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Astro Boy (1980): The Collection Box Set
…year 2030— as opposed to 2003 in the manga and first cartoon series. (“Toby” is certainly a better translation of the comic’s “Tobio”.) And once again, Boynton madly thinks of… |
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Batman: Gotham Knight (Blu-ray/DVD)
…mastermind of so many of our favorite DC cartoons, served as an executive producer for this project, but he restrained himself from offering too much input. From the beginning, this… |
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It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…twelfth Peanuts cartoon special came out in 1974. Borrowing from comic strips that had appeared over the past few years, it tells the story of the coming of the Easter… |
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What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season
…All in all, though, What’s New Scooby-Doo? was a pretty sharp-looking show, right up there with any other Warner-produced 21st century cartoon show. Keeping with tradition, the copyright notice on… |
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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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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…many cartoon specials, they really never did much with them. Of the over 40 specials produced, fewer than half made it to DVD, and the ones that did got pretty… |
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A Charlie Brown Valentine
…and animation, a more jaundiced world outlook that comes with age, and countless additional hours of cartoon viewing in the intervening years that have taken much of the edge off… |
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DuckTales: Volume 3
…One Dime. The Sweatbox Review: With this third volume of DuckTales, we find another 24 episodes of the classic TV cartoon spread evenly across three discs, concluding the series’ initial… |
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Superman – Doomsday
…that it wasn’t even punchier. With so much opportunity for low-end sound to shake my home theater during the battle scenes, this still ends up sounding like a fancy cartoon… |
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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…cartoon show character. Time And Punishment offers a Dark Knight version of a Darkwing who became a whole lot more serious after Gosalyn was lost in time thanks to a… |
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POPEYE!!!
…tell you guys and gals, this one was worth the wait. The cartoon restoration is generally excellent, and the content is beyond reproach. We can finally see how these cartoons… |
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The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series
…for being too filled with violence or bland cartoons, but shows like Isis demonstrate that Filmation was interested in doing more than attracting cereal advertisers for the network. The Secrets… |
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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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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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Ratatouille reviewed, catalog DVD reviews added
…critics, but no… rather than being brave here it looks like he loved it as much as everyone else. See his review to see why this particular cartoon nut feels… |
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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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… |
