…produced to secure financing for the 1984 movie version, although this is disputed in other accounts I have read. Regardless, the story in the film version differs significantly from the…

…would actually see two Fantastic Four projects. There was a low-budget theatrical movie, available now only in bootleg copies, and also the cartoon show. While the live-action movie is notorious…

…a behind-the-scenes look at the movie. Imaginary Heroes (3:30) looks at character design, emphasizing the cartoony look that was chosen. Beginner’s Luck discusses casting the movie. The Best Of Friends…

…smaller. The aid of Gopher is enlisted, but to no avail— Wait a minute… Gopher? Where’d he come from? Well, as is repeated a couple of times in the movie,…

…the Best Of Bravestarr set, as it has the introductory movie that was not a part of the series proper. The show’s opening probably does tell you all you need…

…again, that it never even existed. The early adopters of shiny-movie-on-a-disc fanatics waited, and waited, for the possible news that it might come to LaserDisc as part of Disney’s restored…

…changes in theatrical release, the resulting movie finally reaches the shiny disc video format in its original incarnation of The Great Mouse Detective on the sleeve, but as The Adventures…

…Kenneth Grahame’s novel The Wind In the Willows, the movie brings us into the magical and inspirational world of a library full of books. On the shelves, we see many…

…over the odds would have been a great incentive to the movie going public in picking Dumbo as a movie to go and see. As ever, Walt was right: Dumbo…

…too much for him and he becomes a cartoon himself, integrated into clips from the movie. I love it when animated videos are created especially for animated movie tunes, and…

…the set does at least arrive in Mickey’s 75th year, and so far, it has to be said, is the high point of the celebrations (the fun DTV movie The…

Children’s Television Workshop/Bill Melendez Prods (April 1 1979), Alpha Omega/Sesame Workshop (August 16 2004), single disc, 95 mins, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $24.95…

…are impressive, and easily up there with the robust sound of big movie soundtracks. Well, that’s the mood, sound and tone – how’s the darn thing LOOK? Well, though it…

…in all other terms, a masterfully told story and an excellently produced movie. That the main characters, being animals, are fully rounded is another example of how personality animation had…

…Dante’s Looney Tunes movie, Back In Action. Co-directing here with Mike Gabriel (The Rescuers Down Under, Lorenzo), there is little of the lively energy in the animation that usually personifies…

…and on signs during shooting, the now-Sony owned studio had no other choice than to license the Ghost Busters name for their movie. All of this, according to who you…

…of these two series have usually been known to many in name only and remain the pleasures of private collectors able to afford movie prints and the means to screen…

…time to submit his movie. There’s some lovely stuff here, such as nods to Donald Duck’s explaining of how cartoons “work” and a surreal “pencil test” gag that gets me…