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Jerry's new book, and Warner's Blu announcement
…Shrek The Third was the only HD DVD-exclusive title out there, compared to the Blu-ray exclusive Disney and Pixar movies, plus the dual format release of a few titles from… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
…into seasons. In this case, this set completes the initial half-hour episodes originally done for The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger by including the final five of these; and… |
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…one for The Wiggles, and the next Scooby movie, Scooby-Doo And The Goblin King. (Apparently, they will never stop making more Scooby movies.) Another Peanuts TV special, new to DVD,… |
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The Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries: The Complete First Season
…(1945). After teaming up the two characters, Freleng directed all of their many theatrical cartoons except for the final one. The series was quite celebrated, as the first pairing of… |
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You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…was in the spirit of the strip. Unlike some of the other latter-day specials, this one has a strong narrative, telling the story of Charlie Brown coming to the rescue… |
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…heard, the featurette does discuss how Vince Guaraldi came up with the idea for using a trombone to take the place of the off-screen adults’ lines. Finally, the participants address… |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…cycles, and so forth. The last piece of the puzzle was Bay jazz pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi, whose music would provide the perfect accent to the struggle between the… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
…understatement, considering the 30,000 – 35,000 people gathered for the event. Nonetheless, given the gigantic screens and pulse-pounding sound, every seat in the house was a good one. Furthermore, sitting… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…of the day, we realized, “Let’s just make the whole thing lore.” Basically, they’ve lived all these adventures, and they’ve defeated all these villains. Now they find themselves without direction,… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…for making the arrangements and providing the movie poster and final frame image from the short; to Eric Goldberg for making this piece possible from the beginning; and to Animated… |
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Floyd Norman: Story Of A Storyman
…and the characters, not to worry about the particular look of the characters or the design of the characters. That job fell to the character designers and the animators in… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…to do that kind of animation. I mean, they had animators there, but they had totally dismantled their hand-drawn pipeline. They didn’t have the scanning or the Ink & Paint… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…done. There was just this wonderful sense that Harryhausen’s monsters were real, despite the sort of lurching quality they had, they had an undeniable reality to them. RI: How did… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…keep a constant quality for the look of them throughout the different steps of their making. I usually started to develop some art concept, then I built a simple 3D… |
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Peter de Sève: the time of his life designing A Bug’s Life
…the way the characters are portrayed and written. So, they would contact me and give me a general outline. Not the manuscript, not the screenplay, but the outline of the… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…the animators for placing their characters within the scene. The viewer is able to “step through” these scenes using the next-button on the DVD remote, to get a closer look… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…sit through the ill-advised Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron DTV sequel? And what is it with DWs and these amazingly long titles?). The style, the camera angles, the in-you-face-CGI-but-suprisingly-flat-2D, the… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…standards (witness the attempt to imitate their classic Baloo The Bear in The Jungle Book with the faded impression of the same character in the recent sequel). The “Doctor Frankenollie”… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…of the year is doomed to fail. There are none of the zip and spark in the characters, but the delivery, and certainly the look of the short is very… |
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Live-Action Series
…11:40, 9:20 and 5:15 in their respective blocks, the troubled Filmation feature Journey Back To Oz is the only release that sticks out for being the one true theatrical trailer… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…the picture do nothing but pull the audience out of the story in a flash, the majority of them wondering where they’ve seen the gags before (and in much better… |
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The Animated Views 300 Giveaway – Winner!
…Thermopylae, it depicts the titanic clash in which King Leonidas (Gerard Butler) and 300 Spartans fought to the death against Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) and his massive Persian army. Experience history… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams
…to them, Jasmine’s Dad the Sultan suggests working at the local school, presumably so the women of the world grow up longing to become the teachers that learn the boys… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…rating. Their War: the robots, production design and digital effects puts the spotlight on the movie’s giant computer generated stars themselves. Rise Of The Robots (13:40) goes back pre-film to… |
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Enchanted‘s Visual Heritage
…out for the name of Robert’s law office, the name of the restaurant where Robert and Giselle share a date, and the many character names – all of them witty… |
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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…wanted more of the same, and The Superman/Aquaman Adventure Hour teamed two of their bigger titles (when there’s trouble under the sea, the Atlantian crime fighter Aquaman took action), also… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…the roles he pops up in, such as the inventor assistant in The Rocketeer and the thankless father role in Edward Scissorhands (though the less said about his turn as… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…minutes, Scheimer ends his eventful tale and the rest, as they say, is history! The Groovie Goolie Get Together sing-along is the same series-closing extended version of the main theme… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…gritty, deeper affairs where the leading ladies discover the hero’s identity (and they both, for a while, lose their powers). In each third film, the hero finds himself under the… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…(2:20) has the singer recording the song interspersed with her reflecting on how it relates to the themes in the movie and how she feels some of the best musical… |
