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Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
…two stories is from that issue, as far as I can tell. The first story is from the Wonder Twins era, and introduces Doctor Mist of the Global Guardians. The… |
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Pete’s Dragon: High-Flying Edition
…combination of live action and animated elements. Older techniques, such as rear projection and the use of background plates originating from recorded film, are also demonstrated, with examples from classic… |
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Off the beaten track…alternative animation 9 and Astro Boy
One of the most original animated features in a long while has just landed at a theater near you, and I’m very pleased that director Shane Acker’s 9, produced from… |
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Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season
…adventurer travels the world with his scientist father, investigating various unexplained phenomena. They are joined by their bodyguard Race Bannon, a boy from India with mystical powers named Hadji, and… |
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A Fond Look Back At Filmation: Part 1
…was trying to shift away from violent shows due to pressure from watchdog groups following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy. Jughead’s dog Hotdog joined… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…Academy Award nominees for the 2006 ceremony. Instead, they included one cel-animated film from Japan, and two films using what some might call the rather antiquated form of stop-motion animation…. |
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Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
The first animated movie from the Marvel/Lionsgate deal is a good start, solidly adapting the first storyline from Marvel’s Ultimates comic book…. |
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The Tick Vs. Season One
…matter what genre you are operating in, you have to have a good story. That’s it. That’s the secret. Superhero parodies, like most animated films from the year 2006 about… |
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Cinderella III sells, and reviews catch-up
…Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume One. Then, looking for something to tie in with this King Features mash-o-rama, I posted a review for Image’s Beetle Bailey/Hagar The… |
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New interview, Robinsons promising for Disney, more Treasures, Popeye is coming
…take on Disney’s latest, Meet The Robinsons. I agree with James completely on his perception of modern animated films, and I can’t wait to see this new film from the… |
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Batman Beyond: Season Three
…path as Batman. Disc One There are episodes, of course, which do deal with staples of the current DC Comics universe, but extrapolating them to 50 years from now. The… |
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The New Adventures Of Batman: DC Classics
…wayside in the public consciousness. Batman: TAS was so totally iconic right from the start that some might assume that anything else just could not measure up (certainly many people… |
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The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series
…this multicultural program. Stories were generally pretty down to earth, aside from the flying woman. The first season began promisingly with a story about a UFO (The Lights Of Mystery… |
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Birdman & The Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series
…takes on the forces of bad-ness, plus three people from different planets protect the galaxy from various threats. The Sweatbox Review: Space Ghost was a big hit for Hanna-Barbera in… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season
…with him, they find themselves zapped into TV land. They go from show to show, pop culture homage after pop culture homage, interacting with characters from the TV shows they… |
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Batman: Gotham Knight (Blu-ray/DVD)
…mastermind of so many of our favorite DC cartoons, served as an executive producer for this project, but he restrained himself from offering too much input. From the beginning, this… |
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Astro Boy (2003): The Complete Series
…and to the Earth itself, often relating to robots who have been manipulated by men. One of the most notorious manipulators (aside from Tenma) is again Skunk, a holdover from… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season
…tree (again, based on a memorable scene from the comics). Interestingly, The Doom Patrol use their real names as well as their code names, a refreshing change from The Teen… |
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Wonder Woman
…Amazon princess escorts a lost pilot back to the United States and finds herself saving the world from Ares, the god of war. The Sweatbox Review: In comic book lore,… |
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The Animatrix
…on preventing him from breaking the record which could lead him to see, and free himself from, the Matrix. The character designs in this anime film are very unique, and… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: More Silly Symphonies
…And Comic Books” feature 66 stills from comic books and funnies from as early as the 30’s up to modern day comics, including one from Brazil where the comics are… |
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Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
…traditionally conservative cultures on Earth. In this movie, what is explored is the relationship between the cutting edge technology of modern Japan and the traditional samurai culture of ancient Japan…. |
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Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up
…the humor actually come from the characters and not from, you know, a guy slipping on a banana peel. AV: What can folks look forward to on the Surf’s Up… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…stories from the ’60s or ’70s or whatever, but here, they reprinted the ones from the ones from the ’50s, which were really cool. They look like animation on the… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…add to the package: Live It Up from Aaron Carter and Kids In America from No Secrets. Annoyingly, the record label information for both clips is left on screen in… |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…Henry Limpet, a mild-mannered bookkeeper from Brooklyn. Limpet has an affinity for fish and undersea life and wishes he could join them to get away from his troubles on dry… |
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The Rescuers
…later pressing, taken from the original release prints, revealed a now famous in-joke from the background artists – the inclusion of a nude painting in one of the windows that… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…the power of magic to catch the speedy bird, leading to the usual antics we’ve come to expect from the series. Apart from the odd new Looney Tunes opening graphics… |
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Brother Bear: Special Edition
…into theaters and ended up being the last (for a while at least) traditionally produced animated film to come from the Disney Studio. But the powers that be from Disney… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…have been nice to hear from Melendez at the very least, it seems this was an independent release (licensed from the Sesame Workshop) interested only in getting the title out… |


