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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…original team. AV: How many Simpsons movies do you feel could happen? Do you think that, like the TV show, the movie series could be long-running, or do you imagine… |
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Tinker Bell
…Fall 2007 release of a movie starring Tinker Bell. Only, that movie didn’t make it out in October 2007 as planned. As early as the Christmas before, Disney executives decided… |
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Despereaux: Olivier Adam discusses a European tail!
…most part of the actual 3D animated movies. This does not mean I do not like these movies but it was just not our world. AV: Indeed, you seem very… |
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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…sometimes, but great storytelling is great storytelling in 2D and 3D, and not everyone can watch the movie in 3D (yet, anyway), so we have to make sure the movie… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…the new Looney Tunes movie as “the anti-Space Jam movie”, things looked good. The script sounded fun, the cast was shaping up with a few big names (Steve Martin and… |
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Bolt
…perhaps unfair, but they weren’t unfounded either. The reworked movie’s plot sounded like it shared several similarities, from the German Shepherd star, Thunderbolt, who thinks his movie set life is… |
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Chicken Little
…effect of stop-starting the pace of the movie. When it’s good, such as the opening scenes, after an unappealing “how to open this movie” bit which falls flat and leans… |
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Gladiators Of Rome
…once the credits start rolling. Despite being a movie that is constantly ordering its lead character to “try harder,” Gladiators of Rome is a movie that doesn’t seem to be… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…project was animated by either of the Canadian (Enchanted Christmas, Lion King II) or French (Duck Tales: The Movie, A Goofy Movie) satellite crews, there was a fair chance that… |
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Tangled: Illustrator David Gilson’s dream come true!
…held by the Brizzi Brothers and was about to produce films such as Duck Tales and Goofy Movie. I am myself rather a fan of the classic movies than of… |
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The Emoji Movie
…question: is The Emoji Movie really that bad, or are people simply eager to make fun of an animated movie with a very silly concept? And, make no mistake, it… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…to darker fare, but with films that were still aimed at family audiences. This mostly translated into movies that were not adult enough for grown-ups and too adult for kids,… |
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The Lion King: Diamond Edition
…the Movie itself, accompanied by three playable options, the first of which is Disney Second Screen, which supposedly syncs up the movie to your choice of iPad gizmo or regular… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…brought so much of yourself in your movies. But what did the movies bring to you? ML: Let’s start with Zootopia. I had never made a movie for a large… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…with a familiar friend Rand: I tried to line up for the Watchmen movie panel, but was probably hours too late. This meant that the Spirit movie panel later on… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…movie was a good idea. This is not to say that the movie is “bad,” because it isn’t. It’s just severely underwhelming, with the only notable thing about it being… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…things, even if as the very first of these films I ever saw in a movie theater it has remained a nostalgic favorite of mine over the years. It was… |
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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition
…for the movie business, especially when it comes to boxoffice receipts. One of the year’s most popular movies is an independent one, some old franchises did not measure up to… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: Limited 3D Edition
…a previous flame-turned-adversary and race the infamous pirate Blackbeard to the fabled Fountain of Youth… The Sweatbox Review: There are some movies that are completely critic proof. Whatever is said,… |
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My Little Pony: The Movie
…The Movie is an extremely solid adaptation of the series on which its based. In fact, it might be the best film of its kind since the first SpongeBob movie…. |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…very rare movie that really deserves them. I think I’ve only awarded those scores twice in 15 years. From there I determine if the movie was poor (1 to 3),… |
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Ultimate Avengers 2
…as Ultimate Avengers: The Movie had reached store shelves just six months before its follow-up. These two movies, along with upcoming treatments of Iron Man and Dr. Strange, were all… |
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Son Of Batman
…industry, there is too much playing to the basest of interests. The movie’s script wasn’t even all that bad, but the movie’s execution is disappointing, and not as strong as… |
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Mike Disa and The Seven Dwarfs: How the Snow White prequel became a Dopey movie
…and start the process of making that movie. But we need you to focus on this movie for a minute and say whether or not you think it’s working, so… |
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Director Jim Kammerud on The Fox and the Hound 2
…have made with the grown-up characters. But the people who really like this movie are very young. The people we’re making this movie for – of course, I make every… |
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Atlantis: The Lost Empire – 2 Movie Collection
…movie was visually referencing, Milo’s Return is the pretty pathetic remnants of the planned TV series Team Atlantis, canned after the movie didn’t find the audience that was hoped for…. |
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Lilo & Stitch: Producer Clark Spencer on a Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride!
…crashing on Earth, the movie is a kind of its own UFO in the Disney galaxy. The second animated feature created by the remarkable crew at Walt Disney Feature Animation… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…slipping into the Disney canon as a pretty great movie and one of the Studio’s most well received films. Is This Thing Loaded? Presented as a 2-Movie Collection, this set’s… |
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Michael Giacchino cooks up tasty tunes for Ratatouille!
…what the movie is. Because the movie itself was so different, so special. I wanted the song not to be something that was cliché of what we consider French. I… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist and Dug’s Special Mission‘s Director Ronnie del Carmen!
…in the movie. We also tried many ways to end the movie. I had made sequences that explored viable endings that I really believed in. They worked, but in the… |
