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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!

…set an overall score of seven points, valid in the face of some of the shortcomings explained in the full review. But the sheer concept of the set itself, an…

Stan Winston to be honored at SIGGRAPH this August

With the recent passing of VFX legend Stan Winston, Sony Pictures Imageworks has decided to change its upcoming SIGGRAPH 2008 “Studio Events” program and instead pay tribute to Stan at…

Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition

…a bit of a hodge-podge of sources: there’s President of Disney Theatrical Productions Thomas Schumacher, who intros us to the Mary and Bert stars of the production at famed theatrical…

Wall-E wins best original song

…Soundtrack Awards 2008. Other winners include James Newton Howard who was named film composer of the year for his scores to Charlie Wilson’s War, Michael Clayton and I Am Legend….

Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!

…to them. They’re not the nightmares in the closet. They’re the cheesy, funny monsters you see in the old movies. AV: Despite all these references, your film addresses a contemporary…

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

the visual effects development. The Blooper Scooper offers up a three minute selection of flubs from the movie (the take slate revealing the original South Of The Border title), mostly…

DreamWorks announces upcoming slate

…images. Thanks to CGIFanatic in the Animated News & Views Forum for the heads up. Check out the details of each upcoming film from the official press release here: How…

Family Guy breaks Emmy glass ceiling with Best Comedy Series nod

the overall comedy category. The Simpsons and King of the Hill have tried in the past but failed to make it, meaning their show got recognition in neither category those…

X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2

…captured and are led to their base where they learn the true identity of the villain behind the mutates. In the conclusion of this storyline, in the episode Reunion, the

Peanuts: 1960’s Collection

…get the team back together, but there is a catch to the uniform offer that would exclude some of the players: the new league they would play in does not…

Race To Witch Mountain

The result is an entertaining Disney picture of the kind we haven’t seen in a while: there’s no comic-ready sidekick to keep sprouting the one-liners (not that the film doesn’t…

Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition

…as is often the case in Hollywood, most of the story elements got changed over the course of its prolonged production history. The movie first entered development with the Shermans…

Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1

…those of the producers, then decided to take a lesson from Disney and climb as close to the top rung of the ladder as they could. They teamed up to…

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…

A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2

…following the popularity of the unrelated 1984 Bill Murray movie of the same name. This time, the show had the sons of the original ghostbusters teamed with the same gorilla,…

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…

Monster House: Widescreen Edition

…to the role of the girl who is the same age as the boys, and yet just a little ahead of them. Staging of the action is quite good as…

Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Mickey Saves Santa

then they’re off in their glove balloon on their quest for the forest. Mickey Go Seek is the final episode, and has the simplest plot. The whole episode is about…

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…

Teen Titans: Trouble In Tokyo

…both the strengths and weaknesses of the show. The animation and design of the movie are very appealing, there is the odd laugh to be had, and the action is…

Popeye: A Sailor’s Story

…Ham Gravy were often, relatively speaking, the “straight men” in the affair, although they certainly had their share of foibles and odd traits. The daily strip had been doing well…

Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy

There is not the traditional squash and stretch of the Fleischer shorts, but there is still a bounce and enthusiasm in the animation that one expects. There is also an…

The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series

Of Isis. And thus was born the combined series The Shazam!/Isis Hour. Based on the success of Shazam!, the idea was obviously to create a new character that the female…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938

…characters (particularly in the early Popeye shorts) were definitively from the Fleischer school of drawing, including the initial use of very non-Segar-like anthropomorphic animals. Gags were often of the mechanical…

Superman – Doomsday

…topper. The Superman titles began publication again with Reign Of The Supermen, for my money the most exciting part of the whole epic. Each of the four Superman books told…

Beetle Bailey: The Complete Collection

…a starting entry, given that so much of the cartoon features the characters out of uniform and away from the base. Nevertheless, it was the start of a modest series…

Anything on DVD this week?

…soon. I’m looking over the DVD release of The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show (ooooh, the nostalgia of it!!!), and will have a review up shortly. Ben has a bunch of

George Of The Jungle: The Complete Original Series

…least of the three segments on George Of The Jungle. Puns remained plentiful on this show, just as they had been on the other Ward productions. The stories are consistently…

DVD reviews: Two more from BCI, plus contest winners

the 1980s. He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe: Volume Two actually involves the 2002 version of the show, basically a reboot of the Filmation series. The newer show certainly…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940

…gone overboard on cleaning these up to the point of destroying the original look of the cartoons. I will, however, complain that the picture wavers horribly during the titles for…