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Cool World
…bursts at the seams, while the little details and extra touches that mark any great movie are totally missing. Like Holli’s one-track mind’s desire, this film is all surface and… |
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Ollie Johnston…RIP
…of animator Ollie Johnston has kind of left me a little lost for words. Therefore, the plug for Woody is little more than a hushed whisper, with little more to… |
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The Lord Of The Rings: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…a little less of the constant Disney-bashing that often permeates Ralph’s remarks (though it’s still there, from himself and other contributors), and he remains sprightly and outspoken even in his… |
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Around the world with Mila: Producer Andrea Emmes
Mila is the story of a little girl who loses her family during the war in Trento, Italy. This is the story Cinzia Angelini wanted to tell via her medium,… |
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Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat
…all changed with Felix, who clearly was able to formulate thoughts, ideas, and emotions. The little guy had spunk, and was able to solve his problems in a clever way…. |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…Jack, repeats the latter horror pastiche, joining an ingenious Hitchcockian plot by The Lobe. The episodes on the second disc – a flipper that allows for a little extra helping… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios
…Age and Disney’s films were second to none! The History Of The Animated Drawing (1955): Moving on a little in time to the 1950s, and disc two features three shows… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1970s: Volume 2
…Scent-imental Reasons/Stop, Look, And Hasten/Hare-way To The Stars/Duck! Rabbit! Duck! VALLEY OF THE DINOSAURS is, a relatively little remembered Hanna-Barbera show from 1974. Its premise is oddly similar to another… |
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Kubo and the Two Strings
…story like this. That said, I did have a few issues that took away from the overall feel. The whole animated-episodic-journey-movie is getting a little overused for my tastes these… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season
…line between being a good episode and a very bad idea, but I think they pulled it off. An unimpressed Raven is instructed by Robin to escort three little kids… |
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Looney Tunes Golden Collection: Volume One
…way to the later full-length compilation TV specials and 1980s features. The black and white footage shows its age, but the color segments used, while being a little soft, looks… |
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Back In Time
…possibly has a little more predictable kick from it, with tighter dialogue coming from the center and the film clips and music sounding a bit more enveloping, but there’s little… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…Meltdown. Okay, the film wasn’t much more than a re-tread, adding some predicable sequel-prone elements and doing pretty much what it set out to do and little more. But when… |
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Moana
…enough with their messaging. Moana is a great princess and role model for little girls, completely different from the older, more vapid princesses of the past. Trust the viewers to… |
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
…necessary. This is apparent when the majority of the supporting cast has pretty much been pushed to the background with very little screen time for each. And while Grimmel actually… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…behavior, while never coming across as someone who does not have that little tiny part of them that remembers what being a kid and loving cartoons was like. A triumph… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…little scratchy during the opening titles, but it soon settles down for a fine looking and vibrant presentation, in its original 1.33:1 full-frame ratio. There is not much text on… |
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My Life With Charlie Brown
…the public. An Introduction by the editor gives his own views on Peanuts and then explains the purpose of the book. Rather than printing every little thing that Schulz ever… |
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The BFG stomping home in December
…– Roald Dahl, Walt Disney and Steven Spielberg – to bring to life the classic tale of a courageous little girl named Sophie (newcomer Ruby Barnhill) and a gentle and… |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…tape, but it’s not the same watching the little guy hopping around on a wooden leg with an eyepatch and a parrot on his shoulder!” Boom, boom! Drumroll, please…I thank… |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
…and on other projects. You’ll find a little recap on my recent woes and why I haven’t been showing up for these Tooning In… updates here, but rest assured that… |
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Archie’s Funhouse: The Complete Series
…palatable, since The Archie Comedy Hour mixed in Archie and Sabrina stories; but devoting an entire half-hour to a steady bombardment of corny jokes and fluffy songs is a little… |
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The Best Of 2018: The Year Old Became New (Again!)
…intended to be, with it instead — fairly or not — ending up essentially being a straight-to-TV premiere, albeit one with a little more prestige and fanfare behind it. If… |
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The Grinch
…available. But if you’re looking for something that perhaps means a little bit more, your best bet might be Illumination’s The Grinch. First off, if you had any reservations about… |
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“Life is like a hurricane…”: DuckTales; plus Sonic and Snow White at 70!
…they’re really going to be disappointed! Of much better quality, and bringing a little historical perspective to things, is the Great American Ink website’s latest little project. Celebrating 70 Years… |
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Raiders! The Story Of The Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
…a little harsh, and on the flipside we do now see how the crew, as not entirely poverty stricken adults, may have approached the same kind of effort with years… |
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Armageddon
…blockbuster. At two and a half hours, Armageddon does lag a little once one of NASA’s two rockets inevitably falters and the team finds themselves split on other sides of… |
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Underdog (live-action movie)
…rhyming scheme to boot? With a not-as-high-as-expected run at the box office last summer, Underdog comes to DVD, if a little sheepishly, then at least with a full fanfare. The… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season One
…joy that accompanied the end of the Clone Wars has been replaced with something else. To many, there is little doubt that the Empire is a fascist outfit led by… |
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Captain America: Civil War
…all that interesting or necessary. One can’t help but think that it’s a little weird he goes from being in love with Peggy Carter during World War II to sharing… |
