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POPEYE!!!
…the more fond of the ol’ sea salt. Between this DVD set and the new reprint series of the comic strip from Fantagraphics, there’s never been a better time to… |
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Shrek The Weak reviewed, Enchanted leads box office
…with all the other critics in loving the Rat. I haven’t seen the film yet myself, having been out of action much of the past few months while having a… |
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Be My Valentine, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…Lee Mendelson (producer of the cartoons) and director Phil Roman. Their reminiscing provides a number of neat bits of information about the specials, with the added bonus of seeing the… |
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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)
…Charles Schulz, as well as 2001’s The Making Of A Charlie Brown Christmas, but the DVD that is the subject of this review is the only way to see the… |
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Wonder Woman
…there are three characters that set the pattern for most of the superheroes that followed. The first of these archetypes was represented by Superman, the science-themed, super-powered alien hero. Then… |
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Gargoyles: The Complete First Season
…I was actually turned on to the show by some friends of mine that watched the show. I managed to watch the first five exciting episodes of the show (the… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…of the day, we realized, “Let’s just make the whole thing lore.” Basically, they’ve lived all these adventures, and they’ve defeated all these villains. Now they find themselves without direction,… |
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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
…spots came the core group of Skellington Studios. AV: What are your thoughts now on MonkeyBone? HS: While there are some fans of the film, they are in the minority… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…good team and that would give kind of different sound to each of the songs. They found these two guys and kind of put them together. David Zippel came from… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…with, the bugs inside Oogie Boogie. Look into the shadow areas, there are hidden details there that have never shown up on previous DVDs but will show up on the… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…in the forest, I thought the scene had a lot of potential. That’s when I had the idea of the balloon to help the bird fly. AV: What was the… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…of the best “these-are-my-dastardly-deeds-and-now-I’m-going-one-better” villain’s songs. The rest of the score is very magical and a direct cue from the John Williams fantasy sound, while the smattering of songs do… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…in the least, and there are no real pointers that the film was created in the “swinging 60s” apart from the animation process. The script has real moments of poignant… |
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Mulan II
…on the more epic toes of the original. Part of the reason it doesn’t build on the first film is down to the occasional moments of déjà vu and the… |
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Shark Tale
…catching the spectacular adventures of The Incredibles, the sheer aggressiveness of the mass-market friendly and very commercially-minded animated comedy Shark Tale, DreamWorks Animation’s ninth feature (or only their fourth, if… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…inflated for the amount of material on the disc, but the high quality of the animation, coupled with the total reunion of the original voice cast (however small some of… |
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Hi-def disc updates; new Walt bios; Disney Treasures out!
…VII: Advent Children: Limited Collector’s Set of the DVD premiere based on the videogame, comprising a two-disc set (with bonus Venice Film Festival footage, story digest, deleted scenes, making-of featurette… |
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Peter Pan Giveaway – Winner!
We teamed with Walt Disney Home Entertainment to offer one lucky winner a copy of the classic release of Peter Pan on DVD in a 2-disc Platinum Edition set! The… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…the picture do nothing but pull the audience out of the story in a flash, the majority of them wondering where they’ve seen the gags before (and in much better… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…a fair chunk of them! Topics explored include the sources of the studio’s stories, celebrations of the theme park, and hopping behind the scenes on one of his most enjoyable… |
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The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2
…not a comics creation. This is partly due to the Harvey Comics handling of the character and also down to that original decade of the theatrical cartoons themselves. Despite their… |
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The Reef
…be that offensive. It certainly isn’t as tiring, noisy or dull as some of the more major animated pictures of the past couple of years, and this in the end… |
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The AristoCats Special Edition – Winners Announced!
…mischievous kittens and abandons them in the French countryside. Soon, they’re being escorted home by the charming Thomas O’Malley, a rough-and-tumble alley cat, who takes them to his pad along… |
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Get Enchanted with our behind the scenes exclusives!
…to many of the principal crew for a series of exclusive behind the scenes interviews, including composer Alan Menken, animation director James Baxter and the director of Enchanted himself, Kevin… |
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The Classic Cabelleros Collection Contest – Winners!
…to the US to explore the heart and soul of Latin America. From the Bolivian Andes to the Argentine pampas, watch four whimsical animated escapades while they travel to fun… |
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Flushed Away reviewed, plus win a copy!
…awards season as it deserved so much more. The good news is that the DVD is selling well, and hopefully more of you are discovering what could well be the… |
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Peter Pan's color catastrophe; and cropped Disney features
…I love the film, the DVD left me wishing it had “never-never happened”), I touched upon the poor restoration of the image, including comments on the lack of sharpness and… |
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Little King and Bravestarr's best, plus hi-def gripes
…of Filmation around these parts too, and will be bringing you our coverage of the recent Warner Bros. releases of both The New Adventures Of Superman and The New Adventures… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…of the show here. This episode, the second in the original run, is better than the debut show included as a bonus on the first selection of the animated version,… |
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Hoo-Ray! Classic, really-for-real Disney in Hi-Def! Plus TMNT!
…effectively been won. Titles like these from the Mouse House are what is going to propel Blu-Ray to the front of collectors’ minds when they make their move into hi-def,… |
