…the viewer out of the story. The Skrulls take on the forms of the FF in order to discredit them. Reed has the FF surrender to the Army, and yet…

…observation of the humans and the learning of the ancient art of transformation. Unfortunately, the raccoons are lazy and easily distracted, but eventually they do take their war to the…

…Of Isis. And thus was born the combined series The Shazam!/Isis Hour. Based on the success of Shazam!, the idea was obviously to create a new character that the female…

…spoof. And then, of course, go to the music. In the version of the shows on the DVD set, each episode is only about twenty minutes, a remnant of when…

…buyers of this set will need to keep in mind the uneven quality of the video and audio, and the simplicity of the animation; but the stories themselves are fun…

…gone overboard on cleaning these up to the point of destroying the original look of the cartoons. I will, however, complain that the picture wavers horribly during the titles for…

…the animation, but they felt that the company was not being as original as they had been in the past with some of their classics. With Robin Hood, the company…

…the likes of Clash Of The Titans, Krull, The Dark Crystal and The NeverEnding Story, etc) I now find myself agreeing with the critics of the time: these films were…

…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…

…in a long while to attempt the look of the original pictures created all those years ago. After the renaissance in the 80s, and the dawn of the computer-assisted age,…

…time to just over an hour! Very reminiscent of the later “Specials” that the Studio would produce (many of these, such as Mickey And The Beanstalk, Bongo, The Wind In…

…of the live-action Studio tour film The Reluctant Dragon. Disney later aped the style themselves, in the theatrical Special Pigs Is Pigs. The animation style was simpler, but the characters…

…credits sequence, the action opens up on two masters of sorcery practising their craft against one another until they blow themselves away, with one of their books containing the secret…

…the compassion of animals versus the inhumanity of humans. “Man…was in the forest” goes one of the film’s most memorable – and chilling – lines. The poetic tone of the…

…their major competitors. The twist is, of course, that Aardman converted to CG themselves in order to put Flushed Away on the screen, though much of the film was actually…

…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…

…in the film, she never talks, leaving the vocals of the film down to a line-up of well-known Disney voices of the time. Driscoll, of course, creates the world’s first…

…to the screen, and the result is Señor Droopy (1949), with the pooch up against The Wolf in the bullring for the hand of the lovely Latin star Lina Romay….

…roots” the new Pixar chiefs are focusing their energies towards, but it’s the final rendering of the prominent Walt Disney signature that really offends. What’s the idea behind the use…

…in the same way. At the end of the day, these are marketing gimmicks, designed to bring the audiences something “new” on their DVD purchases, and often the most heavily…