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Zootopia
…you of that every few minutes? Would Ratatouille have been even better with that kind of healthy message added to the script as much as possible? No? What, do you… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…some historical inspiration for Remy and the Ratatouille rats’ kitchen escapades, but this is product of its time, the Prohibition jazz age, and there’s nothing particularly remarkable about this one,… |
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The Iron Giant: Signature Edition finally coming to Blu-ray in September
…will be an “Ultimate Collectors Edition.” The 1999 film directed by Brad Bird (“The Incredibles,” “Ratatouille,” “Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol,” “Tomorrowland”) has been fully remastered and enhanced with two… |
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Shrek The Third
…Ratatouille. Though the bottom line no doubt adds up, swapping innovative quirkiness and originality for over-bloated, empty sequels and threequels puts DreamWorks several notches below their lamp-logo’d competition in Emeryville,… |
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Coco
…other studios can’t match. Ratatouille, Wall-E, UP, The Incredibles, Toy Story, Monsters Inc. — all films with humor, heart, and a tight, well-paced plot, and characters you cared about. Of… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…follow the recent Robin Hood by presenting a cropped widescreen image), The Little Mermaid III (ditto!), Ratatouille, Mickey’s Great Clubhouse Hunt, Disney on Blu-Ray, and the Movie Rewards and Vacation… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…included trailers are for the upcoming return to traditional animation, Enchanted, plus DVD releases of Meet The Robinsons, Ratatouille, The AristoCats: Special Edition (in cropped 1.75:1), High School Musical 2,… |
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CalArts class has huge impact on animation history
…Institute of the Arts in the 1970s. “Their journey begins, and ends, with the Walt Disney Studios. As director and writer Brad Bird (The Incredibles, Ratatouille) observes, ‘People think it… |
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Inside Out 2
…Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Up, and Ratatouille. That’s still amazingly good company, of course. But with the release of Inside Out 2, I was hoping Pixar could fix some of… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…animation either, as a sly poke in the closing credits of Disney/Pixar’s current Ratatouille has great fun in pointing out. As such, what we get is by turns elaborately (over)staged… |
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Hi-def, Blu-Ray, and all that Jazz…
…format so far, look for that to change this fall as both Pixar (with Cars and Ratatouille) and DreamWorks (the Shreks) start to release their considerable catalogs. And after that… |
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Renaissance
…of The Polar Express, but somehow doesn’t feel as “real” as The Incredibles or even Ratatouille, but it’s a combination with motion capture that could have an interesting development. The… |
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The Nut Job
…aspect is few and far between here. Of the characters Surley gets the most attention and there’s not anything to fault there. His partner Buddy looks like an emaciated Ratatouille… |
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Bob Peterson removed from Pixar’s The Good Dinosaur?
…be the first Pixar film to have undergone major production changes months before its release. Toy Story 2, Ratatouille, Cars 2, and Brave– all had their directors replaced midway during… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
…who sounds more like the next Disney Channel blonde than how she should, the same teaser as we’ve seen before for Ratatouille, the Disney Movie Rewards program, and the next… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…through the video-based content with the usual Sneak Peeks, here promoting Ratatouille, Santa Clause 3, One Hundred And One Dalmatians, WALL-E, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Little Einsteins, Handy Manny and the… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…Docter’s film: before we had the double progression of human relationships in Ratatouille and precise storytelling of WALL-E; after have mostly been sequels, with the Pixar touch being transferred to… |
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Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!
…heard it would be CG, since I prefer hand drawn animation (even if, since Ratatouille, we’ve seen we could do interesting things in CG!), while waiting for it with great… |
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Despicable Me despicably on Blu-ray and DVD!
…Night Live), Will Arnett (Monsters vs. Aliens, Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears a Who!, Ratatouille), Danny McBride (Tropic Thunder, Pineapple Express), Jack McBrayer (TV’s “30 Rock”, Forgetting Sarah Marshall) and Jemaine… |
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Kachow! The Cars 2: Agents On A Mission Tour
…one of their favorites is the themed tour, particularly for films from Pixar Animation Studios. Whether letting folks cook with Ratatouille‘s Remy or fly a house – well, chair –… |
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Toy Story 3
…some of the most adult themes in any animated film from a major modern animation studio. While Up and Ratatouille before it also were more profound in some of their… |
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Au clair de La Luna with director Enrico Casarosa
Enrico Casarosa joined Pixar Animation Studios in January 2002. He began working as a story artist on Cars and the Academy Award-winning feature Ratatouille. Casarosa’s next project was as story… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…Hundred And One Dalmatians, and given the resurgence in the Xerox look thanks to such projects as Ratatouille’s credit sequences and spin-off short Your Friend The Rat, and especially the… |
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Cars 2
…none of the authentic feel of Ratatouille, and Italy…well, by Italy I’d done a very rare thing and actually fallen asleep during the movie. In order to give Cars 2… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…whose much more successful Mission: Impossible could have ultimately been directed by anybody. Given his very noticeable imprint on The Iron Giant, The Incredibles and Ratatouille, I had been expecting… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…Your Friend the Rat, directed by Academy Award Nominee Jim Capobianco (Best Original Screenplay, Ratatouille), which won the Annie Award in 2007 for Best Animated Short Film. He has released… |
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Soul
…the most diverse as well. As in Ratatouille, where the city of Paris was almost a character in and of itself, here the spirit of New York City is palpable… |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
…ACADEMY HITS A HIGH NOTE WITH “WHAT’S OPERA, DOC?” Oscar®-winning composer Michael Giacchino (Ratatouille, Up) will guide audience members through some of the most inspired and memorable uses of classical… |
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How To Train Your Dragon
…Dean DeBlois (the head writer of Mulan), Bonnie Arnold (producer on Toy Story and Tarzan), Darren Holmes (film editor of The Iron Giant and Ratatouille), John Powell (composer of Happy… |
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Chapman opens up on Brave removal
…Ratatouille (and like Chapman, both directors would soon after leave those studios as well). Chapman even mentions this in her piece, “Animation directors are not protected like live-action directors, who… |
