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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume Two
…premise just doesn’t get any less surreal in the last half of this series. It’s still space hero Flash Gordon, jungle legend The Phantom, and world adventurer Mandrake teaming up… |
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The Adventures Of Aquaman: The Complete Collection
…the discs. The plots are fairly repetitive, but they make up for it with style, similar to Space Ghost. Typically, Aquaman and Aqualad encounter a threat (usually an alien or… |
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Bravestarr: Volume One
…space adventure, did provide something different for cartoon audiences (although its contemporary Adventures Of The Galaxy Rangers had superficial similarities, which may have also harmed Bravestarr’s performance). The animation, though,… |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Complete Animated Series
…Hero High, The Freedom Force, Space Sentinels, Mission: Magic, A Snow White Christmas, Ark II, Space Adademy, The Ghost Busters (live action), Jason of Star Command, and ISIS. Scripts, storyboards,… |
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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…me hooked up to a harness. The idea of a lack of gravity and floating in space – that was a concept that the artists found a little difficult. They… |
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Frank Walsh: Setting The World of Narnia
…that suited the space that was dictated for the set (and the available stage space in Prague). Over many weeks this involved constant submissions to Roger Ford and Andrew Adamson… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…but there was very little reference work for Maleficent because Marc generally kept her still so her movement was limited because she was always in a controlled, confined space. RI:… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…narrative space, consumes all the oxygen and monopolizes the moral high ground, so the trick was to allow him a bit of sympathy. During the first rotoscope sequence we see… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…a popular movie concept at the time when the comic Cat Balloo aped epic westerns and In Like Flint was the Austin Powers of its day, turning the James Bond… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…The Mouse’s appearances in the short subjects became more and more spaced apart, until Walt suggested another comeback…this time a feature-length Mickey adventure based around the classic Jack And The… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…of the great adventure themes. Seems the short may have been temp tracked by a couple of James Horner cues though…there’s the unmistakable mark of his The Rocketeer in the… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…cast (though as with all other Lion King projects, Zazu’s Rowan Atkinson fails to show up once more, meaning that Timon and Pumbaa get more stage space). Perhaps it’s something… |
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Home On The Range
…confusion by some touching moments thanks to James Stewart’s delicate vocal readings. Home On The Range, officially Disney’s 44th and final animated film in the list that starts with Snow… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…feature and the previews, the rest of Disc One is taken up by a waste of space pan-and-scan full-screen version of the main feature (be aware that the Fast Play… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…a very funny sci-fi send-up set in a bar frequented by some of film’s most recognisable aliens, robots and villainous space creatures. The Eric Armstrong-directed short was Imageworks’ test project… |
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Flushed Away
…Kensington Gardens. On trying to find a way home, Roddy soon bumps into the Jammy Dodger’s skipper Rita, in a spot of bother herself with The Toad and some really… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…other for sound space. As such, there are no dynamics to the track – indeed the hyper opening scenes may be the film’s biggest detrimental effect – and it remains… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…adorable little character, and Bobby Lockwood’s voice reminded me a great deal of Paul Terry’s pitch in the stop-motion James And The Giant Peach. And way down in the cast… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…all vying for space. McNeil drops out for the second episode, with monster guru Bob Burns filling in. Both tracks are high energy, thanks to Wingert’s enthusiasm and the fine… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…a weirder tone, and just as I wondered if it had lost direction – suddenly – within the space of two short scenes, the warmhearted musical comedy penguin movie turns… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…Norm Prescott’s follow-up to Disney’s Pinocchio, an often oddly entertaining shambles named Pinocchio In Outer Space. It was animated by the prolific Belvision Studio in Belgium, who would also later… |
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Renaissance
…of films themselves, and also acknowledged are the crime stories of James Ellroy, from which they gained inspiration. Nicholas Dodd’s music gets some space, but there’s nothing on the English… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…(uh-oh…four Belfrys!), A Cold Winter’s Night (foreshadowing Treasure Planet’s space-ships and Happy Feet’s dancing penguins!), Father Knows Beast, Back To The Past (Dads to the rescue again when the guys… |
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TMNT
…site, Fred Claus, the TMNT games and action figure merchandise and a push for the recent action/comedy releases of Space Ghost, Birdman and Droopy collections. The main menu itself is… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…are those thick orange legs and in is a sleeker design, much more bird-like, in director James “Shamus” Culhane’s classic, which may offend today due to racial stereotypes. Kudos to… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…Disney” badge. The back cover also makes a big thing out of Disney’s new logo…it takes up a fair and noticeable chunk of space in the bottom right hand corner…. |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…be heard. Horton himself has gotten himself into this trouble by being naturally inquisitive, whereas the other jungle dwellers are too closeted in their own space to be bothered or… |
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The Wild
…some huge battle that we were supposed to cheer loudly over, even though there was plenty of space for both, vastly differing films. So, let’s throw all the talk about… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…DVD and theatrical releases including Pinocchio’s Platinum Edition, The Princess And The Frog teaser, Space Buddies, Oliver & Company 20th Anniversary, The Cheetah Girls: One World, the Disney Movie Rewards… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…shine through. With the very same opening credit sequence taking care of Dexter Douglas’ backstory and Freakazoid’s origins – nerd computer ace gets zapped into cyberspace to become a lunatic… |

