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Flushed Away: The Animated News Review
…by Kate Winslet). Winslet steals the show in the current film, Little Children, with a heartbreakingly emotional performance. Her voicework here is decent, if not a little underwhelming. Although, in… |
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Fantastic Mr. Fox
…appeal to everyone, it is perhaps my favorite of Anderson’s live-action work, the poorly received The Darjeeling Limited from three years ago proving to be a little too complacent even… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
…And let’s not get too jaded; the show had its heart in the right place, providing wholesome television to little kids willing to get up early on a Saturday morning…. |
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Cartoon Network Panels and Events Lineup for 2007 Comic-Con International
…Billy is goofy and easily-amused. Mandy, on the other hand, is a very opinionated, sometimes cruel, little girl. She never smiles and loves to boss Billy and Grim around. These… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…looked, to my little eyes, like it mixed the characters from the Rankin/Bass stop-motion feature Mad Monster Party with the classic stable of Warner Brothers’ Looney Tunes gang. I distinctly… |
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Harry Gregson-Williams: Scoring the Return to Narnia!
For any film music buff, Harry Gregson-Williams is no stranger. We owe him such notable scores for all three Shreks, Gone Baby Gone, Chicken Run, Man on Fire, Flushed Away,… |
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
…called “Apocalypse?” This is the 21st Century origin of Supergirl, but Warner was too chicken to put a girl’s name in the title, so they settled for a rather non-descriptive… |
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Ponyo, or Hayao Miyazaki’s Inner Child
…But, above all, he proposes a magnificent poem on childhood… Animated Views: How would you describe your latest film? Hayao Miyazaki: This is the story of Ponyo, a little fish-girl… |
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The Tick Vs. Season Two
…oddball humor and the finest in superheroic satire. Little changed in the second season, save for Rob Paulsen taking over for Micky Dolenz as the voice of The Tick’s sidekick… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…their not so little story about the tiny robot that could, WALL•E, which simply takes everything one might think about mainstream animation and turns it on its head. Using everything… |
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Thunder And The House Of Magic
…of Jack and Maggie, who fear that the cat may prove a little too endearing to their beloved owner, Lawrence does indeed take an immediate liking to the little tabby…. |
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Monsters vs Aliens
…Gate Bridge looks like an animated copy of a live action miniature with little toy cars on a badly constructed model. The character designs are very good, if a little… |
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The Boxtrolls
…(Coraline and ParaNorman) and a somewhat questionable new outing for The Little Rascals, Save The Day, which feels a touch freaky, archaic and just a little bit wrong on several… |
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
…likely a stereo surround mix that’s been given a little extra kick in the LFE channel, but it’s more than serviceable, if a little “muffled” sometimes, but offers an overall… |
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Pete’s Dragon: High-Flying Edition
…Poppins (hey, let’s not get absurd), but it’s very pleasing family entertainment. Even at a little over two hours, and with a plethora of songs, I never felt like the… |
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Schoolhouse Rock! Earth
…The song is about a little kid living in the city who loves nature. He finds a little patch of land behind his building and begins to grow a little… |
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The Kingdom Of Dreams And Madness
…the idiosyncrasies of its directors. The Sweatbox Review: Western audiences have had precious little opportunity to view documentaries on the venerable Studio Ghibli, Japan’s best known and most well regarded… |
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All It Takes Is A Little Imagination: John Lennon Animated DVD in the Pipe
The Forum at the Big Cartoon Database reports that a new DVD is coming featuring animation based on drawings by Beatles legend John Lennon. The DVD will be entitled Lennon… |
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Back Under The Sea, plus Filmation's DC Super Heroes!
I’m a little tardy on the updates this week, partly because we’re still catching up with recent reviews. Speaking of which, here’s my take on the recent release of DC… |
