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Fred Grandinetti: Talking With Popeye’s No. 1 Fan

…of the character, what would you like to see done with him next? FG: If I were in charge of Popeye, I would stop marketing him as a gambler or…

The New Adventures Of Batman: DC Classics

…Bat-Mite himself is played for laughs, the story otherwise plays straight, as the heroes try to stop The Joker from stealing an experimental car that runs on water. The next…

The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series

…punch the entire series, only using her powers to do such non-threatening things as fly, create wind, or stop time. Sure, she had the speed of a gazelle, but she…

Darkwing Duck: Volume 2

…Darkwing mental powers). DuckTales’ supporting cast member GizmoDuck guest-stars in Up, Up, And Awry, where he comes to St. Canard to stop Megavolt but outshines Darkwing in the process. Planet…

The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One

…backlash against violence being portrayed on television, particularly in children’s programming. While they do address why the show couldn’t portray violence, they do stop short of explaining just why Zan…

George Of The Jungle: The Complete Original Series

…it would be great to go down in history as someone who contributed at least one great thing to his or her particular field. When you stop to consider it,…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940

…the dialog includes mutterings and asides improvised by the actors. Final Cut: Just keep buying these. No, seriously. I’ll let you know when you can stop. If you collect cartoons,…

It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition

…Brown’s All-Stars debuted the following June. It’s hard to believe now, but the slightly more modest success of the second special led CBS to considering stopping the Peanuts specials if…

A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)

…strip which had been cooked up by someone at the newspaper syndicate, but it didn’t stop it from becoming the most popular strip in the world. In fact, Peanuts (slang…

The Man Called Flintstone

…trying to locate a copy, finally being rewarded when I happened to stop by a Wal*Mart in Boca Raton in 1994. I later picked up the laserdisc too, but now…

The Best of He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe

…One can choose to play the episodes individually (with chapter stops) or with the “Play All” feature. I was thrilled that the release included chapter stops (3 per episode), but…

Robin Hood: Most Wanted Edition

…follows him to the church where he attempts to kill Robin when King Richard unexpectedly appears to stop him. I like the ending, and while it might have dragged the…

Tom and Jerry Tales: Volume Six

…by the music, Tom does everything he can to stop the noise and close the club. In the second short, Kitty Cat Blues, Tom is madly in love with a…

Beaumont and Kerry: Peter Pan‘s Leading Ladies

…when the boss of the studio would walk in, there would practically be trumpeters going first. You know, ‘Studio boss here! Everything stop! Everybody kneel down!’ You got that feeling….

Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan

…it. It didn’t stop the film for a romantic love song. They used the romantic love song to continue the story with Pumbaa and Timon, and I think that what…

The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition

…make it to Camelot. There, they must team up with Arthur and his knights to stop Ruber and regain Excalibur once and for all… The Sweatbox Review: Following the success…

The Rescuers Down Under: Gold Classic Collection

…first stop Albatross Air! Jim Jordan, who played Orville back in 1977 had passed away, so John Candy steps in as…who else…Orville’s brother Wilbur! As terrified as ever of unstable…

Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition

…color, this time on the “23-19 situation” scene. We’re slowly coming towards a finished movie with the production process, so our next stop is Music And Sound. Here you’ll find…

Walt Disney Treasures: Behind The Scenes At The Walt Disney Studios

…techniques. The Reluctant Dragon, as it became known, would also act as a stopgap between his initial trilogy of films (Snow White, Pinocchio and Fantasia) and the next two in…

The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection

…was the only way of seeing these mini-masterpieces (the Studio would also, over time, stop producing the animated character shorts, but continue to create such one-off “specials” that might have…

Balto

…movie is supposedly for kids. The fact that there are no song moments to stop the flow of the material (although Phil Collins, pre-Tarzan, does pop up as a voice)…

Gay Purr-ee

…due until 1963) and the studio took advantage of this. They tried to rival the powerhouse Mouse with the marketing and promotion of the picture making available everything from a…

The Lion King 1½

…film. Yes, Mystery Science Theater 3000 did it first, poking fun at ancient sci-fi flicks with on screen jibes, but going back even further is Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz And Guildenstern…

Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection

…an interesting look at the production, supposedly told in snapshots from various Tuesdays during the making of the film, when Paul would stop by the studio to offer his input….

Home On The Range

…mice at Disney, with the result that The Great Mouse Detective kick started a new trend of non-stop production and hits, resulting in the Academy Award nod for Beauty And…

Shrek 2

…some changes of his own, must race to stop the Godmother’s plan and losing Fiona forever… The Sweatbox Review: DreamWorks’ Shrek has a lot to answer for. That the film…

The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition

…of the bitter Syndrome, it’s down to his wife, Elastigirl, and kids, Violet and Dash, to track him down – post a stop off at super-costume designer Edna Mode –…

Bambi II

…(don’t forget that Bambi II is going into the vaults after only 70 days on sale), while a chapter index card provides the stop points. Most frustratingly, and while I…

Chicken Little

…effect of stop-starting the pace of the movie. When it’s good, such as the opening scenes, after an unappealing “how to open this movie” bit which falls flat and leans…

Cars

…confidence is more arrogance. He’s soon put in his place when his transportation truck is persuaded to drive through the night instead of making a pit stop along the way…