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Green Lantern: First Flight
…appearances in more recent TV cartoons; but he had never headlined a project before now. With the advent of the direct-to-video movie, Warner Bros. now has the opportunity to do… |
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Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
…Show in 1984. The entirety of the 1983 shows would not see American broadcast until the USA Network showed a conglomeration of DC Comics cartoons (including Filmation ones) in a… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…the substandard, workmanlike storytelling along the way, the Princesses both pop up for a confirmation at the end of their segments, just like those Filmation cartoons used to do on… |
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Astro Boy And Anime Come To The Americas
…Likewise, it is fascinating to read about how Ladd and his team were forced to alter the original cartoons to adhere to American broadcast standards, particularly where violence was concerned…. |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
…mix of recycled Golden Age cartoons and Hanna-Barbera product, alternative animation of a different kind came to the screen in a series of action shows imported from oversees. A major… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…Hal Sutherland; they were later joined by radio announcer Norm Prescott. Generation X’ers grew up on their cartoons and still remember them fondly. It is only now, with the release… |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…1994. Also in 1994, two other new shows were placed together to form the syndicated Marvel Action Hour. The two featured cartoons were Iron Man and Fantastic Four, each running… |
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Drawn Together: Season One
…open with a written warning that these cartoons are NOT for kids. Pay attention! They’re not kidding! In addition, the episodes on the DVD are uncensored, restoring all the cursing… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…best ever seen in Peanuts cartoons. The thing to do is to try to ignore the movie’s faults and keep your remote handy to pass over at least a couple… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa
…is vivid. The characters practically jump off the screen, and I saw no compression problems anywhere. Television CGI cartoons often come out looking edgy, but the picture in this show… |
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Justice League Unlimited: Season Two
…and produced some of the finest television cartoons ever in the re-titled Justice League Unlimited. They wrapped up a number of plot threads, even tying everything up with the prior… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season Two
…in various episodes this season; but this set of episodes is more about Dr. Venture and his foes than it is about making fun of old cartoons. The first episode… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume Two
…sloppy, and the show exemplifies much of what was bad about 1980s syndicated cartoons; but the show is not a total loss, as the strength of the classic characters can… |
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POPEYE!!!
…tell you guys and gals, this one was worth the wait. The cartoon restoration is generally excellent, and the content is beyond reproach. We can finally see how these cartoons… |
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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…field, but nothing you can’t get from watching cartoons on TV. There is also a French track, and English subtitles for the hearing impaired. Final Cut: You have got to… |
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What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season
…is on which disc. Ink And Paint: The video is, as near as I can tell, perfect. Digital post-production makes transfers of modern cartoons relatively easy to put to disc,… |
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It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…best that the Peanuts cartoons had to offer. This disc is heartily recommended for anyone who has ever enjoyed watching the antics of Snoopy and Good Old Charlie Brown. Animated… |
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Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2
…very sparse (or nonexistent), and stay quite ordinary. Unlike some other cheaply produced cartoons, Astro Boy favors simple literal drawings for its backgrounds over more interesting graphic pop art styles…. |
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Astro Boy (1980): The Collection Box Set
…available); I cannot recall if it was aired this way in North America. Incidentally, it is always fun to catch glimpses of Japanese culture in cartoons and cinema. I was… |
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I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown
…animated cartoons from 1961, which were advertisements for the Ford Falcon automobile. There is also two minutes of 1963 animation from a Schulz documentary produced by Medelson and Melendez that… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Tomorrowland: Disney In Space And Beyond
…cutting-edge, and very witty, and sometimes reminded me of the UPA cartoons of the 1950s. At the end, Disney introduces a new Frontierland episode of “The Horse of the West”,… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…to the public now had new superstars like SpongeBob SquarePants and Fairly Odd Parents – all shows with a clear creative force behind them. Executives were looking for innovative cartoons… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…be one of the most popular and memorable cartoons to come out of the 80s. The Secret Of The Sword (the first five episodes of the series) begins with Adam,… |
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Raketu CEO Greg Parker on John K. collaboration
…them cartoons – ad supposed to be? What was the messaging that was supposed to be inside this?’ Working with John and some of the other colleagues of John, we… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…they made cartoons. I knew absolutely nothing, and I can’t draw or anything. So I learned it all on the job, as far as the animation side. As far as… |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…might be an influence on me is that I grew up in Korea and the art surrounding me was Asian art and also Korean and Japanese cartoons. Asian art is… |
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Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!
…hand from classic cartoons to illustrate the points. Once I realized that the notes were being passed around by the animation folks in London, and that I had amassed a… |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…the Roger Rabbit “Maroon Cartoons”, Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit and Trail Mix-Up. But this was no ordinary sequel that was being envisioned by the Disney Studios and Steven Spielberg’s… |
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Pinocchio Deluxe Edition
…Pinocchio finally has its US special edition release, let’s hope they are, along with the short series of four Figaro cartoons that Gepetto’s little kitten starred in with Minnie Mouse… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…were four more Pigs cartoons, each of lower degrees of success), the Studio has jumped on this bandwagon too, issuing follow-ups to sequels that no one particularly asked for, but… |
