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Dinosaurs: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…at all; instead, the style of the writing is one of directness, befitting the primal nature of the show. The writers never shied away from making their points with a… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season Two
…Arches provides a closer look at the workings of the Guild Of Calamitous Intent, as the Guild offers Dr. Orpheus and his former colleagues in The Order Of The Triad,… |
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Ratatouille reviewed, catalog DVD reviews added
…of the the two 1960s movies based on the Supermarionation TV show We’ll have more for you later in the week, including… the return of Ben!!! DUM DUM DUM!!! –Rand… |
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The New Adventures Of Batman: DC Classics
…then there is the “moral” tag at the end of the show. The “Bat Message” at the end of each story allows Batman the opportunity to point out what we… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938
…in the Aprils of 1941 and 1942— Raggedy Ann And Raggedy Andy, and The Raven.) The first two Popeye two-reelers appear on this set. The DVD set starts out with… |
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The Tick Vs. Season Two
…extra-Ticky episodes on this puppy, including the following: Disc One The Little Wooden Boy And The Belly Of Love – The Tick and Arthur meet Carmalita, daughter of the inventor… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Two
…of the show were being fine-tuned, with the dropping of George the janitor as a featured player, and the introduction of such gems as the “Pigs In Space” segment, as… |
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Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series
…up the slack again. On The Case Of The Dreadful Dolls, we get a discussion of the “minority heroes”, and on The Royal Ruse there are comments made about the… |
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The Hanna-Barbera Treasury
…knowledge of these shows comes from reruns, books, and DVDs, but I know these are the classics. Beck begins with the theatrical Tom And Jerry shorts that Bill and Joe… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season
…for dopiest of the year. Some fans love these over-the-top episodes, but I am not one of them. At all. Killer tofu from outer space? Cow-powered spaceships? Eating the villain?… |
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A Charlie Brown Valentine
…They then embark on an odyssey to find this girl, taking them far from home. There are naturally a few missteps along the way, and by the end Linus and… |
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Justice League: New Frontier
…the mountains surrounding an airbase, the faces of the mountains look muddy and blurred on the DVD, where everything blends together; but the details of the background painting are brought… |
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Anything on DVD this week?
…soon. I’m looking over the DVD release of The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show (ooooh, the nostalgia of it!!!), and will have a review up shortly. Ben has a bunch of… |
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Tinker Bell
…story. And speaking of the story… Tinker Bell is born out of the laughter of a baby, and her essence travels to Pixie Hollow, in the heart of Never Land,… |
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Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume Six
Tom and Jerry return for the sixth and final volume of their latest incarnation – Tom and Jerry Tales. In these fifteen cartoons, the duo travels around the world and… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
…addition to doing stand-up, Larry also spoke of the charities helped by the premiere: Speedway Children’s Charities and the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps, the latter of which… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…They’re all little real moments. Then Kelly Slater and Rob Machado – surfers in the movie, the real deal – they played roving reporters, and then Sal Masekela – they… |
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How director Steve Anderson met The Robinsons!
…process and very often, they have experience in the different fields of the production, be it in animation or in the creation of the story. Meet Steve Anderson. He completed… |
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Jonatha Brooke and Joel McNeely: the Pixie-Powered Music of Return To Neverland!
…the world of Peter Pan, but the creators of Return to Neverland took the risk and the collaboration worked – she brought an unexpected tenderness, intimacy and youth to the… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…Andrew Adamson, one having worked on the visual development of Shrek and the other having been part of the first chapter of the Chronicles. But that’s not all about their… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…phrases and themes and stories that I’m trying to convey through abstract visual images or melodies. The process blends together for me and the approach to all of the artistic… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…opens and closes –and often they don’t have expressive hands. But based simply on how fast they move, the angle of the body, and the angle of their heads relative… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…but that didn’t work either. And then I came across the showreel of the Semafor studio. I saw their work and I knew they would be the right studio. I… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…of co-ordinating children’s hand/eye movement, and the speed of the game progresses over 30 accessible levels, providing good entertainment for the younger set. Behind The Screams features the Outtakes clip… |
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Beauty And The Beast
…24-minute documentary presented on the Theatrical Edition CAV set. Featuring interviews with the cast and crew, it offers an insight to the making of the film from the time, with… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…were the “making of” documentaries of their day. The History Of The Animated Drawing has Walt acknowledging his forebears in making drawings achieve the illusion of movement and is an… |
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The Dad Behind The Myth: An Interview With Walt Disney’s Daughter Diane
…down for their [Walt and Lilly’s] anniversary party the night before the opening of DisneyLand. They had it on the big Mark Twain riverboat with all their friends, and it… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…London, the story centers on Pongo and Perdita, a couple of Dalmatians who meet in Regent’s Park and strike up a romance between themselves and their human “pets” Roger and… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…is the inclusion of the three full-length Maroon Cartoons (accessible from the Acme menu) that were produced as “mini-sequels” after the huge success of the feature in theaters (and to… |
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The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection
…life, with the Mr Toad sequence undergoing the most releases, under the original title The Wind In The Willows, as well as The Madcap Adventures Of Mr Toad, and The… |
