…though this movie did disregard some of the continuity of the original show by showing Jonny’s mother. In some ways, it presented a “re-imagined” origin for the characters, but it…

…is filming a monster movie. The movie features a costumed actor playing an Ape Man, but when what seems to be the real Ape Man begins to terrorize the set,…

…brought to the shorts, such as the idea of spoofing popular trends and other films, which was a popular movie concept at the time when the comic Cat Balloo aped…

…their previous TV shows had been successful, they all had featured the types of antics seen on movie screens for decades. A move to prime time needed a fresh idea…

…is rather plain— nice, but plain. I would have suggested that the image of each scene appear on a movie screen, in an old-style movie theater. Oh, well. Maybe they…

…region from which the folktale originated. The result is a movie with a Victorian outlook and an eastern European visual— sort of like an old horror movie, now that I…

…movie series was spawned, whose success in turn led to spin-off television series, the first of which also got its own movies. Along the way, there were also countless magazines,…

…movie, it makes an even bigger difference. The animation was actually farmed out to Topcraft in Japan, a studio that has brought along many talented artists, but the low budget…

…“Kermit”) to the Henson company. It was also the year that Jim Henson (with daughter Cheryl) wrote the story for The Dark Crystal, and of course The Muppet Movie began…

…it was a popular cartoon when it opened opposite the Frank Capra movie, Flight in September of 1929. Some of the most notable cartoons from this first phase include Springtime,…

…using the hieroglyphic paintings of the palace walls, is one memorable highlight. The only disappointment with the movie was its running time. I thought the mid-section could have possibly been…