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Ratatouille
…with the biggest names in the business. They picked the ones that worked with the characters. And the well known voices are well hidden under French accents keeping them from… |
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Cannes you dig it? Plus Disney ditches the Platinums…
…The Wall – the mirror can find the secret princess inside each viewer with a series of questions, then create for them a personal message from their favorite princess who… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 2
…to take them prisoner. Along the way, they also meet Ka-Zar and Shanna, two humans who cohabit the island and who mistrust the mutates. Eventually, Prof. X and Magneto are… |
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Up
…past the first amazing minutes and then been introduced to the more fantastical elements of the film, everything else flows naturally. The laughs come often and, unlike films from other… |
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The Art Of Up
…lost world where time has stopped. Indeed, dozens of photos were taken there by Pete Docter and friends to help them capture and bring back home the right feeling, and… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…the character who, over the years, changed least). The breakout success of the film and the pressure from distributors for more cat and mouse war meant the development of the… |
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Watchmen: Director’s Cut
…the usual topics of conversation and reminding of the similar “exposé” on the Sin City BD, often splitting between the movie and visual effects shots and original graphic novel and… |
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Lots of classic super-Warner goodness!
We end the week with a dip into the Warner Archives for a look at six titles from the Collection: the grease and sawdust drama The Big Circus, the Arabian… |
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Witch Mountain, Super Friends, and Disney history!
…and triumph during the Disney renaissance period that culminated in the 1990s. Hahn’s new film promises the full dope, and I hope he has been given the freedom to express… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…their 1990s release years. Occasionally the bulk of the costumes reveal limitations in the performers’ movements, some of the visual effects work reveals the tight budgeting, and the Shredder/Splinter dynamic… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!: Season One, Vol. 3 – Hello Mummy
…cash is recovered. Sensing a mystery, the gang decides to investigate and their clues lead them to the theater of a master puppeteer. There, they find a counterfeit $20 bill… |
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Bedknobs and Shermans; Earth and Our Gang!
…M. Sherman for a delightful interview on the recent re-release of Bedknobs And Broomsticks on DVD and on the eve of the upcoming CD retrospective The Sherman Brothers Songbook. For… |
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Grave Of The Fireflies: Collector’s Series
…in his countrymen. Partially because of Seita and Setsuko’s isolation, they are unaware of the full truth of the war situation. This makes the response of their neighbors all the… |
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The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit
…of the plot and their role in it, despite the science fiction and fantasy elements of the story. Extremely successful sequels in 1993 and 1995 followed, creating a pop culture… |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…latest plot, Batman tries to discover the identity of the mysterious Batwoman. The Sweatbox Review: Even as fans hear rumors of the newest (and hopefully better than the last) big… |
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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Special Edition
…banking satellite signals. The Kingpin is the big villain here, sporting the complexion and voice of The Kingpin from the Daredevil movie, but with the bulk of the comics version…. |
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Kaena: The Prophecy
…the haziness of the storytelling proves detrimental. When the secrets of Kaena’s world are explained, there is a feeling of, “Huh? What was that again?” And the resolution of the… |
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Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July
…case here. I guess they have to use up their stock somehow. Ink And Paint: The DVD packaging claims that the movie was done in the 4:3 ratio, and I… |
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Top Cat: The Complete Series
…chasing (and catching) the ladies; Choo Choo, perhaps the “everycat” the audience could relate to the best, was also the cat most likely to catch T.C. in a lie but… |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…the viewer out of the story. The Skrulls take on the forms of the FF in order to discredit them. Reed has the FF surrender to the Army, and yet… |
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Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
…have sufficed and saved me some shelf space. The other drawback is that the exact same image is used on the front and back of the slipcover, and the front… |
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Pom Poko
…the ability to change their form, but over the years the raccoons have become lazy and complacent, and have taken to fighting among themselves over dwindling land and food supplies;… |
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My Neighbors The Yamadas
…huge departure from Takahata’s own Grave Of The Fireflies and Pom Poko. The most obvious difference between this film and other Ghibli pieces is the style of artwork, and the… |
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Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
…while simultaneously continuing to publish the exploits of the original versions. They dubbed the new comics their “Ultimate” line, which began with Ultimate Spider-Man and Ultimate X-Men. Despite a great… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…the image lost at the top and bottom of the screen; but oddly, the framing on the sides seemed to me to be too tight, as I did actually note… |
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The Tick Vs. Season One
…a tropical dictator, in The Tick Vs. Pineapple Pokopo. The boys and American Maid go undercover, though as usual they keep their costumes on. The boys return from WheatLand to… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete First Season
…teenaged superheroes juggle videogames, personal disputes, and saving the world. The Sweatbox Review: They fight for truth, justice, and the last piece of pizza…! They’re the Teen Titans, stars of… |
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Space Sentinels & The Freedom Force: The Complete Series
…Od and go to the Earth’s core in Voyage to the Inner World. The rest of the episode titles include Morpheus: The Sinister Sentinel, The Sorceress, Loki, Fauna, and The… |
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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… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…and the less obscure Birdman And The Galaxy Trio. Bill and Joe had their time freed up slightly when they sold their studio to Taft Broadcasting in 1967. The last… |
