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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…deserved their reputations. With Disney’s DVD release of Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind, I was able to tick another film off of my list. I think it’s safe… |
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The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Crime Series
…course, there is the infamous group of evildoers that populate the show. While the bad guys typically died at the end of each story in the comic strip, they were… |
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TaleSpin: Volume 2
…in the air and on the ground. The Sweatbox Review: Of all the Disney Afternoon shows that premiered in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there are two that stand… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…of the day, we realized, “Let’s just make the whole thing lore.” Basically, they’ve lived all these adventures, and they’ve defeated all these villains. Now they find themselves without direction,… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…How did the wider aspect ratio of the film influence the day to day workflow compared to the workflow of many of the standard ratio movies before then? BM: It… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…own door – a door that resides in the absolutely huge warehouse storage of Monsters Inc… The Sweatbox Review: The third in the trio of this year’s nominations for the… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…a little off in the shots where the human cast have to “handle” the animated characters, and the perspective on some of the running and dodging shots doesn’t come off… |
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Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…a note to the animators of DisneyToon Studios Australia, thanking them for their years of hard work “creating beautiful hand drawn animation”. Nice, but how about thanking them instead by… |
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series
…obvious fastening on the back of the Snowman suit! Not ever coming within yards of this show before (the closest I got were some of the later spin-off cartoon versions,… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…the picture do nothing but pull the audience out of the story in a flash, the majority of them wondering where they’ve seen the gags before (and in much better… |
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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…rescue? Join them all in an assortment of 18 slices of superheroic action from the vaults of the Filmation Studio. The Sweatbox Review: If there was one thing guaranteed by… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…childish look to the animation, which isn’t a criticism, but a nice juxtaposition as the children’s television look of the piece plays against its themes of a poet’s attempts to… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…Bowie, there’s lots of footage of the rest of the cast in the recording booth miming their lines to pre-rendered animation. Serial voice-offender Jimmy Fallon, who actually doesn’t grate as… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…parents into questioning such weighty themes as the very nature of reality and, not least, the idea of the quantum multiverse! Not wishing to partake in these theories is Jane… |
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A Magic Gourd, Chipmunks, Madagascar's Nana and Wonder Woman? It's another packed post!
…yourselves! Rodney’s also provided his comments on the latest Alvin And The Chipmunks compilation, The Mystery Of The Easter Chipmunk, a timely disc of four adventures that coincides with Alvin’s… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…Pixar’s competing film of that season that has stood the test of time more solidly, unhampered by the diminishing returns of the sequels upon sequels that the not-so-jolly green ogre… |
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Roy E. Disney 1930-2009
…and the restoration of the True Life Adventures, the continuation of Fantasia and plans for more music films, which resulted in another Oscar nomination, for the completion of the aborted… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 5: Down In New Orleans
…one of the real important steps. The rest of the time, we would just be taking the results of that week end, and for myself, just spending a lot of… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…continuing the Pixar family theme, and John Lasseter’s Car (1:27) recounts the “humble death-box” car the director of Toy Story drove at the time of the film’s making. Studio Stories:… |
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The Pirates of Dark Water: The Complete Series
…and how they could stretch the storyline, making it last through syndication. The season begins in the episode The Dark Disciples with the return of Ren to Octopon where we… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…the original Goofy shorts, from Michael Giacchino’s use of the second theatrical Goofy theme, to the artists depiction of the vintage character design. The intention was to make a “lost”… |
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A Christmas Carol
…shots, such as the rehearsal beforehand, Zemeckis speaking with Carrey over creative choices, or alternate takes. Often, the picture-in-picture window offers two views of the same shot from different angles,… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…bring to their characters that the digital puppets just can’t replicate. Often, the picture-in-picture window offers two views of the same shot from different angles; the footage is not the… |
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Winnie the Pooh and Burny, too: a chat with animation legend Burny Mattinson
…served as a key member of the story team on Disney’s contemporary classics including Aladdin, Beauty & the Beast, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan,… |
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Happy Feet Two
…these kinds of films sort of lost the plot. An emphasis on crazy, out-there concepts emerged: cars that drove themselves, self-made robots, even the original Ice Age was more off-kilter… |
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Finding Nemo: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…from Knick Knack, and one of the boats the characters fly past in the dock is named Skiff-A-Dee-Doo-Dah (another is The Surly Mermaid). A quick rendition of A Whale Of… |
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Frankenweenie
…the end of the movie. On the regular non-3D Blu-ray, the definition is just as good, but the spotless image doesn’t really help the mechanical feeling of the animation. Non-dimensional… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…realize that the data disc has been left in the seat of the boys’ land speeder, but for the rest of the show the boys try to return it to… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
…Then there’s the episode where SpongeBob tries to teach Plankton the meaning of a “team” — complete with a song break. Then there’s the time travel episode. Sprinkled between these… |
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Gladiators Of Rome
…(why exactly are they serving Cassio anyway?), and their scenes–of which there are really too many–aren’t nearly as clever as the filmmakers apparently think they are. Similarly, there are several… |
