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Winnie the Pooh: A Valentine For You
…holiday special. Along with the title special are two other episodes from the show’s second season – Un-Valentine’s Day and Three Little Piglets. The Sweatbox Review: Out of the four… |
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South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season
…a big reputation that needs little introduction, those yet to discover the delights of the most depraved program on television could sample the set and come away with a little… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…then he gets a little scared when the dot quickly moves away. As he pursues the dot he tries to trap it with his hand, then he begins to think… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown
…little creation: a humble, musing and often melancholy humor strip that somehow became a huge franchise which would eventually conquer the fields of the newspaper comic strip, television specials, the… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…talented artists were able to craft the “Fab Four” masterpieces – The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. As each successive film gained more and… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…and green-only filtered effect can be a little surrealistic. The format slightly veers away from straight musical content to also showcase some comic sketches, dance sequences (Earl “Snakehips” Tucker in… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…Tim’s work, a little more sweet with the sours, comfort with the scary, but I’d probably exclude Sweeney Todd. Neil goes a little more darker, primal like a Grimms’ fairytale…. |
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DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
…comes high in the pecking order during the odd skirmish. I’m a little lost as to why Hawkman hasn’t remained more popular: not only do Peril From Pluto, A Visit… |
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Justice League: Season One
…Superman show, as well as the final Batman season. Superman got a little older, and Batman got longer bat-ears, but otherwise the characters continued to have a familiar highly stylized,… |
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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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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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Waking Sleeping Beauty awakens…
…staggering output of hits—The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King and more—over a 10-year period. Director Don Hahn and producer Peter Schneider bring their insider knowledge… |
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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 Archie Show: The Complete Series
…lively but fairly natural readings as Archie, very suiting of an “everyteen” character. There are a couple of somewhat jarring voices, though, with Howie Morris playing Jughead maybe a little… |
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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…much continuity even within these Disney Afternoon shows, however, as the airdate order has very little in common with the production order. If you look at the first ten episodes… |
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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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Mulan II
…got a much more “theatrical” look, which really does help the production value. Perhaps instead of being too bright, the folks at Buena Vista could do with adding a little… |
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Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series
…in the element of sex ever so slightly, and provides a common thread through a number of the episodes. The quality of the artwork is perhaps a little better than… |
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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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How To Train Your Dragon
…village felt lived in, and everything just felt like a little extra care had been taken to get it just right. But they didn’t take it to the other extreme…. |
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DCA Expansion
…dark ride based on The Little Mermaid, presumably similar to the virtual ride included on the recent Platinum Edition Little Mermaid DVD. A rumored Ratatouille ride was not announced. The… |
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Frank And Ollie: Special Edition
…they brought their amazing skills, the film changes tact a little at this point, becoming more of a “greatest hits” of the duo, with many old-time and new-time animators, associates… |
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Schoolhouse Rock!: Special 30th Anniversary Edition
…disc). Little Reginald from the beginning is actually Tom Yohe Jr. Tom Yohe also featured two of his other children in this song. His song exclaims Rats!, and his daughter… |
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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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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… |
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Sealab 2020: The Complete Series
…to educate and give the Saturday morning crowd a little adventure. Unfortunately, such an approach did not prove successful, as it ended its run that December with three episodes left… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…to tribute parodies in Gravity Falls and My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. Even celebrities publicly expressed their love with Joe Manganiello regularly hosting sessions that included Vince Vaughn, Game… |
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Batman: Gotham Knight (Blu-ray/DVD)
…movie had a similar tone to it. This is a “dark and serious” look at Batman’s world, so much so that I would have appreciated a little more levity or… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…upbeat songs and humor, and it took thirty years until the next generation of Disney artists really got back to the fairytale mix of magic and music with The Little… |
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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”,… |