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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…the more obvious points, saw America divided (Trump), the international community divided (Brexit), and growing unrest and eventual expansion of the beginnings of big, substantial change in sexual relations and… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…included, disappoints with what it has left out. Case Study: With Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs setting up the “plain and simple” style to the Walt Disney Signature Collection… |
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Director/writer Robin Joseph satisfies our curiosity about Fox & The Whale
…my girlfriend, Kim Leow. Her support took me through a lot of the low points of production. Fox & The Whale is my first professional film. The learning curve was… |
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“With a smile and a song” with music historian James Bohn
…the Studios’ movies from Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs through The Jungle Book and beyond. Bohn underscores these points while presenting a detailed history of music in Disney’s animated… |
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Production Designer Bill Cone feels at “Eze” in the world of Cars 3
…that region, because it was one of the origin points of that type of racing. We also went to an old dirt track up there, and then drove through the… |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…production design, particularly the characters’ costumes, while The Elements Of… looks at additional specific points, including Eric Goldberg’s Mini-Maui contributions, the film’s awesome water and volcanic effects, as well as… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…superficial, especially considering some of the more bold choices the filmmakers made at other points in the story. The animation in Kubo is stunningly beautiful in design. While the stop… |
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More Star Wars animation on its way
‘Plightyear’ in our Animated News Forum points us to an article at Coming Soon about plans for more animated Star Wars material including half hour episodes of Clone Wars…. |
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Disneyland visiting strategies
…Resort in Anaheim. With the 50th Anniversary celebration about to begin soon there are many different factors that will affect crowd size at various points in time, so keep informed…. |
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The Jungle Book
…interact with the book (here a dancing, digital creation) in a sequence actually devised by the folks at Pixar, whose Brain Trust also contributed many points to the rest of… |
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Heffalump clips
The Disney Database points to fifteen streaming Quicktime movie clips from the upcoming DVD for Pooh’s Heffalump Movie due out on May 24 (thanks to Adam for the heads up)…. |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…be happening in a scene. They had time for a Q&A session. Most were expanding upon certain points in the animation process, although I did like the question about how… |
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DC Superhero Girls: Hero of the Year
…points. Still, since it could’ve just been my laptop, I won’t lower the score by much for that. French and Spanish language tracks are also included. Final Cut: I love… |
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Elstree 1976
…own making, being that, during production on the films, Lucas was consistently frustrated by his blabbing of plot points and a certain disregard for the material. The story goes that… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…asked the actresses to reveal character secrets. They then showed a trailer for the next Equestria Girls special, The Other Side, which sees the human girls discover a portal into… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
…spirit. The kind of liberties Dahl takes when tackling these well-known stories, they define your own leeway in the writing process, he kind of points you in a direction: Added… |
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Trailer: Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest
The Disney Database points to Disney.nl, where a small version of the trailer for Bambi and the Great Prince of the Forest can be found. Bambi and the Great Prince… |
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Smallfoot
…is absurdly cheerful and upbeat, almost sickeningly so at points! Second, it’s a musical?! I don’t watch every trailer because, like I said earlier, I don’t like to be spoiled…. |
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Uncle Remus' Shorts
…Disney site and Disney’s Song of the South: Hollywood Scapegoat (includes two Quicktime clips from the movie) which points out several remarkable achievements for black actors made by the movie…. |
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A Scanner Darkly trailer online
Ain’t It Cool News points to the iFilm web premiere of the trailer for A Scanner Darkly. Composed entirely of rotoscope – animation traced over live-action – the film has… |
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Pocahontas leads new reviews, plus DVD Toons on Plague Dogs, Spongebob and Kim!
…to be commended that this important film has made it to DVD at all. Its points are based on the surviving strength of the story, still sufficiently powerful enough to… |
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An interview with author Emily Zemler on Disney Princess: Beyond The Tiara
…with Belle’s yellow gown, you can see it with Ariel, you can see it with Sleeping Beauty’s pink gown with the points that drew a lot from the costumes of… |
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Lightyear
…they make for personally important reasons. And those are explored. And we can understand their differing points of view. True, it never rises to the point of making you feel… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…visual storytelling aspects presented while cherry-picking plot points that were of interest. Star Wars would become a global phenomenon with its own mythology being expanded upon over the decades. It… |
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Zack Snyder’s Justice League
…with far more explanation points(!!!), yet at the same time Snyder’s film has plenty of quieter moments which almost resemble the delicate intimacy of arthouse cinema. It’s like Avengers: Endgame… |
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It's a Dance Off! Napoleon vs. Fender
File this one under “bizarre and unexpected.” Papadapolis writes in and points out a site where Napoleon from Napoleon Dynamite and Fender from the upcoming Robots have an online dance… |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
…a pretty good job overall! I don’t like to get into specific plot points in these spoiler-free reviews. But I do want to touch on something I couldn’t mention in… |
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AV Roundtable Flashbacks: Titan A.E.
…And funnily enough the website, if you go to After-Earth-dot-com now, it points you to that awful Will Smith movie. Dacey: Yeah, that terrible, TERRIBLE M. Night Shyamalan movie! Ben:… |
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Disney to release throw-back VHS tapes of recent animated films
…the older tapes I already had on my shelf!) Besides the cassette itself, inside is an ad for the Disney Movie Club and a code to earn points with Disney… |
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Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie
…its predecessor, Farmageddon is a science fiction story. That means we get spaceships, weird aliens, and cool powers — all plot points that will be extra appealing to the younger… |
