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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…Tex Avery’s Droopy: The Theatrical Collection will lead to Warners’ promised collection of the other Avery shorts. Though there are some absolute gems here, and any Avery collection should automatically… |
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Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection: 15 Winners, 26 Nominees
…offbeat inclusion of this Ralph Phillips-debut. Seeing Jones at the beginnings of his musings off into out of the ordinary cartoons, Z-z-z-z finds schoolboy Phillips daydreaming during lessons, and while… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…to Universal, who promptly took over production from Oswald’s producer Charles Mintz and installed Lantz on the studio lot. Once Lantz had set up shop, the new series of Oswalds… |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…one would have expected to turn up on the old Compleat Tex Avery LaserDisc compendium of those cartoons, or perhaps on a DVD or Blu-ray updating of that set. Rumored… |
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The Flintstones: The Complete Series
…none of this actually seemed to matter, and no one wrote in to complain! Season Two also saw the first expansion of family, with Wilma’s Mother Pearl Slaghoople turning up… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Five
…the first example of these shorts to pop up on these prestige collections, and as the cream of the crop begin to thin out, expect to see more of them… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…own sun, but he escapes its destruction through the efforts of his father (Marlon Brando, bringing much weight to the opening scenes), who sends him rocketing to Earth. Once on… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…including a decent smattering of over half an hour of bonus content. As an ongoing video franchise that already looks to be extended to at least five more outings, on… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…double dip coming when baby Maggie’s “sequel” prophecy inevitably comes true. Ho-hum… Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete / Pixar Short Films Collections Some old and new in our choice of the… |
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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…series also “borrowed” much from other studios, and despite going on to become one of the most cherished cat and mouse shorts, The Cat Concerto is a direct copy of… |
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The Best Of 2008: It Came…It Saw…It’s Over!
…may be. There’s just no other way than to pay tribute to these collections while also reflecting that we’re not quite so wowed as we once were. There was a… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…tightly on Disney’s trip to South America as to omit general information outside of that remit, Frank Thomas’ son Ted’s Walt & El Grupo did an excellent job of whisking… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…and spontaneity to the illusion. Walt strived to develop longer cartoons like the ones being made out of New York and established the Laugh-O-Gram Studio in May of 1922 with… |
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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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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…significantly, it’s obvious that Canemaker – no slouch himself, of course, when offering his own information or point of view – is excited at the prospect of enthusing over a… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…previous collections, these are all great tracks worth revisiting. A collection of Alternate Audio Programs feature a selection of Music Only tracks (What’s Opera, Doc?, The Scarlet Pumpernickel, Duck Amuck,… |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 2
…on Nemo’s 3D set), so they’re pretty safe bets to open the next Collection, on whatever format we’re watching our Pixar movies via in another five years or so! Is… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…on occasion. Pluto started off, of course, as a sidekick to Mickey, and the films basically play as offshoots to the Mouse series, in which Pluto eventually began to feature… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Six
…shorts including outings for Buddy and a handful of one-shot cartoons. Bosko came to fame in the demo test film Bosko The Talk-Ink Kid, seen on the first Golden Collection… |
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Tom & Jerry: Golden Collection Vol 1
…be on the side of the mouse, but in this one he is brought into the house itself, so both Tom and Jerry team up to take him on –… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…are just fun! 2012 On The Big Screen: The Theatrical Toon Review Now it’s time to swing our attention to the theatrical releases of 2012! Here are James’ highlights of… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…so the staff were always assigned to one particular production or another, or could be switched to producing a one-off theatrical featurette “special” or a segment for one of Walt’s… |
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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…delving into the history of the Van Beuren Studio, its transition to sound, and remarks on each of the cartoons in the collection. The always fascinating to listen to Mark… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…a great selection of cartoons, this first disc can feel prone to resorting to the same-old/same-old in its depiction of the evolution of the character. As if to prove the… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…Magoo: The Theatrical Collection from Amazon.com now! 3. Fun And Fancy Free & The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad Disney’s been on a mission of late to rush out… |
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Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set
…Original Theatrical, plus Superman Returns. The Collection also boasts 20 hours of bonus features including the never-before-seen original opening to Superman Returns. Also included are two documentaries in hi-def, Look,… |
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The Best Of Bravestarr
…Prairie People, smaller creatures that remind one of western Ewoks, who have to overcome the prejudice of the humans in order to assist them. Watching the movie now, it is… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume Two
…to admit to jumping to Beck’s take on You Ought To Be In Pictures first, with Chuck Jones on What’s Opera, Doc? and Beck again on Three Little Bops being… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…right on the fence in being able to outwardly recommend Mouse Chronicles or not. On one hand, it’s a very nice compendium of two character series grouped together in one… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…naturally own to the numerous buyouts of other output, most notably the immense number of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer classics through the acquisition of Turner Entertainment as well as those from RKO, Lorimar… |
