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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…in particular it hasn’t been easy; we’ve been basically doing small jobs here and there, some larger ones. We’ve been trying to get our own independent projects off the ground,… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
…the movie has a somber beginning. I refer to Love Is a Song in the first cue, as much to give the movie some relationship to the original as anything…. |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
In its spectacular setting and storytelling, Prince Caspian proposes a unique blending of live-action and CG animation. So, Animated Views was anxious to talk with the movie’s VFX supervisors Dean… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…go the route of Disney, DreamWorks and Fox and risk all on a computer generated movie. And not just a movie, but a giant commercial for a fully-fledged franchise! For… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…to become a classic: heart. And the movie has been well served by Disney on disc – like this review, it’s all about the extras! For me, Pixar’s films follow… |
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A Goofy Movie
…Dolby Surround sound, A Goofy Movie on LD is quite an experience, namely for the much more active audio track. I’ve seen this movie on DVD, and the sound is… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…been really interesting to see how it would have turned out had the exact same story and concept been produced in the full, lush animation we usually associate with the… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…it takes the male leads most of the movie to work it out! All the while Rasputin (Christopher Lloyd, in an over-the-top turn reminiscent of his hammy villain in the… |
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TMNT
…the movie kicking reasonable shell, and some proper dark theatrical posters, the cover art here goes the predictable route and touts this as a kids’ movie – hey it’s the… |
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Ratatouille
…only just one teeny, tiny problem…Remy is a rat! The Sweatbox Review: What can be said that hasn’t already been said about this year’s clear animation winner? Essentially, all the… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…on this list, as many of the collections have been impressive, but we settled on BraveStarr due to its inclusion of the little-seen origin movie, and a nice set of… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…them a Hawaiian grounding, powered the movie to strong box office and launched something of a franchise for the Studio, leading to three spin-off movies (though only one authentic sequel),… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…on the single-disc BD) has been swapped for a gold-like yellow even if this might have been a last minute switch: blue seems to have been the original color of… |
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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…smart move would have been to include not only The Green Slime but trailers for the other Gamma movies, also available from the Warner Archives, or even package the series… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…If you look at his movies like Kick-Ass, you could play an amazing cue from The Empire Strikes Back. But that’s not what he wants for this movie. It’s got… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…as the movie itself. The production value is exceptional: rather than re-use shots from the movie, the new animation does just as good a job of telling the story as… |
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Lion King D-rectors Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff: 2D’s for a 3D hit!
…used to scoring live action movies. How did you get along with him in that regard? RM: Hans really brought the movie to life via the music. It was his… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…you take into account the studio that produced it; but DisneyToon Studios has produced some good quality pieces: A Goofy Movie, Winnie the Pooh movies, and several movies that launched… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…million worldwide. Now, with awards season in full swing, Rango has been named the best animated movie of 2011 by numerous critics associations and has found itself nominated as Best… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…within the same sequence of this same movie, shots are sometimes repeated (albeit with different timing, backgrounds or soundtrack tweaks). Essentially, Robin Hood was that rare thing: a Disney movie… |
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Exclusive! Legends Of Oz producer talks franchise’s future after box office disappoints
…classic. They say it has brilliant animation and the music is not to be missed. It’s a good movie. AV: By comparison, Neighbors, the movie everyone is talking about at… |
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
…and not enough to compeltely take you out of the movie, but definately distracting for a moment after so long with no one else speaking. Shaun the Sheep Movie may… |
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The Angry Birds Movie
Here we go with another video game movie! If you’ve read the recent Ratchet & Clank review, you’ll already know that I’m not sure what jump-started this stampede. A very… |
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Sing
…Jennings seemed to fade from the filmmaking landscape. Bucking the trend for an increasing number of animation movie directors switching to live-action production, Jennings has always been a highly visual… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…with Bumblebee. And there’s a reason Ready Player One connected with many in the way that it did, positively thriving with references to old movies, TV shows and video games,… |
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Playmobil: The Movie
Playmobil: The Movie is not The Lego Movie. Fortunately, the filmmakers know this too and give viewers something different to play with…. |
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PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie saves the day at box office
…of The Mighty Movie is nearly double what PAW Patrol: The Movie managed back in 2021, although that film came out in an entirely different climate. Not only was the… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…say Disney, of course, but I honestly haven’t been truly wowed by anything of theirs in a long while. From the get-go, Sony (really Imageworks) has been pushing the norm… |
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More on Shrek 3 and upcoming DreamWorks films
…have two big animated comedies per year, with Hedge and Flushed coming in 2006, and Shrek 3 and Bee Movie in 2007 (Bee Movie lined up for a November release)…. |
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Nana’s back! Elisa Gabrielli on Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…a fair amount of in Mulan, Shrek, Shark Tale, Kung Fu Panda, Bee Movie, etc). I was working with a really talented group of actors called the LA Mad Dogs,… |
