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DisneyMania
…Little Mermaid’s Under The Sea (from A*Teens) and Kiss The Girl (by No Secrets) fare well enough. Some of the multi-layered vocals can sound a little too thick and hackneyed… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…to go over each one, even briefly. Many stories stand out, however, for various reasons. I liked the concept of miniature versions of Finn’s friends in All The Little People,… |
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2024 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…most daring stories to date made for quality television that viewers savored. There was little doubt that there would be some presence celebrating X-Men ’97. Making sure of that would… |
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Justice League: Doom
…be recognized by anyone who read the John Ostrander Martian Manhunter comic years ago. Therein lies an issue with this movie: Too many characters, with too little explanation of who… |
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Cinderella III sells, and reviews catch-up
…wish we could devote all of our time and energy to Animated Views, if only we didn’t have jobs, and family, and various other responsibilities. First, a little Cinderella III… |
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The Heathcliff And Dingbat Show
…itself. He has a little of Bugs Bunny in him, in the manner in which he engages his opponents, though Heathcliff (unlike Bugs) tends to be the instigator of any… |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…in the mythical days of old, The Black Cauldron follows Taran, a young pig-keeper who finds his small charge is more than what he seems. For the little pig, Henwyn,… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…rice fields just across the road. Early in their explorations, they encounter little fuzzy black creatures in the house, which they learn are “soot sprites,” and thus they are introduced… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940
…another Swee’Pea cartoon, with Popeye’s duelling natures telling him whether or not he should feel guilty for spanking his little boy. Shakespearean Spinach brings on another Bluto fight, as he… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…wanted it to feel a little bit more cinematic. So, when the music does come on in certain situations, they really wanted to feel it in a way. So, we… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season
…line between being a good episode and a very bad idea, but I think they pulled it off. An unimpressed Raven is instructed by Robin to escort three little kids… |
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OSCARS SPECIAL: The 76th Annual Academy Awards – "It’s a wrap!"
…crew of Nemo for the giving of their incomparable talents to this little fish story that I had”, he said, adding thanks to his producer, co-director and the “incredible distribution… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…Little Mermaid trailer to play since Disney films only came out a year later at Christmas time in France. — Olivier In the late 1990s he also got hooked on… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures Volume 3: Crazy Crew Rescues
…Tex Avery, Bob Clampett and Bob McKimson’s legendary Termite Terrace output (the WB animation unit had been trying to push new Looney Tunes cartoons to theaters with little support from… |
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Rupert coming home again!
Famed English adventurer Rupert The Bear is coming back home, with the issue of Paul McCartney’s Rupert And The Frog Song, the first time the little bear was animated on… |
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Howl’s Moving Castle
…animated home made of shifting metal sheeting and odd parts, that traverses the land and is run by his friend, a fire demon named Calcifer. Sophie befriends the little demon,… |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…from around the world, unless one can wait for the inevitable “double-dip” when the mooted sequel is about to hit screens. Best yet, is this little beauty coming out in… |
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Scooby-Doo: Stage Fright
…is the first time that the idea has been explored. It’s a little bizarre that they would bother with that particular storyline, and it certainly makes it difficult to imagine… |
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Director Stephan Franck tells The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow
The world’s most beloved little blue creatures embark on a new spooky adventure this fall! The Smurfs: The Legend Of Smurfy Hollow is an all-new animated mini-movie from Sony Pictures… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fourth Season
…everyone hated The Batman when it debuted in 2004. Little kids, for example, who had never seen an episode of 1992’s Batman: The Animated Series, remained blissfully ignorant of just… |
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Announcing Major Damage!
Although it does seem to be riding on the back of Brad Bird’s The Incredibles a little too closely, rather than standing up as the project it is on its… |
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…fight for Earth’s survival. The Sweatbox Review: This is going to be a little complicated… Robotech was an American television series produced by Harmony Gold in the mid-1980s, utilizing animation… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #40: Robin Hood – Cheap Quotable Thrills
…funny Disney films. • Voice acting filled with Disney veterans (read Blake’s opinion piece about Robin Hood’s voice actors); Accents = proper English and backwood rednecks. • A little history… |
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Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series
…palatable, since The Archie Comedy Hour mixed in Archie and Sabrina stories; but devoting an entire half-hour to a steady bombardment of corny jokes and fluffy songs is a little… |
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The Adventures Of Aquaman: The Complete Collection
…with undersea life. Aquaman’s girlfriend Mera frequently appears, and viewers get glimpses of the underwater city of Atlantis, but otherwise there is little to distinguish the stories aside from the… |
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Animated News takes a look at Dreamer…
…early 90s, Dreamer shows how, when more-or-less ignored by the Disney company “suits,” these talented artists were able to craft the “Fab Four” masterpieces – The Little Mermaid, Beauty and… |
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Aladdin: Platinum Edition
…and earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. Aladdin was also produced by the same team that had turned The Little Mermaid into such a successful project for Disney,… |
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Aladdin Reunion rundown and photos
…arrangement. Linda Woolverton wrote more of a Baghdad type. Jeffrey Katzenberg met about what to do after Little Mermaid. The projects Ron and John had to pick from were Swan… |
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Toy Story Of Terror!
…seen so far from Monsters University. It’s a nice little exchange, actually, leaving the feature pictures to have basically been Andy’s story, and for these extensions (they don’t quite seem… |
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The Lion King Tenth Anniversary Reunion
…around to show everyone, who all got a kick out of the fact that were several similarities between both stories. Tidbits Following are brief little tidbits giving insight into the… |