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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…important points in, resorting to some character merging and rearranging of proceedings in order to keep them relevant to their place in the screenplay. Most commendably, there is always a… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…why his original Warner’s output remains their best kept secret weapon. Because the Clampett cartoons come from an earlier period before budget cuts and minimal stylisation meant limited animation and… |
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Legends Of The Superheroes
…also points to the tone in the show; though, as it goes, it runs right past camp into outright comedy, particularly the second episode. And how could it not? The… |
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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
…TBS (you remember— THE SUPERSTATION!). Overseas animation was handled by Seoul-based Hanho Heung-Up Co., Ltd., and it certainly shows in the visuals. The show looks nothing like Secret Squirrel, that’s… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…an in-depth, 52-minute measured look at production that features tons of behind the scenes footage and is not afraid to reveal as many secrets as it keeps (there’s even an… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…everything they had learnt on that feature into Pinocchio. The film’s production was stopped to refine story points and characters, and new technological advances were made with the Multiplane Camera…. |
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Lady And The Tramp
…(and as Feature Animation producer Don Hahn points out in the extras), the Studio artfully but respectfully conveyed the fact that young lovers do mate – and this yet even… |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…still looking pretty dire! With auditoriums not being an option, Hollywood turned to their ever-growing secret weapon — streaming services — to release their big budget would-be blockbusters, not making… |
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Meet My Dad The Bounty Hunter‘s Dads
…hoping to finally get some quality time together. Little do they know Dad’s been keeping a secret from them — he’s actually the toughest bounty hunter in the galaxy! Launched… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Mike Cachuela on storyboarding Christmas
…the story would go at certain points, and there were actually some battles at the end of the film when Tim Burton stormed out of the editing room and kicked… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…but the downside to Warners’ spectacular remastering is that this draws attention to all the bad points too: here the print debris is unrelentless, while a couple of splices in… |
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The Jetsons: The Complete First Season
…her father doesn’t want her to win, so he switches her lyrics with Elroy’s secret language notes (Eep, Op, Ok, Ah, Ah). To his surprise, Judy wins the contest and… |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…her identity secret from Batman. She encounters him in the movie’s first scene, a scene in which we are immediately made to see that this is the animated Gotham that… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…all-round beefcake hero extraordinaire, and responsible for the smashing of many an evil Nazi. With word of a secret temple base out in the Amazon jungle, Rex and his companion… |
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Toy Story 3
…DTS 7.1 and 5.1 Master Audio and Dolby Digital EX, Rated G, Retail: $45.99 Warning: as usual, we’ve tried to avoid spoilers, but some plot points are discussed openly. Storyboard:… |
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Stronger Than Spinach
Stronger Than Spinach: The Secret Appeal of The Famous Studios Popeye Cartoons By Steve R. Bierly BearManor Media November 13, 2009 Softcover, 328 pages $24.95 Is this the book no… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…carry it off (unlike Lion King 1½, which succeeds simply by going totally off in the other direction). Some plot points disappear into holes too, such as what happened to… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…A Bug’s Life’s Dave Foley as Wayne, and he’s good casting, as is Derek Richardson’s over-enthusiastic Lanny, with this 2010 “Stocking Stuffer”, Operation: Secret Santa (another Emmy winner), giving the… |
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Exclusive WonderCon 2016 Recap
…the original series and how they were updating it for a contemporary audience as well as exploring story points that they felt had previously been overlooked. I asked about their… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge On The Run
The third SpongeBob movie, Sponge on the Run, has a few of the not-so-secret ingredients that made the original television show so popular. But over twenty years removed from the… |
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What makes an animated show a hit?
…the show (\\SpongeBob SquarePants\\), and an appeal to demographics across the board (\\Futurama\\’s problem). The writer concludes that “there probably isn’t a ‘secret ingredient’ that can guarantee, or increase the… |
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BCI brings Iron King to DVD
…is also a secret member of the JSSDF. Goro, whose secret mission is to assist in Gentaro’s efforts, has another incredible secret: He has a computer mechanism implanted in his… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…of tough guy roles, including the hard road drama Hell Drivers (1957), before landing John Drake, the original Secret Agent who beat James Bond to (television) screens by two years…. |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume One
…under a quarter-hour each), taking us up to episodes from 2004. For some reason, it skips Blackwatch Plaid. This was the Secret Squirrel episode, where Secret is accused of exposing… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…earlier that year called The Secret Of The Sword which explained the origins of She-Ra and her relationship to He-Man (more on that in the next paragraph). The movie made… |
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Batman Beyond hits DVD
…until his father is mysteriously murdered. Suspecting foul play at his father’s company, Wayne/Powers Corporation, Terry meets Bruce Wayne and learns of a secret identity hidden for decades. Now too… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…third instalment as either Woody or Buzz, and since it doesn’t try to be overly showy or clever, it remains enjoyable over its four levels, the entering the players’ secret… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…catapult Tintin’s stardom to heights previously unimagined. Comparing Raiders to Tintin’s heroic exploits, the review garnered the attention of director Steven Spielberg, who instructed his secretary to bring him several… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…the full The Muppets Animated View here! 5. The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn Paramount Home Entertainment (March 19 2012) Blu-ray Disc plus DVD, 107 mins plus… |
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X-Men ’92 Vol. 0: Warzones!
…collect dust in the closet. But then something happened recently. As part of the Secret Wars event, where numerous alternate universe stories were given the chance at new life, the… |
