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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…got together to fight over what the pup should do (in this case to save or let a poor little kitty drown). Disc One rounds up with cartoons from 1942…. |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
…I must point out a not so little cheat by the Mouse House: although this has been promoted as an “all-new feature”, the boasted running length of 71 minutes on… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…been trying to push new Looney Tunes cartoons to theaters with little support from the head office – and with Spielberg mindful of securing a copyright stake in any new… |
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And the Oscar nominations are…
…on scooping runner up places based on their Hollywood connections. Never mind that both those movies were little more than motion-capture exercises to a large extent…just feel the names, such… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…has come before. As with the Fantastic Four movie, the opening half-hour at least is primarily a series of set up scenes, with little attention given to the depth of… |
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TMNT
…place of the half-shell heroes’ arch-nemesis Shredder, who is quickly explained away during the opening scenes. It’s in this opening that the film promises to punch a little more than… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…Kahn. The presentation here doesn’t help, being all a bit hit and miss and feeling a little desperate in its need to overly dress it up and make it all… |
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Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
…in Aladdin) rather than Art Babbit’s classic creation. The story – the shortest here – also has little to recommend it, and the lack of being on character model is… |
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Warner Archive: Freebie And The Bean
…way down the restoration line) titles out on disc (and bring in a little revenue on masters that would otherwise stay lined up on shelves). Some have bemoaned the lack… |
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Spider-Man 3
…the opening half-hour at least is primarily a series of set up scenes, with little attention given to the depth of the characters – something that was in abundance in… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…to just before John Byrne and Marv Wolfman reinvented him in 1986, and the various animated series like Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, The Fantastic Four and little odds and… |
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12 Days of Cartoon Network’s Holiday Programming
…everywhere when Princess, Townsville’s greediest little girl, plots to trick Santa into turning her into the fourth Powerpuff Girl. Bubbles, Blossom and Buttercup explode into a Yuletide winter blizzard of… |
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The Princess And The Frog‘s Directors John Musker and Ron Clements take us to “the other side” of animation!
…Following that, he successfully pitched an animated version of the classic Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale The Little Mermaid, which reteamed Clements and Musker as co-writers and co-directors and became… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…more requested (but way down the restoration line) titles out on disc (and bring in a little revenue on masters that would otherwise stay lined up on shelves). Sure, these… |
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
…and the rest of the Mystery, Inc. gang go to Camp Little Moose to relive Freddy’s old camp stories and end up in the middle of a mystery involving the… |
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A Charlie Brown Valentine
…is definitely there. There are many little quips that are pure, classic Schulz, and the characters stay true to previous appearances. (One exception is the re-designed Little Red-Haired Girl, who… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snoopy’s Adventures
…Lastly, Rerun has Linus and Lucy’s little brother encountering a little girl repeatedly while out with his mother, as he gets an early look at how frustrating it can be… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…complicated and complex as grown ups, if a little more invulnerable. The approach worked: “toons” were suddenly cool again, backed up with surprisingly blockbuster returns for The Little Mermaid a… |
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Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!
…for Best Director that year. With a desire to broaden his horizons, Tony was tapped by Sony Pictures to become the Animation Director for their summer release, Stuart Little 2,… |
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Dr. Seuss’s Holidays On The Loose!
…editions released to DVD. So there’s very little point in me covering some very old ground once again in terms of how significant the special is, or how it continues… |
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Doc McStuffins
…of jack-in-the-boxes aptly named Little Jack and Big Jack. Little Jack is not jumping out of his box at a startling pace, which earns him a visit to a state-of-the-art… |
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The Secret World Of Arrietty
…expected. The subject matter, however, was a little surprising. The Borrowers books by Mary Norton have seen a number of television and film adaptations over the past twenty years, though… |
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Hotel Transylvania composer Mark Mothersbaugh’s DEVO-tion to animation
…start writing a piece of music of Dracula walking down an underground catacomb and three months later, they send you the final animation and you see a little spider on… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…Sherman Brothers’ long-time Studio collaborator Irwin Kostal) and signature song, Candle On The Water, were. The score lost out to Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music (in the days when… |
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Disney announces release dates for several tentpole films; removes The Little Mermaid 3-D from schedule
…some Disney fans, the planned re-release of The Little Mermaid in 3-D this fall is no longer happening, perhaps because of the studio’s (poor) choice to re-release Monsters, Inc. during… |
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The Little Mermaid coming to Blu-ray in October
After shelving the planned theatrical re-release, Disney has confirmed the home video release of The Little Mermaid Diamond Edition Blu-ray with a trailer at Yahoo! Movies. Look for Arial on… |
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More Little Mermaid Blu-ray artwork
On Monday, Animated Views brought you details on The Little Mermaid 3D Diamond Edition, including cover artwork for the three-disc Blu-ray set. Now Amazon has posted artwork for the release’s… |
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The Little Prince gets a stellar voice cast
…novel The Little Prince, reports THR. The animated feature will be helmed by Mark Osborne (Kung Fu Panda), and produced by Onyx Films’ Aton Soumach (Renaissance) and Dimitri Rassam. No… |
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Help! …It’s The Hair Bear Bunch!: The Complete Series
…of the show varies from episode to episode, with most looking about the same, but the odd one can be a little softer or a little brighter, and an occasional… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…the big studios focused mostly on new releases over picking the real gems from their catalogs, with a slew of basic reissues from Disney bringing little new other than HD… |
