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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…Another Filmation stalwart, art director Don Christensen, worked with a layout crew that includes names such as Don Bluth and Dale Baer on the strong backgrounds for which Filmation were… |
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Pottermania mach 5, plus The In-Complete Pluto
…review itself. Pluto Two joins our Volume One coverage and the other reviews for the last wave of Treasures: don’t forget to catch Rodney’s discussion of More Silly Symphonies and… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
…was screened in the 1960s. From my 1980s VHS release I don’t remember this amount of film grain on the prints, but then again tape didn’t have the more direct… |
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Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities
…to those big companies who would see little or no return on an investment to put them out, or the forgotten films that many don’t even realise still exist…films produced… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…Edition DreamWorks/Aardman/Paramount (February 20 2007), single disc, 84 mins plus supplements, $30 Until Ratatouille came along, this filled the gap of reaching parts other CG animated features just don’t usually… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…play the same way for the rest of the series. So Much For So Little is new to DVD from what I remember: I certainly don’t recall seeing this before…. |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…read out any s-l-o-w-e-r anywhere: I don’t suspect even the youngest of children would appreciate the patronising tone, and again I’ll admit to not even making it through the opening… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…It contains many of the trademark elements of that era, with the many stock company voice artists (Susan Blu, Melendy Britt, Peter Cullen, Daws Butler, Casey Kasem, Laurie Mann, Don… |
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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… |
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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 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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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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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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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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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 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 Secret Of Kells: Special Edition
…remembered school lessons, but not anywhere near enough to prepare me for this “what if?” version of events leading to its creation. Despite its critical success, I don’t think I’m… |
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Secret Origin: The Story Of DC Comics
…might be left out (and to see what is possibly wrongly portrayed). Since Secret Origin acts more as a generalized summing up of DC and its characters, I don’t think… |
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Warner Archive: The Green Slime
…as King Kong Escapes and King Kong Vs Godzilla, in which the two legendary movie monsters run rampage through the big city! Italy, where don’t forget, before they achieved critical… |
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Yogi’s Great Escape
…by their presence, and they have no distinct personalities— one really wonders why anyone bothered having them in the story in the first place. (I don’t think they were even… |
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David Couchariere: from Blue Sky to DreamWorks, an Animated Career
…want to portray and fully understand the mechanics involved in the action. It can be time consuming, but in the end, I gain time because I don’t have to redo… |
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Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!
…perfectionist, I don’t draw fast enough to Disney’s requirements, as mentioned in their feedbacks. So, I left the studio end January 1999, but as I was noticed as being gifted… |
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Tangled
…Digital Copy disc. Interestingly, presumably so that we don’t get confused between the formats, these Disney discs now place the disc art’s onus on the format instead of the title,… |
