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Fantastic Mr Fox
…terrifying ringleader of the farmers; his destroying of his office at a point of frustration is unexpected and a great bit of animation. But regardless of the mixed accents, Mr… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…as McGoohan’s working practices, the wink-wink use of the John Drake publicity photo in the resignation opening titles, the history of Portmeirion, production stories including the failure of Rover #1,… |
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Anchor Bay unleashes the fire for Dante
…collaboration with Electronic Arts, which first conceived of a new telling of the classic story and will release its Dante’s Inferno videogame day-and-date with the animated feature. Film Roman, the… |
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Iron Man: Armored Adventures: Volume 2
…Retail: $16.99 Storyboard: Iron Man: Armored Adventures takes the well-known story of Marvel superhero Iron Man reinvented as a prodigious high school student. The Sweatbox Review: After the success of… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: The Complete First Season
…of a complete work of a particular animator. Those that love Tom and Jerry, for example, tend to see the comic duo as a complete collection of MGM shorts from… |
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Super Friends: Season One, Volume Two
…stories. Admittedly, the stories still aren’t too great, with a decided paucity of action or supervillains, but it’s nice to have a story that— unlike in some incarnations of the… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…NeverEnding Story among them. Ultimately much more successful than Ralph Bakshi’s Lord Of The Rings, to pick another of that era’s similar offerings, and really the only title to compare… |
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Arrietty, the Borrower and Cecile Corbel, the Composer…
…myself. Two years ago, at the end of a promotion campaign, we still had promo albums remaining, so I made a kind of a secret list of people I liked… |
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A Charlie Brown Valentine
…with age, and countless additional hours of cartoon viewing in the intervening years that have taken much of the edge off the novelty of seeing those funny drawings move. And… |
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The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones
…face more often than not. The Jetsons-get-rich storyline is the weakest part of the movie, and a scene with future versions of Johnny Carson and Joan Rivers dates the film… |
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The Herculoids: The Complete Series
…his kin from invaders, with the help of an interesting assortment of creatures. The Sweatbox Review: The success of Space Ghost in 1966 meant that Hanna-Barbera would be asked for… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…blood needs to be brought on board. It’s an odd mix of old and new elements, but none of it really gels effectively, a lack of adroit storytelling and creativity… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…slotted into the kind of programming that filled the Disney Afternoons. The show proved so popular that it brought about a resurgence of Pooh animated offerings, including a series of… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…montage are from Chuck Jones: “Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Like,” “Bad Day at Cat Rock” (both 1965), and “Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary” (1966). All three episodes have a shallow storyline… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…the best, but the animation is the equivalent of the Windows 95 era. The hidden gem on the disc is an episode of Disney’s Sing Me a Story With Belle,… |
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Scooby-Doo – Mystery, Incorporated: Crystal Cove Curse (Season One, Part 2)
…fun. Part of its fun factor is that Scooby-Doo – Mystery, Incorporated also has continuity. The first season has an overall story arc, though each story stands alone well. There’s… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…crew from Hergé’s widow. A series of behind the scenes featurettes continues delving into the background of Spielberg and Jackson’s discovery of the series and a full exploration of their… |
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The Muppets
…kind of run-down shack off-off-off Broadway). I know that some of the Muppet-mad Pixar crew supported the production, and maybe this was a way of saying thanks, but with the… |
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero / Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
…The climax at a rundown World Of The Future is well staged and executed, making up for an understandable lack of action throughout the rest of the film. Mask Of… |
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Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted
…lots of laughs to be had I still feel like they skimped on the story. The trip from the wild savannas of Africa to the wild casinos of Monaco, on… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…of course, of Tarzan fame) couldn’t be accused of ripping off the past 35 years’ worth of science-fiction movies since he’d come up with the story and many of those… |
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Ice Age: Continental Drift
…of heart and a good storytelling, which easily overcame the somewhat lackluster animation, to win over audiences. The second film in the franchise, The Meltdown, is best forgotten. Jumbled, unimaginative,… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #45: Kevin Schreck Interview
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Join Mason as he interviews Kevin Schreck, the director of Persistence of Vision, a documentary of the story behind the animated film by Richard Williams,… |
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Do Studio Ghibli’s films make Pixar look weak by comparison?
…movies retain a “cartoonish” look. The editorial also notes that Studio Ghibli’s The Story of Princess Kaguya, for better or for worse, will probably be outshone by the release of… |
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The Pirate Fairy
…sort of pixie dust fertilizer, she asks him why they can’t have pixie dust of other colors. Fairy Gary does not like this line of questioning, and advises her to… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season
…couple whose quarrelling gets in the way of eating Finn and Jake. Then, there’s also Dream Of Love, where Tree Trunks and Pig find that their excessive public displays of… |
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The Wind Rises
…Rises, Miyazaki tries to deal with his love of airplanes, while conceding that the institution of war was what led to the development of some of his most admired planes…. |
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Laika announces new feature Kubo and the Two Strings
…some of the most bizarre and exciting imagery I’ve ever seen. Most importantly, it’s deeply moving. It’s a story that means something, a story that deserves to be told. In… |
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More Cartoons For Victory!
…the fighting men of their duties and obligations. Some of these shorts even featured Private Snafu, star of his own series of military-specific cartoons (his cartoons are featured on a… |
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
…Sheep Movie, a film based on one of their TV shows (which was in turn spun-off from one of their short films). Unlike their previous feature films, backed by DreamWorks… |
