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Exclusive! Another Conversation With Eric Goldberg
…the audience, when rain occurs there’s actual physical rain in the theater. We’ve got 360-degree sound. There are gags that go all the way around the theater. And obviously this… |
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Bozo, Stooges, Marvel heroes act like babies
…Babies and Baby Looney Tunes, properties such as The Baby Stooges, Bozo’s Clown Babies, Bozoo Animals, Bratz Babyz, and Marvel Babies are on the way to a crib near you…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Pluto, Volume Two
…one marks the return of the playful baby seal that cropped up throughout the Mickey and Pluto cartoons, so you can imagine the kind of japes the pair get themselves… |
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The Jungle Book: 2-Disc Platinum Edition
…with the final two selected via the InterActual DVD-ROM interface bundled on the disc. It’s into the Backstage Disney Man Village for the remainder of the bonuses, and the meatiest… |
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Shrek The Third
…the crew have making these movies (even if the material doesn’t quite warrant the raucous laughter it elicits), and how much the artists throw themselves into selling each moment. The… |
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Otto Messmer And Felix The Cat
…his studio for months at a time while the cartoons were being created. The animators always knew who the true genius of the outfit was, though. Many interviews over the… |
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The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2
…or the other. The cartoons aren’t great, but they’re not bad. The handling of them here is poor, but they look and sound good enough and at least there are… |
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Enrico Casarosa on storyboarding Ratatouille
…when the baby goes home with the humans. I did a lot of work with the baby, a lot of gags, the big snowball gag, which is mine. When an… |
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Looking ahead to the long weekend
…new baby has been seriously impeding me. I’m having to handle the mid-night feedings right now, so by the time I get around to my writing time late in the… |
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Gay Purr-ee
…of the live-action Studio tour film The Reluctant Dragon. Disney later aped the style themselves, in the theatrical Special Pigs Is Pigs. The animation style was simpler, but the characters… |
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Lots in the Brew today!
…Licensing Show, which show off new lines for Baby Popeye and Baby Boop, are all in the Brew! Over at {{link http://www.dvdtoons.com/news/594 DVD Toons}}, they have a little more info… |
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Kennedy on wearing the Mask
…coming to theaters this Friday. Says Kennedy, “The dog’s really cute, the baby’s really cute, the baby does some cool effects. I’m just a straight man.” JAM! Movies has more… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season Two, Part One
…and there are menu-selectable spots for the new Thundercats and the upcoming Green Lantern animated series. The second disc has a trailer for the DVD release of Mad: The Animated… |
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Dinosaurs: Seasons 3 and 4 – Winner Announced!
…Fourth Seasons They’re huge. They’re pre-hysterical. The Sinclairs are back in their final two seasons of Earth-shaking fun as they face the challenges of everyday life in sixty million and… |
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Ratatouille
…found from the disc’s Main Menu. A Pixar big screen tradition are their wonderful animated shorts that play on the front of their features in theaters, and the theatrical short… |
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The Return Of 2015: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…the year before, while Didier Ghez’s They Drew As They Pleased: The Hidden Art Of Disney’s Golden Age covered the 1930s in the first of a planned series (and came… |
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Popeye The Sailor: Volume 2 1938-1940
…but the Fleischers kept the sailor remarkably fresh throughout their tenure on the shorts. I was frankly amazed at just how few of the cartoons in this set followed the… |
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All*Star Superman
…There are still ample amounts of greatness, though, in the movie. Hopefully, the movie will encourage more people to pick up the collected editions of the comic, because there is… |
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Peter de Seve Breaks the Ice with Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…make an animated film. Unless you’ve got the money and the chops, as they say, it’s almost impossible. But it turned out they had both. They had the talent and… |
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The Lion King II / The Lion King 1½
…thin premise. There is an unwritten “rule” than the Lion King films all follow Shakespearian themes, with the 1994 original loosely following the plot and events of Hamlet, and the… |
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Batman: The Complete Animated Series
…sympathetic Catwoman in the two-parter The Cat And The Claw, and the return of Adam West to the franchise in the terrific Beware Of The Grey Ghost. West voiced The… |
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Tom and Jerry: Fur Flying Adventures Vol. 3
…adults because they were too violent. Kids loved them, however, and when the original audience grew up they allowed their children to watch them and thus the cat and mouse… |
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Winnie The Pooh
…but then also came the “mid-quels”, films that took place between scenes in the original movies. Well, fine, if they wanted to screw with the likes of Tarzan then that… |
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Shrek the Musical opens Sunday 12/14/08 at Broadway Theatre
…the Musical will open at the Broadway Theatre on Sunday, December 14, 2008. Preview performances begin on November 8, 2008 following a pre-Broadway run at Seattle’s The 5th Avenue Theatre,… |
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"Z-biscuit"
Coming Soon! has the trailer for the live action/animated Racing Stripes. The Warner Brothers Pictures release tells the story of “an abandoned baby zebra that grows up believing he’s a… |
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Casper and Wendy’s Ghostly Adventures
…small creature or child without prejudice and they end up having a great time. Then, in the middle of the cartoon, they typically encounter a problem, and Casper has the… |
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Justice League: Gods And Monsters
…given the juvenile plots. In Gods And Monsters, the stupidity is thankfully dialled back, and the solid, interesting story makes the innuendo and the bloodletting present (and there certainly is… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
…Pride at the time their remarks were made. Certainly they’re all captured at the time of recording their lines, so their comments are all based on what they think the… |
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The Prisoner: The Complete Series
…the series, these episodes raise certain questions that are left to the audience to decide their own answers, such as the election theme of Free For All, or the quite… |
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Pete’s Dragon: 35th Anniversary Edition
…had engulfed the globe and a cartoonists’ strike heralded the end of the first chapter in the golden age of American animation. By the mid-forties, the Studio was in something… |