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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…series of wisecracking adventures. The Sweatbox Review: When I was a kid, I just didn’t really warm to the television animation offerings of the 1980s. I enjoyed the various “comedy”… |
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Zorro, Zorro, Zorro…and memories of Richard Todd
…small update today to point you in the direction of our two latest reviews, for the return of the original man in black, Zorro – or more precisely Guy Williams… |
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Ho-ho-ho with our Best Of The Year!
…on the theatrical screen the big animated release of the moment is Disney’s return to traditional animation, but is the film the knockout it needed to be? Not according to… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…back to celebrate the festive season with The Man With The Yellow Hat. The Sweatbox Review: Although Disney’s well-promoted release of The Princess And The Frog has done well to… |
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Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine For You
…as kind of filler to the rest of the disc, rounding up the 50 minutes of the original VHS release. There’s nothing particularly noteworthy about the episode, but using Piglet… |
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Oscar goes Blu!
…talkback in the forums that some of the titles may not be premium grade Oscar hopefuls, but there’s still a lot of fun to be had in the line-up –… |
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Godzilla stomps back onto the big screen
…Through the terms of the agreement, Legendary Pictures has acquired the rights to produce a movie inspired by Toho’s Godzilla, a franchise the Japanese company created and has nurtured for… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…John Musker and myself to consider the idea of setting the fairy tale The Frog Prince in New Orleans. We pitched him the story that became the basis of the… |
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Armageddon
…At La Ciotat Station, which created the myth of the then-stunned audience, seeing such sights on a screen for the first time, screaming out of the theater in panic! Destruction… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 5
…Review: The end of X-Men: The Animated Series in September 1997 was kind of the end of an era for fans of the show. From its premiere in 1992, many… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…and, indeed, as appeared back in the LaserDisc days? Supposedly, this Deluxe Anniversary Collection offers the “cream-of–the-crop” picks from the duo’s long career, taking in Hanna-Barbera’s original theatrical animated shorts,… |
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Toy Story‘s full specs and final artwork
Full specifications for the releases of Toy Story 3 as well as the contents of the Ultimate Toy Box DVD and Blu-ray Disc set and final cover art for them… |
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Rudolph / Frosty / Santa Claus: The Original Christmas Classics
…has stepped in on more than one occasion to present some of the cream of the rest of the crop of Rankin/Bass’ mostly cherished output, and now three of the… |
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Sherlock: Season One
…remarks, Holmes references and, with the cast members, their approaches to the characters, location stories and the challenges of making the three episodes in reverse order, providing excellent insights. Making… |
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Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
…of the last times where the classic H-B characters really felt like themselves. The bonus special on the disc could have easily been the headliner itself, with the 1960s versions… |
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Space: 1999: Season One
…in this show’s first season, perhaps more than actual science does, given the wonky nature of the science presented on the series. Whether we consider the unlikelihood of the moon… |
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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
…In August 1997, he returned to features, courtesy of the direct-to-video Pooh’s Grand Adventure: The Search for Christopher Robin. From there, a series of movies were released theatrically: The Tigger… |
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Sigourney Weaver back for Avatar 2?
…dies in science fiction. He’s told me the stories for the next two movies and I have to say that they’re absolutely wonderful and there’s a real treat in store.”… |
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Care Bears Gets Reanimated Again
We’ve seen many of our beloved 1980s cartoon return to TV via the Hub, Cartooon Network, or single DVD release for a quick profit return. Toon Zone reports that American… |
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The Lorax
…of Thneedville to find one for her. There he meets the Once-ler, who tells him the story of the disappearance of all the trees and the eponymous guardian of the… |
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Jason Segal will not be involved in Muppets sequel
…which direction Disney will choose to go with the sequel, but it does seem likely that Walter the Muppet–the brother of Segal’s character in the first one–will make a return…. |
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Justice League: Doom
…organizations as the Injustice League of the comics, or the Legion Of Doom from the Challenge Of The Super Friends TV show (and later the final season of Justice League:… |
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Secret Of The Wings
…change, this movie follows the lead of the others by promoting a season of the year. In Secret Of The Wings, Tinker Bell experiences the fairy preparation for winter, where… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
In December of 2010, I was running a poll asking our readers to pick the best animated films of the decade. Unfortunately during the final week of voting I had… |
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Recent Toy Story 4 rumors debunked
…100 percent inaccurate. Fortunately for fans of the franchise, Woody and Buzz Lightyear will return this year in the half-hour special Toy Story of Terror, airing on ABC this Halloween…. |
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Full Disney D23 panel recap; Mickey Mouse in Get a Horse! to be shown before Frozen
…of the voice cast, including Amy Poehler as the voice of Joy, Lewis Black as the voice of Anger, Mindy Kaling as the voice of Disgust, Phyllis Smith as the… |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…father is Admiral Blake, the Commander of the Navy. Jim and Kate vie for top of the class but have very different skills. Captain Amelia is dean of the Academy,… |
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The Wind Rises
…the makers of the English version of the film, from producer Gary Rydstrom, to the all-star voice cast. I like this type of featurette, but always lament the lack of… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…on the production of any number of theatrical releases of the time, Walt Disney Presents: The Best Doggoned Dog In The World (1961 Version) is one of the more basically… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…DIC Entertainment (where he did the theme song for the A.L.F. cartoon series in the 80’s), working on the first Open Season during its earliest months of development, and directing… |
