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Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
…Dream Cloud story gets positively surreal, and the outer space scenes in Custard are fun. At one point in that story, DM goes Tex Avery by re-drawing a map of… |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume One
…Stephen Colbert (1:10) and Todd Barry (1:02). Pencil Test (0:52) from Shaggy Busted compares the pencil test with the finished footage side-by-side. There is also the surreal Tab Can Redux,… |
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Broken Saints (Original Release)
…Fan Film (0:53), DTTC (Death to the Closet): A BS Parody (6:47), a Fan Art Slideshow (7:20), and 3-D Fan Film (1:09) round out this surreal area of bonus features…. |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…the sci-fi element had me sold on at least giving this one a try. Any animation team that could try to work with such a surreal story deserves to have… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…and became responsible for such surreal and wacky cartoons as Porky In Wackyland, The Great Piggy Bank Robbery, and the infamously great Coal Black And De Sebben Dwarfs. He left… |
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Uncensored Bosko: Volume 1
…these cartoons, the audio is definitely acceptable. Final Cut: These cartoons are fluidly animated, and full of energy. For surreal-ness, they fall in-between the Fleischer shorts and Disney. One thing… |
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Tom & Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection
…pure Jones), while in Love Me, Love My Mouse, Jones is joined in directing by Ben Washam. The two fashion perhaps the most surreal cartoon in the collection, with backgrounds… |
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You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…surreal Snoopy sequence, and this special has Snoopy appearing as “Joe Cool,” the most happening guy at school. It’s one of those things that makes almost no sense in the… |
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The Venture Bros.: 3rd Season
…It’s funny, subversive, clever, and surreal— and yet it generally delivers coherent plots that don’t leave the viewer scratching one’s head. The history lessons border on being overdone in this… |
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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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Waltz with Bashir DVD in June
…with Hebrew and English 5.1 tracks. Extras will include a directors commentary, a Q & A with Director Ari Folman, and 2 featurettes: “Surreal Soldiers: Making Waltz with Bashir” and… |
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Best-reviewed animated films of all time
…Studio Ghibli’s anime classic Spirited Away, Aardman’s stop motion smash Chicken Run, acclaimed and surreal foreign entries such as The Triplets of Belleville, and most of the CGI works from… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: Season 1, Volume 1
…in Porky Pig’s old nightmare haunt, Wackyland (“Home, surreal home!)”. Second up is the space spoof A Quack In The Quarks, in which Plucky is duck-napped by aliens (named Frank… |
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Hair High winds up
…in full-boned, surreal horror. Hit frappe on the blender and the toxic fumes cause the hallucinations Plympton uses to tell his story. This smorgasbord of the bizarre…it’s not like anything… |
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Focus on 9
…by Shane Acker, who directed a short of the same name, the pic is described as, “Surreal fantasy takes place in a parallel world where humanity is threatened.” Timur Bekmambetov,… |
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Destino still batting around
No word on when it’s coming to DVD but The Philadelphia Daily News has announced some screenings of the Disney/Dali surreal collaboration Destino at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from… |
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CINEME 2004 Official Winners
…Degrees is the temperature at which brain damage begins to occur. This short is a surreal comedy about two desert dwellers who find themselves in the middle of a barren… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Two
…surreal fantasy life where she and Kermit are married, and how Kermit was aghast that she was still perpetuating that myth. It is quite obvious that these are newer interview… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…this abstract, sometimes surreal setting is perfectly balanced with her words. This was, discounting Dumbo (whose circus setting provides its own old-fashioned feel in any case), Disney’s first contemporary tale,… |
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Chris Miller discusses his Oscar nom and Puss In Boots
…get a little more surreal, and funnier. Once you find a good story for him, you could do many of them. But we’ll see. We evaluate how audiences react to… |
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Going West, stop-motion style!
…the spot can be seen here: Advertising agency Colenso BBDO commissioned Andersen M to create a beautiful, surreal and hand crafted stop-frame animation for the New Zealand Book Council. An… |
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Bob Hilgenberg and Rob Muir on the Rise and Fall of Disney’s Circle 7 Animation
…at, and then we would pitch them the rest of the story. Concept artwork for Circle 7’s Monsters, Inc. 2: Lost in Scaradise It’s pretty surreal having Bob Iger give… |
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The Essential Daffy Duck
…Daffy’s fifth screen appearance. I’m not sure why it’s been selected: yes it’s an absolutely bonkers and at times surreal short that perhaps shows just how looney the early Daffy… |
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Bakshi's Wizards
…know Bakshi’s work, or have ever heard of his infamous style, then you’ll have a pretty good idea of what to expect here. Surreal, badly timed sequences come and go,… |
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Dumbo: 70th Anniversary Edition
…Pink Elephants sequence is played straight for laughs and abstract effect. Way before the days of complicated CG, this sequence still stands out as a perfect surreal nightmare – the… |
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Rango teaser now online
A rather surreal teaser trailer for the upcoming animated flick Rango has recently surfaced on the net, and can be viewed on Itunes Movie Trailers. The film, which follows the… |
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Peanuts 1970’s Collection: Vol. 2
…it is. Nevertheless, one cannot argue with the greatness of these specials (well, except for the surreal It’s Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown). Peanuts collectors can’t stop purchasing these sets… |
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Stop-motion gets animated in NYC tonight!
…Fantastic Mr. Fox and A Town Called Panic. Unlike it’s shiny and new cousin, computer animation, stop-motion has always had a home-made and somewhat surreal quality to it. Perhaps it… |
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The Best Of 2009: This Time It’s Personal!
…for alternate and deleted songs in the movie as well as perhaps the highlight: a four-track pop record released as promotion that feature some serious and surreal takes on some… |
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A Town Called Panic prepares for two-week engagement
The stop-motion feature A Town Called Panic a “hilarious and frequently surreal” stop-motion extravaganza based on the Belgian animated cult TV series, is due to open at the Film Forum… |
