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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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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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The Triplets Of Belleville (Sony US Edition)
…the crime boss’ henchmen and impersonating the “ride machine” engineer (an affectionate pop at Walt Disney, complete with little rodent-like ears). Causing chaos in the hidden club, the group manage… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…and Jungle Cubs did little for me other than to tarnish the reputation of the film that “inspired” them, and as for the knock offs to the recent features, such… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…Oz picture eventually became. Once again the festivities are largely – and more obviously – scripted, and Walt cheats a little here by being matted in on some shots (probably… |
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WB Academy Award Animation Collection – Winners!
…Bros. Academy Award Animation Collection 41 celebrated cartoons, with something for everyone including characters such as the Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry, Droopy, Superman, Popeye, Tex Avery’s Little Johnny Jet,… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…rear during a bike ride is a bit of otherwise harmless business, and there’s nothing at all overtly sexual about it, but it just seemed more than a little randomly… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…came with the animation and related categories. Trumping Disney’s strong contender The Little Matchgirl and Pixar’s Lifted was Torill Kove’s The Danish Poet, a nice little film with a very… |
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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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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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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…worthwhile and probably the highlight of this particular collection. Disc Three continues with Little Big Bat (or “The Incredible Shrinking Ghostbusters”?), Really Roughing It (it took ’em long enough to… |
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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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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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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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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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At the movies: Klaatu, Julien, Despereaux, a Transporter, Bolt and Delgo!
…form for the Studio, remarking that “Disney’s computer animation has come a long way since Chicken Little just three years ago” and praising the “outstanding action sequences” and camera work…. |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…film’s twisty, quite elaborate plotting, which pulls off a number of switcheroos quite convincingly, if sometimes a little over convolutedly. We open, naturally, in Jellystone, just as spring arrives and… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…and so the basic concept becomes a little more routine. Whereas Freakazoid was just a nuts superhero before, the extra dimension to Dexter’s scenes reduces him slightly to a regular… |
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Shawn Patterson: Composer Maximum!
…Titan, where Willy (this little kid) is searching for something. I used two different time signatures, wrote in a two different tonalities and featured a bass trombone and a small… |
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X-Men: The Animated Series – Volume 4
…episodes on this volume focus more on individual X-Men. We have the X-Men’s only Christmas-themed episode, Have Yourself a Morlock Little X-Mas, where Jubilee celebrates her very first Christmas with… |
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Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood
…suggest the seedier side of Hollywood), which is extremely unfortunate, for a little pruning on one early scene and just a couple of instances of language aside, we might have… |
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Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
…she has little need for him, Desmond is unable to let go of her past. Sunset Boulevard is also a filmmaker’s film…it crackles with barbed dialogue aimed at the Hollywood… |
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The Odd Couple: Centennial Collection
…latest release, number 7 in the series as marked on the cover spine. The now-classy black and gold packaging saps a little of the original disc’s bright original theatrical poster… |
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Warner Archive: The Big Circus
…way down the restoration line) titles out on disc (and bring in a little revenue on masters that would otherwise stay lined up on shelves). Some have bemoaned the lack… |
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Warner Archive: A Distant Trumpet
…way down the restoration line) titles out on disc (and bring in a little revenue on masters that would otherwise stay lined up on shelves). Some have bemoaned the lack… |
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Warner Archive: Captain Nemo And The Underwater City
…way down the restoration line) titles out on disc (and bring in a little revenue on masters that would otherwise stay lined up on shelves). Some have bemoaned the lack… |
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Warner Archive: Doc Savage: The Man Of Bronze
…way down the restoration line) titles out on disc (and bring in a little revenue on masters that would otherwise stay lined up on shelves). Some have bemoaned the lack… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…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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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…little flaws and feistiness, yet she is relatable to every generation. RI: How did you manage the evolution of Tinker Bell as a character regarding the original personality she had… |
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Superman/Batman: Public Enemies
…and loved of the modern Superman, Batman, and Lex Luthor voices— respectively Tim Daly, Kevin Conroy, and Clancy Brown. Though the characters look a little different here, it was a… |
