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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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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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Picks Of The Year 2004
…features 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… |
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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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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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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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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
…little resemblance to anything else in the H-B filmography. SWAT Kats was created by brothers Christian and Yvon Tremblay, who designed much of the show, while Robert Alvarez did the… |
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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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Batman: Under The Red Hood
…usual for these releases, there is little to do with the actual movie’s production in these bonus features. However, the featurettes that we get do nicely provide some context for… |
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Let's end the week with a game of Cartoon Catch-up…!
…Jeremie kicked us off this week with his latest exclusive series of Little Mermaid interviews, timed to coincide with the release of the Ariel’s Beginning prequel but also touching on… |
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Is Ariel's Beginning worth going back for…?
…very creative people, albeit because the front office has essentially commissioned the film to fill a DVD release schedule gap and squeeze a little more profit from an established franchise…. |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…now for a noble cause rather than a selfish one. This interpretation of the character may have been a little too radical for its fans, but contrary to some claims,… |
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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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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…Jack, repeats the latter horror pastiche, joining an ingenious Hitchcockian plot by The Lobe. The episodes on the second disc – a flipper that allows for a little extra helping… |
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Ollie Johnston…RIP
…of animator Ollie Johnston has kind of left me a little lost for words. Therefore, the plug for Woody is little more than a hushed whisper, with little more to… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…or less a “fact” to fans given the additional little clues (“Be seeing you” is a phrase used in both series) dropped in the series – resigning from his post…. |
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Up: 3D Edition
…not be lost on those who know their Wizard Of Oz well. There are other brilliant little touches, too, like the Shady Oaks assistant’s shirt label sticking out at the… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…story like this. That said, I did have a few issues that took away from the overall feel. The whole animated-episodic-journey-movie is getting a little overused for my tastes these… |
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Star Vs. The Forces Of Evil Tribute Exhibition and Panel Event
…popular Too Little, Too Late from the episode Friendenemies. Sticking to songs, a fan asked Kim about developing the themes for antagonist Toffee. Kim noted that he originally was going… |
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Bolt
…Indian animation, Roadside Romeo, to another of the Studio’s own, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, which eventually opened in the same box office frame as Bolt. But this much derided little movie… |
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Kung Fu Panda
…lot of tickets and DVDs. But classics these films were not. In 2004, the first DWA film that I actually liked a little bit came out — Shrek 2. The… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…this episode does actually have the opening and the closing credit sequences— with the little girl asking how much Magilla will cost to take home. Watching this set has been… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 1
…1973 show may be a little reminiscent of Scooby-Doo, it has a thing or two in common with Speed Racer too. The talking dune buggy and his human friends appear… |
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Peter de Seve Breaks the Ice with Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…was really not my place, but I did have this idea –suppose you made that shape a little rounder and this one a little bit straighter… My suggestions started to… |
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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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G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero: Season 1.1
…are these people? Where do they come from?). Actually, there is very little back story to most of the characters and viewers are more or less thrust into the action… |
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Disneynature: Earth
…dialogue here, while sometimes repeating Planet Earth’s lines verbatim, feels a little more simplified for younger ears, which doesn’t seem to take into account children’s very apt ability to accept… |
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Beetle Bailey/Hagar The Horrible/Betty Boop
…nephew, famed director Richard Fleischer, was a creative consultant.) The animation is a little rough at times, but the creators could argue that it was done purposely. It’s a fun… |
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Thunderbirds International Rescue Edition Giftset
…team. I also noticed that brother Gordon was pouty about his lack of participation as well, but there is little follow-up on this until he has a chance to help… |
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Rudolph And Frosty’s Christmas In July
…little puppets movie around the screen and imbuing the watcher with holiday cheer. Rudolph, of course, had been animated in this fashion in two TV specials previously, but Rudolph And… |
