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Pixar picking park rides?; Back to the Dungeons; Hi-def duos?
…between the two: he’ll be wanting to base rides on the Studio’s biggest hits, of course, but those just happen to be Pixar productions! Even so, I remember his arrival… |
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The Critic: The Complete Series
…included, think of the way this gem of a short-lived series was treated during its original run. They are also the words of The Critic himself, one Jay Sherman, TV… |
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Mickey’s House Of Villains
…collection of Halloween tales should have been “House Of Spooks”. Or better yet, “House Of Musical Spooks”, as most of the cartoons on show here are less to do with… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…objects come to life. Here the emphasis is on a snow globe Snowman, a reminder of a trip to Alaska, as he sits on the shelf yearning to break out… |
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Ratatouille
…so much more real than Beowulf because it isn’t supposed to look real. It’s true that the design of our hero Remy isn’t the most original: comparisons to the Sesame… |
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Batman, Pixar, Pooh…and Cinders two!
…good for a laugh – like many I didn’t find much magic to write about – though it continues our quest of completing our backlog of pre-Christmas releases that we’re… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…promo plays on start up, which does no more or no less than get one excited about “Disney” as a concept…it’s quite a clever way to restore some of the… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…Kung Fu Panda itself closes with this oh-so original choice of track over its end credits, though I wouldn’t be surprised if the directors had to fight to prevent Po,… |
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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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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…is your cue to discover a couple of bonus episodes of DreamWorks Animation’s new television spin-off The Penguins Of Madagascar, animated out of house though retaining a fair amount of… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…sidekick Boo-Boo off to the San Diego Zoo. Hearing of this, Yogi’s sweetheart Cindy volunteers herself to be sent off too, but is unaware that her actual destination is the… |
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South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season
…by the sounds of Disc Two’s supplement Six Days To South Park you’ll either be excited or uninterested in what this turns out to be. Essentially running various versions of… |
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
…of a commentary (Winner likes to talk so getting him to sit and let his memories flow shouldn’t have been too tough to arrange) or, surely an option, a pop-up… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…on a secret quest to set things right. In order to go deeper into the magic of Pixie Hollow, Animated Views was kindly invited by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…Very often, this is the result of too much hype or high expectations on the viewer’s part, leading to disappointment. Other times, the movie can just not be very good…. |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…these themes to be explored are the characters, who come up with some consistently laugh out loud funny exchanges: on telling Sid that he’ll eventually find someone to settle down… |
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Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas
…video fare, we’ve also been treated recently to other studios’ traditional offerings, some of which have been very poor television upgrades (Aqua Teen Hunger Force) and some of which have… |
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The Princess And The Frog
…be selected, though true to form, Disney disables one of Blu-ray’s main bonuses and forces one to return to a menu screen as opposed to allowing pop-up options. The wonderful… |
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The Black Cauldron: Producer Joe Hale talks munchings and crunchings…
…of animation, and Katzenberg wanted that also and each one of them didn’t want to give up any of their power. So, there was kind of a struggle between Roy… |
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Armageddon
…do the same to us. Unlike the two other films, Armageddon does all this right there onscreen and – don’t laugh – does so fairly believably for a film of… |
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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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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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Dalmatians 101: Lisa Davis’ “puppy love” for a dog-gone Disney classic
…who’s recording the lines does probably most of them in a short period of time. I worked on One Hundred and One Dalmatians for four years. So, it was a… |
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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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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… |
