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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…Valiant, known for his celebrated assisting of toons in trouble. Eddie’s non-too pleased to see Roger since he became a toon-hating human after his brother was killed by a falling… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 1 and 2
…the toons looking authentically like film, but they’re miles ahead in terms of freshness and clarity than Warners’ Looney Tunes remasters or Disney’s own work on the Disney Treasures restorations,… |
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Twenty Questions with the AV Staff
…(a Looney Tunes direct-to-video title). BEN: Having converted many previous reviews for our launch so that we had an instant stack, I don’t recall the exact first review I did… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #105: Hotel Transylvania 2 – “I Love Your Chocolate Cereal!”
…Info and the review embargo. ANIMATION: Even MORE cartoony than the last film! Are we watching Looney Toons? COMEDY STYLE: So many one-liners! GAGS UP THE WAZZOOOOO “You know who… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume One
…where Pluto was a major scene-stealer (even in the later cartoons), some of these cartoons are labelled as Mickey entries, though that is mostly down to Studio cataloguing, and Mickey… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…likes of The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie, 1001 Rabbit Tales and Daffy Duck’s Fantastic Island were not only successful (especially on home video)… |
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More DVD news: Space Jam pushed back a week
…and R Kelly’s “I Believe I Can Fly” video. Reasons to go for this? Well, disc 2 features a line up of recent Looney Tunes cartoons: Another Froggy Evening (1998,… |
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The Best Of 2010: The Year 3D Made Contact!
…George Clooney voice the otherwise very British fox of Dahl’s original and a practically unrecognisable Meryl Streep as Mrs Fox. But the stop-motion technique and wonderfully detailed props and environments… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…of re-issues, sequels and franchises but being very slim on truly well packaged disc releases or classic animation compilations. We were without the Looney Tunes Golden Collection for the first… |
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Animated Con-versation: AN&V at Comic-Con 2008!
…trip purchase was also made there — a coffee table book of Chuck Jones’ Looney Tunes oil paintings. Very cool. The good vibe kept up that afternoon at Balboa Park… |
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Warners on new toon DVDs, plus the DisneyLand…bootleg!?
…a volume five debut this holiday season, again with four discs crammed with around 60 restored cartoons and bonus features. Though the inclusion of more “star-powered” black and white Looney… |
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Guess who!? Woody woodpecks his way on DVD!
…the three Looney Tunes TV specials: Carnival Of The Animals, Looney Christmas Tales and Bustin’ Out All Over, a springtime program from 1980. These are not prime Looney Tunes but… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…career that existed outside of the Looney Tunes gang. Considering the strength of his Looney Tunes output, and the fondness with which it is remembered, it is hard to believe… |
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Picks Of The Year 2004
…excellent Mulan, Aladdin and Mary Poppins 2-disc special editions), there were the “underachievers” – Looney Tunes: Back In Action, The Triplets Of Belleville, Brother Bear and Home On The Range,… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…a time when Saturday mornings were the best place to watch cartoons. This was before all-day cartoon channels, before DVDs, and before the Internet. Saturday mornings meant cartoons, and nothing… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…them, which brings us, without further ado, to… 1. Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 2 Warner Home Video (October 16 2012) 3 Blu-ray Discs, 365 mins plus supplements, $45 Despite… |
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Another Big TOONsday!!
…Tunes: The Golden Collection – a 4-disc set of 56 fully restored, uncensored Looney Tunes and Merry Melodies shorts from Warner Bros. Now, even though there are 3 other Looney… |
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Exclusive! Another Conversation With Eric Goldberg
…recently met up again with Goldberg, the famed lead animator of the Genie in Aladdin and co-director on Pocahontas and Looney Tunes: Back In Action. He and his work can… |
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Animated News’ PICKS OF THE YEAR 2004
…Mulan, Aladdin and Mary Poppins 2-disc special editions), there were the “underachievers” – Looney Tunes: Back In Action, The Triplets Of Belleville, Brother Bear and Home On The Range, all… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…Christian Ziebarth recently met again with Goldberg, the famed lead animator of the Genie in Aladdin and co-director on Pocahontas and Looney Tunes: Back In Action. He and his work… |
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2006: A Year In Review
We are just about conclude a record year for theatrical animation in the Wide Wide World of Toons. There were 21 animated feature films making their debut in the United… |
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Planes: Fire & Rescue
…Cars world – it just doesn’t make sense! In a magical way, the likes of Little Toot and Susie, The Little Blue Coupe – classic cartoons of their kind from… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…and, say, on the Tiny Toons? BB: Rescuers is a much more sophisticated score and film than anything in Tiny Toon Adventures, which was an homage to the style of… |
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Cars 2’s Victor Navone takes the wheel!
…directed a Cars-based commercial for State Farm Auto Insurance, and then in 2008 I co-directed four Cars Toons for theatrical and television release. Needless to say, after all this I… |
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Making Ginja Ninja Cool at this year's MIPCOM
…Chan! And adding to the old-school feel is the heavy animation influence, something that will come even more to the fore in the animated spin-off \\Ginja Toons\\. For the early… |
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Bruce Broughton's Bambi II; More Justice League and Tom & Jerry Tales
…successfully continued the Carl Stalling style through such looney animated offerings as Tiny Toons Adventures for Warner Bros, and the Roger Rabbit Maroon Cartoons and Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #47: Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation – It’s Direct-to-video for a Reason
…as Clay Kaytis, Glen Keane, and Andreas Deja. • Main Discussion: Tiny Toons! It’s direct to video for a reason… • How it was received back in the day. Surprisingly… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 3 and 4
…would have noticed that a series of re-branded Have A Laugh cartoons were actually odd variations of some of the Studio’s original cartoons. Also available online, it became clear that… |
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The Art Of Tom And Jerry: Volume One
…many toons that will surely remain only available in these sets (at least for a good few years). Although a total of five Looney Tunes sets would emerge from the… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…Disney’s theatrical output, the kind of craftsmanship that lent his product the tag of “animated shorts” rather than “cartoons”. Pluto’s buoyancy continues to shine, however, and though the cartoons show… |
