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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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Jerry's new book, and Warner's Blu announcement
…Shrek The Third was the only HD DVD-exclusive title out there, compared to the Blu-ray exclusive Disney and Pixar movies, plus the dual format release of a few titles from… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 1
…to make The Tarzan/Lone Ranger Adventure Hour in 1980. (The half-hour Ranger segments were actually called The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger.) Their version did not depart much from… |
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The All-New Super Friends Hour: Season One, Volume One
…The Marsh Monster. The Wonder Twins address the problems of The Runaways. The whole team answers the question Will The World Collide? Superman, Hawkman and Hawkgirl travel 2000 years into… |
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Anything on DVD this week?
…Ben 10: Race Against Time, then there’s TMNT: Season 6, or the Blu-ray release of the game Space Ace. Hmmm… Rugrats – Tales from The Crib: Three Jacks & A… |
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The Muppets return, with icons of the Seventies
We have one DVD review to close up the week, as I take a look at The Muppet Show: Season Three. If you pine for the 1970s, then you should… |
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Astro Boy (2003): The Complete Series
…to mention next. The theme song, for one— it was changed from the original Japanese one for the English dub. Then there is the episode order. Rather than follow the… |
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The Batman: The Complete Fifth Season
…the rest of the World’s Greatest Superheroes. Disc One The Batman/Superman Story, Part 1 gets the whole guest-star thing off to a booming start, with the introduction of the Man… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season
…number for syndicated programming. So, just like the folks behind The Batman, they decided to make this the season to bring in all the guest stars they wanted in one… |
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The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger And Zorro: Volume 2
…into seasons. In this case, this set completes the initial half-hour episodes originally done for The New Adventures Of The Lone Ranger by including the final five of these; and… |
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Kachow! The Cars Speedway Premiere
…for the presentation of the oversized checks to the two charities. The subsequent section of the pre-show consisted of Larry introducing the various Cars celebrities seated in the bleachers, in… |
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Kellyann Lamb, Scott Gagner on A World of Barriers
…Adobe before this latest project? KL: We collaborated with them to help them re-launch their brand when they merged with Macromedia. They wanted to let the enhanced team understand what… |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…of the film, the producer asks them to perform one of their famous numbers, called This Only Happens in the Movies. The male half of the team, a nasty drunk,… |
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Peter de Sève: the time of his life designing A Bug’s Life
…the way the characters are portrayed and written. So, they would contact me and give me a general outline. Not the manuscript, not the screenplay, but the outline of the… |
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Osmosis Jones
…launching a franchise around the idea including a tamer animated series. It’s there that Ozzie and Drix picked up the majority of their fans, which led them back to the… |
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Little Nemo: Adventures In Slumberland
…the backgrounds are extremely lavish, and there are moments of great animation. An experiment to meld the best of the western artists with Japanese animators, Little Nemo has an odd… |
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Sinbad: Legend Of The Seven Seas
…sit through the ill-advised Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron DTV sequel? And what is it with DWs and these amazingly long titles?). The style, the camera angles, the in-you-face-CGI-but-suprisingly-flat-2D, the… |
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The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe (Animated Movie)
…In The World and The Little Prince, the animated SuperTed television show, The Princess And The Goblin and The Secret Garden. The film was produced by The Children’s Television Workshop,… |
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Shark Tale
…set by DreamWorks themselves with their “Make A Movie” activity on the Spirit disc. Back to the set-top bonuses, and keeping with the kid stuff is the DreamWorks Kids section,… |
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Almost in Paris; Kammerud Komes Klean; and a Merry Christmas to all!
…eye on the State Of The Art section on the left here, for a new interview with The Fox And The Hound 2‘s director Jim Kammerud, who lifts the lid… |
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300: 2-disc Widescreen Edition
…stood out was the Priest – surely on loan from corrupting the universe as The Emperor in the Star Wars movies? In the lead, Gerard Butler is both the film’s… |
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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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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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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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Sonic Underground: Volume 1 – Winners Announced!
Sonic Underground is the third animated series based on the popular SEGA video game character, featuring Family Matters’ Jaleel White as the voice of Sonic and Sean Connery as the… |
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The Nutty Professor (2008)
…noisy, one never really feels fatigued. The high energy mix should keep the boys in the audience pumped up and ready to go racing on their bikes after the show…. |
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Ratatouille, Tinker Bell problems?; NIMH DVD!
…month too early, leaving the door wide open for George Miller’s dancing penguins to steal the limelight. For me, the best film of the season came right at the end:… |
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And the Oscar nominations are…
…or otherwise, in the past twelve months, but the choices presented in the line up are uninspired and lack the usual outsider elements that make the Oscars so much fun…. |
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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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Super Bowl success…but no movie trailers?; new Potter
…from just the regular football crowd, there’s been a hesitation from many of the big Studios to splash out on promoting their major titles due to be released during the… |
