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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…don’t care / If all of my curls have curled out of my hair”…Howard Ashman this most certainly ain’t! Return To The Sea attempts to bring some intended humor to… |
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The Princess And The Frog’s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 4: Americana
…painters to help them understand it and what you could do with that, all done by hand. We wanted to make something different, something we don’t normally get to do… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…of the movie, actually – is green and the filmmakers don’t look like they’re quite confident enough to go full on with an all-black lead couple? It’s all these external… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…uses some new animation (or at least, re-cycled from the feature) and is a harmless way to pass the time, but don’t worry if you don’t feel like playing through… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940
…formula that one associates with Popeye. Many of the cartoons do not have Bluto at all, and a few don’t even have him eating spinach. Instead, we are introduced to… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…done the complete opposite! The Jungle Book and, to a large extent, The AristoCats had both been projects overseen or approved by Walt himself, as had a steady stream of… |
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Raya And The Last Dragon
…Park instead. I really don’t know if I can articulate just how bad this film was measured against my expectations. I usually don’t like to spoil much about a movie,… |
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TaleSpin: Volume 2
…as a “re-imagining” of The Jungle Book. If you’re going to bother casting Baloo and the others, you might as well find roles for Bagheera and Kaa, too, don’t ya… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…Dib doesn’t have to try hard to stop Zim due to Zim’s incompetence. In fact, Zim’s major challenges on Earth, don’t even come from Dib, but from scary Chihuahuas, mall… |
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Space Jam: 2-Disc Special Edition
…a year or two. It has plenty of fun moments, and it is good seeing my favorite cartoon characters in a big movie, even if they don’t always act like… |
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The Smurfs 2
…live smurfilly ever after. Don’t worry, I don’t do that “smurf” thing all the way through the review. The Sweatbox Review: The Smurfs was a bit of a surprise hit… |
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The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu
…the other Services don’t have it too swank either. Fighting Tools – Bob Clampett’s first “Snafu” shows the importance of taking care of your weapon. An unprepared Snafu tangles with… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…third party trying to block our honest review from appearing, and may never know if this was intentional or not, but as you’ll see from the images below, they don’t… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…the images. That sounds like a very rough description, but just don’t go into these thinking they’re going to look absolutely pristine. In short, they don’t, but there’s no faulting… |
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Meet the flockers: the Animated-News Valiant review
…rush by don’t quite cut it. Vanguard’s first feature is a heartily enjoyable ride, if a little old fashioned (in a very good way). Don’t go in expecting another Incredibles… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…up to Disney’s retrospective documentaries, and it would have been very nice to see how the artists feel about the film looking back on it now or – don’t shout… |
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Enrico Casarosa’s The Venice Chronicles
…don’t know what’s gonna happen next”. And I really felt that was what I wanted to do with the book. Once I got back, I really felt like “ok, how… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)
…such as how he expects that Linus would grow up to be the most successful adult, while Charlie Brown will always be a Charlie Brown, because people just don’t outgrow… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…this next central core. It is very abstract, but for me it was very informative because you have on one side a finite world where things are ephemeral, don’t last… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…And you don’t have to leave your house to play them. In fact, with the internet, you don’t have to even leave the house to interact or play with your… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…most important is getting the best live action element. If you get it, it works. I don’t care about the CG work – it just works! The trouble is when… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…left over! We don’t get the best scenes. But my mentor was very good and very generous as a supervising animator. So, he gave me some pretty good scenes. At… |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…do the character Lilo. I think she’ll be a all new exploration for me in terms of the type of characters, because, typically, I’ve done the villains. So, I don’t… |
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An interview with the creators of Oni
…people or cultures you don’t know or don’t understand. The fear of the unknown still exists today, and that’s how I started to think about this whole story of Oni…. |
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In memory of Joe Grant
…contributed to Disney films over the last fifteen years. If what Don was saying was correct then Joe was responsible for creating Rafiki and Zazu in The Lion King. Don… |
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Dave Metzger’s Wish Comes True…
…different. They know exactly what their role is. In the other way, they don’t know what the brass will be doing, so they don’t know how to play their part…. |
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The “Best” Of 2020: The Year The Earth Stood Still
…to ever give the proper amount of respect in a single article. Among the notables were Sir Sean Connery (who many probably don’t know lent his voice to the pioneering… |
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Peter de Sève: the time of his life designing A Bug’s Life
…I don’t know whether it was me or them – mentioned the idea that the grasshoppers could be based on a motorcycle gang. I guess it was them because their… |
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Roy Disney Presents At The Newport Film Festival 2008
…Disney, nephew of Walt Disney, showed up with longtime Disney producer Don Hahn to present an evening of rare Disney shorts. Also on hand was Disney jack-of-all-trades Dave Bossert to… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…home video! When their new owner is off on holiday, Ken and Barbie plan the ultimate getaway, though when their plans don’t take off as expected, Woody, Buzz and the… |