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Watch a first look at The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie
…buddy-comedy of epic proportions, our heroes race to save the world, delivering all the laugh-out-loud gags and vibrant visuals that have made the Looney Tunes so iconic, but on a… |
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Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode III
…a hoedown one can’t help but laugh. While the special proves to be funny, a few of the sketches rely too heavily on cursing and sex to move the punch… |
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An Animated History of Dungeons & Dragons Adaptations
…only be natural for Wizards of the Coast, the current owners, to try adapting it into other mediums. But while it had managed to establish a line of video games,… |
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A kind interview with the creators of The Boy, The Mole, The Fox And The Horse
…justice to the way they are in Charlie’s drawings. Other times, they became too lively and like they were taking on lives on their own. So, we had to find… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…Scooby too. Originally, the Mystery Inc. gang were to have been a pop band on the road (a reply to the success of The Archie Show) so Roberts was no… |
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Jabberjaw: The Complete Series
…to release a Gorgon on Aquahama! See Dorsal attempt to overthrow the queen of Atlantis! See Coldfinger try to take over the gold mines of Aqualaska! See Jabberjaw compete in… |
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Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie
…this outing, while Shaun is trying to enjoy the creature comforts of farm life (despite the efforts of an overprotective sheepdog) he encounters an extraterrestrial who is being chased by… |
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Tangled
…only serves to repeat Mother Gothel’s implied threats to Rapunzel if she dared to leave her tower in an extra verse or two, though it does sport one of Slater’s… |
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Lightyear
…is so good so often that we’re used to it, maybe even spoiled. Michael Giacchino, who is no stranger to animation, sci-fi, or action adventure films, gets to put his… |
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The Incredibles
…two-frame animated mouths (one for open, one for closed), they are here provided with real-life human mouths superimposed onto the faces – something that looks out of place given the… |
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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…we amused ourselves by going outside with our friends. If you wanted to play video games, you had to actually leave the house to visit an arcade. TV was a… |
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Gnomeo & Juliet
…quite gelling to get fully off the ground. The US box-office failure of Aardman Animation’s collaborations with DreamWorks might have had something to do with Gnomeo’s drawn-out creation of the… |
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Conan O’Brien is The Flaming C!
A while ago Conan O’Brien visited Bruce Timm at Warner Brothers Animation, home of the DC animated universe. Coco asked Timm to draw him as a superhero, fishnet stockings, garters,… |
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Au clair de La Luna with director Enrico Casarosa
…the pressure of having to please one or the other, or to take side: that kind of memories seemed an interesting core to tell a story around. Because that seems… |
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Lion King animator Tony Bancroft takes “warthog”’s share on Pumbaa!
…and then briefly returned to Disney to direct the English-language voice talent for the U.S. release of Miyazaki’s Porco Rosso. The culmination of his talent and experience led Tony to… |
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Home On The Range
…roles” go to Steve Buscemi and Patrick Warburton, who provides one of the biggest laughs with his offhand delivery in his brief single scene before a lot of exposure eventually… |
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Coco
…things like the use of occasional Spanish language feel organic rather than tacked on for atmosphere. Unfortunately, the story is a bit of a disappointment compared to the rest of… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…always very hard to see: traditionally in home video terms at least, the film has often been one of the last ones to be announced or released on any format,… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly
…for better or for worse one of the movie’s highlights). But the story quickly runs out of gas, and even re-introducing Shaw into the franchise in an attempt to help… |
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Home
…clumsy Boov on the run from his own people and one hidden Human looking for her mom have to band together to save everyone. This is a hard review to… |
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Minions
…to live in a frozen cave where they barely seem to find the energy to go on with their purposeless lives. That’s when three minions decide to strike out on… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition
…special anyway, especially as Menken often runs his fingers over the piano keys to revisit the songs, including the genesis of a different take on Be Our Guest. Pure magic,… |
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Shaun the Sheep Movie
…to demand from recent animated films. What I mean is Aardman doesn’t go for the non-stop laugh-out-loud moments or the funny-because-it’s-obnoxious jokes or the mean humor. Minions this is not!… |
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The Jungle Book
…the use of the original The Jungle Book prop itself at end of the film in the end credits, of which more on in a moment. Also, in so far… |
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The Seventh Dwarf
…peril,” but they literally run into a grand total of zero obstacles on the way there, and they also manage to rescue Jack once they arrive without any problems to… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…the big screen it was the turn of Walt’s original hero, one Mickey Mouse esquire, to make a comeback. Once again the ruse was to tempt the audience into thinking… |
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Into The Forest Of Enchantement – A Disney Musical Adventure at Disneyland Paris
…seems more abstract. Do you agree? CL: I do. We wanted to talk directly to our audience’s heart and imagination, to let them react to our different numbers according to… |
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Sausage Party opens
…“Sausage Party is definitely offensive, but backs up its enthusiastic profanity with an impressively high laugh-to-gag ratio — and a surprisingly thought-provoking storyline”. Box Office Prophets predicts a healthily $27.5… |
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Toy Story Of Terror!
…Disney, when Walt himself would allow Snow White’s Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio’s Figaro to appear in a limited run of theatrical cartoons and, most especially, Jiminy Cricket to go on… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…a trio of T-Rexes, in scenes that are often over too quickly, while conforming to the usual journey-movie tropes of having to find shelter, food and putting up with each… |
