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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…To The Kingdom starts things off with the first half of this two-handed compilation. In a story reminiscent of one of the similar episodes in Cinderella II: Electric Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo, the… |
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Grave Of The Fireflies: Collector’s Series
…story of Seita trying to preserve his sister’s childhood, which is nearly impossible given the circumstances. Aside from the weakening of the Japanese forces, the very spirit of the people… |
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Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
…include everything from standard killer robots to less-common bagpipe robbery, making for an eclectic collection of threats. One of the best parts of the show is seeing the criminal plots… |
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest: Family Fun Edition
…a big new Disney Platinum release like Cinderella, one of the real treats of collecting DVDs is to see the lesser-known films receive nice new special editions. DVDs offer such… |
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Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
…of CGI in places. As in the comic, the movie’s story begins in the dying days of World War II. Captain America leads a group of American soldiers on an… |
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The Fox And The Hound 2
…scheming to rejoin, and the threat of Copper’s secret being exposed, it appears that everything may be ruined for all involved. And at the heart of the story is whether… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys
…out of a printing of 65,000, a reproduction of the front cover of the comic book tie-in, and an 8-page booklet. Ink And Paint: The visual presentation is generally very… |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
…books, and toys produced to cash in on the public’s love of Star Trek, a show that lasted all of three seasons. Well, four, really. Yes, four. The relevance of… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume Two
…that actually consists of aliens trapped on Earth long ago. Probably the neatest episode of this second volume has to be Return Of The Skyband, found on Side B of… |
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Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series
…the landmark The New Adventures Of Superman, courtesy of Filmation Studios, as well as the topic of this review— Hanna-Barbera’s Space Ghost & Dino Boy. Space Ghost was an original… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season
…Titans, who apparently have no secret identities, just superhero ones. In Homecoming, Part 2, The Titans get a history lesson from Mento, who describes the members of The Brotherhood Of… |
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…discover the magic of a new Peanuts special without it getting swallowed up in the maelstrom of mediocrity that passes for so much of today’s entertainment. The story largely concerns… |
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Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet
…it’s a nice combination of storytelling and drawing that appealed to me. AV: How did you become involved with the National Film Board of Canada? TK: I was taking a… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…Tutli-Putli? Marciek Szczerbowski: We wanted to make a kind of iconic figure, a kind of turn-of-the-century, classic lady. It’s a very particular kind of woman. It’s not every woman. Many… |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…spoof of RKO and MGM musicals of the 30s and 40s. The story involved Roger and a human friend; as the story begins, they are working the vaudeville circuit as… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
…Hauser goes behind the scenes to bring us the story of how the world of Wall•E was imagined and brought to life. The film’s sparse use of dialog created a… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…on the evil side…so I’m assuming having Oogie was there to expand things, but to also take the edge off of Jack. HS: Oogie started out as the size of… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…75 minutes or so struggling to regain the feel of what came before. When one sees a movie, there’s normally a thrill and you’re overwhelmed by the story and/or visual… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Brother Bear’s story is pure Lion King-meets-Pocahontas, starting off soon after the Ice Age, where we find three new-agey brothers, Sitka, Denami and Kenai, sharing an adventure…. |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…each year and issued as an “annual” – a hardcover bound book. The story goes that one of these books featured Rupert hidden amongst a group of frogs performing their… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…in the number of jokey – and some unexpected – references to the Mouse’s past. The script is great, mixing good, bright Disney storytelling with the offbeat sensibilities of the… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…in helping to tell the story. Perhaps the most satisfying and substantial of the “making of” material, this piece also includes footage of the demo sessions, snatches of those demos,… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…Poppins-esque version of herself – who recreates some of the poses and lines from the original (“I have no intention of making a spectacle of myself, thank-you very much”). The… |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…nothing special. The desolate sounds of the wilderness, the far off echoes of civilization, and the monotone, cold and scientific approach of the “whitecoats” are all evocatively realized, while Rowf,… |
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Chicken Little
…school hand drawn animation tradition gets blasted out the window in favor of flash-bang-wallop computer generated trickery. All of which overbalances what should be a fairly simple story of a… |
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Flushed Away
…difficult role of being a scallywag heavy that one actually warms to. Much of the success in the voices is also down to what they are saying, of course, and… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…unique route of incorporating themed cartoons into well-rounded documentary styled programs. We all know the often told genesis of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, and a fair few will have been… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…look of these kinds of films over some of the loud and flashy examples of poor CGI that we keep getting served nowadays, and the characters hit their poses much… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…Popeye’s arms and the undoubtedly impressive realisation of Sweethaven, to the tiniest of touches, like the state of Wimpy’s hamburgers and background touches like the askew painting of the sea… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…the designs of Alex Toth set the standard for the next decade of adventure cartoons. The 70 minute biographical documentary on Toth is a very tempting offer even for a… |

