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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…ratio format at all, but rest assured that the image is anamorphic 1.85:1 (they probably don’t want to scare off the “family-friendly” crowd). Inside it’s even better, with a 16-page… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…limited animation, but that isn’t fair. True, their cartoons had to be done cheaply, but without their contribution it is very difficult to imagine what form television animation would have… |
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The Best Of 2024: Back To Basics!
…to do that, though the trailer I saw struggled to give me a reason to see it. Maybe I just don’t like cats, but I am also told that it’s… |
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition
…DVD collection. But, I’m a stickler for not having any gaps in my franchise collections and, even though I’ll stop following a series if later films don’t live up to… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…I suspect have been labelled as such since they don’t quite meet the strict image or audio requirements to have made it into the newly remastered “main feature” compilation. They… |
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Bolt
…probably have panned it as too outlandish. However, I admit the most exciting parts of the film are the parts that don’t make up our main story. I actually found… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1
…loosely based on the novel The Secret Lives Of Walter Mitty but done with cats. This 1975 NBC show used live action bookends to a cat’s fantasy life, which featured… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…be made cheaply and quickly. Yes, it would later lead to the public perception of animation being crudely done, and later to the belief that it was only for children,… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…were at 13, doodling and watching anime. And now in our 30s, we’re kind of reliving ourselves when we were that age, also inviting people on the team who don’t… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…Bungle Borthers then return for a third segment called Hat Dance where Joey dances a Mexican hat dance. The final segment of the episode is a Dirty Dawg segment called… |
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Exclusive 2015 Comic-Con Recap
…Trousdale, expressing my love for Atlantis: The Lost Empire not only with the hardcover illustrated screenplay for him to sign, but also explaining how me and my friends have done… |
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Rio 2
…produced. I don’t want to spend much more time with Rio 2 than the hour and a half I was in the theatre. So here are the quick bullet points…. |
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The Flintstones: The Complete First Season
…(P-13) – Fred cuts a do-it-yourself record and becomes an unlikely singing star named Hi-Fye. Arthur Quarry’s Dance Class (P-20) – The boys secretly take dance lessons, using Joe Rockhead’s… |
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The Boxtrolls
…(that don’t come from the Aardman studios) that have come since and, it has to be said, remain in its shadow. None more true is this than about the pictures… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…smart editions that don’t focus on dressing these editions up with any major restorations or supplements that would delay their release further. In many ways with these multi-disc sets, the… |
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A look at Oscar's Animated Short Films
…his computer and some off-the-shelf software: ‘I don’t use any trillion-dollar software, it’s fairly inexpensive stuff’”. “In the U.S., \\Nibbles\\ was paired in theatres with the Montreal-based comedy feature \\Mambo… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…and pauper, switching places in traditional style so that the other can each live the life they don’t have. When the King passes away and its time to name a… |
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Up
…Carl just looks and sounds old, but his adventures don’t have the effect on him that they might, and could have lent the film more depth. If Up fails in… |
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The Chipmunk Adventure
…placed on the disc (a commentary would have been fabulous), but at least the video and audio quality is quite good. The movie is entertaining, so don’t be afraid to… |
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Cinderella: Platinum Edition
…War II, Walt Disney’s studio had by necessity become a place where movies were done in sections. Disney had to rely on the “package features”, like Make Mine Music and… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…filled, joyous ditty that I don’t mind admitting I had playing on a loop for quite a few times! Seeing as I wanted to get the feel of the regular… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…Bonjour Lobey, complete with “Louis Armstrong” cameo! But the parodies don’t start there: the top of the program begins us in typically random fashion with the Beany And Cecil-like “Steven… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…of songs, too, irreverent and witty, poking fun at life and the characters more than Star Wars. The song sequences don’t dwell on plot too much, so they could largely… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…Mouse newspaper strip reprints continuing from Fantagraphics, who also publish beautiful volumes of Donald Duck and Uncle Scrooge comics by Carl Barks and Don Rosa. Meanwhile, IDW’s new line of… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…the preview for Pixar’s Short Films Collection, which I frankly found rather annoying and insultingly out of place. Yep, don’t ask me why, but I really took offence to a… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…film for what it is and enjoy it immensely, it’s still one of the shortcomings that rankles throughout the film: Carl just looks and sounds old, but his adventures don’t… |
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Trolls
Once each year, the grotesque Bergens–miserable creatures who don’t know how to sing or dance–feast on the fun-loving Trolls. The reason? Eating a Troll is the only way that a… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…Come True: The Making Of Pinocchio (5:06) actually turns out to be an electronic press kit clip from around 2000 that I don’t believe has made it to disc before…. |
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Dinosaurs: The Complete Third And Fourth Seasons
…a superhero episode, which is what happens when Earl gains powers and flies around in a costume in Earl, Don’t Be A Hero. Robbie questions the Elder’s new philosophy of… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…presenting the cartoons themselves on DVD – if we’d been given anything like the dupe copies spliced in here I don’t think anyone would be as pleased as they are… |
