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The Jungle Book
…Buena Vista?). The nods to Walt and the original film don’t end there, and one of the other insane cool moments that Disney fans will drop their jaws at is… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…show of all time. I don’t care if some people hate it, while worshipping today’s “grim and gritty” comics, or the harsh and messy Christopher Nolan films. Nope, I like… |
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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 Venture Bros.: 3rd Season
…You Don’t – Rusty’s dwarfish brother JJ, who he used to wear like a tumor in Season One, sets up a museum on Spider Skull Island, dedicated to the memory… |
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Secret Of The Wings
…production trumps any such concerns. True, I may not ever watch these Tinker Bells films more than once or twice, but I don’t mind sitting through them with my kids,… |
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Director Luiz Bolognesi tells A Story Of Love And Fury
…It was very difficult to make this film in Brazil. That’s why it came so strong. We don’t have tradition, not even an industry, so we have been working for… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…Dragons. And perhaps that’s why I don’t quite connect with Adventure Time, since I’ve never understood the appeal of D&D, and am only a very casual video game player. However,… |
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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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The Great Mouse Detective
…out as it features some stunning background layouts and detailed animation, especially in the scenes where Donald takes on the demented clock! Donald goes solo for the next cartoon, Donald’s… |
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Tangled: Before Ever After
…simply because the visuals don’t come anywhere near matching up to the storytelling aspirations or the visual blast of other Star Wars properties. But, for the first time in quite… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…along with Steve Anderson and Don Hall, the directors? HJ: They were brilliant! I don’t want to make it sound like it’s surprising but there’s a level of intelligence and… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…Chik-A-Boom (Don’t Ya Jes’ Love It), which later became something of a minor hit for one-hit wonders Daddy Dewdrop – are otherwise of the toe-tapping variety that filled many a… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…we’re introduced to Benny The Cab, in a main menu with some newly animated footage (don’t get too excited – Benny is realized on screen using 2D-shaded CGI and the… |
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An author named Charles Solomon about a boy named Charlie Brown…
…the strip as a small child, but I don’t remember beginning to read it or discovering it. Peanuts was always there. During high school, I began buying the books, and… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…deleted lyrics for music still in the film that later became a breakout hit song (“don’t be taken in/by his welcome grin/he’s imagining how well you’d fit within his skin”)…. |
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Cars 3
…2 which threw what made the first movie so good out the window. Don’t get me wrong. It was a pretty good animated film, but it was a terrible Cars… |
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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,… |
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Warning From Space
…with Godzilla as a character, though most people in the West probably don’t fully realize just what the creation of the monster brought about. Not only has Godzilla starred in… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…Sweatbox Review: I’ve said it before and no doubt I’ll say it again when the inevitable third entries in the Cars and Planes franchise come along: I don’t “get” the… |
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The Powerpuff Girls: The Last Donnycorn
…after its fourth season. The gags are there, but many of them don’t land, and while there’s occasionally an episode that works, there are others which become a borderline chore… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…humor to be included. Thankfully, it’s not fart jokes (I don’t think I even spotted one!) and is more playful innuendo rather than anything truly offensive. All of these elements… |
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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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Mary Poppins: 40th Anniversary Edition
…along the 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… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…that led me to the idea of somebody yelling at somebody else, like: “Get outa here!” I almost don’t remember writing the song. I thought of the title, the hook,… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…runs for two-and-a-half minutes, nicely presented reconstructed with new voice recordings. Heading into Games And Activities (don’t worry – we’re not near the end yet – the best is yet… |
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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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The Plague Dogs: (1983 US Edited Edition)
…Rowf does put the filmmakers down rather firmly on one side of the argument, and the faceless, humourless humans don’t put up much dispute on their side. The dogs’ break… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…to be too clever, Rice’s words don’t quite mesh and need further time to analyse rather than Ashman’s direct and straight to the point wordplay or Schwartz’s multi-layered but deceptively… |
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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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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…top. Jasper and Horace don’t come off too badly, but remain stuck to the sidelines, as do Patch’s parents Pongo and Perdita. Of the new characters, Martin Short’s Lars is… |
