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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…T&J shorts. In fact, in this first cartoon, Tom does not appear too dissimilar to the way he would in the 1960s Chuck Jones cartoons. Lines are cleaner and backgrounds… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…live-action hits, with Son Of Flubber following The Absent Minded Professor and a string of Merlin Jones/Medfield College mis-adventures. Lady And The Tramp itself was followed by a number of… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…and most anticipated discs ever, not least the Indiana Jones Trilogy, updates to Disney’s own line of collectors’ Treasures tins, and of course the movie that only recently surpassed The… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom! This was also the last time audiences actually saw Mickey with his big black eyed look: Freddie Moore’s redesign for Fantasia meant that,… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…deal of enjoyment, Rex Steele feels very much a part of the retro-period camp that Boy’s Own romps such as Indiana Jones, The Rocketeer, The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen and… |
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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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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…script, but there’s no denying the awesome set ups and attention to detail (puppets using puppets, the astonishing replication of Times Square, Lisa’s Indiana Jones-styled dress, the Star Wars cantina,… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…last saw him, helped by a hip and happening intro song that reflects the original’s Perfect World number (here, the Tom Jones MC has been updated with an equally soul-blessed… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…cast members here. In a funny way, I always pictured Tramp as a Dean Jones type, and even though the actor never voiced an animated creation at the Studio, there’s… |
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Chicken Little
…going to see a live-action clip of Harrison Ford as Indy Jones – strangely not shown in ratio – turn up in a Disney animated film?) and contemporary songs –… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…Jimmie Jones, a skinny runt who can’t be bothered with his dental care. Naturally, Jimmie’s tooth starts playing up right on cue, aided with some fun “shocking pain” animated effects… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…the 1980s realm of Michael Eisner and George Lucas covers such groundbreakers as Star Tours and the Indiana Jones And The Temple Of The Forbidden Eye adventure. Secrets, Stories And… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…slight reworking of One Hundred And One Dalmatians, crossed not with Lady And The Tramp as is often stated, but by way of Chuck Jones’ earlier UPA feature Gay Purr-ee,… |
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WB Academy Award Animation Collection – Winners!
…and Chuck Jones’ High Note! The 15 award-winning cartoons include: The Milky Way, Yankee Doodle Mouse, Mouse Trouble, Quiet Please, The Cat Concerto, Tweetie Pie, The Little Orphan, For Scent-Imental… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…from Jaws, Batman: The Movie and Aliens, to The Matrix, Mission: Impossible and Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom via such oddities as The Man With Two Brains), but… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…were tempted to bring some other names in and maybe open it up to other animation intellectuals such as Chuck Jones or, maybe, Tex Avery as well? Or, in concentrating… |
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WB DVD: more Animaniacs, and The Phantom Tollbooth!
…treatment for its 20th anniversary next year, and Chuck Jones’ 1970 live-action/animation combination The Phantom Tollbooth is on the way, for either later this year or early next. Explaining the… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…entirely made up of movie shots. Please! No. More. Dancing. Penguins. I Love To Singa, a classic Merrie Melodies cartoon is a Tex Avery-directed, Chuck Jones/Virgill Ross-animated 1936 short. I’d… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…would be remembered, as with the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, as having a great first outing, a much more elaborate middle act that went deeper and darker,… |
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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
…Of The Lost Ark bursts back onto the big screen on Friday 29 June with the only authorized screening this year of the original Indiana Jones adventure. We have confirmed… |
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Guess who!? Woody woodpecks his way on DVD!
…contents of this fall’s Looney Tunes Golden Collection V5. While I thought the Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens documentary worked very well as its own stand-alone disc, I can obviously… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…streamlining of the character – and remains one of the most widely praised animated shorts of the time, pre-dating Chuck Jones’ acclaimed Bugs ‘n’ Elmer version six years later. Gone… |
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Ratatouille
…Jones “sophisticated comedy blockbuster”, also set in the kitchen, and the smart money could well have been on the lady, but it’s just another example of how Pixar’s writing process,… |
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Looney gold; Beetle Bailey reviewed!
…is the healthy amount of Bob Clampett and Frank Tashlin cartoons, while Chuck Jones is acknowledged by way of inclusion of the feature documentary Extremes And Inbetweens, which we previously… |
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Batman, Pixar, Pooh…and Cinders two!
…for Dean Jones in a host of very amusing comedies in the 60s and 70s, The Ugly Dachshund, Blackbeard’s Ghost and The Shaggy D.A. among them. On television, she of… |
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The Ten Commandments
…looks ready to be discovered by a certain Dr Henry Jones Jr in years to come). The Jews wander and wander in the desert, and my mind wandered off too…. |
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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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Warner's Academy Award Collection is here, and we have two to give away!
…more than several cartoons making their disc debuts include Chuck Jones’ classic The Dot And The Line and High Note, Tex Avery’s Little Johnny Jet, and both versions of Peace… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…from stocky Indiana Jones sidekick (in the upcoming fourth film) to six-pack boasting action hero makes the comparison harder to make, but then why not just hire Sean “Boromir” Bean… |
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Heaps of new DVD announcements; plus the new Splits!
…BD (whose video extras are all hi-def) adds a “Hall Of Armor” 3D option and BD Live features including a trivia option. • Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The… |
