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Our Enchanted celebrations continue!
Welcome to a very special week here at Animated News & Views! We’re celebrating the DVD and Blu-Ray release of Disney’s wonderfully charming Enchanted here with a series of exclusive… |
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I Want A Dog For Christmas, Charlie Brown
…a production of Lee Mendelson and Bill Melendez (with a co-director credit for Larry Leichliter). Like many Peanuts specials, this one has a main story, along with a succession of… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Platinum Edition
…London Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita are a happy couple, living in Regent’s Park with their human “pets” Anita and Roger Radcliff. When Anita’s old schoolmate Cruella de Vil learns that… |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…as this. While the script punches in all the required elements, and there are some good vocal performances, the animation is painfully amateur at times, trying its best to hide… |
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A Bug’s Life: Collector’s Edition
…cover has a metallic sheen and features Princess Atta, Flik, Heimlich, Francis, and Dot peeking out over a leaf. The back comes with a list of bonus features and a… |
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Recommended books; Potter beats Bond; plus that Tron sequel!
…with the classic Animal Farm and even pioneered computer animated films before Disney or LucasFilm’s pre-Pixar unit. Vivien Halas and Paul Wells’ book is filled with an absolute wealth of… |
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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…including dramatic live-action, musicals, animation (including, of course, Zemeckis’ Roger Rabbit pal Richard Williams’ version and Disney’s own Mickey-take) and even an all-around applauded Muppets movie. Now rubber face Carrey… |
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Invader Zim: House Box Complete Set
…interesting. The group of people talking is obviously very close and they all care a great deal about the show. They are lively, and humorous, and at times self-deprecating. They… |
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Disney On Ice: The Incredibles Magic Kingdom Adventure
…theme parks most loved attractions. Breathtaking choreography along with an exciting score that has a variety of songs and styles captures the hearts of the young and old alike. While… |
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Journey Back To Oz: Special Edition
…idea among themselves. Characters and shows were often adaptations of comic book series, other animated properties, collaborations with toy companies, or misguided “sequels” to popular family movies. And so it… |
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Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies
…a good job as the reference model for Tinker Bell, and I am a dancer and an actress and a mime. And I was doing voiceovers; I had been on… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…got bored and just sat outside while I kept doing it. I waited around and asked animators about where to go, and I immediately ran to the bookstore to find… |
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DreamWorks/Aardman deal is flushed away
…joint-development projects, or does Aardman have carte blanche to deliver them elsewhere? And what about Cleese’s professional ties with DreamWorks and their Shrek franchise? As with any relationship breakup, there… |
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Mark Smith talks Art of Flash
…in with the family. I enrolled at AUM and convinced the Dean at the Art Department that I could take the Video Animation class without the prerequisite. AV: When and… |
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The pirate movie that's no crime…
…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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Spidey's tangled web…
…would be remembered, as with the original Star Wars and Indiana Jones trilogies, as having a great first outing, a much more elaborate middle act that went deeper and darker,… |
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Dream On, Silly Dreamer
…talented artists were able to craft the “Fab Four” masterpieces – The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, and The Lion King. As each successive film gained more and… |
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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
…summers as a kid with my mother’s parents and my cousins, aunts and uncles and storytellers. AV: Was there ever any consideration given to producing it as a stop-motion short,… |
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Happy Feet: Widescreen Edition
…or edited very well. As animated films become nothing more than feature-length special effects, it seems we’re entering a new era where live-action directors can enter the animation arena and… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
After lunching with animators Andreas Deja and Eric Goldberg and talking with them about their experiences and projects over the years at the Walt Disney Studios, Animated News & Views’… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…model sheets for Aida and Don Quixote? BB: Aida was a design assignment in one of my character design classes. The Don Quixote designs were done at a summer program… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…Groovie Goolies warrants some special attention, with a terrific array of features that are as surprising as they are welcome and unexpected. The menus are decent, video intro and still-frame… |
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Oscar, Oscar!
…dress she certainly needed support!) in DreamGirls, and Best Actor and Actress Forest Whitaker for The Last King Of Scotland and Helen Mirren for The Queen respectively – all dead… |
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Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!
…interviews with the producer, stars, and visual effects artists • Commentary tracks for season one episodes Attack of the Dragonship and The Disappearing Man with executive producer Lou Scheimer, and… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Five: Animation with James Baxter and Thomas Schelesny
…to be animated Andreas was back at Disney again! So I ended up doing that. I also did all of the Prince myself and Andreas jumped in and did a… |
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Chomet/Tati’s The Illusionist reviewed
Calling the film “a specialized but beautiful piece of animation by Sylvain Chomet drawn from an unproduced Jacques Tati script”, The Hollywood Reporter reviews The Illusionist, a “collaboration beyond the… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One
…sometimes amateurish, the animation is unimpressively jumpy, and the English script is woefully hokey. And, in direct comparison to Astro Boy, Gigantor comes off as relatively shallow and soulless. While… |
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Charlie Kaufman polishing Kung Fu Panda sequel
Charlie Kaufman, the Academy award winning writer behind films such as Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation and Being John Malkovich has just put in less than two weeks… |
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Bravestarr comes to two-disc DVD from BCI
…and family characters and brands. This includes certain rights to global brands such as Mattel’s Barbieâ„¢, Scholastic’s Cliffordâ„¢ and Hasbro’s Transformersâ„¢. ER’s wholly owned subsidiary Tell-Tale Productions, created and produced… |
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Arthur and the Invisibles opens wide today
…of 25%) “wastes its big-name voice talent on a predictable script and substandard CG animation”. Reviewers for Newsday and the Los Angeles Times are more blunt, saying “Arthur and the… |
