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Up: 3D Edition
…old, well able to lug around an air-assisted house, walk long stretches and engage in chase scenes without so much of a bruise to the skin. In voice and appearance… |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…for Alice In Wonderland, is Kathryn Beaumont, essentially playing the same English lass part, while she is joined by her Alice co-star Bill Thompson as Smee, being given much more… |
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How To Train Your Dragon 2
…one at least doubled its budget in worldwide box office sales. That, however, is putting the best possible spin on things. Critically speaking things look pretty bad. Four of the… |
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Maleficent
…day and age, might have gone forgotten. With bright and shiny new CG now the family format of choice, even Disney’s prestigious hand drawn features have seen a decline in… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…at springing for the same thing twice (and sometimes third or fourth time going back to the LaserDisc days) when the sometimes clueless bods at Warners failed to entice with… |
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A Conversation with Terry Rawlings
…almost by accident and, basically, no one else would either even notice or think that you spent ages getting it perfect. Actually, one really nice moment like that, like a… |
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How Disney historian Didier Ghez wrote as he pleased…
…private collections. Didier Ghez has brought to light numerous discoveries, from early Jiminy Cricket designs by Albert Hurter to documents by Gustaf Tenggren for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice With material culled… |
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Exclusive D23 Expo 2015 Recap
…Burrell, and Katlin Olsen to help flesh out the new characters we will be seeing was a nice touch, and I did like the short footage they had of Burrell’s… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…terribly received John Carter Of Mars. In that alternate universe, is it Dory that might have sank at the box-office? As it was, Inside Out did come first and and… |
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Finding Dory
…Studios, two of its high-profile titles – a sequel to Tim Burton’s billion dollar-grossing Alice In Wonderland, the outright financial flop Alice Through The Looking Glass, and the risky remake… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…true, it’ll be a shame to see his voice muted somewhat by his needing to spread himself thinner, even if I do believe he’s the only choice to ultimately fill… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…rivals Taschen’s own Disney Archives book from the same time the previous year. With page after page of in-depth writing and rare artworks, this is a handsome way to celebrate… |
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Production Designer Rona Liu on Turning Red
…and a better-than-average relationship with her family for the most part. Meilin — Mei to her friends — has every reason to expect smooth sailing throughout the rest of her… |
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D23 Expo 2022 Exclusive
…Doris Hardoon (Imagineering), Anthony Anderson (Television), Tracee Ellis Ross (Television), Robert Price “Bob” Foster (Administration), Chris Montan (Music), Jonathan Groff (Film & Voice), Kristen Bell (Film & Voice), Josh Gad… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…choice to voice Raistlin. But in the end, it still managed to be a disappointment. I’m actually surprised Paramount decided against what would have been an obvious cash-grab and tried… |
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Flip The Frog: The Complete Series
…was somewhat deeper. He sometimes lost the falsetto in the stories, but his voice remained inconsistent and nondescript. In the absence of a memorable voice like Donald Duck or Goofy,… |
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Schoolhouse Rock! Earth
…about how the ice caps are melting. I say forgettable because the song is not really that great and has no catchy refrain for children to remember. Well, actually it… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to the recent CGI feature TMNT. The Sweatbox Review: In the late 1980s, Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were everywhere. Big screen… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…goodies there to entice fans into a double dip. At a nice price point, this is a great deal whether you’re looking to sell your old sets or to complete… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…the spotlight, while Mickey becomes a safe, company figurehead. The Complete Pluto (Volume One) picks up after that stage in their careers, when the Pup was handed his own series…. |
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12 Days of Cartoon Network’s Holiday Programming
…all ages. Included among the offerings are several programs new to Cartoon Network this year: Gotta Catch Santa Claus, The Marvelous Mis-adventures of Flapjack: Low Tidings and How the Toys… |
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He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…gives a fun look at the romantic leanings of Charlie Brown’s pooch. This disc’s featurette is Snoopy’s Home Ice: The Story Of The Redwood Empire Ice Arena (22 minutes). It… |
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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…excerpted on a laserdisc of The Lost World years ago, and it’s nice to see it included here for a new audience. Here, it runs four minutes. There are two… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…montage are from Chuck Jones: “Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story of Like,” “Bad Day at Cat Rock” (both 1965), and “Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary” (1966). All three episodes have a shallow storyline… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snow Days
…episode of The Charlie Brown And Snoopy Show provides three short tales that vaguely fit the “snow” theme, and Peppermint Patty becomes an unlikely ice princess in She’s A Good… |
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Frozen: The Poster Collection
…the Package Features were all “more of the same” back in the day) – gets announced. This is already on top of record-breaking box-office and Oscars for the first film,… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…really nice package, arriving in a slipcover surrounding a clear plastic case. But when you open it up, you’ll find artwork of all of the film’s characters spread throughout the… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Seventh Season
…satisfying. It has a nice balance of coherent world-building, strange but controlled plotting, and even some poignant characterization, not to mention a number of nice songs. There’s even a really… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem
…sees what sticks). Speaking of Superfly, however, Ice Cube is absolutely the MVP of a stacked voice cast. He’s clearly having a blast, making the bad guy (bad fly?) hilarious,… |
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The Incredibles production notes excerpts: Parts III and IV
…use too many adjectives, but he would often do an impression or a voice for them. Sometimes the voice alone would put enough pictures and ideas in my head. It’s… |
