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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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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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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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Fanning cast as Coraline
…the story of “a young girl who discovers an alternate version of her life after walking through a secret door in her new home. On the surface, this parallel reality… |
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\\Cars\\ impresses theater owners and reviewers
…finding a way to offer a message about our over-dependence on cars and fuel. “ IS THIS THE SECRET OF PIXAR’S SUCCESS? I suspect John has become (or always was)… |
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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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Bridge to Terabithia DVD press release
…of the Rings trilogy, breathed life into the creatures of Terabithia and transformed Jess and Leslie’s make-believe world into a picturesque reality. More than 30 years ago, Katherine Paterson was… |
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The Nightmare Before Christmas: 15th Anniversary Collector’s Edition
…facets are interesting, there’s a lack of really good info and none of the ride’s secrets are given away or even highlighted, something that’s also a disappointment with the Off… |
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Details on Coraline video games
…Coraline follows a young girl (Dakota Fanning) who walks through a secret door in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel… |
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Cannes you dig it? Plus Disney ditches the Platinums…
…“the magic and personality of Disney Characters to come to life as never before”, while “Disney Family Play” promises to be “the ultimate interactive Hi-Def experience, offering a variety of… |
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Darkwing Duck: Volume 2
…is, unless you want to do a whole lot of charting. Uptight continuity considerations aside, this set has a number of interesting stories. The Secret Origins Of Darkwing Duck actually… |
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What’s New Scooby-Doo?: Complete 3rd Season
…harder to misdirect the viewer with red herrings. Unlike some of the original shows, which often only had one viable suspect, these episodes do offer a variety of enticing possibilities…. |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…the idea of his being a kind of lackadaisical outsider and her being kind of pampered but high class, you know, from two different sides of the track, that was… |
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Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
…more often, but Jimmy Neutron is consistently inventive. Our hero is basically your average, run of the mill genius kid and the film has a lot of mileage in the… |
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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… |
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The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection
…from bankruptcy a decade earlier. Working back towards the idea of a full-length animated feature, a number of suggestions were brought forward. Many of them (Peter Pan, Alice In Wonderland,… |
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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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Indiana Jones And The Kingdom Of The Crystal Skull: 2-Disc Edition
…says gravely. This seems to be intended as some kind of important event, but the lack of sharing any of Indy’s skull experience from earlier kinds of makes it all… |
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Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five
…of its time in providing a glimpse at the various stages of animation. Sound Design takes another look at an often undervalued aspect of an animated film, its soundtrack. King… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…to turn into a bona fide franchise. Unlike spin-offs for similar, of the era animated hits Aladdin and The Lion King, the commercial ambitions for the further exploits of the… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Zorro – The Complete Second Season
…of romance. One of the few criticisms of the first season had been Don Diego’s apparent lack of interest in the opposite sex, preferring to spend his time chasing baddies… |
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An Auteur is Born – 30 Years Of Miyazaki’s Castle Of Cagliostro
…a heart of gold who often fights for just causes on the wrong side of the law, are credited with the development of the “Gentleman Thief” archetype in genre books,… |
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12 Days of Cartoon Network’s Holiday Programming
…the magic of Christmas can warm the heart. Join penguin princesses Crystal and Lucinda on the adventure of a lifetime in this animated feature. When a sleigh bell mysteriously falls… |
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Frankenstein Jr. And The Impossibles: The Complete Series
…trio called into action by their boss “Big D” in order to fight an impressive if unbelievable array of supervillains. The show makes frequent mention of their double life, though… |
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Kachow! The Cars 2: Agents On A Mission Tour
…of 18,000 prizes – including, appropriately, a car. In what gradually became an amusing sight gag, crowds of folks consistently gathered and then disappeared at the sight of a few… |
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Beauty And The Beast: Diamond Edition (3D)
…the Tinker Bell spin-off Secret Of Wings, Disney Movie Rewards, the theme parks, yet another Buddies movie, TreasureBuddies, and the first announcement of a Cinderella: Diamond Edition, whose digital restoration… |
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Blade Anime
…itself wonderfully to a certain type of anime, with its elements of gory horror and the lack of spandex. In fact, the choice of adding Blade to the project was… |
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The Tigger Movie: Bounce-a-rrrific Special Edition
…With the purchase of Pixar, the subsequent instatement of John Lasseter to the head of Disney Animation and a desire to bring back the magic of the past, Lasseter quickly… |
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Pocahontas: 2-Movie Collection
…split the missing extras across both those discs (neither of the FastPlay enabled enclosed DVDs, one for each feature, offer anything of worth except for The Music Of Pocahontas and… |
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The AristoCats: Special Edition
…action when the need arises. The rest of the cast, too, essentially continue the Jungle Book trend of playing caricatured versions of their established personalities, the most notable of which… |
