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The Day The Prince And The Pauper Stood Still!
…a wallop and a bass that’ll shake the panes of glass from your windows! I am a little surprised that the packaging isn’t a little snazzier: we just get a… |
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Mulan II
…got a much more “theatrical” look, which really does help the production value. Perhaps instead of being too bright, the folks at Buena Vista could do with adding a little… |
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Delgo
…given some leeway when trying to get as much across as possible in the limited time. And what’s wrong with giving kids a little credit that they can tackle a… |
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Pete Docter’s Up-bringing!
…sometimes nature – the rustling of leaves through trees or the way water cascades over rock or something like that, just very subtle little things, but the audience recognizes them… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…writing the Rings cycle of books that Lewis felt a little shut out, having given him ideas and felt responsible for pushing Tolkien to ultimately write the best fantasy story… |
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Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased series goes full circle
…hits like The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, The Lion King, Tangled, Wreck-It Ralph, and Frozen. This volume highlights artists Joe Grant, Hans Bacher, Mike Gabriel, and Michael Giaimo,… |
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The Puppetoon Movie: Volume 2
…stop-motion animation, using hundreds of little carved wooden puppets in a single film. The extraordinary result is still thrilling to see, even now, with the wooden characters dancing, swinging, and… |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…DISCUSSION HEADLINE: The Little Mermaid meets Cars meets Ratatouille? OK, not exactly, but weirdly close! STORY: The plot is fairly simple, but crafted extremely well. Luca is a sea creature… |
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The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu
…Jones, Dr. Seuss, Mel Blanc, and others use a twerpy little soldier to teach soldiers lessons during World War II. The Sweatbox Review: During World War II, some of animation’s… |
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Pixar’s Paul Abadilla, Sets Art Director on Soul
…were you approached by the crew? Paul Abadilla: A little bit of both. Initially, when I had first heard of the project, I really wanted to be a part of… |
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Rock & Rule: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…interesting film that is at times entirely captivating. Is This Thing Loaded? For a film that got little love when it first came out, it sure got the star treatment… |
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Pom Poko
…for liking such a weird little movie, I’ll just mention that it was the 1995 Annecy International Animated Film Festival Grand Prix winner for Best Animated Film. So I guess… |
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My Neighbors The Yamadas
…of the Peanuts TV specials, with little continuity from one scene to another. The film therefore jumps around from Nonoko being left behind while the family drives off, to dealing… |
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Justice League: Season One
…Superman show, as well as the final Batman season. Superman got a little older, and Batman got longer bat-ears, but otherwise the characters continued to have a familiar highly stylized,… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…little creation: a humble, musing and often melancholy humor strip that somehow became a huge franchise which would eventually conquer the fields of the newspaper comic strip, television specials, the… |
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Composer Germaine Franco on her enchanting score for Encanto
…Little and Dora And The Lost City of Gold. To prepare the score of Encanto, Germaine fully immersed herself in Colombian music, culture, and literature. Her music is a love… |
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Ultimate Avengers 2
…team travels to Wakanda in search of Kleiser. At about this time, the movie begins jumping around a little too much. Cap, already having had flashbacks and a dream sequence… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…efforts, I was hoping for much more from the Test Flight Of Air Penguin game, which I found to be little more than the usual fare. Again, even HD can’t… |
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South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season
…a big reputation that needs little introduction, those yet to discover the delights of the most depraved program on television could sample the set and come away with a little… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…goes on for a little longer. Tom and Jerry are trying to go to sleep, but they keep waking each other up in a non-sleep war. What surprised me about… |
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The Lion Guard: Return Of The Roar
…be the question as to where Kion was during The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, as that film never gave any indication that Kiara had a little brother (by that… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…eyes of a little girl named Shanti that enticed Mowgli to follow her into the village. Shanti denies doing so intentionally, but she obviously has a fondness for Mowgli. She… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Mike Cachuela on storyboarding Christmas
…plan was to work on Nightmare a little while and then go on to Pixar because they had told me that they were starting their first feature film and were… |
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The Pirates of Dark Water: The Complete Series
…as there was very little progress on finding another eighth treasure. This was a bit unsatisfying to watch in contrast with the first season, although it was inevitable given the… |
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Christmas specials scheduled for Cartoon Network
…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 bad-girl-thwarting action to put Princess… |
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Despicable Me despicably on Blu-ray and DVD!
…Clement (“Flight of the Conchords”, Dinner For Schmucks). The hilarious tale of a wannabe super-villain whose life is unexpectedly changed by a trio of determined little orphans packed theaters and… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…Broadway history in creating The Little Shop Of Horrors, and film history in creating The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin. But our story starts before that time…. |
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Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue
…her finding so little else to do upon her arrival at The Mainland. She has already invented many wonderful devices for the fairies, and has become so good at it… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…to them. For the rest of us, I hate to throw out the word “disappointment”, because it is a little too strong. But Pixar has had such an amazing track… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…with some soothing musical accompaniment for little Jack-Jack, the smallest member of the Parr family. Little does she know that Jack-Jack will teach her a thing or two about babies… |
