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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
…some important scenes may have been deleted due to time or money conflicts. As a movie, some parts do work, and it’s these sequences that I had previously seen that… |
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Balto
…the more unbelievable for having been based on a true event, although the plot has obviously been reworked to play up the role of our main hero character and take… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…Jam and Cats Don’t Dance had been previously cropped to fullscreen) – the first time anyone has seen the film in this way since 1962! The print has obviously been… |
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Walt: The Man Behind The Myth
…they will, the cropping issue notwithstanding, but some of the film clips have not been taken from the pristine elements that have been restored for recent home video releases. However,… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…could easily have been a cheesy cuddly animal buddy movie. Ultimately, this “season” of films that filled the early multiplexes lasted between 1980 and ’85, when the expensive failures of… |
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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…to its original intention. NOTE: If this had been the complete 103-minute cut, I would have had no hesitation in easily marking the movie a full 10, but as it… |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…film itself. Thankfully, it doesn’t seem to have been farmed out to cheap animation companies either, and some of the names featured in the credits have gone on to greater… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
…outing, my inquisitive nature was stirred and the chance to see more of what I had been charmed by a few months ago proved too strong to resist. First off,… |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…Filling in a gap by concentrating on slightly later years, Steve Stanchfield had been first out of the gate to create tapes, and now DVDs, filled with obscure 1930s character… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…even been the one to name him. Secondly, Mintz had been spending more and more time at the Disney Brothers Studio, talking to artists about pay and conditions, and secretly… |
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Warners on new toon DVDs, plus the DisneyLand…bootleg!?
…Ferrell remake of Land Of The Lost. As The Hollywood Reporter says, “the question is whether he wants to do a space movie or a dinosaur movie”, but the thought… |
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Scully on Simpsons, plus good reviews galore!
Well, it looks like The Simpsons Movie is going to be the blockbuster that everyone’s been expecting for 18 years or so…previewing in theaters from today, it’s been blazing a… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…had almost never been out of performed media since his radio debut after the launch of the comics in the 1930s and certainly never off screen where he jumped from… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…that, with $4.47 billion in the bank generated from just five Harry Potter movies, their franchise is now the most lucrative in film history, beating out James Bond’s 22-movie total… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie and The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie led to commissions for completely newly created programs. Although the classic characters had never really been missing from… |
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It's The AristoCats, Charlie Brown! Plus contest winners!
…Thomas O’Malley in a silent 8mm home movie print only a few years after the movie originally came out, and I still think it holds up well today. For those… |
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It's Kung Fu Monday!
…and a very rewarding recipient of its $60 million opening box-office weekend! Kicking us off is James R Whitson’s full Toon Review of the movie, which eagle-eyed readers will spot… |
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Howard Ashman, and 304 Dalmatians!
As promised, today marks the end of our interview series based around the recent release of The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning, and to finish up with, Jeremie has been speaking… |
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Monsters Vs. Aliens! Smurfs! Plus the WB Archives open up!
…helmed the movie with Rob Letterman. DreamWorks’ latest animated movie took a little while to get me juiced up about seeing it, having given the look of being highly derivative,… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
Hello toonfans, and a happy “May Day” Holiday to those in the UK. If you’ve been trying to (unsuccessfully) access our review of Gulliver’s Travels, please note that it’s now… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…sometimes, if the show was running short, included the same footage. As such, these fringe characters, who had realistically run their course, had been chopped by the time Freakazoid! made… |
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Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Michael Jackson rehearses the opening to his destined to be last spectacleAs I took my seat and the movie theater began to fill up for the fourth big Michael Jackson… |
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Pixar and Princess rule our latest updates!
…movie and drops a hint on Cars 2! Now, not being the world’s greatest Cars fan, I have to say that the thought of an “international action movie” appeals very… |
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Final poster for Avatar revealed
Only days before the movie’s release, the final poster for Avatar has finally been revealed. Meanwhile, CBS News ponders whether or not the movie will be able to match the… |
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Avatar toys now featured in McDonald’s Happy Meals
It may seem like a surprise to some, given the movie’s PG-13 rating, but McDonald’s is now selling 6 toys based off of Avatar in their Happy Meals. It’s the… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 3: The Orlando Features
…produced at the Florida studio, must have been a great event! Mark Henn: Oh, it was great news! Mulan was a great story for us to start with. I really… |
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Will Avatar sink Titanic?
…box office record and become the highest grossing movie of all time. Newsweek looks at the many things that have been working in the film’s favor, including the strong word… |
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First look: Legend of the Guardians
USA Today has an exclusive first look at Warner Brothers’ upcoming animated movie Legend of the Guardians (not to be confused with The Guardians, a DreamWorks Animation movie currently in… |
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Castle In The Sky
…Laputa is revealed, truths emerge about each group that has been pursuing Sheeta, and we learn the secrets behind Sheeta and her crystal. It’s fantasy storytelling in the grand tradition,… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…a neat trick. This simple movie generally keeps a quiet tone, and its plotting may be described as leisurely, but I found the time spent with this film passed surprisingly… |
