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Oscar nominated animated shorts of 2013
…minutes, the longest but easily most re-watchable and enjoyable short on the list. Mr. Hublot With no dialogue and an entirely predictable plot, this short has to work a little… |
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Soul
…better phrase. Hollywood has simplistic morals that usually get repeated over and over again in media for kids. Pixar sometimes gives kids a little more nuanced message. In Soul, the… |
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Author Charles Solomon puts the chill to us with The Art Of Frozen
…Brother Bear, Road To El Dorado or Titan A.E.; the remake of Astro Boy, SharkTale and Chicken Little would have been bad in 2D. AV: This is a unique situation… |
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O Brother Bear, Where Art Thou?: Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series
…features that Disney had been putting out,” explains Jennett. “In comparison, Brother Bear felt a little more traditional and wasn’t considered particularly successful. I don’t know personally how well that… |
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Director Jimmy Hayward talks turkey about Free Birds
…bears little resemblance to him. “He’s got Reagan’s pompadour and Clinton’s voice – I don’t know whose chin. We just threw them all together, you know? Put them in the… |
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Titans clash in the Godzilla Vs. Kong teaser trailer
…on the film’s plot (which involves…a little girl who can “talk” to Kong?). It won’t be the first time to two legendary monsters have battled, however, as they previously faced… |
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AV to celebrate 10th anniversary all week!
Ten years ago this week, on October 18, 2003, Animated Views was born! We looked a lot different way back then and our name has changed a little bit. But… |
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Inside Out 2
…in the first film. And Amy Poehler as Joy, who perhaps was a little too one-note in the original, gets a chance to shine here with a more wide-ranging performance…. |
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The Lego Movie
…a back seat. While it does get a little muddled (and is overall fairly convoluted!), the writers have kept it from being buried completely — though the whole thing probably… |
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The Wild Robot
…even more so than DreamWorks Animation’s Trolls movies, The Wild Robot is almost daringly non-cynical, a completely genuine tale that isn’t afraid to get a little bleak once in a… |
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Maurice Sendak Joins The Wild Things At 83
Sorry for being a little slow on the uptake, but Where The Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak passed away at 83. The NY Times has a in-depth article on… |
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Son Of Batman
…asked to accept such things as bullet-deflecting swordplay, an arrow-shooting Gatling gun, and the young Robin continuing to fight right after having both forearms impaled. It’s all a little much…. |
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Ted gets a bump
…the live-action/animated movie was set to debut on July 13th, which would’ve given it only seven days to play before a little movie called The Dark Knight Rises came out…. |
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Anniversary Features
…and our name has changed a little bit. But other than that we’re doing the same thing we wanted to do a decade ago — share our love of animation… |
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Lone Ranger gets pushed back…again
The Lone Ranger will be riding into the box office sunset a little later than anticipated. Superhero Hype! is reporting that Disney, apparently wanting to distance themselves from The Fast… |
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Frozen has been on top in Japan for fourteen straight weekends
…their 30s and now mothers are the generation that watched Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid as children, and they spend money on Disney for themselves, and not necessarily… |
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Ray Bradbury dies at 91
…1983 film Something Wicked This Way Comes. Bradbury is credited for working on the concepts of 1989’s Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland. And in 1993, he won an Emmy for… |
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Batman & Mr. Freeze: Subzero / Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm
…the lack of anamorphic widescreen, there is little else to gripe about. When Subzero isn’t relying on CGI it also looks pretty good, especially during the climax at Freeze’s hideout…. |
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Foray, animated programs win Emmys
…Penguins of Madagascar won two awards (Directing and Original Song for In the Happy Little Land of Hoboken Surprise). The Hub’s Transformers: Prime won two awards (Special Class Animated Program… |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…he insisted, I saw that Glen Keane and his wife (with little Claire) would stay too. So, I spent the whole dinner watching those two legends discussing animation. I could… |
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Margaret Kerry – The Original Tinker Bell
…had another part in Peter Pan as the redheaded mermaid. I had one line, “We just want to drown her.” Later when Disney was working on The Little Mermaid, they… |
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Buried Treasure: The ill-fated voyage to Treasure Planet 2
…too little too late. At the end of its box office run in 2003, Treasure Planet had grossed a disappointing $109.6 million worldwide. Disney took a $74 million write off… |
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Exclusive! Legends Of Oz producer talks franchise’s future after box office disappoints
…of the critics really hurt the opening to some extent. Also, it was a Mother’s Day weekend. And, Rio 2 is still out – Rio outperformed us by a little… |
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Green Lantern: The Animated Series
…While the film brought an awesome visualization of the planet Oa and the Green Lantern Corps, the script tried to do way too much in too little time. Audiences were… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #64: The Lord of the Rings – So Many Miniskirts
…Why are horses so sassy? Which are our favorites? • Non-canonical horses from Enchanted Stables. • Main Discussion: Lord of the Rings (1978). • A little backstory and bio of… |
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Rio 2
…numbers; several bodily function jokes; evil businessmen, angelic environmentalists; nature good, not nature bad. That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Every little plot point feels old and uninspired. •… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #62: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron – Tradigital Animation
…clouds on the DVD cover? • Bryan Adams songs every few minutes. Do they all sound the same? • Little Creek and the painted mare, Rain! • Rain’s “death”; not… |
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Looney Tunes back in action again?
Bugs, Daffy and company are about to have a little Harry Potter magic sprinkled upon them if THR’s Heat Vision blog’s announcement makes it from script to screen. Potter‘s David… |
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Animated aspect of 35th annual Key Art Awards
Honoring the best in film advertising, nominations for the 35th annual Key Art Awards have been announced, via The Hollywood Reporter. Animated entries in the nods include: Chicken Little (5… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 3 and 4
…little more than an hour each, $15 would be a more reasonable cost or at least combine volumes for a single two-hour $25 disc. Even better, why not get those… |
