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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…unique route of incorporating themed cartoons into well-rounded documentary styled programs. We all know the often told genesis of Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, and a fair few will have been… |
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Once Upon A Time…Walt Disney
…something to see: a vast collection of the various books, paintings, films and other artworks that the original Disney artists used as artistic sources during the heydays of the Mickey… |
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Pixar picking park rides?; Back to the Dungeons; Hi-def duos?
…relegated to hotel room accessory status: the Cinderella Castle Suite at Disney World and Disneyland’s Mickey Mouse Penthouse being themed rooms randomly chosen to accommodate guests. All fine and good,… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…new logo for the newly renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios (formally Walt Disney Feature Animation) which features a classic Mickey Mouse animation from his debut in Steamboat Willie. The film… |
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Classic feature reviews, Pan deals, and more…
…Wizards. For you classic animation fans, we’ve a review concentrating on that period for the release of Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two and some more… |
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WDFA becomes WDAS. Not the same, is it?
…(Animation Studios) shadow. If they needed a logo, why not dream up something based around the more stately WDFA moniker? The only happy spot is the use of Mickey Mouse… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…as the Cowardly Lion, Ethel Merman as bad witch Mombi, Mickey Rooney as the Scarecrow, the incomparable Paul Lynde as Pumpkinhead, and Margaret Hamilton – an original Oz cast member… |
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Treasures found!
…other “must have” in this wave after the second helping of Silly Symphonies. To recap on those four titles from last December: • The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy… |
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Ghosts, ghouls and goblins? Either our reviewers or it must be Halloween!
…looks like a house! • Mickey’s House Of Villains – the House Of Mouse gets all shook up! • The Ghost Busters – plus Filmation’s animated Ghostbusters Vol 1 and… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…takes a look back to Walt’s creation of Mickey Mouse and the Studio’s affinity to animal pictures throughout the years. Featuring some great and previously unseen archive footage, this featurette… |
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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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Dr Syn, Donald and Annette…it's the Walt Disney Treasures reviewed!
…cartoons, Rodney still recommends completing your Donald shorts collections on DVD. • The Mickey Mouse Club Presents: Annette – Walt’s premiere Mousketeer lives on, in both a couple of full-length… |
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South Park Chihuahua…a new breed? Get Outa Here!
…complete opposite direction, South Park: The Complete Twelfth Season (on DVD) rips the guts out of everything from Mickey Mouse, High School Musical, Heavy Metal, Cloverfield, Obama and McCain, and… |
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Gong, but not forgotten
…percussionist Roger Taylor mimicking it by hitting a Tam Tam while stripped down to the waist, to The Mickey Mouse Club’s title sequence featuring Donald Duck, with varying humourous results…. |
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A Christmas Carol
…notable are Seymour Hicks’ first talkie version in 1935, Sim’s 1951 edition, Mr Magoo’s 1962 special, Albert Finney’s 1970 musical, Richard Williams’ 1971 animation (again with Sim), Mickey Mouse’s take… |
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New trailer for The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
…live-action movie starring Nicolas Cage and Jay Baruchel is a modern version of the story that Mickey Mouse made famous in 1940’s Fantasia. The Sorcerer’s Apprentice hits theaters next summer…. |
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Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies
…programming. It was a Mickey Mouse cartoon that was interrupted on British TV when World War II broke out and screens went dark (only for it to be the first… |
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Giacchino to host AMPAS animation music event
…Whether serving as the soundtrack for a Mickey Mouse comedy like The Band Concert (1935), a Bugs Bunny operatic parody like What’s Opera, Doc? (1957), or the symphonic and visual… |
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Kingdom Hearts Prequel Arrives September 7
…Bret Iwan as the fourth voice of “King” Mickey Mouse-his predecessor, the late Wayne Allwine, passed away last year after the completion of his work on the previous Kingdom Hearts… |
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Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time
…time Mickey-mouska-marketeer Dick Cook. Neither is it fair to blame an outgoing regime: surely the filmmakers themselves should accept the majority of the responsibility for essentially making dud movies? By… |
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Is Disney making a Magic Kingdom movie?
…such as Night at the Museum, would involve various beloved Disney characters, including Mickey Mouse himself. The film–if it ever sees the light of day–is currently without a release date…. |
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Starchaser: The Legend Of Orin
…now President of the Motion Picture Screen Cartoonists guild, and Chris Bailey, recently of the Clerks cartoon series, Mickey’s Runaway Brain short and the Kim Possible show. Making perhaps the… |
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New Hardy, Scanner Reviews; Snakes On A Plane; Post Updates
…the Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys limited tin set (the further titles will get their respective once-overs very soon), as well as Richard Linklater’s… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…Kevin Lima and end up directing bigger budget features of their own. Making return trips to Disney are voice actors Jodie Benson (Lady) and Mickey Rooney (Sparky), while Melissa Manchester… |
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Author Tim Hauser’s “axioms” on The Art Of WALL•E
…Little Toaster, and FernGully; The Last Rainforest, and created the original story for the Oscar-nominated Mickey Mouse cartoon, Runaway Brain. I was also the editor for Roy E. Disney and… |
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More X-Men, plus A Bug's Life is back!
…the face of DreamWorks’ smart and sassy Antz? This was back, if you recall, when Jeffrey Katzenberg had recently left the Mouse House and had launched his own animation studio… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…mice attend the park wearing Mickey Mouse ears; this one got Clampett in trouble with censors who were worried that Uncle Walt would take offence Cecil Meets The Singing Dinosaur… |
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DuckTales: Volume 2
…from the House Of Mouse. As discussed in our review of the first volume of DuckTales, the show was a homage to the wonderful comic book work of “Unca Carl”,… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…soon at work on the Studio’s next production, The Great Mouse Detective (1986), with that film’s use of computer graphics urging the two to ask for development on their Treasure… |
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Return To Never-Land: Pixie-Powered Edition
…about sequels, especially when they come decades later. Even more skepticism came when it was gleefully announced by the Mouse House that the sequel’s production had exceeded expectations and that… |
