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Blu-Thunder: the format war is as good as over; plus Turok!
…Supervised by TV director Tad Stones, the almost-legendary creative mind behind many of Disney’s better cartoon series and the recent Hellboy animated films, Rand says that he “never thought I’d… |
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It's the Superman music box set, Charlie Brown!
…glossy slipcase and new featurette. Calling the two included specials “among the best the Peanuts cartoons had to offer”, the only thing that it seems we must not mention is… |
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Giveaway crazy! Plus the old American Dog/Bolt switcheroo!
…on the net, the subplot to Disney’s 2003 direct-to-video outing 101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure, in which Patch meets Thunderbolt, the action-hero star of the Western cartoon glimpsed at… |
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South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
…shave your head and now this!). Of the highlights, Major Boobage has to be one, and is easily on the level of a Good Times With Weapons or Cartoon Wars… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…creating a contrast between the silly-looking characters and a melodramatic score. Still, the creators do not forget that they are creating a cartoon, and the composer is allowed to get… |
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Fantasia 2000
…Storyboard: When Walt Disney released the original Fantasia in 1940, he envisioned a cartoon that would introduce the general public to classical music. The original included seven different musical sequences… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
Tele-Cartoon Japan/Delphi Associates (1966), E1 Entertainment (September 15, 2009), 4 discs, 650 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $39.98 Storyboard: The space… |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
…is well and truly to be lamented. Not that we also lost the guaranteed addition of an animated cartoon on the bill, as well as often very entertaining second features… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…drawing cartoons, one scene gags, and they had great fun with these gags. This looks like a scene where they’re brushing their beards or something. I’m not sure what’s happening…. |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
…that was part of the current wave of serious superhero cartoons with season-arching storylines” and packing in much info on the comic book origins and the topics the episodes tackle…. |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…a phenomenal achievement: Walt’s audiences had shown they would sit through “an hour and a half’s worth of cartoon”; now he would really give them something to sit through. With… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…to transport often sensitive packages – remind me of the Indiana Joneses…they’re not crude (there’s no nudity) or violent in anything other than a cartoon way, there’s little on screen… |
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Ollie Johnston…RIP
…and the other half of the Frank And Ollie team, to leave us. Incidentally, although I didn’t include the link in our news story, the Cartoon Brew site has an… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…an animated reaction to the likes of Hero and The House Of Flying Daggers, a kind of cartoon Crouching Panda, Hidden Dragon, if you will, which wouldn’t have been a… |
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My vote? I'd say go for Looney Tunes or Popeye on DVD!
…featurette) “is certainly as good as what we’ve come to expect from these releases”. We’ve a heap of classic cartoon reviews for you on the way: check back later tonight… |
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Let's start the week off with some new announcements…
…totally missing out anything on the Lion’s cartoon output, is a worthy history of the studio, hosted by Patrick Stewart. Finally, Rand will probably be excited by The All-New SuperFriends… |
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Character Animation Crash Course's winner!
Recently Christian was able to chat to Disney animator Eric Goldberg about his new cartoon how-to guide, the Character Animation Crash Course. It’s a really neat book for those looking… |
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Is Ariel's Beginning worth going back for…?
…takes Christian on a Character Animation Crash Course to dip inside his new cartoon “how to” guide – and you can win a copy of the book in our Contest… |
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Heaps of new DVD announcements; plus the new Splits!
One banana, two banana, three banana, four…The Banana Splits are coming back to TV! Cartoon Network and Boomerang will debut the return of the Splits on Tuesday, September 2, as… |
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Ready for Jack Skellington on Blu-ray Disc? The future looks cool, but watch out for that tree!!
…on the cake – without them, this package would not have seemed complete. While many DVD cartoon releases get by on nostalgia, this is really a show of strong quality”…. |
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WDFA becomes WDAS. Not the same, is it?
It seems Disney’s advertisement announcing a name change for their Feature Animation department at this year’s Annecy Festival, as reported by the Cartoon Brew page, is now doing the rounds… |
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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
…original cartoon characters of that variety in recent years. Look for our take on both this and its companion release Pinky And The Brain Volume 3 in the coming weeks,… |
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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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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…to lift above the quality of the Saturday morning cartoon style – just – but only ever reaches full feature quality when the Red Bull (presumably before he became a… |
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Cars
…and do not sport any personal characteristics is perhaps one of the drawbacks of computer animation. But the history of cartooning is steeped with such an approach in a number… |
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Father Of The Pride: The Complete Series
…Siegfried & Roy had been digitalised, looking like rubbery cartoon caricatures of themselves. I’m not sure if Horn’s accident caused a changing of vocal duties on the show, but here… |
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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…Poppins author P.L. Travers was against an all-cartoon take on her stories, meaning that Walt had to find a different way. Disney’s many years of filmmaking expertise meant that this… |
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Home On The Range
…Range too, which does sport a simpler, more angular look that’s more associated by most to the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons (the backgrounds are very reminiscent of Chuck Jones’… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…Jafar, while seen as the first in this line, only really followed what Walt had been doing for years on the DisneyLand TV show (animating new sequences to bridge cartoon… |
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Rex Steele – Nazi Smasher: Limited Edition
…clever and very entertaining slice of throwback matinee excitement, and all the principals involved deserve to go on to greater things. Currently, Matt Peters is working for Cartoon Network on… |
