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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…and one that is able to back itself up with strong storytelling and technical talent; a hit movie that did lots to put animation back on the map in moviegoers… |
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The Best Of 2014: Son Of 2013!
…top three… 1. The Lego Movie I’m not sure I’ve ever been more pleasantly surprised by a movie than I was after seeing The Lego Movie. Sure, I expected it… |
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Pinocchio: Walt Disney Signature Collection
…gone, with only a Movie Rewards code (good also for a Digital HD download) and Movie Club inserts to keep the discs, including a DVD copy, company. Elegant and classy,… |
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Ariel’s Song: Jeanine Tesori and James Dooley, two fortunate composers under the sea!
…the original Mermaid movie, like Fathoms Below. We were going for that original pirate feel. And the typical swashbuckling thing was around way before. AV: The original movie was more… |
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Bedtime Stories
…animation comped into your standard animal espionage agents story, Monsters Inc, the Disney Blu promo, Movie Rewards and, from their own menu option, Hannah Montana: The Movie, Roy Disney’s sailing… |
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The Fox And The Hound 2
…a decent little movie, but it never has reached the status of “animated classic”, despite what Disney’s hype machine might have one believe. It has a good story and some… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
…the movie’s theme of cars that resulted in a majority of the press being from racing and local news outlets and, thus, uninterested in the movie itself. Whatever the reason… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…you will) music, even when not for a movie. But every time a song kicked in, it completely jolted me out of the movie – “oh yeah, Bryan Adams is… |
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Flushed Away
…Aardman and their partners at DreamWorks, since the movie is another winner from the stop-motion masters and better than the recent influx of computer animated fare from both DreamWorks and… |
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300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition
…actors – real humans and not mannequin counterparts, which is what really does the movie its justice. Even where such elements as the not completely successful Wolf don’t quite break… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…but they do, in a way, hark back to simpler, classic storytelling, without the big budgets and advertising campaigns that can sink a movie before it opens. On video, titles… |
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Arthur And The Invisibles
…the thing was called. The odd styling and completely hopeless story seemed to have been built around some admittedly wonderful background designs, but the movie was a mess, as any… |
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My Friends Tigger And Pooh: Super Sleuth Christmas Movie
…at the time, and though things looked a little better when Pooh returned to the big screen in a slew of recent direct-to-video writ large outings, only The Tigger Movie… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…head honcho Jeffrey Katzenberg quickly announced after their movie shifted some $60 million worth of theater tickets during opening weekend. To have them wind up making Panda after Panda would… |
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Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!
…is a pastiche of the war movies (Apocalypse Now, Platoon, etc) it spoofs, even going as far as to present a bunch of fake commercials and movie trailers that precede… |
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Tinker Bell And The Lost Treasure
…to see a straight, adult male trash the latest Disney direct-to-video offering for little girls, you’ve come to the wrong place. This movie is seriously good. Last year’s Tinker Bell… |
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Armageddon
…Sensuality and Brief Language), $29.99 The Movie: Like the concurrently released Tombstone, just as rival movies came along depicting do-gooding outlaws (Robin Hood, Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves), computer animated… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…the Studio to produce high-profile digital or 3D movies – the most obvious example being Robert Zemeckis, who strangely never got the Burton-level contractual credit on A Christmas Carol. In… |
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All*Star Superman
…There are still ample amounts of greatness, though, in the movie. Hopefully, the movie will encourage more people to pick up the collected editions of the comic, because there is… |
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Superman flies to deluxe Blu-ray set
…Movie – Original Theatrical, Superman: The Movie – Expanded Edition, Superman II – Original Theatrical, Superman II – The Richard Donner Cut, Superman III – Original Theatrical, Superman IV –… |
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Winnie The Pooh’s Directors Stephen Anderson and Don Hall: Back to the Hundred Acre Wood
…Movie (2000), Piglet’s Big Movie (2003), and Pooh’s Heffalump Movie (2005). Concurrently, Disney Channel continued to make Pooh a vital part of their Playhouse Disney lineup. The Book of Pooh… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…than extra length to the movie, although a five minute Martian Monorail scene might have added some much-needed excitement. On the DVD, the movie is presented without any additional commentary… |
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Superman Vs. The Elite
…What’s So Funny About Truth, Justice, And The American Way?, serves as the basis for the new movie Superman Vs. The Elite, from DC Comics and Warner Bros. A prelude… |
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Secret Of The Wings
…Wings is an engaging, beautifully designed movie that provides as good a story as the first Tinker Bell movie, and certainly is better than the last one (the second remains… |
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The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
…the end of the movie. Maybe because we were all expecting something else (but more likely because it’s the norm in so many episodes these days), the movie felt like… |
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Cinderella
…film with 101 Dalmatians. True, they had technically done a live-action version of The Jungle Book two years prior, but that movie sold itself as an adaptation of the original… |
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Shaun the Sheep Movie 2 officially announced by Aardman
…Shaun the Sheep Movie 2 Directed by Richard Starzak (Shaun the Sheep Movie, Creature Comforts) and Produced by Paul Kewley (Shaun the Sheep Movie, The Farmer’s Llamas). Pre-production will commence… |
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Trolls: Party Edition
…are. But then something rather unexpected happened: Trolls was a hit not just with critics, but with audiences as well, becoming one of DreamWorks Animation’s most successful movies in years…. |
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Moana: Ultimate Collectors Edition
…principled Travis Knight turn his kudos into a directorial gig for…a Transformers movie!? I had to check it was March 1st and not April when that news was announced and… |
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Timon and Pumbaa Are Dead: The Animated News Lion King 1½ Review
…to by the movie’s creators. In fact, producer Don Hahn referred to the movie in its production phase as a sort of “Moses and Joseph meet Hamlet and Elton John… |
