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Gnomeo & Juliet’s director Kelly Asbury Opens His Secret Garden!
…(2001), Toy Story (1995), Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Beauty and the Beast (1992) and The Little Mermaid (1989). In addition to films, he is a noted author… |
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Mars Needs Moms, but Earth needs Director Simon Wells!
…a full-on pitch of a “little kids” movie. Bob went, “Eh, not really interested in that.” We thought, “Oh, okay. All right.” So we thought out a completely different storyline,… |
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Rockin’ With Judy Jetson
…perfectly fine. I’m just not a little girl, and hence not part of the target audience… assumedly. Nevertheless, we DVD reviewers sometimes have to tackle subjects that are not of… |
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Private Snafu Golden Classics
…appeal to young men. This means there is a little bit of near and partial nudity on display, and some light cussing (like “hell”). Although quite tame by today’s standards,… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…feathered double act out to catch a sneaky caterpillar – that might feel a little old hat, but I don’t remember thinking that when I first saw the film theatrically… |
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Captain America (1990)
…secrets. Steve has little time to recover, as Lt. Col. Louis (Michael Nouri) informs him that the Nazis are about to send a rocket to the USA that could kill… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…goes on for a little longer. Tom and Jerry are trying to go to sleep, but they keep waking each other up in a non-sleep war. What surprised me about… |
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Cars 2
…sharing so very little with what came before that there’s not a lot to connect them save returning characters. Coupled with this, the decision to go in a direction that’s… |
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Director Gore Verbinski wrangles up Rango!
…off the path a little bit, and fumble to see what maybe we can do over here, just a little left of center. It’s nice when people recognize that you’re… |
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Bubble Guppies-Bubble Puppy’s Fin-tastic Fairy Tale
…little educational lessons to make little kids’ brains grow, i.e. counting, colors, directions, though it is hardly seamless. While these little baby mermaids swim around and learn in their underwater… |
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Happy Feet Two
…it, Happy Feet clearly divided audiences’ feelings back when it was released in 2006. Thanks to the mega-success of the documentary March Of The Penguins, the cute little birds were… |
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Sealab 2020: The Complete Series
…to educate and give the Saturday morning crowd a little adventure. Unfortunately, such an approach did not prove successful, as it ended its run that December with three episodes left… |
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Superman Vs. The Elite
…goofy, rubbery S on his chest didn’t help matters. There was really too little difference between the main body of the film and how Superman was presented in the silly… |
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Wolverine Anime
…enamored with the character of Wolverine— too much anti-hero for my taste. I guess I can see the appeal for some, but I like my heroes a little shinier and… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…were strictly kids fare, with little to no interest in the medium from anyone who wasn’t a parent – and even then it was only because they would take their… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete First And Second Seasons
…and are expected to simply keep up. And that’s fine, actually. The back story of the show gets developed very gradually, so at first there is little evidence of it… |
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The Sword In The Stone: 50th Anniversary Edition
…could be described as the first of the Studio’s more broader knockabout comedies of which the later The Jungle Book would share a little of before the style was brought… |
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Great songs never die: how director Dan Lund is giving a new life to Aria For A Cow
…Broadway history in creating The Little Shop Of Horrors, and film history in creating The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast and Aladdin. But our story starts before that time…. |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fourth Season
…Nightosphere sets things up, but it is Daddy’s Little Monster that makes us fully aware of just how messed up this daddy-daughter relationship really is. Good ol’ dad, you see,… |
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Phineas And Ferb Star Wars
…desert planet to become embroiled in a galactic conflict. And, a platypus stalks an evil Sith wannabe. The Sweatbox Review: Ah, corporate synergy. Disney fans have been a little excited… |
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Princess Mononoke
…it got dumped into just 129 theatres, largely art houses, and got little promotion on its way to making just over 2 million dollars in its American engagement. It received… |
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Of pigs and men – Robert Kondo & Dice Tsutsumi talk about The Dam Keeper
…with human characters. We ended up switching to animal characters as our story theme got a little heavy. We thought these simple animal characters allowed us to keep the fable-like… |
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Animation visionary Glen Keane talks about Nephtali
…yourself.” I was a little nervous to take something so personal as my own spiritual life, my own faith and my own love for Psalm 42, and put that out… |
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The Peanuts Movie
…could cut all of these scenes together and have one of the funniest Peanuts shows ever! Don’t assume this wasn’t a good story! I may be being a little harsh… |
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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…top pigs with pigs” was Uncle Walt’s famous retort when asked for more Three Little Pigs cartoons back in the 1930s, although even he relented with a short-lived series of… |
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The Lion Guard: Return Of The Roar
…be the question as to where Kion was during The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride, as that film never gave any indication that Kiara had a little brother (by that… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…to them. For the rest of us, I hate to throw out the word “disappointment”, because it is a little too strong. But Pixar has had such an amazing track… |
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World of Tomorrow
…herself as being an adult third-generation clone of the little girl. The Emily Clone proceeds to take the girl, designated as Emily Prime, on a time traveling journey through key… |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…many Disney scores, including the Aladdin, Little Mermaid and Goof Troop TV series, Aladdin And The King of Thieves, and Kronk’s New Groove, Mark is a six-time Emmy award-winning composer… |
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A History of DreamWorks Animation: Part Three – We Have…Dragons!
…old B-movies had. Perhaps the narrative was taking itself a little too seriously at times? Maybe if it had a little polish, the storytelling might have elevated the film enough… |
