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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…world of its own, The Nightmare Before Christmas is the kind of film that can appeal to all audiences, crossing the boundaries and finding fans in people that usually don’t… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Two – There Is Now A Level Zero
… Madagascar Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath Release Date: May 27, 2005 “My life is half over and I don’t even know if I’m black with white stripes… |
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Pete’s Dragon: High-Flying Edition
…I often don’t remember existing. I’m not even sure when I first saw it. I know that we had a copy of the comic book adaptation in our house, and… |
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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1.1
…Do When You’re Lost, Barbeque – What To Do If Your House Is On Fire, Deep Six – Don’t Swim When It’s Storming, Mutt – Don’t Pet Strange Dogs, Quick… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…While it was admirable in a way for Pixar to realistically address a problem that many people have to deal with (myself included, to a certain extent, as I don’t… |
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Sister Act‘s music supervisor Michael Kosarin takes us to Heaven!
…our heads into that sound. AV: Whereas Little Shop seemed to lean toward parody, Sister Act seems to rather lean toward pastiche. MK: Yes. I don’t think we go into… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…the tango! – and the quality of filmmaking high. Far from just scraping through, this big family entertainment, though one hopes any future outings don’t resort to any desperate measures…. |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…him. I don’t know. Anyway, Bill had a long, great history with publishing, starting with that auspicious event. [laughs] William Morris of HarperCollins Publishers cuts his retirement cake. Bill was… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…her modesty…and quite frankly even as a huge fan I’m perfectly good with these “fixes”. They don’t affect the entertainment quality and were never really intended to be seen: they… |
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Watchmen: Director’s Cut
…me to experience it more positively, even if ultimately I still don’t think it completely succeeds in being a serious examination of superheroics and what drives the kind of people… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…for some truly classic cartoons of the kind they just don’t make anymore. I do hope sales push along at least another volume, and more from Warners’ other owned cartoon… |
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Peanuts: 1960’s Collection
…more than overcome simplistic animation. If you don’t love this one, it would be hard to see you liking any of the others. Charlie Brown’s All-Stars (June, 1966) – This… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…pet peeve of mine in the last Tinker Bell movie. Characters don’t simply stand around and look like photos of dolls; they shuffle around, make faces at one another, and… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season Two
…commentaries from Season One know, these two fellas don’t necessarily talk a whole lot about the episode they are watching, preferring to ramble on about a variety of topics that… |
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Justice League: Doom
…the George Perez original that I’ve really liked. So, it’s probably worth watching if you’re a big DC heroes fan, but maybe don’t use this one to try to convert… |
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Kubo And The Two Strings
…Mulan’s grandmother, and another (voiced by George Takei) who sometimes resembled her father. Along the same line of thinking, and I don’t know if it is intentional, but when we… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…Review: There are some movies that one just can’t find a connection with. Sure, the motor hums along fine and it’s a nice enough ride, but you just don’t click…. |
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Animated Views 2.0 is here!
…new layout, but don’t worry: everything is still here and more, including the return of the rolling News updates, now safely snuggled in on our joint new front page! So… |
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
…with near-maximum effort. What I don’t get is, why do they trust Luthor, why are they so willing to believe Superman is behind the meteor, and why the heck do… |
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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…So feel free to pick and choose whichever episodes you would like to watch, based on your mood and which characters you like. Don’t worry about what the proper order… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Two
…specials, but asking guest stars to fly to London to perform on the strange new weekly variety program was a challenge. The terrific success of the first season, however, made… |
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The BFG
…does about the films he’s making, where the “personals” have begun to match or even surpass the blockbusters, much as has happened with Clint Eastwood. You don’t have to reach… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season
…to get things right. I don’t just say that Season Four got things “right” because they altered Batman’s jaw line in a subtle re-design. While the pointy chin he wore… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Three
…find someone to like in this batch, then I don’t know what to think. If nothing else, though, buy this season for plenty of classic Muppet fun. Is This Thing… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
…volume. The short review here is, “If you liked the last one, you’ll like this one.” Yes, second volume reviews are tricky, particularly when they don’t even break up evenly… |
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Big Hero 6
…main fault with the story’s construction it’s that Hiro’s supporting characters don’t all get enough development or screentime themselves – the title does reference six heroes after all – but… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…don’t believe all music in animation should obviously follow Stalling’s style though. It would be a narrow world if it all did. I actually met some people that believe that’s… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…Sadly, the only way to hear the full cues are via bootleg edition CDs, which I don’t condone but suggest that Disney should release an official disc, perhaps through the… |
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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
…animation/live-action combo G-Force receiving a collective shrug by the audience, and both Prince Of Persia and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice underperforming this summer at the box office. I don’t think that… |
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The Man Called Flintstone
…regret the lack of bonus material, and the loss of the Wilma/Columbia lady logo, but this is likely all we are getting. And if you decide you don’t like the… |
