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Superman Vs. The Elite
…goofy, rubbery S on his chest didn’t help matters. There was really too little difference between the main body of the film and how Superman was presented in the silly… |
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Wolverine Anime
…enamored with the character of Wolverine— too much anti-hero for my taste. I guess I can see the appeal for some, but I like my heroes a little shinier and… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…were strictly kids fare, with little to no interest in the medium from anyone who wasn’t a parent – and even then it was only because they would take their… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…and are expected to simply keep up. And that’s fine, actually. The back story of the show gets developed very gradually, so at first there is little evidence of it… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…could be described as the first of the Studio’s more broader knockabout comedies of which the later The Jungle Book would share a little of before the style was brought… |
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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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Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season
…Nightosphere sets things up, but it is Daddy’s Little Monster that makes us fully aware of just how messed up this daddy-daughter relationship really is. Good ol’ dad, you see,… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…desert planet to become embroiled in a galactic conflict. And, a platypus stalks an evil Sith wannabe. The Sweatbox Review: Ah, corporate synergy. Disney fans have been a little excited… |
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Princess Mononoke
…it got dumped into just 129 theatres, largely art houses, and got little promotion on its way to making just over 2 million dollars in its American engagement. It received… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…with human characters. We ended up switching to animal characters as our story theme got a little heavy. We thought these simple animal characters allowed us to keep the fable-like… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…yourself.” I was a little nervous to take something so personal as my own spiritual life, my own faith and my own love for Psalm 42, and put that out… |
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The Peanuts Movie
…could cut all of these scenes together and have one of the funniest Peanuts shows ever! Don’t assume this wasn’t a good story! I may be being a little harsh… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…top pigs with pigs” was Uncle Walt’s famous retort when asked for more Three Little Pigs cartoons back in the 1930s, although even he relented with a short-lived series of… |
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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 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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World of Tomorrow
…herself as being an adult third-generation clone of the little girl. The Emily Clone proceeds to take the girl, designated as Emily Prime, on a time traveling journey through key… |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…many Disney scores, including the Aladdin, Little Mermaid and Goof Troop TV series, Aladdin And The King of Thieves, and Kronk’s New Groove, Mark is a six-time Emmy award-winning composer… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…old B-movies had. Perhaps the narrative was taking itself a little too seriously at times? Maybe if it had a little polish, the storytelling might have elevated the film enough… |
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Anomalisa
…more recent work has been a little hit and miss, and Anomalisa itself had to turn to Kickstarter to raise funding. Co-directed with stop-motion animator Duke Johnson, it’s clear from… |
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The Secret Life of Pets
…and 1970s Warner Brothers cartoons — a little too loud, a little too brash, but fun. Most of the voice cast, like a lot of the film, was serviceable if… |
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2016 Los Angeles Comic Con Exclusive
…Con was the toughest to plan and the toughest to stay on course because there were so many things I wanted to do with so little wiggle room in time… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…little more stark. That is isn’t, but still works as shock when it comes, is testament to Lowery’s soft but assured touch, where even the nastiest things are still “nice”,… |
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Revolving around Revolting Rhymes with directors Jakob Schuh and Jan Lachauer
Based on the extraordinary book written by Roald Dahl and illustrated by Quentin Blake, Revolting Rhymes mixes the classic fairy tales of Little Red Riding Hood, Snow White, The Three… |
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Mary And The Witch’s Flower
…on a story by Mary Stewart, 1971’s The Little Broomstick. He chose Hiromasa Yonebayashi to be his director. Yonebayashi had previously directed the well-received The Secret World Of Arrietty and… |
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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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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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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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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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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…little, graphic mole with tubular circles on this black triangle nose. Like a little doorstop. It’s a very charming aspect of what Charlie created, that sort of contrast. In order… |
