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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…the Goolies, who hit the road with a trunk full of comedy skits and play their songs in the light of the full moon. It’s often been described as a… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…emphasis on the Oswald short Confidence, the two-strip opening to the Universal feature The King Of Jazz, the birth of Andy Panda, Woody’s debut of course, and the story of… |
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The Wild
…on hammering home the plot and character similarities between the film and DreamWorks’ Madagascar from the summer before, The Wild’s bashing was indicative of the general mood of the public… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…to turn into a bona fide franchise. Unlike spin-offs for similar, of the era animated hits Aladdin and The Lion King, the commercial ambitions for the further exploits of the… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…emphasis on Looney Tunes and Hanna-Barbera subjects, we explore the golden age of Saturday morning cartoons. The Sweatbox Review: The first volume of this series was one of my favorite… |
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The Muppets
…evoked the Muppets of old, particularly I felt, the chaotic sleeve design of The Muppet Show Albums and some of the set-ups in The Muppet Show Annuals of their heyday…. |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…out of enjoying the character’s soap-styled green-eyed conflicts playing out, and the romantic fantasy of the “will they or won’t they” kind keeps the chemistry bubbling between Peter and Wendy,… |
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More unannounced DreamWorks animation in the pipeline: Chicken Run 2?
…more Wallace-centric The Great Vegetable Plot)? What with Rex Havoc And The Atomic 8, Mike Of Arabia, Giant Gingy and further instalments of and Shark Tale also in the pipeline,… |
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Classic characters to run marathon with Boomerang
…they became the irreverent stars of animated shorts, television series and movies, Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tasmanian Devil and the rest of the gang were tiny (and already tenacious) toddlers,… |
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Bunny-Palooza hops onto the scene
…Starz On Demand viewers will have the chance to watch all of the 30-second Bunny Theatre re-enactments, including the premiere of the much anticipated Office Space parody, at the same… |
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Bravestarr comes to two-disc DVD from BCI
…one of the toughest lawmen in the universe, Bravestarr comes to the planet of New Texas to face the good, the bad, and the weird. Aiding him in keeping the… |
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Under the sea with Robert Reece; plus yuletide Shrek, more Popeye and new disc announcements!
…and the interview reveals a lot of insight into the creation of the new film, which we reviewed earlier this week. Also new in the review stakes is Rand’s take… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…the DVD, and while there still isn’t anything on the score itself, there is something on the Restoration Of The Sound Track. Exclusive to the 7.1 mix on the BD,… |
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Shrek The Halls
…Gary Trousdale, at the helm, no less! On its debut on television, Shrek The Halls, coming hot on the heels of the theatrical release of the most recent film in… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
…episodes of this classic Saturday morning series sees the Super Friends face off against a variety of threats, while also aiding the social, health, and arts development of the world’s… |
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Chicken Little: Blu-ray Preview
…the extra storage capacity of the discs and the newer technology built into the players, BDs can offer enhanced features over DVDs. Examples: Rather than static menus offered by DVDs,… |
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The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One
…Jane where the couple revisits the beginning of their relationship. This is one of the most memorable episodes of the show and cleverly showcases the heart at the center of… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…the character who, over the years, changed least). The breakout success of the film and the pressure from distributors for more cat and mouse war meant the development of the… |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1.1
…parts scattered all over the globe. In the last three episodes of the miniseries, “The Palace of Doom” , “The Roof of the World” , and “Amusement Park of Terror”… |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…the viewer out of the story. The Skrulls take on the forms of the FF in order to discredit them. Reed has the FF surrender to the Army, and yet… |
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Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
…have sufficed and saved me some shelf space. The other drawback is that the exact same image is used on the front and back of the slipcover, and the front… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…It does, however, crop off the top and bottom of the image, since the Peanuts movies were originally made in the 4:3 ratio from what I have read. So, the… |
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Astro Boy (1980): The Collection Box Set
…has the distinction of being a “brother” of sorts to Astro, as is explained during the course of the show, further linking the two. Atlas shares living space in the… |
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A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: The Complete 2nd, 3rd & 4th Seasons
…Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: Scooby-Doo and the rest of the gang return for the final three seasons of one of the most popular revivals of the classic series in A Pup… |
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The Lion King 1½
…video and DVD (the previous release, The Return Of Jafar was composed of the first five episodes of the Aladdin spin-off TV show, though Simba’s Pride was designed as a… |
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Chicken Little
…way, but there isn’t much substance. The moments between Buck and his son are somewhat touching, but there’s at least two too many of these and they have the undesired… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…to the screen, and the result is Señor Droopy (1949), with the pooch up against The Wolf in the bullring for the hand of the lovely Latin star Lina Romay…. |
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Meet The Robinsons
…Little Wonders (3:50), which explores the themes of the film in an odd 2.35:1 letterboxed 4×3 that crops off the movie’s imagery, and Kids Of The Future (3:20), performed by… |
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Back and "looking" better than ever! Plus Super Powers and Pirates!
…the “level of sophistication that would be seen in the DC shows of the 1990s and 2000s”, adding that “the Super Friends end their long television run on a relatively… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…first film. With that story established, and the animals seemingly back in the Zoo, the credits montage begins, expediting their journey from the original and getting them back to the… |

