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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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Disney’s 2011 animated classic cover art
…Cat song and intro • Thru the Mirror Mickey Mouse animated short (now in hi-def) • One-hour in Wonderland • An Alice Comedy: Alice’s Wonderland • Original theatrical trailers (1951… |
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A Christmas Carol
…edition, Mr Magoo’s 1962 special, Albert Finney’s 1970 musical, Richard Williams’ 1971 animation (again with Sim), Mickey Mouse’s take in 1983 and, of course, The Muppets’ on fine form in… |
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Abbott And Costello Meet Captain Kidd
…serial on Mickey Mouse Club. With such an experienced director at the helm, it’s no wonder the film’s stars come off so well. Abbott and Costello are in fine form,… |
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Mad: Season One, Part One
…mash of Mickey and House for – what else? – Mouse MD, a perfectly “Karloff”-narrated Da Grinchy Code, Snot Pilgrim versus the Seven evil Dwarfs, Malcolm In The Middle Earth… |
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Phineas And Ferb: The Movie – Across The 2nd Dimension
…a girls’ tween network. There’s nothing inherently “wrong” in that – Walt’s original Mickey Mouse Club made a star of, and promoted, Annette Funicello as a starlet that went on… |
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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World
…the Mouse was releasing afternoon TV cartoons of their prize-winning movies: Aladdin, Adventures of the Little Mermaid, Hercules, and Timon and Pumbaa. Beauty and the Beast was missing from this… |
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The Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Ultimate Collector’s Edition Volume One
…Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck and Pluto, alongside the pick of other series from their vaults. Warners were not that quick to jump on the same bandwagon, but when they… |
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Happy Feet Two
…1930s and 40s, it wasn’t unheard of for recording artists to dedicate songs to their favorite animated stars. Mickey Mouse benefited enormously from sheet music and radio airplay of songs… |
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Margaret Kerry – The Original Tinker Bell
…not use Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Donald Duck as promotional items in case the park failed. The characters would inadvertently fail as well and Walt Disney Studios’ main properties would… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…way back as production on The Black Cauldron (1985) wound down. The duo were soon at work on the Studio’s next feature, The Great Mouse Detective (1986), with that film’s… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…own. Making return trips to Disney are voice actors Jodie Benson (Lady) and Mickey Rooney (Sparky), while Melissa Manchester (The Great Mouse Detective) and Norman Gimbel (probably best known for… |
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Down Under with Rescuers composer Bruce Broughton
…to “Mickey Mouse” things to make a point. As animation becomes more realistic, there is a tendency to treat it like live action, but it’s just not the same thing…. |
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Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume Two
…and a Harmon-Ising Mickey Mouse-clone cartoon from 1931 respectively, and there’s the animated title sequence from Schlesinger’s live-action picture Haunted Gold, but the best is saved for last. In his… |
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Disney opera opens
…of a world without death, now grappling with mortality… It does what opera does best by making the larger-than-life creator of Mickey Mouse an imperfect life-size, ultimately earning our wonderment”…. |
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Peter Pan: Diamond Edition
…Margaret Kerry and further career as a figurehead for the company, second only to Mickey Mouse. Despite its validity as a commentary on this important face in Disney’s lexicon, I… |
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The Stooge confirmed as a development proposal
It appears Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit are indeed teaming up, at least for a development proposal. On Sunday, Who Censored Roger Rabbit? author Gary K. Wolf, under pen name… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #34: Toy Story 2 – British Invasion
…new Mickey Mouse shorts, Rumplestilkskin (The Name Game) animated film by Disney? • Nerdy Couch Discussion: Pixar sequels. • Beyond the trailer, Toy Story 3 filled with holocaust references? •… |
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APRIL FOOLS STORY: Disney decides to put iconic characters in Star Wars
…the entire franchise in traditional animation, casting the Mouse and friends in the titular roles. Goofy’s son, Max, will play Luke Skywalker; Goofy is Darth Vader; Mickey is Han Solo,… |
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Favorite Mousketeer Annette Funicello Dies
…auditions. After two callbacks, she earned a permanent position in The Mickey Mouse Club, where she performed in the opening and closing numbers. After her stint in the club that… |
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Disturbing Disney cartoons
Screen Crush has an interesting look back at “10 Disturbing Classic Disney Cartoons”. From World War II propaganda films, to educational shorts about menstruation, to Mickey Mouse doing blackface —… |
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New Toy Story Toon revealed: Mythic Rock
…Studios’ Frozen is rumored to have the Mickey Mouse short Get a Horse in November. Unless Disney changes its usual game plan and attaches the short to a more teen/adult-centered… |
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Oz, The Great And Powerful (regular and 3D editions)
…initial eleven books as a result, attempting to turn The Mickey Mouse Club Mouseketeers into movie stars in the eventually aborted The Rainbow Road To Oz, a film that would… |
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Catch up on Disney reading
…My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms, Tinker Bell: An Evolution by Mindy Johnson, and from Fantagraphics Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Color Sundays by Floyd Gottfredson, David Gerstein and Gary Groth…. |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…or even a fondness enjoyed by other such secondary pictures as The AristoCats or The Great Mouse Detective, though it’s an extremely enjoyable film. Robin Hood probably enjoys a little… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…Nazis” gags aimed towards the enemy’s invasion attempt, but I guess the Mouse House didn’t want to upset the film’s chances in Germany or step too close to any lines… |
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Animated Views: A Retrospective
…where I came into the story. I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t an animation fan. My first stuffed animal was Mickey Mouse. I was still watching the Disney… |
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Lasseter discusses Disney 90th birthday
…of Mickey Mouse, the impact of Snow White, his own first interaction with Disney as a teenager, leaving Disney for Pixar, the recent Disney revitalization, the chance of a non-princess… |
