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What makes an animated show a hit?
…odds of a primetime animation hit, if there were, the networks would be wall to wall in them. Maybe it’s more of a secret formula, one that isn’t really all… |
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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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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume One
…Adventures Of Superman), and H-B rode the wave of popularity these adventure cartoons were having. For each of the 20 episodes of Birdman And The Galaxy Trio, Birdman had two… |
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She-Ra: Princess of Power – Season One, Volume One
…be one of the most popular and memorable cartoons to come out of the 80s. The Secret Of The Sword (the first five episodes of the series) begins with Adam,… |
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Batman Beyond hits DVD
…until his father is mysteriously murdered. Suspecting foul play at his father’s company, Wayne/Powers Corporation, Terry meets Bruce Wayne and learns of a secret identity hidden for decades. Now too… |
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The Playmobil: The Movie trailer has no assembly required
…adventure, a top secret organization has caused citizens from different lands to vanish from thin air. The dashing and charismatic secret agent Rex Dasher (Daniel Radcliffe) must partner with smooth-talking… |
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Playmobil: The Movie tickets will only cost $5 for all showtimes at many theaters
…film’s entire theatrical run. As we noted in our box office report this week, Playmobil: The Movie will be facing off against the third weekend of Disney’s mega-hit Frozen II,… |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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,… |
