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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The Best Of Bravestarr
…obvious that Filmation had high hopes for the show that was to follow. When a movie starts with Superman: The Movie-style swooping credits, you know that the creators were aiming… |
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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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Superman – Doomsday
…of Superman ironically did bring the character to greater life in the public’s collective mind than he had been since at least as far back as Superman: The Movie in… |
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Phil Nibbelink talks Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…the character you’re looking at would be done in full Disney-style motion. AV: What would you say was the budget for the movie? PN: Oh, I’ve been told I shouldn’t… |
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101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (live-action)
…Park in 1993 that provided a perfect marriage of movie and merchandise. For the first time, the film’s spin offs were featured within the movie itself and the convention of… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…the movie is based. A few clips, focusing on a trip to the local Punimart and an unstable dam, were shown from the movie. Concurrently, nifty fridge magnets [see right]… |
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Speed Racer: Widescreen Edition
…one has been removed from a film and is watching someone else play a high-tech video game, or that Disney/Pixar’s Cars has been super-turbo charged. I would also suggest that… |
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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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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…talking to Pinocchio while watching television reports of Astro the Space Whale. It is obvious at this point that the film has a contemporary setting! Astro has been terrorizing the… |
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Scooby! Samurai Swords! Sin City! Plus Something Wicked, Honey!
…while you’re searching about, look for the also recently issued Twilight Zone: The Movie, but be aware that, as per tradition, all of these Intrada Special Collections are limited to… |
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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,… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…touristy guide to the film’s central locale using Pixar-style postcards and clips from the movie grunged down to home movie like footage and feeling a tad long even at under… |
