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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…Circus Capers, in which a sexed-up Minnie clone flirts with a dastardly ringmaster, and there’s some smart invention on show in the same year’s similar The Office Boy. The actually… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…may be used to in animation, due in part to the story, and also in helping the wider frame sustain interest where constant cross cutting would feel clumsy and too… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…fairies in order to revive Tinker Bell – something that wouldn’t have worked in a screen version – we are instead involved in a dramatic moment of suspense. At the… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…warnings of the devastating effect of “man” in the forest… The Sweatbox Review: Oh deer! It seems Disney’s anniversary-marking department has dropped the ball again, and instead of delaying Bambi’s… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…characters are collected in one volume of classic animated cartoons. The Sweatbox Review: One hundred years after his birth, and especially since his passing ten years ago in February 2002,… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…in those days, but get me plugged into Space Invaders, Asteroids or Star Wars and I’d regularly be up in the top five toggling the joystick to place my initials… |
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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition
…scene was in the middle when we begin to learn more about Manny’s past. One interesting interaction in the movie is that between the animals and the humans. No words… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…into Elgin’s People. Despite its story still being in development, Stainton placed the film into production that summer, around the same time that Disney laid off 50 animators in Orlando…. |
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Who's plugging Roger Rabbit? A neato coinkidink, me thinks, to mention this year's Elstree Film Festival!
…have been. Surely it’s still not too late to head into ToonTown again? Speaking of Roger Rabbit, I’ve been looking for a neat association to plug this year’s Elstree Film… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…ridiculously enthusiastic, incredibly dimwitted superhero named Captain Underpants. Why Should I Worry?: When DreamWorks Animation was bought by Comcast last year, the decision seemed more inevitable than inspired, with many… |
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Cinderella III sells, and reviews catch-up
…a catalog of reviews that cover much of what we find entertaining, interesting, unique, or otherwise collectible in the animation-on-DVD world. This is a personal thing, naturally, so we must… |
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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…review, exclusive interviews with three of the voice actors, and some of the official production notes. Review The following is a review written by Animated News guest writer Rachael Reynolds:… |
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Our extensive Sleeping Beauty review is up!
…most anticipated releases of the year, we really wanted to go in-depth on the title, and as such I think you’ll find my review is the most exhaustive you’ll find,… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…Pixar and Disney Animation Studios – was involved in the way everyone is involved in a creative environment run by John Lasseter. Story reels are screened for other DisneyToon Studios… |
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Finding Dory
…we haven’t seen in many a year: indeed, my description was that it felt like the kind of film that could have been made in the 1980s era of The… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…material has to be removed offline again, rendering the feature redundant and in essence having made people shell out for inaccessible content. Some of it can be interesting, but again… |
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Sing
…a striking visual presentation, including innumerable touches in the animation that truly belie its budget and make it look incredible. Scratch Tracks: In a perhaps unsurprisingly aggressive mix, I still… |
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Aladdin: Platinum Edition
…storyboard reel featuring a younger Aladdin meeting Jasmine in her garden. The second scene is “Aladdin In the Lap of Luxury” which existed when Aladdin still had a mother and… |
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Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan
…In your introduction for the book, you state that Popeye’s real appeal lies in how he inspires us with his values and beliefs, his inner strength and not just his… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…one of my friends got me into the Best of the Southwest digital film festival, which is every year in New Mexico. I won first place in the animation category… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition
…of current animation talent relaying the information to us in an illustrated lecture style, sometimes inserted into old stills and all of them clearly inspired by the film, and there’s… |
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Arnold Leibovit on producing The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2
…this incredible human being, who happens to be this incredible innovator and pioneer in special effects, stop-motion animation, and literally the father of science fiction and fantasy in modern film…. |
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Happy New Year and all the best for 2010!
…basic plot of Tinsel Town’s first ever feature film, 1914’s The Squaw Man, is about a white male who falls in love and controversially becomes integrated within a community of… |
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Tarzan's Broadway debut review
…surround-sound din, is certainly the most cinematic show ever seen on Broadway. Thankfully, Crowley provides an intense theatricality, much of it seemingly inspired by Cirque du Soleil, to go along… |
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The incomplete Complete Pluto review
In the second of their reviews on the animated titles in this year’s Walt Disney Treasures series – all out in stores from today – DVD Toons opens up {{link… |
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Bambi II review; Kong, Rings, Potter set for HD discs
…include RoboCop, Terminator 2 and Ice Age, which will all see premieres on the formats before the end of the year. In its print edition, VB also takes a first… |
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Hollywood Reporter goes Wild with review
Over at {{link http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1002343504 The Hollywood Reporter}}, Frank Scheck has seen Disney’s The Wild – out tomorrow – and has posted a review of the apparently not-screened-for-critics movie. While he… |
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Aladdin 2-Pack DVD review, and Disney DVD's 2005 line up
A review for the 2 Aladdin direct-to-video sequels, released for the first time on DVD (curiously, as a double pack), is now online at Ultimate Disney. “These are undoubtedly direct-to-video… |
