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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…have been in the final movie it really would have been scary. I was very glad to have Carter working on Ratatouille. We’d give him descriptions of the characters. He’d… |
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Real Steel
…a movie filled with silliness (and such corking dialogue as: “You’ve been working with those robots for so long you’ve become one”), the way the machines are controlled – either… |
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Batman: Gotham Knight (Blu-ray/DVD)
…explores the mythos set up in the first film. The Animatrix is very well-regarded, so this current movie, the third in the “DC Universe Animated Movie” series, has been well… |
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The Man Called Flintstone
…she can hook up with the suave Rock Slag. (If this had been produced a few years later, perhaps the title may have been The Spy Who Slagged Me?) Fred… |
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The Garfield Movie
…it.” The movie was very slapstick heavy, almost feeling more like something from Warner Bros. It also included a lot of action movie references and homages that, again, maybe would… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight
…the modern costume does have a great design and fits in well with the movie’s plot. Director Lauren Montgomery shows us that her Wonder Woman movie was no fluke. It’s… |
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The Animatrix
…movements, martial art techniques, and fashion used in the movie have been imitated in everything from Shrek to Scary Movie to countless television shows. It really has become an integral… |
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The Simpsons Movie
The Simpsons Movie is definitely not the “Best. Movie. Ever.” But it does deliver the laughs…. |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…up on a diet of monster movies where the monsters were always stop-motioned. Ray Harryhausen’s creatures had a big influence on the tone of these movies. I remember seeing the… |
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The Lego Ninjago Movie
…The Lego Movie and The Lego Batman Movie so memorable. Though I would like to call out the framing device for special note. That was well done, fun, and a… |
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Composer Harry Gregson-Williams takes us far, far away, from Prince of Persia to Shrek Forever After
…a unique light, offering a unique point of view to the movie. Now, he strikes again with two major movies of this summer, Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of… |
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AV Readers’ Best of the Decade List: 2001-2010
…65 58 flushed away 64 59 megamind 58 60 bee movie 57 61 final fantasy the spirits within 56 62 legend of the guardians 55 63 robots 53 64 ghost… |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
I was a huge fan of the first Lego Movie. It seemed to come out of nowhere with it’s insane humor and surprising heart to win over audiences with what… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…than the character had been called upon for previously. All three of the live-action movies are inevitably cheesy on a grand scale, and somewhat stuck in an ’80s timewarp despite… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…look at the story. The events of the first movie are first shown in a delightful shadow puppet sequence performed by Mowgli. He shows the people of his new village… |
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Race To Witch Mountain
…as intelligent a film as Hough’s original, but the material has still been taken seriously, and not turned into a free for all mess. After all, a movie that contains… |
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Forty Three Kix kicks into gear with movie times text message service
…charges consumers nothing for its service, though standard wireless carrier charges may apply. Interested moviegoers simply text-message film keywords to 43KIX (43549), using keywords appearing in movie advertisements everywhere. Users… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…The Puppetoon Movie, and three years after the release of the similarly positively reviewed The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 disc, producer Arnold Leibovit is back to present another collection of… |
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Bambi II
…bastion of traditional, hand drawn animation at the Studio that built its name on such entertainment with Bambi II, a movie that’s been on the cards for almost 65 years…. |
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…of an energy source called Protoculture, and this further drove the conflicts. The two-movie set under review here features two later Robotech movie projects. They each have very different origins,… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…a Muppet movie made by the fans for the fans. Disney’s Blu-ray wasn’t totally stacked, hence the placing here, but was a solid presentation of a contemporary classic movie. Read… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…from the 1940s rather than any other modern CG movie. It’s during these opening moments – an expertly crafted mini-movie in itself – that we meet Carl and Ellie as… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…Sealed With A Kiss could have been instantly dismissible if it were not for the fact that it had ostensibly been the work of just one man. But then, did… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…what it takes to become a classic: heart. On DVD, Monsters, Inc. was well served by Disney on disc, and now, with the movie now revisited in a much-delayed Blu-ray… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…League might’ve been my favorite movie of the year (despite technically being from 2017), as it did the impossible and surpassed the hype surrounding it. With massive battles and enough… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…something of an occasional Disney regular since Pocahontas, but here he’s been allowed to play broad and loud with his doting father figure, in danger of toppling the movie over:… |
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Captain America (1990)
…conclusion, without the director’s full vision being realized. Some might argue that could have been a good thing, because the movie does have trouble settling on a tone. At times… |
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Cars
…when the movie eventually came out earlier this year I was working on a project of my own and had to choose my time-out movie viewing more carefully than usual…. |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…the tally only made it to number 44, though I’m sure if one counted all the “ancillary” animation released, (including Duck Tales The Movie, A Goofy Movie and even Teacher’s… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…For the “human” side of Silver has been traditionally hand animated by celebrated Disney animator Glen Keane (Ariel, Beast, Aladdin, Tarzan, etc) while his electronic parts have been created, match-moved… |
