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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…“dangerous” for kids to see these days. Honestly! Though we don’t get an episode listing in the packaging, and no insert of any sort, the episodes menus on the discs… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…inventions don’t usually work. Most parents seem to want a less “enthusiastic” child, so Lewis is passed over again and again. He believes once he is a teenager he will… |
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The Simpsons Movie
…get to Nome, Alaska (don’t ask!) when they only spend five minutes of movie time there when they arrive? Thankfully when Homer heads back to Springfield from Nome it is… |
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Disney announces ten animated films through 2012
…Composer: Randy NewmanVoice Talent: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger Originally released by Walt Disney Pictures in 1995, Toy Story was the first feature… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…than Rice’s approach, which at times can seem trite and overly elaborate at the same time. Sometimes, in trying to be too clever, Rice’s words don’t quite mesh and need… |
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Lego Star Wars: The New Yoda Chronicles
…his enemies. This leads to Luke and the others heading to the Empire’s headquarters for a surprise attack, but things don’t go as expected. This is an episode where all… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…Is This Thing Loaded? Don’t throw out the DVD! Much like the concurrent release of Home On The Range, Treasure Planet pleasingly manages to pull over most of its previous… |
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Nightmare's here! Plus the Lone Ranger, Zorro…and Wart!
…bust, but I just don’t think it’s worth the extra bucks when the standard set will still look pretty darn snazzy on the shelf. I haven’t seen the Blu-ray edition… |
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The First Easter Rabbit: Deluxe Edition
…treat. However, the flat animated characters don’t give the designers much to go on in terms of creating cover art, and the back image of one of the bunnies (not… |
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World of Tomorrow
…figures, it seemingly illustrated how the show will devolve in the years to come. This was the product of Don Hertzfeldt, an animator whose films have garnered him great acclaim… |
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The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…
…talented as well. So, there was – God, I don’t know – thirty animators working at the time and I figured that I didn’t want to be an animator. So,… |
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Toy Story 3: Animator Victor Navone talks about his “Favorite Toys”
…that I be assigned shots featuring the human characters. I don’t have a lot of experience animating naturalistic humans, and I thought this would be a good learning opportunity for… |
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Speed Racer: Widescreen Edition
…character here, given the special effects circumstances. Even better – and providing the film with such a concrete grounding that without him I don’t think the film would have worked… |
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Teen Titans Go! To The Movies
…aren’t as over the top zany and they don’t come as fast and furiously as on the small screen. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a very funny film. But the… |
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The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
…take up too much room), a choice quote, a credits block of production details, comments (which sometimes don’t take up enough room) from one of the many animation authorities (Mike… |
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Finding Dory
…learned in the first film into action is a nice follow-through. Perhaps the biggest difference between the two films is Finding Dory is extremely funny. Don’t get me wrong, Finding… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…was pretty good too. The main issue was something you don’t hear too often in a review — it was a little too short. It needed about 5-10 more minutes… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3 1941-1943
…in Quiet! Pleeze. Pappy then gets a rest after that cartoon, as we don’t see him again for a while. Olive’s Sweepstakes Ticket brings to mind that fun Flintstones episode… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…theatrical year. You’ll find live links to our archived original comments and don’t forget that purchasing any titles through our Amazon links really does help support Animated Views and keeps… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Platinum Edition
…Woolverton, composer Alan Menken, and producer Don Hahn they were set on making a new musical based on the story of Beauty And The Beast. The story of Beauty And… |
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Inside Animation Supervisor Victor Navone’s mind
…we complemented each other nicely. I don’t know that I could have done it without him. AV: Tony Fucile was much involved in this movie. What did he bring to… |
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The Secret World Of Arrietty
…people and their acquaintances. They are called Borrowers, since they “borrow” items from humans that they don’t think would be missed (most people would still call this stealing, since they… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…way. Now, I could go on extolling the virtues of Walt’s seminal work all week, but you don’t really want to know about Julie Andrews’ fantastic, career breaking – and… |
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Batman: Under The Red Hood
…storyline. The story mechanics behind the eventual true return cause too much nausea to get into, involving the ridiculousness of “Superboy continuity punches” (don’t ask!); but the point is, Jason… |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
…age old sequel issue: what to do with side characters from the first film. I feel the best thing to do if you don’t need them is to give them… |
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San Diego 2016 Comic-Con Exclusive
…at Comic Con. And I don’t recall him being part of any panel this year. He was just hanging out at the Dark Horse Entertainment booth having a good time…. |
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Around the world with Mila: interview with Visual Development Supervisor Cesar Alejandro Montero Orozco
…in the “keep” bunch. The ones that don’t create a strong emotional response like I’m searching for, I put in the “discard”. Once that is done, I go into the… |
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Bolt
…acting chops to the game. Travolta, whom we don’t actually hear speak until almost twenty minutes into the movie, does what he can with the script, but its clear there… |
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A Miser Brothers’ Christmas
…pale in comparison. I did not actually like the opening number which I thought was slightly off-tune. I don’t think it had anything to do with the performers, and probably… |
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The Princess and the Frog
…don’t want to spoil anything, but suffice to say in this film they may have taken it a bit too far. Yes it had a nice payout, but in the… |
