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Lady And The Tramp
…upgrade, although there’s none of the truly immersive extras, or sheer wealth of them, that some might have been hoping for, with very little “new” that hasn’t been seen on… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…which can only mean Sony Animation execs rubbing their hands together in anticipation of their own penguin movie, the “mockumentary” Surf’s Up, being as popular. Penguins – especially movie penguins… |
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Director Barry Cook remembers the Peoples of Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida
…from My Peoples. (Click to enlarge) “A lot of people ask me, ‘How can you possibly direct a movie when there is so much studio voice in the movie and… |
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Monsters vs Aliens: Conrad Vernon vs Animated Views!
…the classic 50s and 60s monster movie, the world learns that the military has been quietly rounding up monsters over the years. This ragtag group consists of the brilliant but… |
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Rise of the Guardians director Peter Ramsey assembles the Guardians of Childhood
…stuff. It’s honestly just been a month in which my life hasn’t been consumed by the movie. So, now I’m like, “Whew! Okay, back to a normal life after being… |
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Finding Dory
…help with the feeling that the film had been made with less care and attention than an original may have been. (One might even suggest that there is a mild… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…one of my first dates in college. I should have been paying a lot more attention to the girl, but I was mesmerized by the movie. It was the most… |
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Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home
…has been fairly aggressive in bringing the TV specials to DVD, Paramount has been extremely lame in their handling of the films. They released two bare-bones DVD releases, for the… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…and the only reason that Pocahontas may have really been derided on release may have been because of something deleted from the film in test screenings: a musical number, If… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…I’m boasting, but it’s been a project so long in the making that I’m just pleased it’s finally done, let alone as simply awesome as it is. Movie nights have… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…in the movie. We also tried many ways to end the movie. I had made sequences that explored viable endings that I really believed in. They worked, but in the… |
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Director Frank Nissen on Cinderella III: A Twist In Time
…become involved with Cinderella III? Frank Nissen: I was finishing up Pooh’s Heffalump Movie in early 2004, and the executives asked if I would like to direct a Cinderella movie…. |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…what the movie is. Because the movie itself was so different, so special. I wanted the song not to be something that was cliché of what we consider French. I… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…bustle and noise led me close to thinking that this could have been the worst film I’d seen since Robots (indeed, there’s one character here that could have been an… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…Trek or Star Wars movie, Lilo And Stitch’s audio is as eclectic as the film it accompanies! It’s a sprightly movie to begin with, and the sound designers have great… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…lapse (The Wizard Of Oz had certainly not been the book-to-film franchise juggernaught that MGM’s deal with Edgar Rice Burroughs for Tarzan had been) and Walt himself finally acquired Baum’s… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…overlooked movie in its own right that had possibly had its thunder stolen by the earlier issue of DuckTales: The Movie the same year, but if any film benefited from… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…that movie instead of a singing cow comedy, right? Well, kind of. In the end, we need not have been too worried: Home On The Range did bring the curtain… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…have been looked at – but overall this doesn’t come with all the issues surrounding previous Platinum restorations. If only we’d been given both valid ratios, this would have been… |
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Ariel’s Song: Tony Pulham, a fortunate art director under the sea!
…There’s been a great deal of reworking on this movie. Can you tell me about that aspect of the production? TP: Even though the movie was being shipped overseas to… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
…When I came to the movie at about Christmas last year, he had already experimented with some of my score from the previous movie. Although it felt that it was… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…the movie does have some “decent” enough animation, particularly the character animation of Dellamorta. Still, the least annoying aspect of this movie is Norm MacDonald as a potentially suicidal dragon,… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…“new and exciting”. The Studio had been in this territory before, of course, with The Emperor’s New Groove and the eventually disappointing Chicken Little, but there’s still never really been… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…impressed when characters from the movie interact with the performers and here, as opposed to just cutting between Massey and clips from the movie, Underdog swoops in to fly about… |
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The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn
…crew “film” the movie’s character performances. Although most mo-cap movies reveal their process in this way in their disc supplements, this is more engaging than most, since it offers up… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
…anticipation for what I was about to see. After the movie was over, I concluded that it was the best movie I had ever seen. This feeling would linger later… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…been disappointed and were waiting for explanations. Suspiciously, the panel seemed all about justifying all the complaints the majority had with the movie! An argument was made for the jungle… |
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Director Mike Rianda on The Mitchells vs. The Machines
…who worked on the movie, and they all brought their own experiences into the movie. And I wanted to reflect that in the end credits. It isn’t just a movie… |
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
…Girl) in the movie. Still, in both the comic and the movie, events are overblown and pieces of plot are thrown out mostly to ensure more fights will happen. It’s… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…other types of transportation on show, maybe the movie should have been called “Vehicles”!? Lighting and Mater’s bonding, at that moment, serves no purpose other than to provide some mid-movie… |
