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Casting now complete on Shrek the Musical
…Tarzan), Dennis Stowe (The Apple Tree, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels), David F.M. Vaughn (Doctor Doolittle national tour) and Keaton Whittaker. Shrek the Musical will bound its way into the Broadway Theatre… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…be in staying true to Dickens, making his ultimate end – arguably Disney’s only onscreen death and the strongest pay off until Tarzan’s Clayton a decade later – all the… |
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Bedtime Stories
…make you see the lack of lustre in a movie all the more obviously. Amusingly, the specs take on a Tarzan syntax in describing the added regular disc included in… |
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The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Complete Series, Vol. One
…fame while working on the Tarzan strip, but in 1937 he got his chance to launch his own leading star for King Features Syndicate. He went on to draw the… |
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Ratatouille arrives, and Jason review lands
…of whom no doubt grew up on the cartoon show Tarzan And The Super 7, where Jason originally appeared. Later on today, I’ll be putting up some catalog reviews as… |
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The Best Of Bravestarr
…its initial series The New Adventures Of Superman, and through the 1960s and 1970s saw further success with The Archie Show, Fat Albert, Tarzan And The Super 7, and many… |
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The Secrets Of Isis: The Complete Series
…more and sillier action than Isis.) Though The Secrets Of Isis ended with its second season, the character would return in the Tarzan And The Super 7 segment The Freedom… |
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George Of The Jungle: The Complete Original Series
…The first segment of the show featured George himself. George was an obvious parody of Tarzan. The pilot actually had his live-in girlfriend named Jane, but legal considerations saw her… |
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Director Jim Kammerud on The Fox and the Hound 2
…missing this bedrock of talent you can count on. Brian was still working on Tarzan II when Fox and the Hound 2 came up. AV: As the director, what was… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Two: Disney executive Doug Short, Giselle’s champion!
…done an amazing work on the movie Tarzan and was looking to get into live-action. The opportunity to work on this movie came out and he came in to do… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…great. I learned a lot from him about story, how to compose a story and draw storyboards. And then, my animation teacher was Chris Buck who directed Tarzan, a great… |
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Once Upon A Dream: Burny Mattinson on Sleeping Beauty‘s Maleficent
…on Disney’s contemporary classics including Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Tarzan, and most recently the highly successful Goofy short How… |
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The Black Cauldron: Gold Classic Collection
…Otherwise Nigel Hawthorne makes his first appearance in a Disney feature (he would go on to voice Jane’s father in 1999’s Tarzan), and Watership Down’s Hazel, John Hurt, is sometimes… |
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The Quest For Camelot: Special Edition
…the three-dimensional tree vines of Tarzan’s jungle. The Animation Process is a brief text article on the computer animation process and the goals that the crew set out to achieve,… |
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Peter Pan: Return To Never-Land
…Disney director Kevin Lima (A Goofy Movie, Tarzan) who supervised, for creating such a rousing adventure and a real return to Disney movies the way they used to be made…. |
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A Goofy Movie
…direction. Another “backroom boy” at Disney’s, Lima has risen from character designer on The Little Mermaid (1989) to director of Tarzan (1999), the live-action sequel 102 Dalmatians (2000) and supervising… |
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The Sword In The Stone: Gold Classic Collection
…The menus for this release are well done, and while not the fully animated 3D extravaganzas seen on Tarzan or Atlantis, do provide the right mood. The menu changes are… |
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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)… |
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The Jungle Book 2
…lost their way with the video released films. Jungle Book 2 falls somewhere in between, not lowering itself to the depths of the quite frankly awful Cinderella, Atlantis or Tarzan… |
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Lady And The Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure
…in me, and I still uphold my feeling that it is the most recent traditionally animated film since perhaps Mulan or Tarzan to come from the Disney stable which honors… |
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The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition
…must never forget that this is what inspired the “narrative song voice” of the later Toy Story films, Tarzan, and DreamWorks’ The Road To El Dorado (also penned by Elton… |
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The Last Unicorn (pan-and-scan)
…same with Tarzan and Brother Bear. Jimmy Webb’s full orchestral score often lifts the film higher than the sum of its parts and is instrumental (no pun intended) in pushing… |
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Teacher’s Pet (The Movie)
…as Aladdin, Ariel’s Undersea Adventures, Timon And Pumbaa, Hercules, 101 Dalmatians, Buzz Lightyear, The Legend Of Tarzan, etc… the list seemed to go on and on. There were no gems,… |
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Chicken Little
…far cry from the lofty heights of a Pixar smash, the Studio’s own traditionally animated Tarzan and Lilo And Stitch or even the final take for Dinosaur, a film that,… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume One!
…Adventures Of Superman, Tarzan: Lord Of The Apes and Flash Gordon among them, plus many shows built around the popular Archies comic characters. In 1975, Filmation moved into live-action television… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…from the archives of, primarily, the Filmation library. This is where I caught my first glimpses of the “best” episodes of such shows as New Adventures Of Superman, Tarzan: Lord… |
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Filmation’s Ghostbusters: Volume Two!
…cartoon material, with such gems as The New Adventures Of Superman, Tarzan: Lord Of The Apes and Flash Gordon among them. A foray into similarly produced (cheap!) live-action programming resulted… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…who explains how Colonel Hathi inspired his animation of Tantor in The Jungle Book’s most recent filmic cousin, Tarzan. Again, rather than just heaping praise, there’s some healthy analysis going… |
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Ready for Jack Skellington on Blu-ray Disc? The future looks cool, but watch out for that tree!!
…Series, a two-disc set of Jay Ward’s 1960s Tarzan spoof, with a few other ingredients thrown in for good measure. As usual, Rand’s review is stuffed with a generous background… |
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Back Under The Sea, plus Filmation's DC Super Heroes!
…that really does justice to the co-founder of this little studio that could. Now if only Tarzan could swing onto DVD…! Elsewhere on the site today, Jeremie continues his dive… |

