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Douglas Gresham and Trevor Goring: Back Into The Narnia Wardrobe!
…Of The Art. His impressive credits include Independence Day, Final Fantasy, Mission: Impossible II, Mighty Joe Young, Gattaca, The Cell, Fantastic Four and many others, such as The Lion, The… |
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Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!
…a living doing what they love to do. From painters to actors to musicians to writers, etc. All of these fantastic creative people are making a living and raising their… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…the story a good deal. The proposed time frame was four weeks. When I heard this suggestion I said, “Ok, great. Four weeks is tight, but I think we can… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…the production. I could really focus on the creative work. I was able to choose the Polish studio really from the creative point of view. They have produced fantastic work… |
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Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here
…in Hollywood. Dick said: “have you ever heard this one?” and he started playing The Minor Drag. I thought it was the most fantastic Fats Waller piece I had ever… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…slightly flat-out funnier and Jimmy Neutron in-your-face flashier, but Monsters Inc, the fourth collaboration between Disney and Pixar, has a real sense of awe and wonder, and what it takes… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…$32.99 Storyboard: A fantastic trawl through the archives that brings together all of Walt Disney’s short films, television shows, and even a feature, that deal with what he and his… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure
…were four more Pigs cartoons, each of lower degrees of success), the Studio has jumped on this bandwagon too, issuing follow-ups to sequels that no one particularly asked for, but… |
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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
…or 12-frame step Manga style animation, often within the same shot. Frustratingly, the details are fantastic, right down to the individual costumes on the huge amount of (hand drawn) crowds… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…50-minute special Roger Rabbit And The Secrets Of ToonTown, a fantastic old-school behind-the-scenes documentary that aired on TV during Roger’s original 1988 theatrical release. This program also included several snippets… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…Ought To Be In Pictures. Plus another array of fantastic bonus features geared directly between collectors’ eyes! The Sweatbox Review: The Looneys are back! And with what a collection! Many… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…Storyboard: Mickey Mouse’s faithful canine companion becomes the last of Walt Disney’s “original fantastic four” (Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Pluto) to get a Disney Treasures compendium of his cartoon shorts. In… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…plastic fantastic toys with too little fiddly bits that broke off if you couldn’t work out the right way of unfolding them when they “transformed”. I was just a little… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…did try and come up with scenarios that would compliment their original inspirations. None of these films will be remembered for their attention to detail, character arcs, or fantastic artwork,… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 2
…the Fantastic Voyage like Inside Plucky Duck, in which Buster and Babs explore his innermost thoughts and dreams, including fighting crime as a Batman-styled “Dork Knight”, also known as Spruce… |
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Spidey's tangled web…
…has come before. As with the Fantastic Four movie, the opening half-hour at least is primarily a series of set up scenes, with little attention given to the depth of… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…Storyboard: Mouse’s best friend Pluto returns in a second and final collection of his solo animated outings, bringing the cartoon filmography of Walt’s “original fantastic four” (the others being Mickey,… |
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Renaissance
…bringing much needed life to the facial expressions. Chiefly impressive are the stunningly rendered locations, backgrounds and fantastic camerawork: though Christian Volckman’s direction isn’t anything groundbreaking, Renaissance is all about… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…major catalog and new release titles, including Fantastic Four: Rise Of The Silver Surfer, the Die Hard quartet, Mr And Mrs Smith, The Fly, The Day After Tomorrow, Edward Scissorhands,… |
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TMNT
…lifted right out of a game and the animation often feels like the kind found in mid-level plot progression sequences. As such, the plot races through, like the Fantastic Four… |
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Rumble in the Jungle!
…Fox’s Fantastic Four sequel. Though it is a bare necessity, by default (and therein, perhaps, lies the problem) the message to Disney is “must try harder”. So, there you have… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…sofa raises perhaps the biggest laugh, while the window reflection on his head is a standard four-pane bright spot as opposed to the technically correct multi-paned windows in the room…. |
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Ratatouille
…how much an animated film needs – apart from great animators, of course – a fantastic director who truly understands the medium, which makes the phoney numbness of the likes… |
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Spider-Man 3
The new Spidey does what a lot of “threes” do in that it doesn’t particularly disappoint, but can’t quite match what has come before. As with the Fantastic Four movie,… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…Storyboard: An eccentric and somewhat bumbling inventor relies on his dog to get him out of various scrapes. In this collection of four entertaining short features, they go to the… |
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Twenty films compete for Oscar nominations
…of a Dreamer Fantastic Mr. Fox Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs Mary and Max The Missing Lynx Monsters vs. Aliens 9 Planet 51 Ponyo The Princess and the Frog… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…to shoot in color for the fourth, McGoohan had had enough and burst into Grade’s office ready to quit. Grade didn’t want to lose the biggest actor on television at… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…rather too close to be objective but here it goes: I think it’s because of the emotional truth of Carl’s journey. The fantastic elements, the funny moments and dialogue, all… |
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Monsters, Inc.
…has had to endure. Though rumors of a follow-up persist, the fourth collaboration between Disney and Pixar remains a true one-off, containing a real sense of awe and wonder, and… |
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Up
…for a grumpy old man approach, but one that never feels stereotypical. For the first time in a long while there’s a fantastic meshing of animation and voice to create… |
