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Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1

…moments. Almost any one Bosko cartoon is enjoyable, but watching many Bosko cartoons can become a trifle dull. Bosko is worth watching, but perhaps in small doses. Still, my “Overall”…

The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit

…as pointing out inside jokes and small details you may have missed. Finally, we have a Robbie The Reindeer Trailer, putting the spotlight on another, more recent Aardman film. In…

Heavy Metal: Collector’s Edition

…deal, but consider yourself warned. I’m sure most will find it quite mild. The animation was farmed out to several small studios in Canada (in fact, it is technically a…

Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition

…have bold outlines, in the style of those small-television days, and the colors remain bright despite the age of the shows. The puppet shows get a “3”, while the cartoons…

Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Special Edition

…The budget also necessitated using a small cast, so the series has a heavy focus on the three main characters, and Harry and Mary Jane spend too much time as…

Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons

…established, the show rarely wandered from it. For kids, though, such familiarity can be comforting, and this was after all a Saturday morning cartoon for the small fry. So why…

A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2

…efforts of a small group of scientists attempting to give mankind another chance after a world holocaust. After a long production delay Journey Back To Oz finally went to theaters…

Broken Saints (Original Release)

…about the making of the DVD. A host of other bonuses large and small follows on this first disc, starting with some trailers. Prophecy Trailer (3:13) is for the BS…

Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume One

…Trio again, that I almost forgot that this episode also has Inch High Private Eye suing for discrimination when he’s fired for being too small. Inch’s tiny-ness totally freaks out…

Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition

…to invite Angel to his mansion. By this time, Angel and Omar have made up— with no small amount of passion, I might add. Omar is still jealous, but ends…

Cinderella: Platinum Edition

…and 50s, not to mention the “It’s a Small World” attraction at the Disney parks, defining the “Disney style” possibly as much as any animator. Storyboard To Film Comparison –…

Drawn Together: Season One

…good, decent, and truly awful “reality” shows come to the small screen. And maybe, just maybe, the public has begun to tire of all the gimmicks. Thank goodness that the…

Aeon Flux: The Complete Collection

…bliss in her presence. Refraizure is a more conventional story (by Aeon Flux standards) that sees Aeon break into a prison while she uncovers a scheme to harvest a small,…

FernGully: The Last Rainforest: Family Fun Edition

…to Disc 2, there are a number of bonuses that are substantial, though not quite as heavy as a good Disney Platinum Edition. It was with a small amount of…

Justice League: Season One

…can now more easily accept the small missteps, because these were necessary learning stages on the way to making a superior cartoon. With that in mind, I can now relax,…

Superman: Brainiac Attacks

…that he has been able to gather only a small fragment of Kryptonite, barely enough to threaten Superman. Right away we can recognize that this whiny simpleton is not the…

DuckTales: Volume 2

…I wasn’t too impressed with the audio quality on the last set, but this one seems to be a small step up too, though maybe not worthy of a jump…

The Fox And The Hound 2

…threatened to ruin their friendship forever. No bittersweet resolutions allowed here. This whole movie is small kid-friendly, perfectly suitable for babysitting the little tykes while you prepare supper. As The…

The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Crime Series

…Courageous Cat. Like those shows, Dick Tracy is best appreciated in small doses. The animation is limited, and backgrounds are typically sparse. While the opening holds some promise, the design…

A Scanner Darkly

…is apparently not present in the book, but as with so many other details in the movie, it little matters. Some people get so caught up in the small stuff,…

Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2

…backgrounds could be kept quite simple since anything else would not register on the small TV screens of the time anyway. (Alex Anderson, Jay Ward and their colleagues had found…

The Invincible Iron Man

…with the Dragons and provides a very small dose of romance. It seems that the newly raised city includes the temple of The Mandarin, cruellest of all of China’s ancient…

The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition

…which for me is not a good thing. That big-nosed, small-mouthed, pointy-chinned look just doesn’t appeal to me. And when the animation is as lacking as it is in this…

Batman Beyond: Season Three

…Part 2, and The Curse Of The Kobra, Part 1. These concise discussions worked very well, and I found their talks on each episode full of good information. A small

The Best Of Bravestarr

…the judge is none other than the daughter of McBride, Tex’s former partner. The town is unimpressed by the small delegation, but the Marshall shows surprising strength in dealing with…

The New Adventures Of Batman: DC Classics

…novelty to see our favorite comic book heroes brought to life on the small screen. Back in the 1970s, I can recall Super Friends (which had its own Batman, of…

The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series

…first thing that takes away from the interviews, however, is the bizarrely small windows that the interviewees appear in; and more important is the stark absence of star Joanna Cameron,…

The Tick Vs. Season Two

small children with magnifying glasses, the ants are fighting back! Unfortunately, The Tick is totally weirded out by having hundreds of ants crawl into his spandex jammies, forcing him to…

Darkwing Duck: Volume 2

…better than in the DuckTales sets, but neither will set your heart afire. Music and dialog is well reproduced, and there is a small sense of spaciousness in the sound…

Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series

…Master, Mr. Mxyzptlk (with two appearances), and Dollmaker (who was intended to be Toyman in the original script). Considering the small number of episodes this season, there was not much…