…a sole, bold departure from the family friendly Disney-dominated world of American animated features. It’s certainly its own animal, and is a good example of the old-style Saturday morning cartoon…

…the age-old (and, boy, are those gags old) fart barrier with a moment of regurgitation and – I kid you not – at one point actually has one character defecating…

…are clearly labelled as such… With that sneaky manoeuvre gripe out of the way, I must say that for someone who is probably at least three decades older than the…

…the duration, things simply run out of steam, resorting to the same old “I am your father / no, I am your father / no, I created you!” finger pointing…

…the vaults and, perhaps because of their old-fashioned animation style, never aired on television again; most new fans know only the more recent Bruce Timm-supervised Animated Series updates for Batman,…

…is dangerously close to falling back to his old tricks, where he could end up being too familiar and the “same old Robin Williams” again, such as his “trying too…

…the rarities and real gold (though unluckily for me, it turned out that I’d seen all but two of the titles assembled here). Pluto was always great support, even becoming…

…2004, the then struggling and more than slightly soulless Disney Company sold themselves to the CGI Devil and put out a tremendously awful conversion of Walt’s classic characters to the…

…WALL•E himself, a whole host of cute robot characters from the history of cinema: yes there’s a bit of everything in here, the Johnny Fives, the Old Bobs, even some…

…television classics, a mixture of holdovers from the 1960s, the return of old friends, new creations and more feature-length specials – usually Christmas outings – and it would close to…

…sensibilities. Broken Down Film (1985, 5:42) – This one begins as a cute riff on old-style cartoons, with the appearance of an old black and white cowboy animation. Similar to…

…transports me back to my childhood. While the cartoons were already in reruns for several decades when I was a kid, they never felt old to me. The humor on…

…card that arrives for Rabbit from and old friend named Kessie (she would later become a regular in The Book of Pooh series). Rabbit then settles down to tell the…

…of an effect on me, unless it was Disney’s Wuzzles, or Duck Tales. I had been a little too old for the toy boom early in the decade, many of…

…extra copies being sold on curiosity value. Kenny, of course, went on to reprise the character for Batman: The Brave And The Bold, and perhaps the wider exposure of this…

…too distracting. The overall look of the older episodes is already grainier due to the animation style and the age. I prefer the older animation in terms of style mostly…

…of the word “Laputa”). The film takes place on an alternate Earth, in a steampunk setting that features old-time engineering mixed with fantastic flying machines; the world and its machines…

…also the old four-minute Behind The Microphone featurette (4:53) on the English language cast that is, well, fine. It is neat to see such a young Kirsten Dunst, who I…