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Shark Tale DVD review
…film is enjoyable enough, though the sheer aggressiveness of the very commercially-minded comedy sat a little uneasily. It’s not all bad: the animation is DWs’ usual brand of attention to… |
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Mia And The Migoo
…Migoo to be an almost unnecessary intrusion into what was shaping up to be a real nice little family movie. The end of the film gets into some mystical mumbo… |
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Frankenweenie: Cinematographer Peter Sorg’s shades of grey
…only a little detail showing in the shadows and then changes to a more dramatic monster style lighting as the kids dig up their dead pets to try and bring… |
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Timeless images
Following are four images from Disney’s compilation DVD Timeless Tales: Volume 3 due out on January 3, 2006: Little Hiawatha Rutt and Tuke Morris the Midget Moose Casey at Bat… |
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Release dates, directors revealed for future DisneyToon movies
…III, The Aristocats II, and The Little Mermaid III. Though little information may currently be found at each of the movie’s pages, nonetheless, tentative release dates and directors are noted…. |
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The Lorax
…the story of Ted and Audrey, or of the Once-ler, or of the Lorax? To be honest, I’m not sure. The Lorax gets the title treatment but relatively little story…. |
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Mermaid swims again at the El Cap
A new Walt Disney Pictures press release divulges the details of the upcoming two and a half week run of The Little Mermaid at the El Capitan Theatre from September… |
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Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: Deluxe Edition
…book’s more detailed introduction to the boy’s meeting of The Once-ler, but little else is left out. Instead, the viewer gets a large expansion of what was in the book,… |
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Walt Disney's Timeless Tales: Volume 1 Review
…four Silly Symphony shorts The Pied Piper, The Grasshopper and the Ants, The Tortoise and the Hare and The Three Little Pigs, as well as the 1990 Mickey Mouse short… |
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Scooby-Doo – Mystery, Incorporated: Crystal Cove Curse (Season One, Part 2)
…bug monster, a ghoulish prom queen, duelling Chinese wizards, and the series ultimate bad guy, The Freak Of Crystal Cove. It is a little ironic that a Scooby-Doo show could… |
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Penguins rundown
…when the young Private notices that the Polar Bear is all alone with no one to share the holiday. Surrounded by his own “family,” the littlest Penguin is determined that… |
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Student Academy Award winners announced
…My Little Friend. Video clips of the silver and bronze winners as well as the full video of the gold winning film follow: Eyrie The Jockstrap Raiders My Little Friend… |
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Brave
…family struggles over expectations and duty as we grow up. The only thing different is a little bit of magic. Some early reviews have criticized how “small”, “timid”, “weak”, “slow”,… |
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Animation supervisor Jamie Beard captures The Aventures of Tintin!
…a bit more “cartoony,” we’d add a little bit more snap to it. Of course, Snowy was completely key-framed, and we had animators adding all the character there. It’s very… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…it’s a pleasant enough collection of stories, with some shaky drawing. She’s A Good Skate, Charlie Brown— a 1980 TV special— looks a little more polished, but suffers from a… |
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Monsters, Inc. ride press release and pics
…kids. So, when an errant little girl nicknamed “Boo” accidentally enters the child-adverse world of Monstropolis, fun and mayhem ensues. “This delightful new adventure continues our tradition of creating memorable,… |
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Robotech: Complete Original Series
…Fortress (SDF-1), but little does humanity know that the ship’s creators, the Zentradi, have been searching for decades and now they have finally found their quarry. Soon Earth and the… |
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Joe Grant Life Celebration
…segment quipped that he almost chose to wear that same shirt for the evening. Many of the panel members discussed how Joe was always leaving them little sketches and story… |
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Batman: Year One
…to the role, mixed with enough strength that you want to see Gordon come out on top. Ben McKenzie’s Batman sounds a little too old and gruff, but I like… |
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Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time For Nuts
…pitched an idea about an earthquake hitting Gotham City, which became a huge crossover and gave me the opportunity to do a little bit of writing within that arc, for… |
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Exodus and Melwood co-producing CGI/live action Pavlov’s Dog
…Exodus’ CG-animated feature, Igor. Howard has been involved in such animated hits as Disney’s Lion King, Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?; Warner Bros.’… |
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Loads of Christmas DVDs
…as A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas as well as plenty of forgotten gems such as Ziggy’s Gift and little-known titles such as Brer Rabbit’s Christmas… |
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More on iTunes Disney shorts
…their Oscar-nominated shorts from Three Little Pigs up to Lorenzo. Their report also mentions a pending DVD box set of said shorts and a brand new short, Hans Christian Andersen’s… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…a little hard to do since the Australian aborigines don’t have a lot of instruments to pick from. As far as I knew, they used the digeridoo and the boomerang… |
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Narnia to show a different Disney; trailer to reach record audience
…animals on a little girl’s bed.” The article goes on to compare Narnia’s release to that of The Little Mermaid, for just as the latter film helped save and revitalize… |
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Release dates set for Dumbo, Dinosaurs, and Einsteins
Ultimate Disney indicates that the Dumbo: Special Edition DVD is due for release on June 13th. The site also records that Little Einsteins: Team Up for Adventure!, the sequel to… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…muster up a decent catchphrase, unlike the show’s signature “Scooby-doobie-doo!”, which I’ve always felt is little more than a variation on Hanna-Babera’s “Yabba-dabba-doo!” from The Flintstones but has taken on… |
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Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet
…that Scandinavians are a little confused about where famous people come from – that’s a bit of an in-joke. But I think that’s also kind of an international joke. For… |
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The Addams Family: The Complete Series
…too many shows to do, with too little talent available, with too little time to do good work. The Addams Family is a perfect example of some good ideas gone… |
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Titans, Toons, Loons…reviews and a Nightmare chat!
…“with lots of old favorite characters showing up and joining in a big, big story. A little more continuity between episodes would have sold the arc better, but overall, this… |