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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…cold feet and pulling that release, perhaps mindful of the lack of support Beauty and The Lion King received when the two were given similar “event” treatment for their large-format… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…he felt that there was a certain limit to which their action could be pushed. For instance, a Turtle can’t jump up twenty feet in the air. He was kind… |
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Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey
…of the animation market, didn’t get Universal jumping in with both feet, and it’s only really been the emergence of CGI recently that has gotten them excited – and even… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
…new Dreamworks Animation movie, a notorious fighter and lover, a rebel with a thirst for adventure who always lands on his feet as a cat should, Puss goes in search… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…way. Strangely, I was drawing everything full size. I didn’t know why, but I had to be drawing Beast seven feet tall. I had to stand on my toes to… |
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Disney’s Planes to take off at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh
…what happens to Dusty in this movie. He’s a crop duster who’s never flown above 1,000 feet, but he dreams of being the fastest air racer in the world. He… |
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Production Designer Matthias Lechner attacks The Sea Beast
…feet of cables that nobody knew what they connected. Then, basically, from that, we took a couple of concepts like “the internet is infinite”, and made it grow from the… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…feet long and the first scene in which Aurora is in the forest singing ‘I wonder, I wonder’ picking berries and singing with the birds. It’s memorable to me because… |
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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…the three – a rarity in itself – since they’re all happy to be different in their approaches and bring a fresh angle each time, even though they’re all ostensibly… |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
Well, there’s no denying that we’ve been a bit slack here at the ol’ Views while other things have been taking up our lives. Rand’s jumped in feet first a… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…Harman and Rudy Ising, responsible for the Happy Harmonies; a series of well intentioned and expertly made (Disney himself outsourced one of the Silly Symphonies to Harman-Ising) cartoons, but which… |
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Flash Gordon: The Complete Series
…fortune to do in live action. He sheepishly told NBC that the movie would have to be done in animation, and fortunately NBC was happy to do it that way…. |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…“hap-hap-happy” town crier Gabby, star in his own series of short films. Previously released on LaserDisc during Republic Home Video’s excellent wave of Fleischer mania, which also saw releases for… |
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Paul & The Dragon: Cartoon Laugh-O-Therapy with the Film’s Creators!
…fun, working without dialogue. If the audience can clearly see that the character is sad, mad, happy, they’ll feel it and won’t have to hear that character say anything. Many… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…be handled “sensitively”. Of course this is a ridiculous argument, but the political correctness of modern day Disney coupled with a not-so-happy ending meant the Studio didn’t think they could… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…more redundant. Just how redundant am I talking? Well, let’s look at the film’s band of dwarf heroes. Instead of Happy, we have “Sunny.” In Grumpy’s place, we have “Cloudy.”… |
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Aesop’s Fables: Volumes 1 & 2
…a menagerie of happy animals provide loony performances in these merry symphonies from the golden age of animation. The Sweatbox Review: The silent era of cartoons gave us several innovators,… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 3 1941-1943
…ketchup with ‘em” after Popeye is pelted by tomatoes: Also note that at the beginning of this one, Olive is singing It’s A Hap Hap Happy Day from the Fleischer… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…this documentary goes to great pains to suggest they’re happy with the result. But this is very talky and really too long: hardly any songs are previewed and no less… |
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Marvin the Martian gets his own movie
Marvin the Martian should be very happy, very happy indeed, because it has just been announced that he will be getting his own live-action/CGI movie, according to Cinema Confidential. “Marvin… |
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Kung Fu Panda toys unleashed at McD on Friday
Beginning June 6 through July 3 at McDonald’s restaurants in North America, and then rolling out across the globe, McDonald’s Kung Fu Panda Happy Meal program features exclusive characters from… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…Oswald’s happy farm is threatened by the skeletal Depression and he turns to President Franklin D Roosevelt, who urges the Rabbit to have “confidence” and beat the situation. While it… |
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Tom And Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 2
…of cheese. Jerry goes slap happy with his favorite food, even constructing a Swiss cheese mansion, but he accidentally locks Tom out of the shop in the blistering ice. Cue… |
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Ratatouille
…well as a few passing references throughout, there’s also a starkly shocking moment that comes and goes all too fast in an otherwise bright and happy movie. I also noted… |
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Jack's back! NB4X's Skellington returns for Halloween!
…regular disc and hi-def flavors. Nightmare is genuinely one of my favorite animated pictures ever, and I was ready to pounce on this edition: that I’ve come away happy as… |
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Pete’s Dragon
…a live-action/animation combination about a young kid on the run from his abusive family, aided by cartoon dragon Elliott and a bunch of happy, peppy showtunes. The film wasn’t the… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…and while it takes liberties with the melody – and the film’s much ballyhooed widescreen ratio – it’s actually pretty harmless and almost interchangeable with Happy Ever After from Enchanted’s… |
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Bee good to the planet
CNNMoney.com reports about the launch of McDonald’s Bee Movie Happy Meal promotion, wherein McDonald’s, DreamWorks Animation SKG and Conservation International have joined together to encourage kids to “Bee Good to… |
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Jungle Book's Rocky the Rhino concepts!
…characters, like the wise panther Bagheera, happy-go-lucky bear Baloo, and the menacing tiger Shere Khan, but amazing special features that both new adventurers and seasoned explorers are sure to enjoy…. |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…fans happy enough. This ain’t your grandfather’s Pooh, your mother’s, or even – for those of an old enough persuasion – your own, but without continuing steps like these it’s… |
