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Who's plugging Roger Rabbit? A neato coinkidink, me thinks, to mention this year's Elstree Film Festival!
…today we lift the lid on what the movie might have been, as our own Jeremie Noyer speaks with Alan Menken’s lyricist Glenn Slater, who was to have co-written the… |
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Four new Simpsons posters
The Internet Movie Poster Awards now showcases four French posters for The Simpsons Movie advertising different aspects of the movie such as Suspense, Love, Action, and Romance. The Simpsons Movie… |
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Ariel’s Song: loving memories of a Mermaid‘s lyricist, Howard Ashman
…a semi-professional, so we always had music and musical theater in the house. But the first movie-musical he saw was a Disney animated movie musical. And there was a very… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…as Betty Boop proclaims that “work’s been kinda slow since cartoons went to color” in Who Framed Roger Rabbit, it seems the years haven’t been too kind to Honey and… |
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South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season
…when they saw their spoof episode, and the duo’s honest reaction to the 300 movie. Quite rightly, those expecting the “movie version” of Imaginationland to be included here will have… |
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DCA Expansion
…particular interest to animation fans is news of Cars Land, “A 12-acre addition that will be based on the Cars movie, including an attraction called Radiator Springs Racers,” and a… |
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Shrek the Musical World Premiere at Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre
…Shrek!, as well as the DreamWorks Animation film Shrek, the first chapter of the Shrek movie series. Shrek the Musical features a book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize® winner, David… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…films. Too bad the sequel tosses most of these positive aspects out the window. We pick up soon after the first movie ends as the crew says their good-byes and… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Dr Syn, Alias The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh
…Disney Movie rewards code, thankfully not promoted anywhere else on the packaging and ruining the consistency, something the Treasures, wraparound slip aside, have been great in keeping up. Ink And… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…there in subtle ways. It would have been interesting to see how Snowball might have been received by audiences, initial response to the tests I did was excellent, but that,… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…the Republic against Count Dooku and his droid army of Separatists. The Sweatbox Review: While the reception to the Clone Wars theatrical release may have been lukewarm, no one can… |
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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…the recent version of The Day The Earth Stood Still. I’m a huge fan of Robert Wise’s 1951 original, and was interested to see what had been done here. I’ve… |
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Chicken Little: Blu-ray Preview
…BD menus can be interacted with and can be brought up at any time without having to stop the movie. Games can be played in real time rather than waiting… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…the theatre. Where are those types of films? Did we really need to meet all the Robinsons? Meet The Robinsons is full of contrasts. The first half of the movie… |
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Ratatouille
…his reputation as the premiere American animation director. One of the biggest things that struck me about this movie is that it takes something really great animated films are known… |
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Bolt
…TV series are a lot better that the Bolt movie itself! I know that if they had made a movie based on the TV series plot critics like me would… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…cut once again (and narrated by Patrick Stewart). Undergoing yet another reformatting, it’s been vastly tailored to the March Of The Penguins-loving American market, and although one might have been… |
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Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…sure that this beats the heck out of those bootlegged copies that have been circulating for years. Compared to what might have been, this is a very nice visual presentation…. |
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Pom Poko
…that’s the great thing about watching films from overseas. When you plop an animated movie like Japan’s Pom Poko into your DVD player, you just know that you are not… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…Scooby had the format of his show changed, and for two years (starting in 1972) it was known as The New Scooby-Doo Comedy Movies. These new shows brought in special… |
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Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
…Review: There has been a longstanding debate about the effects of new technology on traditional culture. One can say that new technologies inevitably change the way we do things, thus… |
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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…I’ve been over there since they started making the movie, chatting with them and giving them some ideas from Tink’s point of view. They’ve been sketching me as I’m there…. |
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Bolt: Mark Cotta Vaz on The Art of Bolt
…artistic excellence, technical innovation and great animal stories that Walt Disney Animation Studios have been creating for decades! Animated Views: Mr. Cotta Vaz, what led you to writing and writing… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…Disney’s markets in foreign territories, the practicalities of creating and releasing a full-length animated feature similar to Snow White were non-existent. Pinocchio and Fantasia had both been flops on their… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…of great in-jokes and movie references (like the “re-touched” poster below, although I always felt it should have been “what a glorious feline!”), laser animation collectors should look it up!… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three
…was sorely missing from the flat and drab 1990s movie version and the insipid Tom And Jerry Kids TV project. It would have been nice for completion’s sake to have… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…does give away the slightly “scripted” nature of the film, meaning that although everything comes across spontaneously, one does get the feeling that some parts have either been set up… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…nothing questionable about the material – whatever attempts have been made to keep the characters up to date has been done well within their confines. Parents should have just as… |
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Home On The Range
…on the final film, but for the most part any cracks have been papered over well, and even Maggie’s narration – usually the first sign that a film has been… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…as it’s just a piece of harmless entertainment. I say this as a fan of the original movie, yes, but my judgement hasn’t been clouded in any way towards wanting… |
