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BCI brings Iron King to DVD
…is also a secret member of the JSSDF. Goro, whose secret mission is to assist in Gentaro’s efforts, has another incredible secret: He has a computer mechanism implanted in his… |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…the back of the box, which lists all the details and specs, and can easily be folded and kept inside the packaging. Most classy of all is a mini-reprint of… |
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The Pirate Fairy
…sort of pixie dust fertilizer, she asks him why they can’t have pixie dust of other colors. Fairy Gary does not like this line of questioning, and advises her to… |
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Stronger Than Spinach
…Syndicate television cartoons of the 1960s, including short synopses of nine of those cartoons. Appendix B sees Bierly talking about random things in pop culture that remind him of his… |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…them before, since of after. Before Superman, cartoon animation had been of the cutesy Disney variety, the slightly surreal Fleischer output of Betty Boop and Popeye, or the lunacy of… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…a bit of a hodge-podge of sources: there’s President of Disney Theatrical Productions Thomas Schumacher, who intros us to the Mary and Bert stars of the production at famed theatrical… |
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Home On The Range
…shine on their particular brand of animation ever again… Overall, the score offers an interesting cross of styles, being a combination of character-led songs and the overlaid tracks we’ve come… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: 25th Anniversary Edition
…“making of” featurettes that zip by quickly, they do offer a very interesting insight into the filming process from a basic, and therefore plain-to-see, point of view of what –… |
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Toy Story 3
…before, at the end of the second film, which very cleverly spoofed the western movie shots of John Ford and the like, and many of the same are basically repeated… |
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The Care Bears Movie
…as a face (reminiscent of the mirror in Snow White) coming out of a spell book. However, there are some spirits that come out of the potions that Nicholas makes… |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume Three
The final volume of the Hanna-Barbera spoof delivers lots of yucks for adult viewers who can handle the desecrating of old favorites…. |
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Dexter’s Laboratory gets a comic book series
…destroyed by his older sister Dee Dee with whom Dexter had a love-hate relationship. Cartoon Network is breathing new life into some of its popular, older properties via comic books,… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 3
…a line of greeting cards, while Pound Puppies (1985) was a toy tie-in. Another toy tie-in was Challenge Of The Gobots (1984). Pac Man (1982), of course, was a video… |
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The Smurfs 2
…Smurfette is smurfnapped by one of Gargamel’s Naughties, for the purpose of learning Papa Smurf’s secret of turning a Naughty into a Smurf. Papa Smurf directs a small group of… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Complete Sixth Season
…And, most important of all, The Monarch makes a startling discovery… … which leads us to Faking Miracles, where The Monarch comes to terms with his dad’s past secret life… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One
…New Frontier. There are then two featurettes, the first of which is One-Dimensional Goodness: The Super Friends And The Good Old Days (14:34), which offers a fair assessment of the… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season
…Titans, who apparently have no secret identities, just superhero ones. In Homecoming, Part 2, The Titans get a history lesson from Mento, who describes the members of The Brotherhood Of… |
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Transformers: 2-Disc Special Edition
…a one-off; the start of an intended franchise yes, without question, but still the hope of many to bring a freshness to the overly familiar slate of re-runs. So why… |
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Aladdin: Platinum Edition
…two direct-to-video sequels (the first of their kind for Disney), The Return of Jafar (1994) and Aladdin and the King of Thieves (1996). The Return of Jafar sold seven million… |
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Annie nominations for 2011 films announced
…Image Sunday — National Film Board of Canada The Ballad of Nessie -Walt Disney Animation Studios The Girl and the Fox — Base14 Wild Life — National Film Board of… |
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The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe Sweepstakes
…Resort near Orlando, Fla. “We are giving our subscribers a chance to enjoy the magic of Disney with the world television premiere of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…of course itself remade as a couple of vehicles for Eddie Murphy, but that pair of films threw out the charm of Lewis’ freewheeling effort and resorted to just running… |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Vista Series Special Edition
…“too difficult”! The Studio takeover of 1984 put the film on hold for another couple of years until it resurfaced under the guidance of new Mouse chiefs Michael Eisner and… |
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Rockin’ With Judy Jetson
…issue is skin tones, where the lack of color timing results in a smorgasbord of off-whites, yellows, and oranges. Also, expect to see a fair number of dirt, smudges and… |
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The Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning
…that not set off excitable feelings of wanting to explore that new world? There’s none of that; nothing to suggest the kind of character Ariel will grow up to be…. |
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Ratatouille
…two instances of repeated gags: the “smell” of food, distinctively visualised in a swirl of warm, enticing imagery, and a terrific comedy line involving one character being another’s figment of… |
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Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection
…animated translation of the storyteller’s work to retain one of his less than traditionally happy endings. Interestingly, despite the apparent downbeat nature of each of the films so far, there… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…Little Wonders (3:50), which explores the themes of the film in an odd 2.35:1 letterboxed 4×3 that crops off the movie’s imagery, and Kids Of The Future (3:20), performed by… |
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Exclusive! Another Conversation With Eric Goldberg
…first of all on the enthusiasm of the crew for a project and, second of all, just on a clear idea of knowing what they’re supposed to do. Curious George… |
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Studio Idefix #1 – Asterix The Gaul and Asterix And Cleopatra
…many wonderful shorts, with high quality animation that could easily have been part of Disney’s Golden Age of Silly Symphonies. The coming of World War II affected many areas of… |
