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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…shabby, and a coda that has the humans of the world banning fishing from the area is as rushed, confused and confusing as the rest of the film. Some interesting… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…only the use of pre-recorded library music can answer! The original songs themselves are by turns fun and memorable, and then again of their time when musicals were trapped in… |
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Renaissance
…of films themselves, and also acknowledged are the crime stories of James Ellroy, from which they gained inspiration. Nicholas Dodd’s music gets some space, but there’s nothing on the English… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…the He-Man heyday with the Hasbro-sponsored Bravestarr failed when the launches of the toylines and the series missed each other, and the Filmation story finally, and unfortunately, ended. The studio… |
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TMNT
…be created in the computer graphics realm. With the low-budget feel of the original live-action movies and the cheesy nature of the cartoon show scripts consigned to the rubbish heap,… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…what should have been Walt’s own Academy-framed version of the movie, and the previous chopping off of top and bottom of frames for The Jungle Book (and other Disney DVD… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…parents into questioning such weighty themes as the very nature of reality and, not least, the idea of the quantum multiverse! Not wishing to partake in these theories is Jane… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…into four or five smaller sections that cover the renewal of the series, the switch to single story episodes, the casting of Jonathan Harris, the cancelling of the show and… |
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Armageddon
…Of The Caribbean trilogy for Disney and two of their tentpole pictures for 2010 in Prince Of Persia and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Bay has slid into a recurring circle of… |
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Scooby’s back from July 12
…Batman: The Brave and the Bold) is the executive producer. Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone (both Duck Dodgers, Back at the Barnyard, Space Jam) are the supervising producers. Cartoon Network… |
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Scooby’s returns to live-action for TV movie
…telecast in Cartoon Network history. SCOOBY-DOO! CURSE OF THE LAKE MONSTER features the familiar Mystery Inc. cast of characters—Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy, and Scooby-Doo—in their high school years as they… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…I sketched out the weight, “and of this buffalo head”, I said, “But the brow of the gorilla,” and I drew the brow there. “But then the muzzle of this… |
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He-Man & She-Ra: A Christmas Special
…over the world. He quickly summons Hordak and Skeletor and tells them to capture the children and bring them back to him in exchange for a handsome reward. The two… |
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Tangled
…of utilising the current CG animation approach, The Princess And The Frog returned to the beautiful hand-drawn style the Studio was traditionally known for. The storytelling – feeling very much… |
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The Incredibles
…of the point, and this helps the animation tremendously – the fact that these are animated characters only strives to help the reality of their lives and situations sink in… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…Studio’s treatment of the movie, and Disney finally catches up with the idea of not wasting an extra disc and lumps the standard definition and Digital Copy-bundled versions of the… |
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Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos
…stereotypical characters with flat personalities. They are standard archetypes – the tomboy, the fighter, the fat guy, the kid that gets into trouble, and the young apprentice. These can work… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…Wells’] War of the Worlds. The Milo of Berkeley Breathed’s classic vs. the Milo of Simon Wells’ adaptation AV: Speaking of the book, the art direction in it is quite… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…bring to their characters that the digital puppets just can’t replicate. Often, the picture-in-picture window offers two views of the same shot from different angles; the footage is not the… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…moving cinematography that undoubtedly contributes to making the size of the sets feel larger and therefore opening up the worlds of the film, making them more believable, even without the… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…And The Great Prince Of The Forest title. For, following the tried and tested DisneyToon formula, the movie is another in the long line of “mid-quels”…essentially filling in “missing” scenes… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…Lion was another westernized anime. Even renowned storyteller and animator Hayao Miyazaki saw his legendary film Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind butchered and Frankensteined into Warriors of the… |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
…Chicken Run, Creature Comforts USA, Creature Comforts 2, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and Wallace and Gromit’s A Matter of Loaf and Death. He then became Director of 17 episodes… |
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Lady And The Tramp
…than ever in a beautiful, top pedigree restored transfer! The Sweatbox Review: Although the rise of Mickey Mouse and the introduction of Disney’s stable of characters and the first animated… |
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DC Nation Block – Week 1
…Council and steal…ahem…”borrow” a prototype spaceship dubbed Aya to fly them to the outskirts of the galaxy. The culprits are the Red Lanterns, superbeings akin to Green Lanterns except their… |
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The Art of Brave: an interview with author and Pixar story artist Jenny Lerew
Who better than the filmmakers could talk about all the art – and the heart – put into a movie? That’s the idea of some “Art of” books published these… |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…He was head of story on Coraline and is the writer and director of ParaNorman. Sam Fell wrote and directed Dreamwork’s Flushed Away and Universal’s The Tale of Despereaux before… |
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The Halloween Tree
…would expect and some of them actually quite striking and almost like painted autumnal studies of small town America (in these respects, and others, the influence of the Something Wicked… |
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Rise of the Guardians director Peter Ramsey assembles the Guardians of Childhood
…really know? And do the legends know each other? Rise of the Guardians presents the answers to those questions, with the story of how Jack Frost became a Guardian of… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…answer to The Lord Of The Rings, exploring the 10,000-year history of the dwarfs and their culture in an epic quest. He met with Evan Spiliotopoulos, then one of DisneyToons’… |
