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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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Robotech 2-Movie Collection
…biggest fans, but others will likely not find much of interest here. Better (and shorter) is the featurette Birth Of A Sequel: The Making Of The Shadow Chronicles (44:43), which… |
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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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Toy Story That Time Forgot
…given a big screen upgrade. The first two of the three genuinely brought back the magic of the series, while a third perhaps exposed the limitations of the format. Given… |
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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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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… |
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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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\\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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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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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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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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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
…the same period, the Studio’s telling of the ancient Chinese legend of Fa Mulan easily holds up as one of their more “classic” animated features from its late-1990s offerings. First… |
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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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Mia And The Migoo
…the title will figure into things. Hints of them are given for a while, but eventually they show themselves to Mia. The Migoo are guardians of the Tree of Life,… |
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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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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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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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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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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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Captain Underpants on DreamWorks slate
…bring their favorite comic book character, Captain Underpants, to life through a hypnosis accident involving their megalomaniacal principal Mr. Krupp (Ed Helms), their elementary school life becomes anything but elementary”…. |
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The Best Of 2023: Back To Normal-ish?
…what pop culture had to offer us! In terms of “real life”, it kind of felt like we were sort of, dare we even say it, returning to something resembling… |
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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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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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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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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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The Wind Rises
…Rises, Miyazaki tries to deal with his love of airplanes, while conceding that the institution of war was what led to the development of some of his most admired planes…. |
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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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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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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… |
