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Batman: Gotham Knight (Blu-ray/DVD)
…in which Allen and Ramirez are caught in the middle. Field Test continues the loose storyline, with a jarring change of visual style. This segment looks more like what people… |
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He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Volume Three
…into a three-way conflict, with the Masters caught in the middle. Awaken The Serpent – Snake Mountain is transformed into the snake god Serpos, who goes to attack the Royal… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
…relief since he’s tired, sleepy and keeps licking on the candy canes. After trying to catch a shooting star, and getting in the middle of a storm, the children return… |
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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition
…scene was in the middle when we begin to learn more about Manny’s past. One interesting interaction in the movie is that between the animals and the humans. No words… |
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A Bug’s Life: Collector’s Edition
…in the middle of a river bed. There, ants are busy harvesting grains and piling them up on a big leaf on top of an altar. One of the royals… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (Two-Disc Special Edition)
…jump into the middle of the action as Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi are battling the Separatists. We quickly learn that the Jedi and the Clone Army are under siege by… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume Six
…and Jerry theatrical short release, being nominated for an Annie Award and with Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale, his last animated project, being in the middle of production. A… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…conclusion of your movie. I guess that had always been a theory we talked about – we said it would be somewhere in the middle, to complete a movement, and… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…McLaughlin sang it. It passed through many hands until it came back to Robbie and then back to me, then we orchestrated over Robbie’s track and then created that middle… |
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Frank Walsh: Setting The World of Narnia
…Keeping fields of grass looking fresh for weeks and weeks during a hot summer, as endless cavalry charges chewed the ground to pieces. Creating a pit in the middle of… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…with a page of parchment. I love the beautiful decorated books the monks used to create in the Middle Age. The letters were beautifully hand drawn and they were added… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…comical giant, Willie, who is so big the films ends with him popping right out of the story and into Bergen’s house! The Sweatbox Review: Sandwiched in the middle of… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…as they were in 1975. Clampett takes over as an on-screen host, revealing the influences the cartoonists had being in the middle of a full working movie studio, and there… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…– I didn’t hate Spirit at all. I didn’t think it was either good, or bad. It was just somewhere in the middle there. I was just “whelmed”… Is This… |
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Studio Idefix #2 – Lucky Luke: Daisy Town and Ballad Of The Daltons
…was all that I’d hoped it would be (except for the abrupt side change, which cuts a scene in the middle instead of coming on a natural fade out as… |
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The Rescuers
…if not totally clean, on DVD. A strange title to pigeonhole in the overall Disney scheme of things, the film came right in the midst of the “middle-Disney” period between… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…cost-cutting techniques and a rushed approach to the visuals (the Aladdin, Cinderella, Pocahontas and Mermaid sequels especially follow this heavy “black marker” outline look). Falling somewhere in the middle is… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…House Bunny, Big Top Bunny, My Bunny Lies Over The Sea, Wabbit Twouble, Ballot Box Bunny, and The Rabbit of Seville – all “middle-Bugs” cartoons that probably do best define… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…Ollie probably fit somewhere in the middle, after Ub had laid the basics for personality animation and had moved on to the technical aspects, leaving the then nine young men… |
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The Lion King 1½
…parts one and two, nor even in the middle of the original film, but actually playing “alongside” it, Back To The Future Part II style. The series comes full circle… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…in the middle, with Rupert bringing up the rear. I’d have probably liked to see the films in their original production order, but it’s all “much of a muchness”, and… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…Lewis would often spur Tolkien on, discussing the characters and situations of Middle Earth, and ribbing him for taking it all so seriously. It was during Tolkien’s immersive process in… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…fact, the two middle scenes I feel would have made exceptional additions, beefing up the Troubadour’s ultimately rather short on-screen time and using the comic book framing device (drawn in… |
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Mulan: Special Edition
…Audio Commentary. Producer Pam Coats is placed in the middle of the soundstage, with her two male helmers placed left and right, which opens up the audio spacing of what… |
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Shrek 2
…small, would have lifted this potentially draggy middle and provided more of punch for the new character. We never really see Puss at his job (to bump off Shrek), and… |
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Mulan II
…of the mass-market animation world. As it is, Mulan II will be another middle-of-the-road hit for Disney DVD and its none-too-ambitions aspirations will satisfy the target audience of young girls…. |
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Cars
…too long, and the middle of the film doesn’t help matters by becoming overly cutesy, with Lighting and Mater’s bonding sequence certainly something that felt like it would have made… |
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Disney tins, rumors, and the Shrek 3 trailer…what’s up with that?
…double check! But there were things I liked: the Princesses look foxy enough (and was that blonde in the middle a take on Cameron Diaz herself?), and Shrek’s mishaps at… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…Cinderella” version of the character. Most promising is the announcement of a new 2-disc edition for The AristoCats, perhaps my most favorite of the “middle period” features between Walt’s passing… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…death in classic cartoons, and the lack of a decent pay-off doesn’t make for very rewarding viewing. In fact, being set as it seems to be in the middle of… |


