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Shrek 2
…broke Disney’s stronghold on feature animation only validated Jeffrey Katzenberg’s jump from the Mouse House to form his own company with Steven Spielberg, and, after a couple of lacklustre jump… |
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Cars
…chef! Also on the disc, and all in anamorphic widescreen, are the teasers for Disney’s Meet The Robinsons – looking like the most refreshing feature from the Mouse House in… |
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Disney tins, rumors, and the Shrek 3 trailer…what’s up with that?
…Dead Man’s Chest, it’s really been a turnaround year for the Mouse House in terms of company profile and bountiful booty for hard-core collectors and fans, so we wish them… |
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Romeo & Juliet: Sealed With A Kiss
…others try to ape Disney, or indeed the norm to attempt when ex-Mouse House animators head off into their own pastures. The film, perhaps surprisingly, stays faithful to Shakespeare’s text… |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: Movie Film For Theaters
…conquering” character is too reminiscent of a certain genuinely LaMarsh-voiced mouse. Yet Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theaters isn’t remotely close to the warped, but never dull,… |
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Superman returns; Cinders III on DVD
…posted another couple of archival pieces, for the original release of Broken Saints, and the complete seasons one and two of Danger Mouse. Ahh, that brings back memories! – Ben…. |
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Peter Pan's color catastrophe; and cropped Disney features
…now be the new version that gets “preserved” for hi-def and future screenings. The Mouse House used to be the best at preserving their legacy. Now they’re just screwing about… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…names (another was Butch) throughout the Avery and Hanna-Barbera cartoons and seemed to be shared by both units. While often he would act as a protector for Jerry Mouse in… |
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Hi-def, Blu-Ray, and all that Jazz…
…for their own movies while being able to leave it to babysit the kids with the latest from the Mouse House. Although animation hasn’t had the strongest showing on either… |
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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,… |
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DreamWorks goes HD-DVD!? Plus a More Symphonies fix!
…neutral in the first place. The development means that only Warner Home Video is releasing films on both formats, while giving DreamWorks’ rivalry with Disney a new angle: the Mouse… |
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Weekend Update: Tom & Jerry's Tales, plus Casper winners!
…& Jerry Tales series. Our “guest reviewer” Roberta E Norman sat down with our favorite cat and mouse for some updated animated antics courtesy of Volume 1, from the tail… |
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Kermit, Piggy, Woody, Oswald…and Jerry Beck too!
…way in his full review of The Muppet Show: Season Two, newly released from Disney. Apart from some cuts in the first boxed set, the Mouse has been treating Kermit… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…the clumsily titled The Princess And The Frog, let me take you back to the mid 1960s, when audiences had a similar wait between feature cartoons from the Mouse Factory…. |
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Not even a B- for Bee Movie!?
…than the original Stuart Little book, where Geena Davis’ mother character was implied to have actually given natural birth to the Little mouse! Back soon with more reviews! – Ben…. |
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Pixar Short Films Collection: Volume 1
…since the future of Pixar is secure under their new home at the Mouse Factory and any idea that we won’t be seeing any more from the Pixar Shorts unit… |
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Ratatouille
…fender, Pixar’s latest was apparently a hard sell for Disney’s marketing team, not least because the film was in production before the Mouse bought the Lamp late last year. Think… |
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“Life is like a hurricane…”: DuckTales; plus Sonic and Snow White at 70!
…that was a big hit for the Mouse’s fledgling television animation arm back in the mid-80s. As such, does the Disney of today merit the release with any decent extras?… |
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The Best Of 2007: The Year In Review
…from a featurette exploration of what it took to get the Lucky Rabbit back, the topper is Leslie Iwerks’ exceptional The Hand Behind The Mouse feature documentary, saved from the… |
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Ho-ho-ho! Season's Greetings, an' all that jazz!
…show, at times reaching towards the heights of DuckTales“. Praise indeed, though the Mouse House’s usual zilch approach to extras for their TV outings carries over here, so there’s nothing… |
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Looney Tunes meets Gargoyles…what's up, doc!?
…episode here and there, but it certainly has a unique tone and style for something from the Mouse House. Maybe a bump in sales might prod the studio to release… |
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WALL•E wins over the critics; Brit legend Oliver Postgate RIP…
…with the low budgets, writing Alexander The Mouse as a 26 episode live-to-air program! The Journey Of Master Ho was next, shot on film in pantomimed stop-motion to reduce costs… |
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Return To The Sea (again), plus Dr Horrible and another Nutty Professor…
…of the animation and live-action Gene Kelly sequence from Anchors Aweigh, with baby Stewie replacing Jerry the mouse in the celebrated song and dance [right], is surely a series highlight…. |
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More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!
…animated silent cinema (with an additional Felix DVD review here)! • Despereaux: Olivier Adam Discusses A European Tail! – we talk creating a mouse world with The Tale Of Despereaux’… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…the short had until the 1980s when Winnie The Pooh And A Day For Eeyore was animated out of mouse-house. Walt hadn’t been too excited at having to bow to… |
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
…at their PCs. This is the first such track I’ve actually covered for review, but I’ve seen similar on the Disney BDs and have to say the Mouse has the… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…Dance, but otherwise their feature work had been restricted to cat and mouse cameos in Anchors Aweigh (with Kelly again) and the Esther Williams vehicle Dangerous When Wet. Hanna-Barbera had… |
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Disney magic flies again!
…Yep, the 1970s at the House Of Mouse was not the most innovative of times: Walt had just passed on and the Studio was stuck with the troublesome task of… |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: With a Smile and a Song!
…Little Pigs (1933), Lullaby Land, The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934) and The Flying Mouse (1935). Along with lyricist Larry Morey, he wrote no less than 25 songs, among which… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…with your mouse as you try to catapult Pudge onto a moving stage where he can pull down a lever to activate a trap door that will get rid of… |
