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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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Beauty And The Beast: 25th Anniversary Walt Disney Signature Collection
…want to watch all of their supplements on their big-screen TVs or projector displays instead of on an internet-connected device. As such, this one-minute clip promises over five hours of… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…the best of them. The film after Beauty, Aladdin would become their knockabout comedy counterpart to Dumbo, while The Lion King’s circle of life obviously owes much to Bambi’s naturalistic… |
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Cartoons Then and Now: Jerry Beck talks Woody, Popeye and More!
…into something that can pay the bills, I have to do other stuff. I get to work on a lot of other fun projects. I’m going to give you as… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…of previously available material, and drop other footage so as to leave enough room for some half-heartedly compiled clips only really included so as to feature a certain number of… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…on to happen to so many of the Studio’s more dramatic pictures from this time, once Katzenberg left the Studio in late 1994, the story was infused with a little… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…collection of moments that too strongly recall better sequences in not only the first two films, but other Pixar pictures too. So, after Woody’s western shootout from the first film… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…come off all too easily. In fact, one of mine slipped off while I was removing the shrink-wrap. I’m in two minds on whether to glue them permanently to the… |
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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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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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The Essential Bugs Bunny
…that have been overlooked to bring us a sometimes random pick of titles, some of which are only so-so outings, and all of which most Looney Tunes fans will already… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…or so European cartoons by Gene Deitch that were also missing there. The decision to omit these is overall a perfectly understandable one, and to be honest they are not… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…Although O’Day only lasted one outing (what Walt could pay her wasn’t enough to sustain her family’s needs), Alice’s Egg Plant is easily one of the best of the Alice… |
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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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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Black And White, Volume Two
…have also recently forced him to headline an awful CGI video feature, the downright sad Twice Upon A Christmas (more No! No! No! than Ho! Ho! Ho!). Ironically, the very… |
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Warner Archive: Red Skelton Whistling Collection
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Warner Home Video (1941-43 / 2010), 3 discs, 239 mins, 1.33:1, Dolby Mono, Not Rated, $24.95 (available online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: I have to admit… |
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Warner Archive: Classic Musical Shorts From The Dream Factory
…when reviewing any multi-disc set that one must begin to take considerations of the clock into account and start to skim more and more of the content in order to… |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
…(or “B-Movies”), but the “filler” segment of an evening’s program always meant ten or so minutes in the company of an accomplished comedian or comedy troupe. One or two reelers… |
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Animated Views reviews: Hero High, Tex Avery’s Droopy
Animated Views presents its latest two reviews: Hero High: The Complete Series and Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection. Examining Droopy, Ben Simon provides a perfect score for the set’s… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…to create a feeling of spaciousness, feeling a little “softer” as opposed to the high-end treble of the original, but once one gets used to the new feel, the 5.1… |
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Fantasia / Fantasia 2000
…to go unanswered, of course, since their original intention was never realized. What Monfery and the creators (Hench is given co-writer status) of this short have managed to do, however,… |
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Wallace And Gromit: The Complete Collection
…turning you off of seeing them; and two, to go into greater detail in order to go beyond the simple descriptions could ruin the surprises that you have waiting for… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume Two
…Happy Harmonies, five volumes of the pre-1948 Golden Age Of Looney Tunes, an entire set dedicated to the genius of Tex Avery and, of course, the celebrated team of Thomas,… |
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Bravestarr: The Movie
…off. This includes both humans and Prairie People, smaller creatures that remind one of western Ewoks, who have to overcome the prejudice of the humans in order to assist them…. |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 3 and 4
…would have noticed that a series of re-branded Have A Laugh cartoons were actually odd variations of some of the Studio’s original cartoons. Also available online, it became clear that… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
…proved to be a star for Disney, Pinto Colvig moved to Miami to work for the Fleischer studio (as the voice of Gabby in Gulliver’s Travels). The Disney studio then… |
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The Complete Adventures Of The Little King
…mastering done on the title, and so jumped at the chance to cover this latest collection, The Complete Animated Adventures Of Otto Soglow’s The Little King, to give it it’s… |
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Superman: The Complete Animated Series
…across the corresponding discs, with Discs One and Two of Volume One being the first two discs here, Disc One and Two of Volume Two being the third and fourth… |
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The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2
…who came up with the selection on either of these two collections, or why they were in authority to do so matters little…the Casper cartoons were always lightweight affairs, never… |
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Arthur, Invisibles, and Tex Avery too!
…just before the weekend, and the two-disc salute to Tex Avery’s leading series star, Droopy: The Complete Theatrical Collection, which I promised and posted last week and then forgot to… |
