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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…opening, that’s straight out of those early films. So, I did go back and listen to them again and we each pointed to all: “oh, I love that! Oh, I… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…didn’t want to do that. We wanted the sequence to pull you right into the movie, into the drama. So, how do we make the character look and feel like… |
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Bolt: John Ashton Thomas – one bold, Bolt orchestrator!
…with the best of composers, since animation, be it for emotion or because of the trickiness of Mickey-Mousing, demands the most elaborate of scores. As John Debney once told me,… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company’s Composer J.A.C. Redford!
…the work of one of your mentors, Thomas Pasiatieri. JAC: He’s both a mentor, a friend and a collaborator of mine! He actually orchestrated Oliver & Company. He also orchestrated… |
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The Incredible Mr Limpet
…were from Hawley Pratt and Maurice Noble, who would also go on to success in their own right, and one of the film’s voice talents was Paul Frees, who also… |
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The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection
…was the only way of seeing these mini-masterpieces (the Studio would also, over time, stop producing the animated character shorts, but continue to create such one-off “specials” that might have… |
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The Rescuers
…the release, with only a handful of early buyers (and lucky laser owners) holding on to their copies (me included)! Whether or not this has anything to do with why… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…to make money off of Mewsette (though quite what a bunch of cats are going to do with it remains a mystery), intending to ship her off to the US… |
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Finding Nemo: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…open matte to me, and frustratingly so as it does throw up a serious discussion on which one to go for). Whereas everything on disc one was geared toward the… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…of two things: either created too dynamic a mix so as to put the listener off, or thin the tracks out from their effects-piled-on-top-of-one-another style so as to make them… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…always been rather two dimensional (no pun intended), especially in animation, but here there is no attempt to even bring another half a dimension or originality to the cast we… |
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The Lion King 1½
…watch, Timon dreams of living the high life – something he gets to do when he fails to report a hyena attack, leading him to decide to set out on… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…and tacked on to the front of the film on this disc, but it would have been great to be able to see the full video again and relive some… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…JRR Tolkein’s The Lord Of The Rings to the screen (a feat that proved so costly and damaging that only one half of the planned two films succeeded in being… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…and Mickey’s whistle is the one usually reserved for Pluto’s output, and this was one of only two official Mickey shorts of 1948. The other was Mickey And The Seal,… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…Leonard’s teacher (who also happens to be his Mom) wins the Teacher Of The Year award, they’re quickly packed of to Florida, coincidentally where Spot has learned that wacko mad-scientist… |
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Home On The Range
…do, but he chews each scene up with relish, while a couple of surprise “cameo roles” go to Steve Buscemi and Patrick Warburton, who provides one of the biggest laughs… |
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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…seemed to me to be much preferable than an audio-only track composed of archive (and often hard to make out) interviews. A fantastic substitute for an actual commentary with Walt,… |
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The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
…perhaps too much of a departure for the company: too dark, too adult and too risky. As Finding Nemo was perceived the year before and Cars is sure to do… |
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Shark Tale
…typically poured-into outfit which shows off her décolletage to no doubt desired effect. A fairly standard in-the-studio promo, the clip is helped along by some nice video effects, such as… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…prevails, and Yzma is chased off into the sewers (no doubt to make another comeback in the upcoming TV spin off). Moving on to Camp Chippamunka (cue more of Kronk’s… |
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Cars
…didn’t warm to it as they have Pixar’s other soon-to-be-classics. Cars can come off as being overly preachy about the merits of old-time, small-town America but then, like Lightning McQueen… |
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The Animated Views Looney Launch Winners!
…Kingdom • Kyle Boyd, New York. Our one extra-lucky reader, finding themselves with a bunch of classic Tunes to watch over Christmas with their copy of the LOONEY TUNES: SPOTLIGHT… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…interactions to be found if you bung the disc into a PC drive. On doing so, the DVD-ROM player springs into action to offer up the choice of launching your… |
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Flushed Away
…obviously having a ball as opposed to the usual Hollywood types who are all-too-often happy to be slumming it and simply provide their own voice in an animated picture. Hugh… |
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Pooh’s Many Adventures on DVD – Winners Announced!
…to US and non-US international readers. Prizes are non-transferable and no cash alternative will be offered. No responsibility is accepted for inaccurate prize descriptions provided to us at the time… |
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Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille
…what we do most of the time, more often than not. Brad Bird or any of the writers come up with six or seven pages or two or three pages… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…of “Technical Processes”, Iwerks was Walt’s “go to guy”: the man who worked out how to convert one hundred and one Dalmatian spots from the animators’ drawings to the photographic… |
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Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series – Winners!
…contest is open to US and non-US international readers. Prizes are non-transferable and no cash alternative will be offered. No responsibility is accepted for inaccurate prize descriptions provided to us… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…this image reproduced, of course. BG: This one is one of my favorites… AV: Yeah, I have to say it’s probably one of my favorites here. To see this up… |

