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Bee Movie: A Very Jerry 2-Disc Edition
…are some good little movies getting lost in the shuffle. DreamWorks’ own Flushed Away (in collaboration with Aardman) and Over The Hedge were much better than average critter movies we… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…who took a break after the Were-Rabbit feature film and sat out, for the most part, Aardman’s eventual breaking up from DreamWorks over the collaborated project Flushed Away (which deserves… |
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Warner Archive: Atlantis: The Lost Continent / The Power
…size as the leading man or lady just as well as the stars of a picture. But for all the Victor Flemings and Cecil B. DeMilles from Tinsel Town, if… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…guys in “Dini’s apartment” as they sit and watch the episode, presented in a split-screen fashion predating the picture-in-picture technology of Blu-ray. It takes a while for the guys to… |
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Toy Story 3
…as surely the picture-in-picture aspects could be switched off to let the movie play as it does on the first disc anyway? With the same audio options available, I’m more… |
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A Duet with Glen Keane
…“What would you do with this?” I knew that it was going to be about drawing for me, because that’s where all the ideas come for me. I went away… |
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Ponyo
…process, and selecting Melissa Mathison (E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial) as the English version screenwriter. Your other option is to view the film with Complete Storyboards, presented as a picture-in-picture option in… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…card like a half-baked direct-to-video cartoon supplement might have done. Certainly it’s not the pick of the bunch in this collection of post-2000 animated curios from the revitalized Disney Studio,… |
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Tinker Bell And The Great Fairy Rescue
…time with the other fairies than we did in the previous movie, which took Tink away from Pixie Hollow for a more solitary adventure. Actually, Tinker Bell And The Great… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons
…time, the monster in question would be trying to scare people away for some diabolical reason that always had to do with money or treasure. During the story, the bad… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…A young witch goes away to train in the ways of magic, but learns even more important lessons about growing up. Thanks to her own admirable qualities, she finds a… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…Best Picture nominated Beauty And The Beast. That’s all quite some hype to live up to, though it unbalances what should be a very simple question: is it any good… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…and Goofy finally star in their first, full-length animated motion picture. While this is technically true, Mickey and co have appeared on the big screen in major Disney features before,… |
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Drawn Together – Uncensored! Season Three
…from becoming gay. Spelling Applebee’s – The members of the Drawn Together household go up against the Peanuts gang in a spelling bee. Just how do they get away with… |
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Enchanted
Walt Disney Pictures (November 21 2007), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 18 2008), single disc, 107 mins plus supplements, 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital and DTS 5.1 Surround, Rated PG,… |
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William Joyce and Brandon Oldenburg read The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore!
…it matter?” writes Lessmore in his journal. “If life is enjoyed, does it have to make sense?” The character finds the answers once he is whisked away from New Orleans… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…brought cost savings but worse was to come when Walt himself passed away in 1966, throwing the company into turmoil. Once again, this devastating blow was slowly overcome, and the… |
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Last remaining of the Nine Old Men, legendary animator Ollie Johnston dies at 95
…as he moved into other areas of entertainment – has passed away in Sequim, Washington. Ollie Johnston began his career at the Disney Studios in 1935, on a Mickey Mouse… |
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Toy Story 4
…comical note, Forky is dealing with Bonnie’s affection with utter confusion. Since he was born from trash, he instinctively wants to be thrown away, but his own naivete over what… |
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Team America: World Police – Unrated
Paramount Pictures (October 15 2004), Paramount Home Entertainment (May 17 2005), single disc, 98 mins plus supplements, 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround, Not Rated (original theatrically rated R),… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…she tells her younger brothers, right there in their room! Offering to whisk them away to the magical Never-Land, where children never grow old, Peter and his pixie Tinker Bell… |
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Home On The Range
…recent genuinely traditional smash hit movie. In skewing their more recent (CG) animated attempts to appeal to this demographic, Disney found itself straying away from what kept them at the… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…and producers Morris and Lindsey Collins’ Audio Commentary, which is sadly offered, as so many recent and current Disney discs are these days, without any picture-in-picture additional content. Whatever happened… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…York City and Miami, distributor RKO Radio Pictures released Snow White nationwide in February 1938. The film went on to gross $3.5 million in the United States and Canada, more… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…fits, that can tell a really authentic story to us. The outcome is this fresh look that I’m really glad people are picking up and responding to. AV: In the… |
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Lilo And Stitch: 2-Movie Collection
…hit of the three. Interestingly, by design or not, these titles represent three consecutive years of Disney pictures, the first two being released in 2000 and 2001, respectively, with Lilo… |
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Young Justice
…still the under eighteen crowd. Over the past ten years, Warner Brothers Animation created other DC cartoons that broke away from the regular continuity to create their own. These include… |
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Star Wars: Visions
…visual storytelling aspects presented while cherry-picking plot points that were of interest. Star Wars would become a global phenomenon with its own mythology being expanded upon over the decades. It… |
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Ariel’s Song: loving memories of a Mermaid‘s lyricist, Howard Ashman
…doodled. All of his notebooks were full of pictures. Here were people who were doing this for a living and I think he was very interested in what they did…. |
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Once Upon A Dream: Mary Costa as Sleeping Beauty‘s Princess Aurora
…he had and how he could draw that personality out of the animals or the persons. Someday, at the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, they showed a picture… |
