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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…drastic need of picking up. Walt’s sense of story prevailed, and he knew it was time to move on to the climax of the story, and final showdown with Shere… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…controlled, meaning that many of these cartoons are built around songs and sequences from the WB musicals of the 1930s, and some of these shorts even predate the introduction of… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…to turn into a bona fide franchise. Unlike spin-offs for similar, of the era animated hits Aladdin and The Lion King, the commercial ambitions for the further exploits of the… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…is your cue to discover a couple of bonus episodes of DreamWorks Animation’s new television spin-off The Penguins Of Madagascar, animated out of house though retaining a fair amount of… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
There are several origins to Walt Disney’s choice of Snow White as his very first animated feature. One of them is that it was the subject of the very first… |
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Fantasia 2000
…and the jack-in-the-box. The animation of “Carnival of the Animals, Finale” was the idea of Joe Grant, who had worked on the original Fantasia. He had the idea of the… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…her realize the futility of her recent actions. Even a pair of trolls demonstrate the importance of being able to say you’re sorry. If she is to be successful, she… |
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Yogi’s First Christmas
…for the first time, and enjoys the splendors of Christmas. His merriment is nearly spoiled by the actions of a nasty kid and a grinch of a hermit, but the… |
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
…of their slow journey to independence. For many kids, myself included, camp was about something new, exciting, and really a kind of vacation from the doldrums of Summer vacation. It… |
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The Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…right over my head, and often it felt as if there was a layer of storytelling missing, either in the form of some much needed backstory we should already know… |
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A Christmas Carol
…instead of a CG edition of many things we have. An example is that the director quite often likes to spin us around London via swirling aerial camera swoops, but… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…overview of the film’s workprint preview, final release and Oscar recognition, there’s a “Thumbnail Sketch Of The History Of Animation”, a 14-minute potted look back over decades of cartoon film,… |
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Chris Miller discusses his Oscar nom and Puss In Boots
…of story on Shrek 2, he co-directed and co-wrote Shrek The Third. Following the popularity of the Puss in Boots character in Shrek 2 and Shrek The Third, a spin-off… |
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X-Men Anime
…would be given a large amount of latitude, but with the creative input of Marvel writer Warren Ellis. Ellis would provide story direction, ensuring that the characters would be recognizable… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…pen” thick outlines of a Pocahontas II or the simplified keyframing that just marks out the likes of Mulan II as something lesser than Feature quality). Where these DTVs often… |
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From Up On Poppy Hill
…faced by the young lovers. The storylines weave in and out of the narrative, capturing a portrait of a special time in the life of Umi and Shun, a time… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…of which you can read more of in our comments on the worst of the year. However, let’s start with the cream of an otherwise questionable crop: honestly, we found… |
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The Book of Life
Story, as the saying goes, may be king. But a weak story doesn’t have to be the death of a film when, like The Book of Life, the animation, music,… |
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Princess Mononoke
…this is one of those epics without human scale. On the contrary, the massiveness of the story comes mainly from its themes, not its content. This is a personal story… |
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Inside Out, Ex Machina, Bear Story win Oscars
…make stuff.” JONAS RIVERA: “Right, we do. And on this film, every single storyboard, every single frame, cut, line of dialogue, every single pixel, was done by the amazing artists… |
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The BFG
…hoping this new film might have finally cracked the rather hard nut of a story in which two characters do an awfully lot of talking. Far off lands of giants,… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
…of the filmmaking process, beginning with the founding of Studio Ponoc, and striking out past the shadow of Studio Ghibli, before examining details of the production. I have a feeling… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…made with animators and their families, Ghez uncovered a trove of previously unpublished artwork, history, and anecdotes which give an unprecedented view into how the films, characters, storylines, and unique… |
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The Croods: A New Age
…silhouette animation of a bedtime story told by Dawn by firelight. A Gag Reel is an unfunny couple of minutes of vocal recording session goof–offs by the cast, though a… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…his pre-Disney short film Shades of Sherlock Holmes before getting word of the Talent Development Program. They showed off a great picture of young Clements as part of a group… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…Scourge of Worlds: A Dungeons & Dragons Adventure As a result of the commercial failure of the feature film, Wizards of the Coast would scale back on further attempts at… |
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
…and Endgame (originally titled Infinity War Parts One and Two) took one epic story, and strategically divided its story elements over two films. These two series of movies worked well… |
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An Almost Christmas Story soars in delightful trailer
Disney has launched the trailer for An Almost Christmas Story, which can be viewed above. The third in a trilogy of holiday-themed shorts produced for Disney+ by Academy Award winning… |
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Disney Adds "Terror" To the Rose Parade
According to the Internet Movie Database, “The Walt Disney Co. was being taken to task Tuesday for its plan to present a float titled the ‘Twilight Zone Tower of Terror’… |
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Rotoscopers YouTube: D23 updates and disc reviews
…(Finding Dory, Toy Story of Terror, Inside Out, and The Good Dinosaur). Two of the videos follow, but be sure to check out the YouTube channel to see them all…. |
