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Animation Addicts Podcast #71: The Land Before Time – Fellowship of the Tree Star
…How important was The Land Before Time to your childhood? • We rate it! • Mail bag • Don’t forget to use the hashtags #AnimAddicts and #DonBluthDazzle when talking about… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #59: A Monster in Paris – Don’t Judge This Flea by Its Cover
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! Morgan and Chelsea jump right in the the discussion on this unconventional and under-appreciated French film, A Monster in Paris! https://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADV6107618179.mp3 Highlights: • What is… |
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Toy Story Of Terror!
…to be anything more than they are. If you don’t like ’em, don’t worry…they’re not really even placeholders for any eventual sequel that may still come along in future. Except… |
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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame: 2-Movie Collection
…and long-time Disney associate Mary Wickes) has been christened Laverne. Okay, I get that it kinda, sorta sounds French, but there’s no other connection and I don’t get why the… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…of a modern day digital widescreen image. The effect, some 20 minutes in, is quite startling although not, I don’t think, as effective as the 1939 reveal that introduced color… |
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Disneynature: Oceans / The Crimson Wing: Mystery Of The Flamingos
…could they imagine the unseen silk scarves rippling through the water below?” in relation to the blanket octopus elegantly gliding onscreen. This reliance on empty, flowering dialogue means we don’t… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…to teach him a lesson about drinking his milk. Things don’t quite work out for Tom, and Jerry’s potion turns him into a super-strong giant mouse who is only able… |
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The Wild
…backgrounds to small character moments like Nigel falling in the sand…a joke that we don’t actually see but is graphically highlighted very cleverly. Though some of the city scenes suffer… |
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The Boxtrolls coming to Blu-Ray January 20th
…order to create the beautiful ballroom dance sequence – and how costume designer Deborah Cook met the challenge of creating costumes that could flow during a dance scene. o THINK… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
…to suggest that music be the driving force of a series of cartoon shorts that would later become the Silly Symphonies. Beginning with The Skeleton Dance, the Silly Symphonies would… |
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LaserDisc Archives: A Primer On The LD Format
…old discs yet… Way back when Warner Home Entertainment’s animated feature Cats Don’t Dance was finally issued on DVD, we were all expecting a nice new transfer of the film… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…can appeal to all audiences, crossing the boundaries and finding fans in people that usually don’t warm to musicals, animation or, for that matter, scary movies. Nightmare is that rare… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…medium. Previous to the enormous accomplishments to come, the duo had provided half an hour of non-Tom & Jerry animation for the Gene Kelly dance anthology trilogy Invitation To The… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…Nemo. We don’t learn an awful lot in its eight minutes, but it packs a ton in and most scary was the fact that Gould is already looking ahead to… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…(lighting and shading). Lion King II attempts such niceties, but there is a noticeably much “rougher” quality about it. Character faces don’t have any of the subtleties that peppered the… |
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Thunder And The House Of Magic
…play it on my non-3D TV from the same PS3, the disc refused to play; such is the hazard of placing both versions on one disc. Assumedly, those who don’t… |
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The Garfield Movie
…kids don’t understand it, and it doesn’t make you look smarter. And the less said about the Let’s Get It On scene with two cows, the better. Sony, let’s talk… |
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Shrek The Third
…these scenes were intended. There’s another lack of context for Donkey Dance, a thirty second clip of, well, Donkey dancing that was created for…? Your guess is as good as… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…this or any other era. Created on film and mastered on video, don’t expect the rock solid, computer colored perfection of a digital transfer, but don’t be surprised to see… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…throughout). I don’t have a problem with filmmaking by numbers when it’s done well, but Mad 2 is only interested in one thing: keeping us laughing enough so that we… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…all the more since he is the only Dwarfs to have his own theme, Dopey’s Theme). They don’t calculate, like the Queen. Beside, that passage contains no tension: the Queen… |
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Strange Magic
…cliches, and bad ideas took over and made the whole thing a mess. It’s in the details that things fall apart. I don’t want to spoil the story (though you’ll… |
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Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams
…That we warm to Snitter and Rowf does put author Adams and the filmmakers down rather firmly on one side of the argument, and the faceless, humourless humans don’t put… |
