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Animation Addicts Podcast #44: Interviews with Alan Menken & Richard Sherman
…fun but you don’t want to poke fun in a way that is hurtful.” • “The story doesn’t get written without us.” “We are very involved in the writing process.”… |
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From Up On Poppy Hill
…Blu-ray comes with both Japanese and English audio, in DTS-HD Master Audio. Both tracks provide nice ambiance, and perfect clarity. Don’t expect too much bass, as these tracks don’t include… |
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Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2
…it was done as a potential spin-off pilot. I got a real kick out of seeing classic Astro Boy done up in color, presented here with English subtitles. Just as… |
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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series
…one of the studio’s higher-grossing titles in the early ’00s. But what many folks – including some of Disney’s biggest enthusiasts – don’t realize is that prior to the direct-to-video… |
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Go, Speed Racer, go! Plus new discs and Iron Man 2, 3 and more!
…on You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown. Also on the site, don’t forget that our Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume 6 contest is still open until midnight this Friday, and that… |
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Frozen
…anxiety) and motivations, we don’t get much time to connect very strongly with them on more than a superficial level. The good news is that, unlike an unentertaining film, it’s… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…$29.99 Storyboard: “Do you like Kipling?”, once asked the Muppets, to which the reply was, “I don’t know, I’ve never Kipled”! Well, Walt Disney’s The Jungle Book is Kipling well… |
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When good cartoons go bad: review roundup…
…the presentation of new material as opposed to recycled older TV episodes, the production values don’t add up to much, and the storytelling is a far cry from the superior… |
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Space Ghost, Dino Boy and the great animation DVD summer!
…also play the review catch up game! Somehow, I don’t think Rand would have enjoyed it if we’d swapped on those two titles! Speaking of which, his review for Popeye:… |
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Three Musketeers screen shots and DVD features review
…the main menu. If you don’t choose either option then the FastPlay option is chosen for you after a couple seconds (which plays some of the disc’s previews of other… |
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The Best Of 2013: Unlucky, Or Lucky For Some?
…again: you know it to be true!). The fact that we don’t have a Pixar film to look forward to at all in 2014 doesn’t hold much hope for the… |
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Mickey quits…
…post our official theatrical Toon Review sometime around Monday morning. And don’t forget that Josh’s interview with the film’s writer-prodocer Mike Scully is still fresh for a good read! In… |
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Jack Sparrow's Pirates in space?
…in earnest, with several exciting concepts potentially in the works. While the responses don’t sound too thrilled, I must say that what we don’t need is another Pirates movie that… |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series
…at stills from the show, there may be a tendency to assume that the relatively simple style of the series means that the animation is substandard, but don’t be fooled…. |
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Monsters University
…Monsters University they have absolutely done it again. Toy Story 3 and Up had adults in tears. But don’t worry, if you’re crying during this movie it will be from… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…story for an episodic plot that felt very, very forced. I don’t have a problem with filmmaking by numbers when it’s done well, but Mad 2 was only interested in… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…A total text-book case on how not to present classic animation in HD, I would think those behind this terrible disc should be ashamed of themselves. However, they don’t seem… |
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The Great Mouse Detective: Mystery In The Mist Edition
…border, although I still don’t get why Basil wears a green deerstalker jacket since he wears brown in the film (and poor Olivia is still off model too). As with… |
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The Animated News Haunted Mansion Mini-Review
…disc is provided by producer Don Hahn, visual effects supervisor Jay Redd, and scriptwriter David Berenbaum. It never gets boring, is always insightful (for example, the tiki bar in the… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…repeat footage we’ve just seen from The Tigger Movie main feature, with alternate voice readings that just don’t sit as nicely as those heard in the film (and two of… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…itself. Even now, I still don’t like it: it’s simply trying too hard. But Superman is a character who’s always worth watching, whatever he’s in, and my devotion to him… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Supervising Animator Mark Henn – Part 1: It All Started With A…Mermaid!
…the artistic look that was so noticeable was primarily in the backgrounds and the layouts. So, I don’t remember that we approached the animation any differently. We were just trying… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…nice and bright presentation, right? Wrong! I don’t have my VHS copy to hand, but I genuinely remember it looking a whole bunch better than this! Video crosstalk is noisy… |
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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…you’re constantly working on the music the whole time that you’re writing, for all the cues. Because you don’t see the whole picture finished. You start on animation sketches. You… |
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Pixar and Princess rule our latest updates!
…Art Of The Princess And The Frog! There’s been such a ton of new content gone up over the past few days I don’t know where to begin! Remember that… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…of business and wink-wink dialogue (“no, no, don’t worry…it’s lemon!”), but when the climax kicks in, it simply blows everything that has come before – or since – out of… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…a little hard to do since the Australian aborigines don’t have a lot of instruments to pick from. As far as I knew, they used the digeridoo and the boomerang… |
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A Muppet Christmas: Letters To Santa
…felt like), but although that show did attract some bona fide a-listers, the Muppets’ co-stars since then don’t seem to have had the same lustre as their heyday. So here… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…unlike more recent, celebrity-voiced animated films, the vocalists don’t overbalance the characters, with Rutt and Tuke pleasingly escaping being weighed down by their famous Canadian counterparts, Rick Moranis and Dave… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…the separate DVD releases, so that you don’t miss out on any artwork. The disc art shows off a less-cropped version of the cover art, showing what is to me… |
