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The Muppets' Wizard of Oz a "middling affair"?
Jim Hill Media writes that though the film is not bad, The Muppets’ Wizard of Oz is being touted as a “middling affair” from several critics. However, the site writes… |
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Is Seinfeld a Moron?
…magazines, with an introduction penned by Jerry Seinfeld, into an animated series, says Variety. But is Seinfeld’s involvement actually deeper than it appears? Moron’s Broth, like Ted L. Nancy, the… |
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Drink up me 'earties: A Pirates webcast for everyone
…lavishly decorated sets and special effects, Pirates of the Caribbean is one of the most spectacular attractions ever created for Disney Parks. More than 500 million people have experienced the… |
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Shorts International brings new films to iTunes
…including the shortlisted The Fan and the Flower, the nominated Badgered and The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello, and the winning The Moon and the Son: An Imagined Conversation…. |
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The Mantis Parable DVD
…its limited budget, the eight-minute animated short-film described by film-critic Michael Medved as “artful and engaging…a skillful, thought-provoking, densely packed work with world class animation”, has captivated audiences around the… |
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Elliott and Rossio talk animation
Screenwriters Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio talk to Coming Soon about their involvement in the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy. Having written Aladdin, The Road to El Dorado, Shrek and… |
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Hey Seuss! Horton hears our Views! Plus the new League…
…certainly an aspect of the movie that our own James R Whitson warmed to, as he explains in his Animated View on the movie, but it seems there’s much more… |
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We get animated with Dr Seuss!
…as Ben’s take on the recent DVD release of Horton’s animated TV special. That’s a whole lot of Animated Seuss from the folks at Animated Views! Also, many thanks to… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…usual for a syndicated series, Tiny Toons had an initial 65-half hours originally created, meaning that with 35 shows in this set, we should have Season One completed in a… |
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101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (live-action)
…would later bring to Enchanted. He’s not best served by the schizophrenic script, which kicks right off with viewers being expected to have seen 101. It’s this lack of set… |
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Jungle Book's Rocky the Rhino concepts!
…classic was the last animated film that Walt personally touched. Featuring a ton of all new bonus features, this anticipated release will be available for a limited time, celebrating the… |
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WALL•E: Angus MacLane’s burning love for BURN•E!
It’s almost a tradition, now, for a computer animated film to be accompanied by a new animated short – and in Pixar’s cases usually a “side-story” that runs parallel to… |
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Last remaining of the Nine Old Men, legendary animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95
…Hound in 1981, and tutoring such new talents as Andreas Deja and Glen Keane. Ollie also committed his vast experience and knowledge to the printed page, in a number of… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest: Season One, Volume One
…animation houses, with work contributed from Korea, Japan, France, and the United States. The slickness of the backgrounds and the effects does help to disguise shortfalls in the animation, so… |
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Witch Mountain, Super Friends, and Disney history!
…but fully endorsed and supported by the current Studio brass. Directed by Ted Thomas, Walt & El Grupo chronicles the ten-week trip Walt and his artists took to South America… |
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The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu
…brightest talents contributed to the War effort by making films for the United States military. Many of us were bowled over by the Disney Wartime set that was released in… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1
…network sweep. The science fiction show from the 1960s had started to gain a large cult during its run in syndication, and the animated series used many of the same… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…real jolt to MGM’s cartoon fortunes would come with the arrival of a 1940 cartoon attributed to Ising but in reality was created and directed by Bill Hanna and Joe… |
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The Adventures Of Aquaman: The Complete Collection
…less than expected. Scratches come and go, but overall the elements were in better shape than I thought they would be. Compression problems are absent and I noted no edge… |
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Aladdin: Platinum Edition
…time I saw the theatrical trailer to the day it came to big screens in town. I was so excited about this film that I wanted to know everything about… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…Ted Turner’s Turner Pictures (who had previously given us the animated “masterpiece” Tom And Jerry: The Movie), the film was distributed by Warner Bros, around the time of their giant… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…The film itself, as directed by Theodore Thomas, resembles a very generously budgeted home movie, though the wonderful vintage footage (much seen before by the avid Disney fan), as well… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…that Brother Bear got shunted up ahead, as it means that the final 2D, hand-drawn Disney animated feature (for now at least) will end up being a big, bright, colourful,… |
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Tarzan II
…new stories hitherto untold. In the same way that The Enchanted Christmas elaborated on the Something There sequence in the original Beauty And The Beast, and how the upcoming Bambi… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…started running out of new ideas, a purely animated series was called for. Already rivalling Alice for attention in the cartoons was Julius The Cat, but Winkler had married Universal… |
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Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!
…sneaked in some DVD Deals on today’s release of Flushed Away, including a snazzy-looking Wal-Mart exclusive double-disc set. He’s also just posted a great interview with Ice Age‘s Scrat’s director… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…Meet The Robinsons was something a little different on theatrical release, and it remains one of the more interesting, quirky and original animated features in recent computer generated years, including… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…programs have before been presented in these Golden Collections, and to shore up disc space, Extremes And Inbetweens is presented in two halves, cut across discs one and two. Presented… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…from an age when animation was created with pencils, is no less sophisticated, being enormously amusing from beginning to end. Director Chuck Jones had previously collaborated with Theodor “Dr Seuss”… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…to just before John Byrne and Marv Wolfman reinvented him in 1986, and the various animated series like Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, The Fantastic Four and little odds and… |
