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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…Tex Avery’s Droopy: The Theatrical Collection will lead to Warners’ promised collection of the other Avery shorts. Though there are some absolute gems here, and any Avery collection should automatically… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…fine selection of extras, with the fun if inconsequential new featurette Secrets Of The Furious Five on its own in a bundled-in platter, something Blu-ray owners inexplicably found missing in… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…sadly fallen into the public domain over the years, this at least comes from WB’s fair restoration included in their Ultimate Superman Collection. Covering baby Jor-El’s lucky escape from Krypton,… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…on two 25th Anniversary collections released individually, the Complete set added hours of exclusive bonus content including new interviews and featurettes, in deluxe packaging that might have tempted even casual… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…double dip coming when baby Maggie’s “sequel” prophecy inevitably comes true. Ho-hum… Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete / Pixar Short Films Collections Some old and new in our choice of the… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…all housed in a very sturdy and attractive book format, fitting inside a heavy slipcase. It’s beautiful! 2010 On The Big Screen: The Theatrical Toon Review Another banner year for… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…they beat the pants off the earlier shorts in the recent and disappointing Tex Avery’s Droopy collection. Although there are more than a few nicks and scratches earlier in the… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…serious appraisal of Avery’s work, even when debating the merits of giant canaries and wolf-whistle takes! In short, the inclusion of Tex Avery (later subtitled King Of Cartoons to tie… |
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2016: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
Last year, 2015 brought us Inside Out, more Avengers, Star Wars and a heap of interchangeable animated features, plus that infamous “future date” when Marty McFly and Doc Brown arrived… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…Wild Wild World, which places modern-day conveniences into a prehistoric setting, and a cartoon from MGM the following year, Tex Avery’s The First Bad Man, with designs by Ed Benedict,… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…by Jones and Clampett) again features Beans, in Tex Avery’s first cartoon for Warners. The disc continues with more bacon: Pilgrim Porky, Wise Quacks and Porky’s Preview – Avery’s terrifically… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…Indeed, at the most recent Consumer Electronic Shows in Las Vegas, there was a complete turnaround in the number of manufacturers who were not showing off any new technological improvements… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…keeping them from talking to each other in case of a flare-up, another director was waiting in the wings to step in if tensions became intolerably unbearable. Again, the production… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…lot of heart to be found in the show. 2014 On The Big Screen: The Theatrical Toon Review James swings our attention to this year’s theatrical releases to pick his… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Disney Company’s highs and lows could almost be predicted perfectly to a twenty-year cycle, hitting a high or a low at each ten-year interval. In a nutshell, recent events in… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…to me that 2018 was a very interesting year in animation and entertainment. Disney had a dominant year, particularly in animation with the critical and commercial success of Pixar’s Incredibles… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…in person that gave us a refreshed vitality and impetus to keep things afloat! We were supposed to repeat the visit five years later – in 2013 in fact –… |
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2006: A Year In Review
…is already down from the 3 released last year, 2 in 2004, 8 (!) in 2003, 4 in 2002, and 6 in 2001. While the future remains uncertain for the… |
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2017 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…writer/producer and moderator Mike Vogel introduced the panel in writer/producer Meghan McCarthy, composer Daniel Ingram, and main cast Cathy Weseluck (Spike), Andrea Libman (Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy), Tabitha St. Germain… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…and, indeed, as appeared back in the LaserDisc days? Supposedly, this Deluxe Anniversary Collection offers the “cream-of-the-crop” picks from the duo’s long career, taking in Hanna-Barbera’s original theatrical animated shorts,… |
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The Best of 2019: And Then It Was Over
…shout out for some much-missed people we have lost in the past year, including some genuinely cherished names for me in Doris Day, Stanley Donen, Neil Innes, Clive James, Dick… |
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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…dime! Over time, the film has brought in close to $200 million – and that’s before adjustment for inflation. In 1993, in the last theatrical reissue for Snow White, it… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…more sombre score from Menken. The original version of Human Again, from before it was cut out and then added in again for the reissue, is shown again in concept… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…months would bring, also launching an insane year of Warner Bros. movies that opened in our living rooms the same day as the (still mostly closed) theatres? In the same… |
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The Best Of 2022: Wait, What…It’s Over? Where Did THAT Go?
…I’ve been missing in action around Animated Views. 2022 has been my lightest year in terms of output, having posted just two reviews (both the first half of the year)… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…up to be a pretty neat bunch, albeit with some extraneous inclusions and odd omissions… Going the chronological route, we begin on the complete opposite end of the scale: in… |
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2022 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…the idea. Without specifically naming it, Diamond noted in the introduction that The Man Who Planted Trees was one of the films that inspired him to begin curating the Animation… |
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2018 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…The panelists are clearly having a good time and the fans take great pleasure in interacting with the cast and crew in a friendly environment. The inclusion of an improvisational… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…in later years as memorable. Coco gets the top spot this year. Like Inside Out two years ago, I wasn’t as impressed as most other reviewers with it, but it… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…stuff accessible and out there. I have no financial gain from it. The company has all to gain, in licensing, selling the DVDs, etc. They have all to gain in… |
