…and a half minutes. The best of the bunch regarding the extras is the 14-minute The Legacy Of The Jungle Book featurette. Fairly in-depth for a release like this, the…

…of the live-action Studio tour film The Reluctant Dragon. Disney later aped the style themselves, in the theatrical Special Pigs Is Pigs. The animation style was simpler, but the characters…

…the making of the film, the eventual stage show, the Imax and DVD restoration, and the theme-park inspirations; and the second being a re-telling of the story. The one drawback…

…sit through the ill-advised Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron DTV sequel? And what is it with DWs and these amazingly long titles?). The style, the camera angles, the in-you-face-CGI-but-suprisingly-flat-2D, the…

…of further stories and interviews with the Disney family and the creators of the film. Following the Making is a look at the Location Visits – places shot for the…

…Set at the turn of the century, the short finds Mr and Ms Mouse out on a jaunty trip in their horseless carriage, to the strains of In The Good…

…up and who already own the previous release, as well as the two Mickey In Color volumes, will then own the whole of the Mouse’s theatrical output! Starting off with…

…playfulness is always present, of course, but these cartoons do more than often show off the limitations of the character. Without resorting to Tex Avery-type gags and comical set-ups, the…

…the compassion of animals versus the inhumanity of humans. “Man…was in the forest” goes one of the film’s most memorable – and chilling – lines. The poetic tone of the…

…them. Argh! Onto the main menu, and New From DreamWorks Animation leads once again to the aforementioned five-minutes of previews for Madagascar and Wallace And Gromit. There are also the…

…quality of the image and the loudness and depth of the soundtrack will not be among the complaints. A rip-roaring affair that, had the film offered just a little more…

…the theatrical sequel The Rescuers Down Under and the musical pastiche of the character franchise continuation Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers. His weaving of new themes with the established…

…featurette and the brilliant The Secret Of NIMH among his company’s first offerings. A modest box-office success, NIMH was triumphant in its animation, returning to the classic style of the…

…it. For all the top-of–the-line sights and sounds, the movie stalls more than the Lamp’s customary high quality mark, and most of this can be attributed to a weaker than…

…the CGI equivalent of all those Princess And The Goblin or Tom Thumb And Thumbelina-level rip-offs we got after bona-fide classics The Little Mermaid and Beauty And The Beast came…

…before Disney themselves made some of the Alice series available) and lengthy programs featuring painstaking reconstructions of Max and Dave Fleischer’s Koko The Clown and Out Of The Inkwell cartoons….

…sequences, sexuality and nudity), Retail: $34.98 Storyboard: Frank Miller’s retelling of the Battle of Thermopylae gets the Sin City treatment, placing live-action characters into the world of 480 BC via…

…the origins of the toy line to talk to Hasbro consultants about the history of the Japanese created characters and how the company was able to interject the notion of…

…stage of the film’s finale. It’s not the most elaborate of slipcases, with only the title stamped out instead of the intricate detail we often get nowadays, and to be…

…smack of laziness. Even though they’re now living in the palace, the skirting board shortcuts are still handily there for the mice, and now they have a new cat –…

…season (and as seen in the first set) and in Here’s Hamton the same relationship is put to the test, especially in the second of the three stories here where…

…both in the 1950s set bookends and as the voice of the animated Minimoy Arthur. In fact the film often reminded me of a James And The Giant Peach kind…

…and reproduced cleanly, with the John Henry music score energetic, forthright and the highlight of the entire program. The exuberance of the cast’s performance is an asset to the film,…