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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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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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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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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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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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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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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
…and became passionate about that. He’s always been an artist. At school, he used to draw on his copy-books! His first job as an adult was in animation. The movies… |
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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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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…The Puppetoon Movie was Animated Views’ Best Release Of The Year back in 2013. With so many studios frustratingly sitting on their classic animation output, it was wonderful to see… |
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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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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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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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Big Hero 6
…Superman movie in 1978. If Richard Donner’s film had been the trailblazer, then even so it took a good decade before former animator Tim Burton’s Batman kickstarted the current superhero… |
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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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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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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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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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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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Composer Philip Klein on Wish Dragon
…twist. To accompany musically that voyage between tradition and modernity at the heart of China, Chris Appelhans appealed to composer Philip Klein. Philip’s music has been heard in film and… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…a knock-on effect from the live-action unit that essentially washed the floors of Disney Animation clean: although Mouse Detective had been enough of a hit, it had still been the… |
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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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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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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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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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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… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 now available for preorder
The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3 Blu-ray Limited Edition is a third landmark collection of 28 more spectacular George Pal Academy Award-winning stop-motion and hand-drawn animated shorts, totaling some five hours… |
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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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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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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… |
