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Bolt on DVD & BD: One Super-Director + One Super-Voice Make One Super Rhino!
…the Elves. Now, as such, he explores the look and the personalities of the different characters of the film, as well as their relationships with each other, their backgrounds and… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 1
…The worst would be segments for The Porky Pig Show; the opening and the closing credits, and the interstitials, look really grainy and scratchy, but the cartoons themselves are in… |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume One
…for the War to be over. The giant robot was then used in civilian service, and was commanded by Shotaro Kaneda, the twelve-year old son of the robot’s chief inventor…. |
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Bedknobs And Broomsticks: Enchanted Musical Edition
…one of five Academy Awards it was nominated for. The story in the film diverges significantly from the books. All involved in the film’s development agreed that they liked the… |
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Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman
…seen here. On the plus side, the Penguin doesn’t look anything like the Danny Devito bird-man seen in Batman Returns, returning to the tuxedoed sophisticate seen in the comics. There… |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume One
…due to the difficulty in re-creating the look of an older show; and the origin of “The Bear” from the series is revealed, as well as the fact that they… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete First Season
…the show ended. On this set, the first disc goes for two more episodes.) Switched: The Titans receive a mysterious package containing puppet versions of themselves. The Puppet King then… |
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Hanna And Barbera: A Cartoon Appreciation, Part 2
…show, until Silverman was asked by the network to tone down the horrific elements in the show as developed by Ruby and Spears. The decision was made to bring the… |
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The Many Adventures Of Winnie The Pooh: The Friendship Edition
…the soldier’s unit, and while in England the bear was given to the London Zoo at the end of 1919 before the soldier went to France. At the zoo, the… |
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The New Adventures Of Batman: DC Classics
…then there is the “moral” tag at the end of the show. The “Bat Message” at the end of each story allows Batman the opportunity to point out what we… |
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Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series
…the original negatives, and there is some dust here and there. The biggest problem, though, is the banding seen at the sides of the frame throughout the episodes. Depending on… |
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Birdman & The Galaxy Trio: The Complete Series
…who has seen the Toth shows can tell you that while they often look great, they also did have to rely on the skills of the animators to make the… |
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The Hanna-Barbera Treasury
…knowledge of these shows comes from reruns, books, and DVDs, but I know these are the classics. Beck begins with the theatrical Tom And Jerry shorts that Bill and Joe… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season
…tertiary status for much of the season, thereby losing the show much of its usual bat-flavor. The writing continued to be hit-or-miss on this show, with the super guests good… |
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A Conversation with Andreas Deja
…about the archives is, the Animation Research Library – is they kept all the cleanup drawings. So all the scenes are there in their cleaned up stage but they didn’t… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…their old material and they would send us photocopies of animation material when they could. So, most of the time, we would have copies of them with their model sheets… |
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WALL•E: Animator Victor Navone gives soul to a bot, and Cars a Toon-up!
…opens and closes -and often they don’t have expressive hands. But based simply on how fast they move, the angle of the body, and the angle of their heads relative… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…are separated from the circus and find themselves lost in the big city. Through teamwork and courage they must help themselves and try to return to the circus. Okay, so… |
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Looney Tunes: Back In Action
…theater. The monitors show the full 2.40 frame in the supplemental behind-the-scenes footage, so it was framed that way on set, but I did get a feeling that the film… |
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Home On The Range
…the pork choppers in Home On The Range). Recently, the same style was adapted as the look for The Emperor’s New Groove, and there’s no denying that Home On The… |
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Flushed Away
…their major competitors. The twist is, of course, that Aardman converted to CG themselves in order to put Flushed Away on the screen, though much of the film was actually… |
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The Reef
…The Reef in the UK and it has finally come full circle, back to the US under this new title. The logo still retains the Shark Tale look, and they… |
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Alice In Cartoonland: Inkwell Edition
…of the disc includes what I would refer to as the bonus material itself: the documentary segments that provide the essential behind the scenes history behind the cartoons. In addition… |
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Disney on the web; Night At The Museum; Oscar noms 2007
…the potential invites up to the stage when the big night comes, and the predictions have gone from the safe bets to suggestions that are wide off the mark. It’s… |
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Treasures saved?; Number one Night; Iron Man reviewed!
…At The Museum continues to hold the number one position internationally. While the animation link is perhaps tenuous, Night is the most animated fun I’ve had in a movie theater… |
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Tex Avery’s Droopy: Complete Theatrical Collection
…to the screen, and the result is Señor Droopy (1949), with the pooch up against The Wolf in the bullring for the hand of the lovely Latin star Lina Romay…. |
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Meet The Robinsons
…there in the end and the payoff is well worth the reward. There remains, however, no real heart in the future, which is what Meet The Robinsons really needed to… |
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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…since it comes to theaters in the same week as WALL•E’s disc release, or the teaser for the Studio’s The Princess And The Frog – curious omissions that perhaps speak… |
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Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear!
…on the silver screen. Back in 1964, before even the Flintstones feature, the huge popularity of The Yogi Bear Show prompted Hanna-Barbera to take a shot on featuring the smarter… |
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Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!
…challenge for the artists because they had only done animals and it was hard for them to show these emotions. So they spent many, many hours developing the characters to… |


