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Batman Beyond: The Complete First Season
…a sympathetic villain and a lovely ironic ending. Like Black Out, it involves a clash between Wayne and Powers, and an adversary for Batman that is sponsored by Powers. Dead… |
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Plastic Man: The Complete Collection
…to just before John Byrne and Marv Wolfman reinvented him in 1986, and the various animated series like Spider-Man And His Amazing Friends, The Fantastic Four and little odds and… |
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The Chipmunk Adventure
…Chipettes are there too, and Alvin and Brittany get into a competition typical of their rivalry. They are playing a video game called Around the World in 30 Days, a… |
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Superman: Brainiac Attacks
…and squealing like an idiot…. aaaand then he asks his aide Mercy to make popcorn. Uh-huh. Aaaaand when Superman blows his arctic breath at Brainiac to render him helpless, Lex… |
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Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel
…Smallville. Produced at Ruby-Spears Productions right next door to Hanna-Barbera Studios, and animated in Japan and Korea at Toei Animation and Dai Won Animation, the series benefited by a stellar… |
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Flash Gordon: The Complete Series
…combined with dynamic action and surprising sensuality to create a cartoon unlike anything on television at the time. Naturally, its quality and distinctiveness led to low ratings; and the serialized… |
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Cats Don’t Dance
…other backgrounds that are available, all with characters and scenes from the feature. The backgrounds are good, and the theme pack is not that bad, although it does not include… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Second Season
…monster zit, and more. She is afraid and ashamed of her new appearance, and hides it until being revealed during a battle with Plasmus. Star leaves the Earth and heads… |
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The Invincible Iron Man
…the first scene from Marvel and Liongate’s next animated movie. A Trailer Gallery brings back Happily N’ever After and adds trailers for the Ultimate Alliance video game and The Last… |
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The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition
…course and rediscover the rest of her kind. This is a wonderful story, and I had no true issues with the script. After all, it was adapted from the novel… |
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Batman Beyond: Season Three
…superheroes that includes a young Asian Green Lantern, the offspring of Hawkgirl (Warhawk) and Aquaman (Aquagirl), an Atom-inspired hero called Micron, and Barda of the New Gods. Terry is needed… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…quality, with the best being described by fans as “decent” and the worst as unwatchable. CBS and Hanna Barbera began a Popeye collaboration in 1978-1981 with their The All-New Popeye… |
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Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride
…and animators, everyone— every man, woman, corpse, and skeleton— has been created with a great sense of fun. Also, the tone of the film is actually sweet and sometimes electric,… |
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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…acceptance, they also added DuckTales’ Launchpad McQuack as Darkwing’s sidekick, in addition to the requisite child character for the audience to identify with, Darkwing’s adopted daughter Gosalyn. As for Darkwing… |
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Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series
…& Robin, and Wonder Woman in the spotlight. The Wonder twins, Zan and Jayna, still appear a few times, as do the “ethnic heroes”— El Dorado, Samurai, Black Vulcan, and… |
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Shrek The Weak reviewed, Enchanted leads box office
…as Enchanted brought in 35 million dollars. The hybrid, which contains hand-drawn animation as well as live action, marks a partial return to traditional animation by the Disney studio, and… |
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Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure‘s director and producer take us to a Once-in-a-Blue-Moon experience!
…Blu-ray Disc is available to order now from Amazon.com Our thanks go to Klay Hall and Sean Lurie, and to Kevin McGuiness at Disney, and Dre and Mac at Click!… |
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Pirates Of The Caribbean: At World’s End
…the most adult of the Pirates movies, with hangings, people getting shot in the head and sword deaths aplenty, all apparently within the PG-13 guidelines, but surely pushing an R… |
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Spider-Man 3
…and Indiana Jones trilogies, as having a great first outing, a much more elaborate middle act that went deeper and darker, capped by a third part that goes back to… |
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Turok: Son Of Stone
…the last bastion of animated features in North America. With hand-drawn theatrical animated films mostly abandoned in recent years, and Disney still working towards starting to release traditionally-done features again,… |
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Justice League – The New Frontier: Special Edition
…story that was not even featured on the cover! After all, at that time in DC continuity, the JSA and JLA inhabited different alternate Earths; and nowadays, the JLA is… |
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Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection
…on Wilder, and it’s a predictably scholarly track, though actually very fun and informative, revealing many facts about the production, alternate scenes and the character’s relationships. More, perhaps, of an… |
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George Of The Jungle: The Complete Original Series
…and as such the animation quality was lacking. And, without the sophisticated scripts that Ward’s moose and squirrel had enjoyed, Hoppity remains a somewhat forgotten cartoon. At the same time,… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season
…of previous DC Comics animated shows, Lex Luthor and Lois Lane are voiced by previous cast members of Superman: The Animated Series (Clancy Brown and Dana Delaney); and Superman is… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…they assembled. The scripting is credited to directors Bill and Joe themselves, who also produced with Alex Lovy and wrote with Looney Tunes’ Warren Foster (who, it’s said, brought another… |
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The Art of Princess and the Frog: Down in New Orleans with author Jeff Kurtti
…more broad. As a child, film and animation were actually much more accessible to me and much easier to research, so my earliest Disney studies were Walt and Studio biographical,… |
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Valiant
…had a great idea. Juxtaposition of animals and adventure has long been a staple of animated movies and shorts, so a movie about carrier pigeons during WWII is a natural…. |
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Is Ariel's Beginning worth going back for…?
…morning. It’s never easy when one has to criticise any project, and less so when it it understood that these films are ultimately made with the right intentions and by… |
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Toy Story / Toy Story 2: Special Editions
…And The Beast and Aladdin had made animation cool again, and The Nightmare Before Christmas showed the Studio was also interested in pushing boundaries. Pixar already had an association –… |
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Warner Archive: Ripley’s Believe It Or Not! – The Complete Vitaphone Shorts Collection
…collections as the Warner Bros. Big Band, Jazz And Swing Short Subject Collection already available, as well as again putting out my own aforementioned hopes for the very funny RKO… |