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Open Season: Special Edition
…paid by the improvised word…even more so than Cars, Open Season is simply a very, very talky movie, without much action other than the required half-way mark chase and the… |
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Disney tins, rumors, and the Shrek 3 trailer…what’s up with that?
…but sure to surprise and delight with the rest of the selection. With the recent True Life Adventures launch of the Legacy series and the spectacular success of Cars and… |
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Chicken Little
…with The Wild and Cars theatrical trailers (both in anamorphic widescreen no less), Dumbo (oddly using score cues from The Rocketeer) and The Little Mermaid’s DVD reissues, plus AirBuddies, Howl’s… |
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Finding Nemo: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…as trinkets and characters from upcoming movies Cars and The Incredibles). Dialogue in Pixar films is also always very strong, and the actors help pay off any lacklustre lines that… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…switch into belly dancing elephants, speedboats, race cars, and so on, bringing to life not just the experience of drunkenness, but a complete series of hallucinations! Max Fleischer tried a… |
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Osmosis Jones
…and even a little flat, but for ambiance, the street scenes are the best, with cars and vehicles coming past you from all directions. French subtitles have been included. Final… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…I took the characters and invented new stories for them and stuff like that. Even when you look at my drawings as a kid, I never drew cars or houses… |
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Jan Pinkava reveals “les ropes” of Ratatouille
…fish, cars and everything else fantastical (and easier for computers) had been done. Humans wear clothes. Clothes were very hard to do then. It needed research and development. Humans have… |
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Michael Giacchino: not so short on ideas for Pixar Shorts!
…us about his happy participation in One Man Band (released along with Cars in 2006) and Lifted (released last year, along with Ratatouille). Animated Views: How did you come to… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…safely in Calgary, despite my friend’s penchant for driving way too close to cars in front of us. (And I’m not the only person to say this, buddy.) We checked… |
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Sin City: Blu-ray Disc (plus Recut, Extended & Unrated Edition)
…the cars of the movie and the processes used to bring them to the screen, with more of the same in Booze, Broads & Guns, which explores the manufacturing of… |
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Schoolhouse Rock!: Special 30th Anniversary Edition
…job done are “and”, “but”, and “or.”) using railroad cars. This is a very entertaining short and the animation is very good. This is the first song that Jack Sheldon… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Glen Keane on discovering the beauty in The Beast
…we would drive and hit several of those in a day because we didn’t have to go by horse – we had cars – and we would visit these places…. |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…also selling as a standalone), Tron: Uprising (again) and the Tron: Evolution video game, The Incredibles, Cars 2, and Disneynature’s quite wonderful-looking African Cats. Case Study: Also available as a… |
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Tangled
…was the best pure Disney film since Tarzan, and I’m astonished as to why it didn’t make the Best Animated Feature shortlist at this year’s Oscars, even in a quality… |
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Monsters University pushed back to 2013, Official logo revealed
…make his feature-length directorial debut with Monsters University. Scanlon has previously worked as a story artist on Toy Story 3, and helmed the Cars-related Pixar short Mater and the Ghostlight…. |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…but it is right that they should be included. Both discs start with trailers for Cars 2 and the Diamond Edition release of The Lion King. Additional trailers that may… |
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Toy Story short stills
Two stills from the upcoming Toy Story short entitled Hawaiian Vacation have been released. The short will be attached to Cars 2 opening June 24th. You can check out the… |
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US Postal Service to release Pixar stamps in 2011
…includes five different designs featuring Pixar characters Lightning McQueen and Mater from Cars, Remy the rat and Linguini from Ratatouille, Buzz Lightyear and two of the green, three-eyed aliens from… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…It seems rather crass in the Sneak Peeks that the likes of A Christmas Carol, Cars 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2 should be promoted on a title that represents… |
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Africa enters the 3D animated market
…Bear), Phil LaMarr (Family Guy, Futurama), Jim Cummings (The Princess and the Frog, The Lion King, Winnie the Pooh), and Jennifer Lewis (The Princess and the Frog, Cars). Zambezia tells… |
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Toy Story‘s full specs and final artwork
…Story 2 and Finding Nemo), produced by Pixar veteran Darla K. Anderson (Cars, Monsters, Inc.) and written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Michael Arndt (Little Miss Sunshine), Toy Story 3 is… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…huge warehouse storage of Monsters Inc… The Sweatbox Review: Although DreamWorks’ Shrek eventually stole the prize for the inaugural Best Animated Feature award at the 2001 Oscars, it is rightfully… |
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James And The Giant Peach: Special Edition
…debuted on DVD almost a decade ago. But, rather than pack in that same disc to make up a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack release that, like with Pixar’s Cars and Monsters,… |
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Buzz and Woody to return to the big screen in upcoming short film
…upcoming short film. To be shown before Cars 2 in theaters next summer, the short would be part of an effort to “find ways to keep the characters alive,” according… |
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Animating hotel rooms for Disney World
…Walt Disney World by the end of 2012. The one-of-a-kind resort will feature family suites designed around four themes: The Lion King, Cars, Finding Nemo and The Little Mermaid, including… |
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Disney goes back to Canada with new Pixar shorts studio
…a new Pixar subsidiary. Launched yesterday, April 20, Pixar Canada will create short films based on their Toy Story and Cars characters for online and Disney Channel airing. More can… |
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey
…of the original Winnie The Pooh featurettes (even the otherwise clunking product placement for Volkswagen cars can be begrudgingly overlooked for the way they integrated the design into George’s world)…. |
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Animated Views’ 6th Annual Oscar Contest – Winner Announced!
…well) Cars Ultimate Gift Pack, Bedtime Stories, G-Force, Hannah Montana The Movie, Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience, and Santa Buddies. Also included is a Blu-ray/ DVD combo of the… |
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Oscar goes Blu!
…worth well over $250! – including the Best Animated Feature nominee Cars Ultimate Gift Pack and the surprisingly fun family flick G-Force, which has gotten a worse reputation than it… |