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Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter
…horror or simply cartoons for gown-ups. The true target audience, though, is well served with the bonus features, which add greatly to the whole Watchmen experience… Is This Thing Loaded?… |
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Robot Chicken team hatches Titan Maximum
…show from the creators of the stop-motion animated series Robot Chicken. The new show will be called Titan Maximum and will use stop-motion to “satirize Japanese cartoons of the 1980s”…. |
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Dallas McKennon 1919-2009
…the voice of Archie Andrew in the Archie cartoons, as well as a voice actor for many Disney films, including Sleeping Beauty and Lady & the Tramp. He was 89…. |
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Scooby! Samurai Swords! Sin City! Plus Something Wicked, Honey!
…35 cartoons, available for $44.98 on September 1, just in time for my birthday – wink, wink! Lastly, Harlan Ellison: Dreams With Sharp Teeth is a documentary homage to one… |
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Review Roundup: Up flies high, plus Hanna-Barbera classics
…further into the TV time machine, I found a whole lot to love in Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1. With this being a Warner release, they have the… |
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Ice Age coverage, Chuck does Tom & Jerry, and more of Saturday Morning
…in a few days ago unannounced and post his DVD review for Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection. These cartoons have been slapped down a bit over the years,… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One
…want this set, you probably have to have some nostalgia for the show, an interest in early TV cartoons, or at least a small boy to share it with. I… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight
…appearances in more recent TV cartoons; but he had never headlined a project before now. With the advent of the direct-to-video movie, Warner Bros. now has the opportunity to do… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…the substandard, workmanlike storytelling along the way, the Princesses both pop up for a confirmation at the end of their segments, just like those Filmation cartoons used to do on… |
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Astro Boy And Anime Come To The Americas
…Likewise, it is fascinating to read about how Ladd and his team were forced to alter the original cartoons to adhere to American broadcast standards, particularly where violence was concerned…. |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
…mix of recycled Golden Age cartoons and Hanna-Barbera product, alternative animation of a different kind came to the screen in a series of action shows imported from oversees. A major… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 2
…Hal Sutherland; they were later joined by radio announcer Norm Prescott. Generation X’ers grew up on their cartoons and still remember them fondly. It is only now, with the release… |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume One
…Adventures Of Superman), and H-B rode the wave of popularity these adventure cartoons were having. For each of the 20 episodes of Birdman And The Galaxy Trio, Birdman had two… |
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Perils of Penelope Pitstop: The Complete Series
…but overall I’m glad I have this set in my collection. There are too few cartoons with a female lead that I can enjoy watching with my daughter, and this… |
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Fantastic Four: The Complete 1994-95 Animated Series
…1994. Also in 1994, two other new shows were placed together to form the syndicated Marvel Action Hour. The two featured cartoons were Iron Man and Fantastic Four, each running… |
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Drawn Together: Season One
…open with a written warning that these cartoons are NOT for kids. Pay attention! They’re not kidding! In addition, the episodes on the DVD are uncensored, restoring all the cursing… |
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The Tick Vs. Season One
…one of the last of the great Saturday morning TV cartoons before such a thing practically vanished for a few years. The writing is terrific, and every episode is lots… |
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Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
…A Christmas Carol available, all the classic Looney Tunes cartoons to watch, and all the great Christmas specials one already has to choose from, this one seems a little superfluous…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys
…that thrilled kids with its blend of music, fun, educational content, and cartoons. Another staple of the show was a series of live action serials. Spin And Marty got three… |
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Justice League Unlimited: Season Two
…and produced some of the finest television cartoons ever in the re-titled Justice League Unlimited. They wrapped up a number of plot threads, even tying everything up with the prior… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume Two
…sloppy, and the show exemplifies much of what was bad about 1980s syndicated cartoons; but the show is not a total loss, as the strength of the classic characters can… |
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POPEYE!!!
…tell you guys and gals, this one was worth the wait. The cartoon restoration is generally excellent, and the content is beyond reproach. We can finally see how these cartoons… |
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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…field, but nothing you can’t get from watching cartoons on TV. There is also a French track, and English subtitles for the hearing impaired. Final Cut: You have got to… |
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Josie And The Pussycats: The Complete Series
…rather than the Hanna-Barbera ones anyways. Ink And Paint: There’s a reason why the word “remastered” appears nowhere on the package. These cartoons definitely show their age, with plenty of… |
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The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians
…show’s place in the history of DC cartoons. Comics writer Mark Waid, Galactic Guardians writer Rich Fogel, and current DC bigwig Dan Didio discuss how this series brought the Super… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season
…their computer-aided coloring, really make the cartoons of my childhood look pretty plain. Scratch Tracks: There is plenty to hear in these episodes from the standpoint of audio effects, and… |
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What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season
…is on which disc. Ink And Paint: The video is, as near as I can tell, perfect. Digital post-production makes transfers of modern cartoons relatively easy to put to disc,… |
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Astro Boy (1963): Ultra Collector’s Edition Sets 1 & 2
…very sparse (or nonexistent), and stay quite ordinary. Unlike some other cheaply produced cartoons, Astro Boy favors simple literal drawings for its backgrounds over more interesting graphic pop art styles…. |
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Astro Boy (1980): The Collection Box Set
…available); I cannot recall if it was aired this way in North America. Incidentally, it is always fun to catch glimpses of Japanese culture in cartoons and cinema. I was… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
…to a lot of the dreck that is out there today, the cartoons in this set are worth their weight in silver. Is This Thing Loaded? On Disc Two, four… |
