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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…packed angles, was too intense, as if the camera needed to take a step or two back. Even though it’s Sinbad, and the basic story points are known, I found… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…anywhere near bold enough as it should be to carry it off (unlike Lion King 1½, which succeeded simply by going totally off in the other direction). Some plot points… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…about songs and cues that were discarded and some musical secrets (a song sheet confirms that Bedknobs And Broomsticks’ Beautiful Briny Sea was on the list at one point, and… |
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Tarzan II
…is an uneasy mix of the good and the TV-level. At some points, it reaches the almost-feature quality that the DisneyToon unit have been striving for in releases such as… |
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Bambi II
…(don’t forget that Bambi II is going into the vaults after only 70 days on sale), while a chapter index card provides the stop points. Most frustratingly, and while I… |
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Chicken Little
…something that again points to a more elaborately designed second edition coming down the track. The usual amount of previews play from start up or from the Sneak Peeks menu,… |
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Cars
…fine points about the movie, and indeed a great many of them too (the gentle digs at the nature of how humans deck out their own cars are hilariously amusing,… |
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Disney tins, rumors, and the Shrek 3 trailer…what’s up with that?
…up as a Christmas treat! In the meantime, we’re back with a new Rumored Rumblings that points to jaw-dropping swing in production for Disney’s currently-titled American Dog, though until this… |
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Tom & Jerry Tales: Volume 2
…know…it’s just a cartoon! Let me take a second to collect my thoughts… Here are some good points: I was excited when I saw the episode Fire Breathing Tomcat, because… |
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Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille
…the fact that he just kind of flicks at somebody offscreen, you know, all confident and he points to them, and this bicycle comes by and the guy hits the… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…said in its favor is that the image is spotlessly clean and presents the original art as best as possible on disc. Causing points to drop off again is Indican’s… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…of the story that packs in all the main plot points. The cutting back to the ticking clock provides real narrative structure, showing that in just a handful of films… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…cases, the Inkwell disc gains major points for the fuller picture: no pun intended, Alice’s Egg Plant is much more preferable here in an uncut print with more accurate framing… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…The Secrets, Stories And Magic Of The Happiest Place On Earth. Rumored to have undergone some re-editing since being pulled from the 50th Anniversary schedules, some odd facts remain intact,… |
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Once Upon A Time…Walt Disney
…Girvaeu, film expert Serge Bromberg and Lambert to make their points and express their knowledge and enthusiasm for the subject. At a time when general Disney DVD documentaries seem all… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…great for a DTV release, a feature-style Dolby Digital 5.1 surround mix. Points are lost for dropping the originally included DTS from the previous release, probably due to having to… |
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And the Oscar nominations are…
…to its originality. Happy Feet, on the other hand, was the surprise smash of the season and again points up just how dull these awards are going to be. In… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…episodes take their names from one of the two songs featured in that particular show, and not based on any plot points, with the first disc starting out with When… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…(4:3 on disc one, 16:9 on disc two) aren’t anything amazing, just the Droopy theme played over a still graphic that annoyingly points to the animated shorts as “episodes”. Droopy… |
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Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London
…instrumental in bringing Lee to Disney and will remain heavily involved in the projects, which points to direct-to-DVD features more than anything else even though POW will supposedly “develop and… |
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Narnia news: director Apted an "interesting" choice for Voyage…
…is certainly a man who can coax out the most authentic portrayals from his actors, and this is perhaps where he will score major points, with a mostly young cast…. |
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WDFA becomes WDAS. Not the same, is it?
…but done with a black marker effect that looks rushed, lazy in spots and messy in others. Points of irritation: the weak right swish on the W (which looks worse… |
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What the heck? Cult animation, live-action and seals in love!
…the live-action Filmation show The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series, a spin-off from Shazam! which sounds like tremendously bonkers fun! Coming shortly before Jamie Summers and Diana Prince provided… |
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Hoo-Ray! Classic, really-for-real Disney in Hi-Def! Plus TMNT!
…in radioactive ooze! Designed for all Ninja lovers, it’s easy, fun and simple – it says here – and all you have to do to score points is interact with… |
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Birdman, Terabithia, and – finally – contest winners!
…scores points for being “a frequently great-looking show with fun stories from the golden age of Saturday mornings. Fans of this era should enjoy the set thanks to some classic… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…a number of highpoints that continue to outweigh the often over-maligned output of the proceeding decade. If it wasn’t to be until the Eisner/Wells/Katzenberg era, from 1984 onwards, that Disney… |
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Robinsons vs. Transformers
…raise my initial score of just 3 points for the movie to a 4, based on the sheer scale of filmmaking on show. Ironically, though it made over $500 million… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…Although the cover points out that the program is presented in 5.1, it does also contain (to its credit) the information that not all programming is in the surround format…. |
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Archie and the Pussycats, plus Beowulf and TailSpin!
…show. I figured it to be just another 1970s cartoon about funny teens, so I was pleasantly surprised to find how much I enjoyed it”. Rand points out the similarities… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…LucasFilm to the DVD bonuses, the simple fact is that most of this will already be on most collectors’ shelves in other forms and it loses points by not being… |

