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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…keep it a secret from everybody, but it just seemed to make sense to us. AV: Considering all of the writers on the film, how is it chosen whose ideas… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…which were now focusing on establishing their own CG production facilities (which oddly enough, they already had just a year or two before – something called The Secret Lab –… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…think it’s any secret that I’m a “Chuck Jones-ophile,” and that weighs heavily on me and when we were doing Back in Action we were trying to find the “EveryBugs”… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…my core… In the past, revered critic Anton Ego made no secret of his disdain for Chef Gusteau’s famous motto, “Anyone can cook”. But, after experiencing “something new”, he finally… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Deep in Retroville, young Jimmy Neutron is secretly on the search for extra-terrestrial life. After a seemingly failed experiment (involving the kitchen toaster doubling as a satellite!)… |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…holds the secret of the past and the future in his special powers, a power that the dreaded Horned King needs to activate the Black Cauldron. Within the Cauldron is… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…Don Bluth had shown that traditional cel animation could be achieved on similar budgets with The Secret Of NIMH, and Disney’s own The Great Mouse Detective was the first feature… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…helps if you are a fan of the original comic, but even for non-Asterix aficionados the story is fun, following Roman Marcus Sourpuss’ attempts to discover the secret of the… |
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The Rescuers
…Bianca. Bianca is an agent for The Rescue Aid Society, a secret rodent organization that helps those bigger than themselves out of danger. When a message in a bottle is… |
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The Lion King 1½
…of The Lion King, as seen from the viewpoints of its two supporting characters and eventual break-out stars, Timon and Pumbaa, the meerkat and warthog double-act that have also enjoyed… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…secret: that it was him who killed the younger bear’s mother… The Sweatbox Review: If things had gone as originally planned, Brother Bear would have followed Home On The Range… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…that appealed to different audiences, often with more serious themes and plots. Around this time, adaptations of books such as Watership Down, The Secret Of NIMH and The Plague Dogs… |
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Shrek 2
…secret plan with Fiona’s Fairy Godmother to be rid of Shrek and set up Fiona’s marriage to the Godmother’s son, Prince Charming. Into all this comes Puss In Boots, a… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
…about everyone and everything, it’s not just the terrorists that get the predictable jab in the arm from Matt and Trey, co-writing again here with secret weapon Pam Brady. Seemingly… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…featurette and the brilliant The Secret Of NIMH among his company’s first offerings. A modest box-office success, NIMH was triumphant in its animation, returning to the classic style of the… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume One!
…a number of episodes) and to the very beginnings of time in part four, The Secret Of Mastadon Valley. The series opener concludes with the fifth and final part, The… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…Secret Of The Magic Gourd, Disney’s first international co-production effort, outsourced to Centro Pictures and originally intended for release in China last year. It seems that the company will be… |
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Ratatouille, Tinker Bell problems?; NIMH DVD!
…feature, The Secret Of NIMH, has been appraised as a suitable candidate for special edition treatment on DVD after the vanilla MGM disc screwed up the color timing. Fox Home… |
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Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!
…gorilla Tracy on their team! In the super-secret missions assigned to them by the mysterious “Zero”, the trio of bumbling detectives confronts phantoms, vampires, werewolves, the Frankenstein monster, mobsters, Vikings,… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…you’re asked to input a secret password, but I didn’t make it through all the games and couldn’t be bothered to find out what the treasure was. Knowing my luck,… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…happy feet and the movie starts to kick in and find its groove, pushing its not so top secret weapon to the fore. Penguins. Are. Cute. Especially baby penguins, and… |
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We need your help!
…Theater. The other banner heads off in a new direction: we’re on the hunt for fresh faces to both Animated News and Animated Views. It’s no secret that adding content… |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…they keep secret from not only themselves but the audience too! Indeed, by the end of the its just shy of three hours running time, I didn’t care who was… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…the big city looking for work. Grandpa Archibald, an African explorer who brought together the very tall Matassalai and very small Minimoy tribes, is also missing, with the secret location… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…of a somewhat showboating Carlos Bernard, Kiefer Sutherland showed just what a class act he is. Some secrets were spilled, some footage from the upcoming special was screened and the… |
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Ariel's Beginning's composers sing, and Open Season 2!?
…no secret that I was no fan of the first outing, which I simply feel was marketed incorrectly and might have made more impact if the teenage crass comedy it… |
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Yogi! Fred! Caspian! All on DVD!
…very fun secret agent spoof that sees the lovable caveman doubling for yet another doppelganger. The usual shenanigans ensue, though as Rand makes a point of saying, the numerous song… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…and, from their own menu option, previews for Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Secret Of The Magic Gourd, TinkerBell And The Lost Treasure a Think Fast trivia video game, Wizards Of Waverly… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 4
…is a secret chamber in the pyramid where he hibernates. He then develops a plan to go back in time to destroy the pyramid before he is able to use… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…they keep secret from not only themselves but the audience too! Indeed, by the end of the its just shy of three hours running time, I didn’t care who was… |
