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Buena Vista Home Entertainment DVD Presentation: The Animated News Report
…work had been completed to his satisfaction when the movie hit theaters, but that he was able to refine and correct everything he wanted to for the DVD release so… |
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Squarepants Movie soundtrack listing; Hasselhoff joins movie's cast; Wedge on Williams' Robots character
…regards as to why Williams has not been in an animated movie since 1996’s Aladdin and the King of Thieves, in which he reprised what may be his most popular… |
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Over the Hedge: review, interviews, and production notes
…in the end Gary Shandling as Verne the Turtle takes the animated stage with his words of wisdom and family. This is the animation movie experience I’d been waiting for,… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…story in book form, this is just about as magical as the movie itself. The production value is exceptional: rather than re-use shots from the movie, the new animation does… |
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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd
…movie” winds up the prehistoric cast of “The Swamp Dino Strikes Back” becoming a little too real for comfort when the Gourd projects him into the movie! It’s all surprisingly… |
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Lilo & Stitch: A Little More Conversation with directors Chris Sanders & Dean De Blois!
…it’s an animated movie, be it visually or musically. It was very important for us that all the different aspects of the movie go in the same direction. That’s the… |
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Metropolis
…if you watch the movie with subtitles it does distract you from enjoying the visuals (or vice versa). You may wish to watch the movie in English 5.1 Dolby Digital… |
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Valiant
…had a great idea. Juxtaposition of animals and adventure has long been a staple of animated movies and shorts, so a movie about carrier pigeons during WWII is a natural…. |
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The Chipmunk Adventure
…placed on the disc (a commentary would have been fabulous), but at least the video and audio quality is quite good. The movie is entertaining, so don’t be afraid to… |
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Wonder Woman
…ever been seen of Etta before. At least, she could have been left a redhead, if nothing else! (Though, I did like the fact that Diana disliked her not as… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…their direct-to-video sequels, often blemishing the very films they strive (and usually fail) to continue. Some have been halfway decent (Lion King II), where as some have just been painful… |
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LaserDisc Archives: A Primer On The LD Format
The first in our LaserDisc Archives feature for Toon Review looks back on the original movie-disc format and teases some titles that have still not been outshone by their DVD… |
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Osmosis Jones
…to Frank’s insides, where the names of traditional special features have been given decidedly “bodily function”-influenced names! “Bowel Movie” kick-starts the film, but what else is in store? “Frank’s Gross… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
In the late 1970s and early 1980s animation was, as with the entire movie industry, finding itself heading down more sombre paths than the form had been known for in… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…sessions, and this immediately explains the disjointed performances. Prinze’s drab narration is a major reason why the opening doesn’t work – not only have we been in this stop-start movie… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…presentations in various movie and television outings, particularly his weekly TV anthology program which remains to this day to have taught me more about life, the world, animation and movies… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…CAV LaserDisc release (and, one would imaging, the previous Gold DVD), a look at the bonuses, Disney Movie Rewards code and a generic promotions booklet that’s been doing the rounds… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…to (wrongly) as Popeye: The Movie (as with Superman, “the movie” was later added as taglines for the posters overseas and the name stuck), this often overlooked entry into Robert… |
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Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)
…standard slimline BD case that recreates the theatrical artwork on its front and the movie’s credentials and extras on its back. Interestingly, the disc has been authored for A, B… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…of the film, but an animated movie is much more than just about visuals. It is also very much about music, and more especially about how music takes part in… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…to take part in a roundtable discussion with no less than the Director and the Producer of the movie, Klay Hall and Sean Lurie. Roundtable Interviewer: Mr. Lurie, you’ve been… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…Story 3 this summer, is sure to go down as one of film’s great trilogies. Pixar’s movies are always stunners, and there have been some true marvels since these two… |
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Tangled : An Interview with Disney Designer Laurent Ben-Mimoun
…and defines the way the environments and the movie look. I’d love to see movies with a rich diversity of visual styles in the future of animation in general, very… |
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The Incredibles
…original DVD release delivered even if the supplemental section wasn’t quite as fulfilling as other Pixar sets, but here it’s been beefed up a bit by some new to Blu-ray… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…Lady And The Tramp’s anticipated BD debut, and the Disney Movie Rewards program. There isn’t much else that could have been included…but look on the bright side – at least… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…had here, but I guess any movie only gets the supplements it deserves and if this is the case then Hoodwinked Too! has been much better served than it should… |
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Home On The Range
…Fluffy but nice to have been ported across as the only kind of promotional material for the movie itself on this disc is the music video for Anytime You Need… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…So, there is a lot of traditional animation music in this movie. I think that it’s the best way to give animation some punch. These movies are incredibly well drawn… |
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Superman Unbound
…been stronger, though, if Carlin’s sometimes inane comments could have been dropped. Two related featurettes give some comic-based background and shed light on the creative process of the movie. They… |
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Lego Movie movie trailer coming soon
It appears Disney’s Frozen isn’t the only highly anticipated animated feature with a teaser trailer on the way. A tweet by ComingSoon.net suggests the teaser for The Lego Movie could… |
