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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…out the original poem, which Elfman felt lent itself to musical sensibilities. Elfman, the now celebrated composer who had started in the off the wall band Oingo Boingo (performers of… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…of the One By One animated short. As with last year’s Destino and the recent Lorenzo, One By One was intended as one part of a larger project, once mooted… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas in 3D
…celebrated composer who had started in the off the wall band Oingo Boingo (performers of the title track from John Hughes’ Weird Science among their handful of albums) began working… |
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Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)
…of supplements, there’s a lot of repeating from previous deluxe releases, and to be honest some of the options here lead to somewhat only so-so clips that don’t last very… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…years of being available on home video in nothing less than its “original theatrical ratio” of 1.37:1 – presented here in its “original theatrical ratio” of 1.75:1, actually a weird… |
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Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition
…anniversary edition DVD is a timely reminder of one of the Studio’s most overlooked and much-maligned features. After the box off punch of Beauty And The Beast and The Lion… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…Cinderella often stops off on many tangents, either to make time for the mice to retrieve something of importance from pesky housecat Lucifer or to fit in one of the… |
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WB Academy Award Animation Collection – Winners!
Out February 12, the Warner Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection presents the jewels from the crown of the Studio’s archive of classic cartoons, including shorts from WB’s own Looney Tunes… |
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The Complete Uncensored Private Snafu
…WWII) buffs will want to own this, unless they are too turned off by the Bosko logo and excessive window-boxing. You may have a tough time finding this one to… |
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Paul & The Dragon: Cartoon Laugh-O-Therapy with the Film’s Creators!
…experiments to see what the effects of humor had on one’s immune system. Apparently not only does humor help us psychologically but also boosts our immune system. I also came… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…a fair chunk of them! Topics explored include the sources of the studio’s stories, celebrations of the theme park, and hopping behind the scenes on one of his most enjoyable… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…owning a Disneyland Record that was a re-telling of The Wizard Of Oz story (for reasons too convoluted to go into, Disney retains some media rights to the original Baum… |
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Cars 2
…is a good one, he’s really just there to open the doors to the other vehicles ready to join the Cars team on store shelves, including the characters of the… |
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Bambi: Diamond Edition
…executed option, and as before 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… |
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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 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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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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Tom And Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 2
…and the cartoon ends on the rare note of comradely. Again Warner Brothers Home Video reached inside a hat and pulled out random names of Tom and Jerry cartoons to… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…the goings on at the Studio by Walt’s then distributor RKO, who were gearing up on the release of Snow White, the Studio put this film together specifically for the… |
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Jonny Quest: The Complete First Season
…three years of producing “unairable material”. Four new producers were hired, two of which used the already-existing designs, and two of which did other designs based more on the old… |
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The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection
…thing out about The Rescuers Down Under (still one of only two “official” Disney sequels, with Fantasia/2000, to be generated by the Feature Animation studio and released theatrically) – namely,… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…becomes one of the most outrageous and enjoyable hits of the year. Released on two-disc DVD and Blu-ray in an extended Director’s Cut, the only additions to Tropic Thunder seem… |
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Scooby-Doo, Where Are You?: The Complete First and Second Seasons
…Takamoto. Speaking of Mr.Takamoto, no discussion of Scooby could be complete without mentioning his contribution. Takamoto was the main designer on the show, and it was largely his conception of… |
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The Pirates of Dark Water: The Complete Series
…colors. The whole design of Mer and the world of our heroes is shot to look somewhat otherworldly and perhaps in contrast to the darkness of Dark Water. Some of… |
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Fun And Fancy Free: Gold Classic Collection
…Disney’s “Package Features” of the mid 1940s, Fun And Fancy Free originally came to theaters in 1947. Due to the outbreak of the Second World War and the closing of… |
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Tron: Legacy and The Original Classic 2-Movie Collection
…he wants to create a digital army and break out of the computer world to rule our real one. For one thing, those who haven’t seen the original film may… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…his own worlds of imagination. It’s also the most out and out magical – an overused word – of all of Disney’s films, being set almost completely in another time… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…over the years yet, which I outlined came every ten years or so…or around the “middle” of each twenty-year period. So, in the midst of Walt’s original 1920s to 1940s… |
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