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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…something of an occasional Disney regular since Pocahontas, but here he’s been allowed to play broad and loud with his doting father figure, in danger of toppling the movie over:… |
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Up: 3D Edition
…from the 1940s rather than any other modern CG movie. It’s during these opening moments – an expertly crafted mini-movie in itself – that we meet Carl and Ellie as… |
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The Best Of 2012: Apocalypse NOT!
…a Muppet movie made by the fans for the fans. Disney’s Blu-ray wasn’t totally stacked, hence the placing here, but was a solid presentation of a contemporary classic movie. Read… |
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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…of an energy source called Protoculture, and this further drove the conflicts. The two-movie set under review here features two later Robotech movie projects. They each have very different origins,… |
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part
I was a huge fan of the first Lego Movie. It seemed to come out of nowhere with it’s insane humor and surprising heart to win over audiences with what… |
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The Best Of 2021: The More Things Change…
…with our staff’s favorite (and least favorite) picks of film, television, and any other form of media! Plus, of course, your picks for what you thought the best animated movies… |
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The Puppetoon Movie Volume 3
…The Puppetoon Movie, and three years after the release of the similarly positively reviewed The Puppetoon Movie Volume 2 disc, producer Arnold Leibovit is back to present another collection of… |
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Bee Movie trailer, Cannes footage and poster
…Movie is slated for nationwide domestic release November 2, 2007, with international release dates to follow. Bee Movie is a comedy that will change everything you think you know about… |
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Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird – 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition
…I’ve always liked to think that Big Bird was already in his own movie and it was Kermit and Fozzie that were doing the gate crashing! That movie is Follow… |
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Bee Movie
…than the jumbled story and flat jokes we get in Bee Movie. A bee/human relationship is a little too far-fetched. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. Bee Movie follows… |
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Pooh’s Heffalump Halloween Movie (Limited Edition with Plush)
…to Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (also from 2005), we find Lumpy and Roo celebrating their first Halloween together. Pooh’s Heffalump Movie was probably one of the most critically acclaimed of the… |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…movie that features the now-classic rendition of Batman and his allies that was so successful on television in the 1990’s. It also adds the character of Batwoman, a new adversary… |
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Thunderbirds International Rescue Edition Giftset
…are just halfway into the movie. The audience really needed to be given a hint, at this time, about just what the movie was going to be about for the… |
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Justice League – The New Frontier: Special Edition
…consider adapting it into a direct-to-video movie. Though the story’s quality is high, there are many things about it that could be considered non-commercial. First and foremost, it is a… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…I came in. Ironically, it was one of those movies that is just like every CGI movie that’s out there. It was a really charming story about a cat who… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Three: Musical minstrels Alan Menken and Danny Troob!
…the songs kind of evolve chronologically along the movie, from Snow White style to present-day ballad. How’s that? Alan Menken: First of all, I knew that we wanted to have… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…itself up with strong storytelling and technical talent; a hit movie that did lots to put animation back on the map in moviegoers eyes, and played no small part in… |
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Treasure Planet: Special Edition
…to experience a movie and its production, but is by no means recommended to watch before you’ve seen the movie proper, as the constant interruptions break the flow of the… |
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Finding Nemo: 2-Disc Collector’s Edition
…powerful application in their own movies a little “difficult”: on more than one occasion I have been jolted out of a Pixar movie by some fills and textures that just… |
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Open Season: Special Edition
…with Open Season is the over familiarity we’ve come to expect and have ultimately grown tired with in our animated films. Various elements from countless movies we’ve seen before –… |
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The Reef
…the supposedly hungry gaze of a giant shark, was a carbon copy of an cast poster for Pixar’s Finding Nemo, didn’t help things either, and the movie was soon being… |
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Peter Pan: Platinum Edition
…a totally new, two-and-a-half minute look at the first movie in this new Fairies series, though how much is still on show in the completed movie now that it has… |
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The Wild
…brought into play again as part of the movie’s stop-start opening dialogue (a joke that felt old even in Chicken Little, for example). However, once we’re into the movie proper,… |
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Pinocchio: Platinum Edition
…coined term, “difficult second album syndrome”. The critics had been out to get Walt during Snow White’s production, with many of them eating their words when the 1937 movie proved… |
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Superman/Batman: Apocalypse
…line of DC Comics animated movies with trepidation. After all, Superman/Batman: Apocalypse is actually a sequel to Superman/Batman: Public Enemies, a movie that I found pretty weak. Both of these… |
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Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home
…movie just as much. Unfortunately, it is a little too much like the TV specials, in that it too has about twenty minutes of good material; too bad the movie… |
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Cars 2 screenwriter Ben Queen on the race for his “Art Of” book!
From the early pencil sketches and conceptual artwork to the storyboards, color scripts and character designs, the gorgeous Art Of Cars 2 volume celebrates the artistry and imagination behind Lightning… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…the Tinker Bell spin-off Secret Of Wings, Disney Movie Rewards, the theme parks, yet another Buddies movie, TreasureBuddies, and the first announcement of a Cinderella: Diamond Edition, whose digital restoration… |
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ParaNorman
…that were only vaguely familiar with the method and hadn’t yet been exposed to CGI movies (Toy Story was still two years away). Burton’s Nightmare wasn’t a huge hit on… |
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From Snow Queen to Pinocchio II: Robert Reece’s animated adventures in screenwriting
…and get a movie made. If that mentality is not in your nature, the movie business may not be suited for you.” Disney II While Disney’s Feature Animation division tried… |
