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The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season
…Animated Series as the definitive cartoon Batman, the following decade’s The Batman did do one thing that its predecessor did not. In its five seasons, its protagonist followed a continuous… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season
…the thought process behind how these characters were portrayed in the cartoon. Case Study: Standard keepcase, with a tray for the second disc. No insert. The girls miss out again,… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
…this being a Saturday morning cartoon of the early Eighties, there’s a lot less violence than what one might otherwise expect. For all the gunplay, no one ever gets shot,… |
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The Man Called Flintstone
…Louis Prima (known to cartoon fans now for voicing King Louie in Disney’s 1967 adaptation of The Jungle Book). Otherwise, the song stops the progression of the movie absolutely cold…. |
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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition
…Blue Sky’s major accomplishment is in the area of lighting. Like in their previous cartoon, Bunny, Blue Sky astonishes in its use of realistic lighting. There are a variety of… |
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The Animatrix
…the main sources has been anime cartoons. Personally, my anime knowledge consists of Akira, Grave of the Fireflies, Perfect Blue, and Spirited Away, so it’s quite limited. However, with just… |
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The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe
…many landmark cartoons from the early 80s. It certainly is one of the most remembered cartoon shows along with its sister show She-Ra: Princess Of Power. The show, about a… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…on the show was that it was hilarious and completely innovative. I was laughing out loud to a kid’s cartoon show for the first time in a long time. I… |
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Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
…Overall, the image quality of this release is very good with a complete digital transfer. Since this movie was briefly shown on the Cartoon Network this past April, the video… |
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Chris Sanders no longer on American Dog?
…has not yet been officially confirmed or denied. Update! (12/18/2006) According to Cartoon Brew, Chris Sanders was removed from American Dog last Wednesday, December 13, when Disney also laid off… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…from video games to television series to comic books. During his career, Munroe had worked on numerous jobs for Disney, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Fox Kids, The Jim Henson Company,… |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…thing – I’m glad you brought that up. To be really serious now – as serious as I can be about a cartoon – we just didn’t want to make… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…in a harsh sea, fighting against the withering mentality that hand-drawn animation is now “obsolete.” Though there was great protest amongst the community of “cartoon nuts” that cared, these tragic… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…sudden it was really about something, it was about big things. I thought, “It was supposed to be a cartoon,” you know, but look how you get sucked into the… |
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Chatting with The Chestnut Tree Creators
…might be an influence on me is that I grew up in Korea and the art surrounding me was Asian art and also Korean and Japanese cartoons. Asian art is… |
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Scales and Arpeggios: Richard M. Sherman and the “mewsic” of The AristoCats!
…a cartoon cat would be animated to act out your lines? GD: Yes, my mother pointed to the screen and said, ‘That’s you up there!’ AV: Do you keep in… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter One: Screenwriter Bill Kelly, the one that started it all!
…Music. The story didn’t feel believable (as far as our lead character breaking into song and outbreaks of optimism) until we made our heroine a cartoon maiden. The script took… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…on to do some storyboards in Los Angeles for Toon Town, the only sequence when Eddie Valiant is in a cartoon. From there on, Harald had one foot at the… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…who better than the famed Tippett Studio to bring one such cartoon character to photorealistic life in our real world? Jeremie Noyer speaks with James Baxter, and Tippett’s visual effects… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…is Pip, who’s a little chipmunk, and when he’s alive in the real world, he looks like a real chipmunk but acts like a cartoon character. And then in the… |
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Bruce Broughton: The Great Prince of Bambi II‘s Music
In a traditional cartoon, animation and music are so intricately intertwined that you can’t talk about one without talking about the other. One of the greatest specialists in animation and… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
When continually asked for more Three Little Pigs cartoons after the immense success of his 1933 cartoon short, Walt Disney famously quipped “You can’t top pigs with pigs!” It was,… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Director George Scribner!
…his classes: motorcycles and cartoony looking iguanas! After high school in Florida, he majored in film at Emerson College in Boston and moved to Los Angeles to pursue animation. He… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…had been around a while – even before Snow White Disney had released The Academy Award Revue Of Walt Disney Cartoons, a feature compilation of shorts ranging from 1931’s Flowers… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…such as Tiny Toons Adventures and Animaniacs. The Studio had also already released some Bugs and Daffy features, which were little more than compilations from their cartoon shorts library. The… |
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Mad Monster Party
…a “whos-who” of TV cartooning, and they also pretty much forged ahead over the years with the first made for TV animated movies, including a 2D drawn animation series based… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…with a particularly cartoon feel. Into the Humans Only section, and this opens up the door to a variety of behind the scenes clips and featurettes. Leading the pack is… |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…to the crew involved. The interactions between the cartoon and live-action elements are kept to a minimum, although this does not hamper the flow of the film in any way… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…a lot to be said for Cats Don’t Dance. The DVD supposedly adds the theatrical trailer and the 1947 Tom And Jerry cartoon The Cat Concerto (which won the Best… |
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Osmosis Jones
…is more animation than live-action (approximately two-thirds inside Frank’s cartoon innards), but when those real-world inserts come it is hallmark Farrelly humor. Murray makes for the perfect Frank and brings… |

