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Celebrate Mother's Day with The Flintstones
…delivery that he decides to stage a dress rehearsal. All is going well until the practice run turns into the real thing, with Wilma giving birth to baby Pebbles. •4:30… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…form higher than before, even at this early stage: there’s a maturity to these songs that wouldn’t feel out of place on the musical stage today. Riddle Riddle would have… |
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Speed Racer: Widescreen Edition
…In a nice bit of homage, Peter Fernandez, who voiced Speed and Racer X in the American dub of the original series, gets to be a race announcer here, and… |
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LaserDisc Archives: Why I’m Keeping My LaserDisc Player!
…have them, though most have outlived their usefulness in this DVD age. However, it is nice to have the original version of The Three Little Pigs, as the Silly Symphonies… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…rather than to try and stage some of the more magical element’s of Walt’s film, thus begging the question: why try and stage Walt Disney’s adaptation of Mary Poppins and… |
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The Jetsons: Season Two, Volume One
…$34.98 Storyboard: After twenty-two years, The Jetsons returned to television with a second season in 1985. These twenty-one episodes feature the space-age family in exciting new adventures. The Sweatbox Review:… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete First Season
…would mean that many tough compromises would have to be made, and they developed a method of “limited animation”, including the practice of reusing footage or animating only parts of… |
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Presenting Felix the Cat: The Otto Mesmer Classics 1919-1924
Pat Sullivan Productions (1919-1924), Bosko Video/Image Entertainment (April 20, 1999), single disc, 119 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Not Rated, Retail: $9.99 Storyboard:… |
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Justice League Unlimited: Season Two
…for a solid episode, and a nice capper to the series. Watch the ending closely and notice how they ordered the running heroes to honor prior incarnations of the Justice… |
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Birdman & The Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series
…and audio show their age, but the stories hold up well in their entertainment value. The featurette is a nice touch, and the package is very nice. Fans of this… |
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Justice League – The New Frontier: Special Edition
…attention to such things as the beautiful design work, the pros and cons of the story adaptation, and the thrill of seeing Silver Age (or Golden Age)-styled DC characters in… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)
…and what happened to the footage shot for the documentary. Ink And Paint: The documentary footage is looking pretty scratchy. There are physical and video artifacts galore, including dust, scratches,… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Six: Director Kevin Lima and exec producer Chris Chase
…sense, than the traditional Disney films at that moment, and tried to find different voices for the characters. The voice for Max, who is the young adolescent coming of age,… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…The Old Grey Hare, My Favorite Duck and Clampett’s hysterical Hare-Raising Hare. The archive footage looks fairly clean for its age and format, and there’s a lot of fun to… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…for the first time, Mickey would have “pupils” in his eyes, giving him a much more rounded and lifelike image. Though Fantasia – and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice – were more… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…with a rather confused beaver (animation voice and comedy legend Stan Freberg) and, of course, the most famous romantic image not only in all of Disney, but one that has… |
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Disney’s Adventures Of The Gummi Bears: Volume One, Seasons 1-3
…something to the party, and all gain the fun ability of powerful bouncing when they drink Grammi’s Gummiberry Juice – an age old recipe passed down from Gummi to Gummi… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…a mishmash version of Alice In Wonderland (1951) which is now seen as something of an avant-garde masterpiece. Both Alice and Pan were based on English literary sources, and as… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…little malt shop homage to Lantz) are average snapshots of the series at the time. 1950 saw only the Universal distributions of the UA films to theaters, but Lantz and… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…nominated classic Peace On Earth, the 1955 Good Will To Men presents a chillingly updated atomic-age account of war and, like the original, goes for the message rather than any… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…well and seems to be a natural choice to bringing a cynical wit to the series, especially with the anti-war message being promoted in the story. Written by Suess in… |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
…a variety of dramatic and comedy short films: miniature versions of the films that were a centerpiece to an evening’s entertainment. With stage acts drying up, many of the old-school… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…Batman run for The New Superman/Batman Adventures for a year or so longer, but waiting in the wings was the Timm-ed up version of Justice League and the later Justice… |
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The Black Cauldron: 25th Anniversary Edition
…DVD’s deleted scenes section, to find fully completed and finalized footage which has been cut at such a late stage from the film that it would be fully colored. These… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…by American critics) at the release of the first Pooh featurette Winnie The Pooh And The Honey Tree for its use of director Woolie Reitherman’s son as the voice of… |
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Disney Blu-ray 3D Reissues: Chicken Little / Meet The Robinsons / Bolt / G-Force
…blockbusters falling at the box-office hurdles. In particular the two-handed combination of The Prince Of Persia, another video game based movie, and the frankly dire The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, which ruins… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…vintage. It might have been nice not to focus so heavily again on Duck Dodgers and Chuck Jones’ output: yes, he was a genius director, often handled the characters better… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…and his one-time colleague Friz Freleng were among the last of original producer Leon Schlesinger’s golden age Termite Terrace gang still creating new animation in the 1970s and 80s, they… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…of Walt’s initial Alice Comedies development in combining a live-action girl in an animated world, including hearing from original Alice Virginia Davis in recent archive footage, through the technical advances… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…good – and in places better – as these cartoons should look! Scratch Tracks: Considering the age of these cartoons must have some impact on Warners’ choice of going for… |

