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“Behind The Tatamis” with Kung Fu Panda‘s Directors!
…to be your own hero. And that you will learn through the story of Po, aka Kung Fu Panda. Enthusiastic, big and a little clumsy, Po was the biggest fan… |
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Who's plugging Roger Rabbit? A neato coinkidink, me thinks, to mention this year's Elstree Film Festival!
…Trust And Pixie Dust, a collection of Disney standards and surprises. It’s a great little chat with Slater, that touches on what a fun-filled movie Who Discovered Roger Rabbit might… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #99: Minions – It is what it is, Just go with it!
Learn more about The Rotoscopers! We go back to the dawn of time to the inception of everyone’s favorite little yellow henchmen with a review of Illumination Entertainment’s 2015 film… |
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Sabrina, The Animated Series: Witch In Training
…department, though, its mediocrity “shines”. The stories are certainly coherent and enjoyable on a rudimentary level, but there is little to separate Sabrina from all the other shows about pre-teens… |
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Rise of an animator: Pierre Perifel reveals secrets of the Guardians
…animation. After that, I went on doing some CG. I worked a little bit on Monsters Vs. Aliens for like two months. Then I moved to Shrek 4 – I… |
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Adventure Time: The Complete Fifth Season
…to go over each one, even briefly. Many stories stand out, however, for various reasons. I liked the concept of miniature versions of Finn’s friends in All The Little People,… |
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Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest For Pappy
…grate on me but also left little impression when it was done. They head towards the Sea Of Mystery, which legend has it is fraught with monsters and mayhem. Bluto… |
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Miles From Tomorrowland: Let’s Rocket!
…and getting along with others (all worthy topics in their own right), Miles has its sights set a little higher…quite literally, as it teaches its viewers about outer space. And,… |
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The Secret Of The Magic Gourd
…movie” winds up the prehistoric cast of “The Swamp Dino Strikes Back” becoming a little too real for comfort when the Gourd projects him into the movie! It’s all surprisingly… |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
…little trickier because you have to build unique puppets for each expression, as opposed to drawing them. So we had to pick our spots and be inventive, and we love… |
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Howl’s Moving Castle
…animated home made of shifting metal sheeting and odd parts, that traverses the land and is run by his friend, a fire demon named Calcifer. Sophie befriends the little demon,… |
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Scooby-Doo: Stage Fright
…is the first time that the idea has been explored. It’s a little bizarre that they would bother with that particular storyline, and it certainly makes it difficult to imagine… |
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Looking ahead to the long weekend
…evening (once everyone else is in bed), I’m already feeling a little zombie-like, making it very difficult to concentrate on writing. However, over the course of the long weekend, I’m… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…Little Mermaid trailer to play since Disney films only came out a year later at Christmas time in France. — Olivier In the late 1990s he also got hooked on… |
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Bolt
…Indian animation, Roadside Romeo, to another of the Studio’s own, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, which eventually opened in the same box office frame as Bolt. But this much derided little movie… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…rice fields just across the road. Early in their explorations, they encounter little fuzzy black creatures in the house, which they learn are “soot sprites,” and thus they are introduced… |
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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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MeTV generates nostalgia with Toon In With Me and Saturday Morning Cartoons
…The comedy is a little corny and the production values not the highest. But if you go in expecting a slickly produced affair with edgy humor, not only will you… |
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Like a Bolt out of the Blu! Plus The Odd Couple!
…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 art,… |
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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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2024 San Diego Comic Con Exclusive
…most daring stories to date made for quality television that viewers savored. There was little doubt that there would be some presence celebrating X-Men ’97. Making sure of that would… |
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The Venture Bros.: Season Two
…It’s a fun idea, skipping the first part altogether to get right to the action-packed finale, but it all made little sense doing it this way. Actually, I think it… |
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And the Oscars go to…the (Slum) dogs!
…going to be a banner year, and the results largely did little to change that: predictable early craft wins for The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, including an absolutely undeserved… |
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Cinderella III sells, and reviews catch-up
…wish we could devote all of our time and energy to Animated Views, if only we didn’t have jobs, and family, and various other responsibilities. First, a little Cinderella III… |
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Monster House: Widescreen Edition
…the animation (yes, I’m going to use the word) is pretty engaging at times. Doing it in straight CGI would have worked at least as well (and probably a little… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume Two
…And let’s not get too jaded; the show had its heart in the right place, providing wholesome television to little kids willing to get up early on a Saturday morning…. |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 1
…a crew on the same jobsite. Joe Barbera was a native New Yorker, born in 1911 to Italian immigrants in the Lower East Side (in Little Italy) shortly before his… |
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Is Ariel's Beginning worth going back for…?
…very creative people, albeit because the front office has essentially commissioned the film to fill a DVD release schedule gap and squeeze a little more profit from an established franchise…. |
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More Cartoons For Victory!
…Bäumlein, Das Andere Blätter Hat Gewollt (or, The Little Tree That Wished For Different Leaves) from 1940. Based on a poem, it tells the tale of a tree that wishes… |
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Let's end the week with a game of Cartoon Catch-up…!
…Jeremie kicked us off this week with his latest exclusive series of Little Mermaid interviews, timed to coincide with the release of the Ariel’s Beginning prequel but also touching on… |
