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Animated Views reviews: Hero High, Tex Avery’s Droopy
Animated Views presents its latest two reviews: Hero High: The Complete Series and Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection. Examining Droopy, Ben Simon provides a perfect score for the set’s… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…but what makes this one more interesting is that it is actually a future Earth. The Kwicky Koala Show (1981) Perhaps known more for being one of Tex Avery’s final… |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…Montana) brings her vocal talents to the role of Penny, Bolt’s human co-star on the television series. • TINKER BELL (Disney DVD and Blu-ray Release Date: October 28th, 2008) DisneyToon… |
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The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu
…on one (called Hot Spots) with Tex Avery’s unit at MGM, but the completed animation was never put to film since the war ended at that time. Another short called… |
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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…Impossible touch. There’s also some customary Disney inventiveness in the way Wayne and Lanny manage to achieve their task, although the set-up does suggest a Tex Avery kind of treatment… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…I have all those on DVD too and I’ve always found them fascinating, almost animated in themselves and certainly with style that is, I would say, theatrical even. BG: Yes,… |
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Shrek 2
…on its hands earlier this year when authentic DVD copies of the disc started springing up weeks after the theatrical release. Not only were the menus featured across the web,… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…I said at the top of this review though, the disc overall falls short of being an ultimate collection, and not just due to the technical qualities. Originally released in… |
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Ruby-Spears’ Superman: DC Comics Classic Collection
…average production values, these are Ruby-Spears’ adventures of Superman! The Sweatbox Review: Although I retained a distinct passion for theatrical animation in the 1980s, its television equivalent had much less… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series DVD really is complete!
Set to retail on January 27th, {{link http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008EY6Q/qid=1074953040//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl74/102-4687562-8010520?v=glance&s=dvd&n=507846 The Critic: The Complete Series}} brings together all 23 episodes from seasons one and two, as well as a few other surprises!… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…Robotech: The Complete Original, Series DVDs, the physical box set is rather simple. The DVDs are housed in a cardboard case with Rick Hunter, Scott Bernard, and Dana Sterling superimposed… |
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Looney Tunes Golden DVD Collection Review at The Digital Bits
Wow is it hard to type when you are drooling on your keyboard. The Digital Bits just put up a review of Looney Tunes Golden DVD Collection. Oh ya, The… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…the original 1.33:1 pre-restored image, the original DVD/theatrical masked framing, and this new DVD edition, though the level of attention each shot has been given is apparent even if purists… |
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Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)
…rendering of Miller’s original panels. The Disc: Those who bought the original theatrical edition on DVD knew a longer, reworked version was on the cards, and Rodriquez delivered a few… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…to go there… an exceptional collection of bonus features. For the most part, the latest Pixar DVD delivers, but I have to say that I didn’t find the supplemental section… |
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Enchanted
…on its theatrical release, Enchanted didn’t quite cast the spell that it so obviously did for a lot of other people. But that’s the magic thing about DVD: it allows… |
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Bravestarr comes to two-disc DVD from BCI
…series. The two DVD set, which will be released under BCI’s Ink & Paint brand, includes the top five fan selected episodes and the theatrical feature film Bravestarr: The Legend…. |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…act out a scene, naturally taking the parts of the mice! Precious. We are use to seeing Theatrical Trailers (7:00) on DVDs, but with a release like this they are… |
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Aladdin 2-Pack DVD review, and Disney DVD's 2005 line up
A review for the 2 Aladdin direct-to-video sequels, released for the first time on DVD (curiously, as a double pack), is now online at Ultimate Disney. “These are undoubtedly direct-to-video… |
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment DVD Presentation: The Animated News Report
…1½) highlight advances in DVD technology and capabilities. Follow the “Link” for the full report. The main thrust of the presentation was emphasizing how nowadays the DVD format is being… |
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Shrek's directors talk, Dinosaurs, Droopy – and Shrek! – reviewed…
…release of Tex Avery’s Droopy: Theatrical Collection. Early preview: this is a stunning collection of brilliant shorts marred only by image quality that surprisingly leaves a lot to be desired…. |
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Arthur, Invisibles, and Tex Avery too!
Review links for the DVD of Luc Besson’s Arthur And The Invisibles and Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection…. |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…his usual brisk job on the material here. Joining the team was the legendary Preston Blair, animator for Disney on Bambi and the long run of Tex Avery’s best for… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…Imageworks’ computer graphics. Not helping things tremendously are the character designs, which looked fun in a Tex Avery kind of way on the posters, but don’t translate all-too-appealingly to moving… |
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…Peter Rabbit, as the complete collection is often referred to in book form, has come to the screen before, in the ballet dance film The Tales Of Beatrix Potter in… |
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Peanuts: 1970s Collection Volume 2 – Winners Announced!
…Collection Vol. 2 Warner Home Video brings six more beloved Peanuts primetime specials to DVD, in an all-new, re-mastered collection. The compilation consists of a series of specials that were… |
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Step in time! Poppins is back, plus new discs and more!
…than that since it was first reported on December 17) within in its 13.5 million unit DVD sales. But since you all probably knew that already, howsabout some new DVD… |
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Aeon Flux: The Complete Collection
…Rated (PG in Canada), Retail: $39.98 Storyboard: Peter Chung’s visionary MTV masterpiece about a female revolutionary in a futuristic society. The Sweatbox Review: Thief. Saboteur. Mercenary. Revolutionary. Counterrevolutionary. Anarchist. Which… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Disneyland – Secrets Stories And Magic
…collection of Treasures, save for the completed version of Destino, itself due to surface in a promised compendium of Disney shorts in the future. As well as the DVD banner… |
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Father Of The Pride: The Complete Series
…rang, and I started to worry about the “theatrical levels” being upheld, considering that 90% of far eastern animation (albeit the hand-drawn kind) is usually complete trash. Adding to this… |