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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…that brought the wavering studios from its 1980s slump (for your trivia buffs out there, the other film was The Little Mermaid). The animation was spectacular, there was true love,… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…fan. We’ll get to the good stuff in a bit, but up front let’s clear the way for it… Little more than a year ago, around the run up to… |
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Toy Story 3: Animator Victor Navone talks about his “Favorite Toys”
…is a comical new adventure that lands the toys in a room full of untamed tots who can’t wait to get their sticky little fingers on these “new” toys. It’s… |
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Aladdin: Crew Reunion
…wrote more of a Baghdad type. Jeffrey Katzenberg met about what to do after Little Mermaid. The projects Ron and John had to pick from were Swan Lake, one was… |
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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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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
…in 1989, I received the top-secret Doughboy “kit”, a little suitcase that contained one of the original stop-motion puppet bodies and heads. The body was made of an incredibly toxic… |
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Deja and Henn on the return of The Goof!
…it look a little weird and odd. We tried those things. AV: How are they dividing up the work? I imagine it’s a little different than with a feature where… |
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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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The Sword In The Stone: 45th Anniversary Edition
…a very rewarding edition in the Gold Collection line, The Sword In The Stone got a little extra deluxe treatment than most, which even as one of Disney’s lesser efforts,… |
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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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Aladdin Reunion rundown and photos
…arrangement. Linda Woolverton wrote more of a Baghdad type. Jeffrey Katzenberg met about what to do after Little Mermaid. The projects Ron and John had to pick from were Swan… |
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More than meets the ears with Transformers: Earthspark composers Crush Effect
…wanted it to feel a little bit more cinematic. So, when the music does come on in certain situations, they really wanted to feel it in a way. So, we… |
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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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‘Twas The Night Before Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…his letter “from all of us.” One can see why Santa was a little put off, though one does wonder what he really had to gain by essentially providing evidence… |
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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
…little resemblance to anything else in the H-B filmography. SWAT Kats was created by brothers Christian and Yvon Tremblay, who designed much of the show, while Robert Alvarez did the… |
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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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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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Rupert coming home again!
Famed English adventurer Rupert The Bear is coming back home, with the issue of Paul McCartney’s Rupert And The Frog Song, the first time the little bear was animated on… |
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Batman: Under The Red Hood
…usual for these releases, there is little to do with the actual movie’s production in these bonus features. However, the featurettes that we get do nicely provide some context for… |
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Arthur Christmas supervising animator Seamus Malone: from Bristol to the North Pole!
…to, but that was all. I had to relocate from Bristol to Culver City with about 16 other Aardman staff so we brought a little bit of the Aardman community… |
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Smallfoot
…over you seem pleasant enough. But the lyrics are so simplistic and hackneyed to the point of being a little embarrassing. The plot moves at a fairly rapid pace. Soon… |
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Day & Night
…one of them displays the “right” state of play: light, or dark? Eventually, as each one opens up a little more to the other, the many wonderful aspects that make… |
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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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Iron Man Anime
…little impressed with this fast-moving, battle-filled story that still manages to humanize Tony Stark just about as well as the films. At times I felt a little un-involved from all… |
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Castle In The Sky
…They have little time to reason this out, as both the military and the pirates are tracking the girl in Pazu’s small mining town. Just before the chase resumes, however,… |
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Kung Fu Panda
…lot of tickets and DVDs. But classics these films were not. In 2004, the first DWA film that I actually liked a little bit came out — Shrek 2. The… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…or less a “fact” to fans given the additional little clues (“Be seeing you” is a phrase used in both series) dropped in the series – resigning from his post…. |
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Wacky Races: The Complete Series
…Takamoto and Jerry Eisenberg, voice artist Janet Waldo, and current cartoon creators like Paul Dini to dissect the show. It’s a grand little tribute to the show, even if it’s… |
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Disney historian Didier Ghez takes us for a “Grand Tour” with Walt
…highly unsatisfactory. We had never seen a photo of Bill Levy, there was little that we knew about George Kamen’s career, and the overall picture simply was not there. Then,… |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume One
…arrest Yogi’s little buddy for being the domestic terrorist known as…. wait for it… the Unabooboo. The story is plenty funny, despite sadly exposing Yogi’s shame of illiteracy. We also… |
