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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Special Edition
…as if sculpted with gel, and body movements sometimes look stiff. This is not because of a lack of animator talent, though, but more a product of lacking time. The… |
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Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…obscure 1985 animated feature Starchaser, we will soon be seeing a release of Ralph Bakshi’s Fire And Ice from 1983, and the summer of 2005 also saw the release of… |
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My Neighbors The Yamadas
…by scene. Once you get to the end of a storyboard you have the option of viewing the final scene. Additionally, we get another of those Behind The Microphone pieces… |
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Monster House: Widescreen Edition
…to the role of the girl who is the same age as the boys, and yet just a little ahead of them. Staging of the action is quite good as… |
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The Dick Tracy Show: The Complete Animated Crime Series
…Dick Tracy leads a team of crime busters against an array of grotesque enemies of justice. The Sweatbox Review: Dick Tracy first came to life in the pages of newspapers… |
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New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming
…welcome. Given how he actually predates Mickey Mouse, this may be one of the most important Treasures releases yet, at least in terms of animation history. And the Disneyland set?… |
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Dinosaurs: The Complete Third And Fourth Seasons
…by Ethyl to Baby) in If You Were A Tree. Disc Three The third disc finishes off the third season of the show, offering the last three episodes. We Are… |
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Hero High: The Complete Series
…of the hero trade at their own high school. The Sweatbox Review: Filmation did a lot of television shows over the course of about three decades. Some are remembered very… |
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Jason Of Star Command: The Complete Series
Filmation (1978), BCI (May 8, 2007), 3 discs, 500 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $29.98 Storyboard: A galactic soldier of fortune… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Three
…of vintage footage of Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Jerry Juhl, and Muppet-maker Don Sahlin discussing and demonstrating the art (and history) of puppetry. I would buy the set just for… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
…of the first disc. That is a whole lot of silver bullets! Moving on to the second disc, we get the balance of the New Adventures Of Zorro episodes, making… |
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2006: A Year In Review
…growing presence of foreign films in the American market, as well as the rising number of foreign studios investing in animation. Many of the major animation studios from around the… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…special treat, Rob Paulsen, the voice of Yakko, sang a rousing rendition of “Yakko’s World,” in which the name of every country in the world is set to a tune…. |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…worked at Disney on a number of voices, the most famous was probably Ludwig Von Drake in a number of films and TV specials. But of course The Incredible Mr… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…can sizzle with the best of ’em – just check out the flooding of the soundstage scene! The video is pleasingly strong, free of colour bleed, and with good overall… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…on DVD, especially such behind-the-scenes documentaries as Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, is the early MGM/UA issue of Bugs Bunny Superstar. A rarely seen, but excellent hybrid of animation, documentary… |
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Mickey Mouse: The Black And White Years
…seen on those originally broadcast films. Although the picture suffered from the odd scratch and pop, what did strike me was the quality of the color, and the depth of… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…Tiny Toons fans, with its story threads running across each other to include all the Toons as they embark on various holidays that take them to the far corners of… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…great range, and only minor bugbears pop up in terms of a slight trace of distortion on a couple of very, very noisy takes. Carl Stalling’s minefield of music cues… |
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Cool World
…of animation and live-action, cartoonist Jack Deebs (Gabriel Byrne) is stuck in jail doing time for a crime of passion. While incarcerated, he’s broken free of his prison by creating… |
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Once Upon A Time…; Peter Pan specs…what's up with that?
…completed his survey recently on the history of the Filmation animation studio, so there’s plenty to catch up on! I’m also hard at work on something cool too – an… |
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Hi-def disc updates; new Walt bios; Disney Treasures out!
…VII: Advent Children: Limited Collector’s Set of the DVD premiere based on the videogame, comprising a two-disc set (with bonus Venice Film Festival footage, story digest, deleted scenes, making-of featurette… |
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Almost in Paris; Kammerud Komes Klean; and a Merry Christmas to all!
…(another) tease for the Disney Paris feature, I’ll leave you with this photograph of the actual life size puppet rendering of Pinocchio that the animators used to assist them in… |
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Get Enchanted with our behind the scenes exclusives!
…to many of the principal crew for a series of exclusive behind the scenes interviews, including composer Alan Menken, animation director James Baxter and the director of Enchanted himself, Kevin… |
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Once Upon A Time…Walt Disney
…Exhibition Catalog tome is an absolute treasure trove of imagery, most of it full of exclusive stills of the art on show, from both the Disney Studios and the enormous… |
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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd on DVD – Winner!
Experience a magical story about the boundless limits of imagination and the strength we each have inside us with Disney’s heartwarming film The Secret Of The Magic Gourd – of… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
…will be remembered for other things too, of course. It was the year in which the CGI bubble burst with an overload of animated offerings, as exemplified by the three… |
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New Hardy, Scanner Reviews; Snakes On A Plane; Post Updates
…vacated him, and the movie becomes a series of scenes rather than an actual story that builds to any sort of climax. As the nominal star, Sam Jackson phones in… |
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Disney on the web; Night At The Museum; Oscar noms 2007
…of it if only for the fun of seeing legends such as Dick Van Dyke and Mickey Rooney back on the big screen as major parts of the cast (indeed… |
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And the Oscar nominations are…
…its drab and formulaic Our Town song indicates that this one is the favorite with Academy voters, though it stands little chance of beating out any of the three nominated… |
