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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…characters, with impressive animation, fun gags, and a good story. Toyland Ice Capades: The Adventures Of Mugsy (1917) is a six-minute narrated story of two young boys and a little… |
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The Art Of Kung Fu Panda 2
…a little difficult to get too excited by the prospect of a Kung Fu Panda 2, knowing that the reason for its existence is down to its bottom-line commercial potential… |
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Valley Of The Dinosaurs: The Complete Series
…I appreciated the attempt to be just a little more academic than other shows. Of course, the emphasis on science and dialog may have doomed the show, with kids preferring… |
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Challenge Of The Gobots: The Original Miniseries
…revisiting; but I did enjoy watching it with my little guy, who was decidedly enthusiastic. And that’s the bottom line— it’s a dandy show for little kids who love robots… |
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M.A.S.K.: Volume One
…has to get it back. These episodes hold some promise, as the stolen items often relate to a hitherto little-known civilization or an alien artifact, but the stories go by… |
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Cars 2’s Victor Navone takes the wheel!
…how you felt being assigned to Cars 2? Victor Navone: It was 6 years ago that I worked on the first Cars, so my memory of that is a little… |
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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…his letter “from all of us.” One can see why Santa was a little put off, though one does wonder what he really had to gain by essentially providing evidence… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…that brought the wavering studios from its 1980s slump (for your trivia buffs out there, the other film was The Little Mermaid). The animation was spectacular, there was true love,… |
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Real Steel
…of the production, speaking almost non-stop about his experiences on the film. In the video sections, he becomes much more lively again – maybe he’s just a little nervous at… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…really small guy, about 5’2″, but he was a lion of the industry. He gave his whole life to storytelling. So I wrote this little parable about him. Then Brandon… |
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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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Scooby-Doo! Music Of The Vampire
…Matthew Lillard?) The Vampires Dance is a show stopping ditty that seems a little too smooth to suit its purpose (and is quite reminiscent of a song sung by the… |
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The Real Adventures Of Jonny Quest : Season One, Volume Two
…bring a little exposure to unique settings. It’s too bad that the animation can’t quite keep up, being from a hodgepodge of animation studios from around the world, which often… |
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Iron Man Anime
…little impressed with this fast-moving, battle-filled story that still manages to humanize Tony Stark just about as well as the films. At times I felt a little un-involved from all… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…of a grown up movie and Stanton didn’t want to scare the little kids that came to those previous films? Okay…I can see that, even if I think it would… |
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Brave: Into the open air with songwriter Alex Mandel
…we are.” It’s a little more metaphoric, a little less direct. So, this is some of the things we talked about when I was writing the song. AV: What relationship… |
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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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Secret Of The Wings Composer Joel McNeely gives wings to Tinkerbell’s latest adventure!
…Gannaway and The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning‘s Peggy Holmes, Secret of the Wings takes you on a magical adventure that leads Tink to discover a new wintery fairy world and… |
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The Halloween Tree
…to spend out a little more on them at the time, and The Halloween Tree certainly benefits from a lavish treatment (although this is its first time on disc, it… |
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Rise of an animator: Pierre Perifel reveals secrets of the Guardians
…animation. After that, I went on doing some CG. I worked a little bit on Monsters Vs. Aliens for like two months. Then I moved to Shrek 4 – I… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…highly unsatisfactory. We had never seen a photo of Bill Levy, there was little that we knew about George Kamen’s career, and the overall picture simply was not there. Then,… |
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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… |
