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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters

…is an extremely bad commercial. English, French and Spanish subtitles are also offered, but they don’t make the dire-logue any better. Final Cut: I watched this so you don’t have…

Ratchet & Clank

…difficult to follow because it was complex, it was just hard to see why people were doing the things they did. And, in fact, I still don’t know what the…

The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2

…and these two “Best Ofs” don’t even retain all the previous cartoons issued on other titles and drop quite a few. Of course, this is better considered a sampling of…

And the Oscar nominations are…

…nominations for the 79th annual Academy Awards have been announced, and I don’t think I have ever seen a list of potential winners as predictable and bland as the films…

Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season

…Evil. Mento is portrayed as rude and abrupt, and his ego forces him to tell the Titans to leave the Brotherhood to the Doom Patrol. Naturally, the Titans don’t exactly…

A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Four – Can’t Stop The Feeling

…“We are very busy bringing joy to children. We don’t have time…for children.” Rise of the Guardians would be the last feature from DreamWorks Animation to be distributed by Paramount…

Blu-Ray Pans and Chickens…

…high-definition disc releases, including one of immense interest to us animation geeks. Now, don’t get excited…this past Tuesday’s issue of Peter Pan is not among them, but the story behind…

Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!

…hit back hard last week. Whatever it is out there, wrap up warm, as you seriously don’t want to catch this beast. Take care! In other site news, Josh has…

Anomalisa

…work in Team America: World Police, although the costuming goes back earlier to that film’s original Thunderbirds inspiration, where the clothes don’t quite fit properly and come off a little…

You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition

…the show makes fun of callers who really don’t seem to know how to ask a question. Imagine Lucy’s frustration!) We meet Linus’s opposition, Russell Anderson, who fails to give…

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving: Remastered Deluxe Edition

…did. I don’t wish to overstate things, as the special is still quite watchable, but there is a layer of grain here that was not as noticeable as on prior…

Tinker Bell

…a pretty fair comparison, really, as Robinsons also had a rounded, fanciful design aesthetic. Neither of these movies were meant to be at all photo-realistic, so I don’t want to…

Bambi II

…his role of Nemo in Pixar’s Finding Nemo. In a featurette-sized eight-minute look behind the scenes, we don’t learn an awful lot, but it packs a ton in and most…

Big Hero 6

…for me was the story. Don’t get me wrong. It was a perfectly fine story. But with just about every other aspect of the film overachieving, the story issues were…

Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat

…Pat O’Sullivan, an Australian who got a weak start in his native country before moving to London for a similarly unsuccessful stint, before landing in New York on a mule…

Announcing Major Damage!

…monsters, and alien scum! Fun for kids and animation fans, both young and old! Don’t miss out on the next great all-ages comic sensation! The book is available solo, or…

DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures

…with a ton of action – it doesn’t really matter that characters don’t get any introspective moments or that logic is wacky and often flies right out the window, because…

The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition

…exactly has been carried over; it looks like slim pickings – with the only addition being the now perfunctory “new game” – but we don’t quite get as much as…

Once Upon A Time…Walt Disney

…still surprises by packing in something special! Nope, we unfortunately don’t get the much-referenced Destino (that will still have to wait for its own release, though this documentary makes a…

A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part One – Ogres Are Like Onions!

…great A Bug’s Life, and one I don’t think it can ever escape from. With production on both films running at the same time and at the same pace, accusations…

Truth, Justice and the Middle-American Way: The Politics of The Incredibles

…or an ordinary mortal can be rendered impotent by fear and the conflicting demands of life. ‘You don’t want someone going in with guns blazing but not thinking,’ Mr. Bird…

Aladdin: Crew Reunion

…(heavily hinted to be Michael Eisner) watched the final cut of the movie and afterwards said, “That was good but I don’t think we should be making fun of the…

Eric Goldberg takes us on a Character Animation Crash Course!

…instrumental it was to planning your animation to do what you wanted it to. Also, I used to believe in the Easter Bunny, and now I don’t. AV: What is…

Gladiators Of Rome

…has to cross a rickety bridge over a canyon at one point) don’t technically “work” since they are so inconsistent in terms of whatever tone the movie is attempting to…

The Jungle Book 2

…Xerox-process artists’ lines – the very things that brought the characters to life – and creates a slightly sterile look (the thick black lines that define them don’t help either)….

Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)

…that, because there’s a well-known curse when you’ve won a major award. People think you’re too busy and they don’t even try to approach you. That does happen, but I…

The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Three

…stay the same, and although Poddany’s scores don’t play with including recognisable themes as much as Bradley used to (he has a tendency to strongly “Mickey Mouse” the action), these…

Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!

…a lift. If you just look at the visual images of that scene by themselves, they don’t necessarily contain within themselves all the expressiveness that needed to the there. So,…

Aladdin Reunion rundown and photos

…high up Disney executive (heavily hinted to be Michael Eisner) watched the final cut of the movie and afterwards said, “That was good but I don’t think we should be…

Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem

…of visualizing something that takes place in a digital realm. It doesn’t help that many writers don’t seem to understand (or care about) how computers actually work. Showing a computer…