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The Grinch
…role of Cindy Lou Who and family. Here the tot is the daughter to an overworked single mother and goes all Home Alone in an attempt to see Santa Claus… |
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Disney's Outrageous Fortunes
…recent woes. The series {{link http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/outrageous_fortunes/disney.shtml Outrageous Fortunes}} “goes in search of the real stories behind the success of the biggest brands in the world and the families that control… |
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Iron Man: The Complete 1994 Animated Television Series
…buggy, Mandarin nearly executes his henchman Blizzard for killing his begonias, and we are introduced to some purely awful CGI. This CGI sequence was used repeatedly in the first season… |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
…feat since the first movie did it so stealthily while here there are no secrets. Just goes to prove that like there’s no one right way to play with Legos,… |
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Finding Dory
…nuance and a story that resonated beyond the then-usual Pixar antics of talking toys, bugs and monsters. Such an achievement was rewarded, deservedly so, with a massive box-office bounty and… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…the type of story we’re used to from Pixar. My second spot goes to my favorite of the 14 animated films I saw this year, The Lego Batman Movie. I… |
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Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland: How illustrator Dawn Brown decorated the Red Queen’s Castle
…if it’s approved, it goes to the set designer for blueprints and then it goes to the shop to be built. AV: Some of your furniture integrate animals. Can you… |
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Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home
…it tends to be simply conceived video tricks… flashing squares, and some mildly interesting split-screen stuff. A montage that goes on while Schroeder plays a solo is at least ambitious… |
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Ponyo
…this film has several sequences like that. Miyazaki goes to great pains to make this a living world, on both land and in the sea, and his efforts pay off… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…on when Mei goes missing while trying to walk all the way to the hospital to find her mother. Mei’s disappearance follows the receipt of a disturbing telegram, which gives… |
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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…first time viewer and long-time Superman movie fan, it can play like seeing an all-new Christopher Reeve movie: out goes the Paris opening and in comes a fun follow-up to… |
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The Fox And The Hound: 30th Anniversary 2-Movie Edition
…substantial goes, as we know where the characters must end up in order to revert to the original’s plot. Taken for what it is, I suppose there’s a little bit… |
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Bambi II: Special Edition
…supplements on the disc, he even goes so far as to suggest that this one-time animator on such characters as Jafar, Scar, Hercules and Lilo, had even found himself joining… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit
…Looney Bugs Bunny Movie. Back in the 30s and 40s, the Oswald cartoons had continued under the auspices of the Walter Lantz unit at Universal, where he became something of… |
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Danger Man / Secret Agent: The Complete Collection
…equipment, at which point anything goes and he will entertainingly pull something out of the hat to break out of a tight spot or solve the case. This usually is… |
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ParaNorman: an art in the making, with filmmakers Chris Butler and Sam Fell
…crazy Mr. Prenderghast, the doomed Mr. Prenderghast, the spooky ghost Mr. Prenderghast… He just gave funny different versions of Mr. Prenderghast. Besides, in ParaNorman, we were looking for a naturalism…. |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…Jones specials featuring Bugs and the gang, a long series of patched together television specials and a bunch of compilation feature films, and by the late 1980s were still trying… |
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The Lost World (1925 and 1960 versions)
…certain young Mr Harryhausen assisted O’Brien, and another groundbreaking and hugely influential career was born. The Lost World, with a dino loose in London climax pre-dating Kong’s own big city… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…be said that Woody isn’t the most rounded or likeable of characters. He’s a one-note gag without the nuances of a Daffy Duck, the mischievousness of Bugs Bunny, or the… |
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101 Dalmatians / 102 Dalmatians (live-action)
…Mr Magoo, Mighty Joe Young, My Favorite Martian, Inspector Gadget, George Of The Jungle – it was bad enough that the Mouse House were supporting these poorly conceived movies based… |
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The Rescuers / The Rescuers Down Under: 35th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…vastly different production techniques of analog vs. digital, still retain a celluloid common bond that goes a long way to providing a core similarity between the two. In terms of… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…children’s television landmark, featuring rare behind-the-scenes footage that should leave longtime fans in awe. Never has Mr. Hooper’s death hit harder, nor has “Letter B” ever felt more haunting and… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Complete Sixth Season
…relocates to New York City, The Monarch gets a sketchy new job, and Dr. Mrs. The Monarch takes over the Council Of Thirteen. And, predictably, none of it goes well…. |
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2021 Quick Review Recaps
…the characters all singing a pop song and dancing as the film goes to the end credits? What if the entire movie was the characters all singing a pop song… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…them? BG: Some of these connections had been found by Mr Allan, some others by me, and I’ve asked cinema historians. So this is a mix of all these people,… |
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Looney Tunes’ Mouse Chronicles
…Freleng saw the two battle it out for “ownership” of the characters’ roots, with Freleng perhaps clawing back a lion’s share of the credit in The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…Track version, a no-less than 37 minute exploration of the ride that perhaps goes over the top in depth. Despite the many titled segments within the program, there is an… |
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Cinderella II: Dreams Come True: Special Edition
…expectations, I just don’t like having a “one” and a “three” and not having the “two” that goes with them in the middle. So when Disney announced a new, ultimately… |
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Cinderella: Diamond Edition
…in with some interstitial material, while The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad was a straight feature simply told in two halves. Walt knew he couldn’t keep coasting along on… |
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Star Wars – Rebels: Complete Season Two
…also goes after babies strong in the force, and the Imperial Agent Kallus generally spends his time pursuing the rebels with zeal. Even Kallus is shown to be human, though,… |
