmar. Mixed…

Peanuts: 1970s Collection Volume 2 – Winners Announced!

…winning special, hard work and team spirit are what Charlie Brown needs to win the decathlon at the school Junior Olympics event. His competitors are Marcie, defending Decathlon champ Freddie…

He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition

…gets sent to obedience school, but—- and Charlie Brown should have seen this coming— he disobeys and instead crashes at Peppermint Patty’s home. Even as housemates, Patty still doesn’t figure…