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The Legend Of Prince Valiant: Complete Series, Vol. One
…the figures are often lacking. The detail is there, but not the draftsmanship. It appears that the animators struggled with the fine points of the character models, resulting in contorting… |
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Turok: Son Of Stone
…well drawn, and even if there is the expected lack of total fluidity to the animation, there is some strong attitude seen in how the characters move. The action carries… |
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The Muppet Show: Season Three
…Cultural icons of the 1970s highlight another great season of Jim Henson’s Muppets. The Sweatbox Review: The second season may have been the absolute greatest in terms of old-time star… |
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Batman: Gotham Knight (Blu-ray/DVD)
…person. There are a few differences here, as the kids in the Gotham Knight story are older skateboarders, and they are recounting their own encounters as opposed to stories they… |
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Astro Boy (1980): The Collection Box Set
…to convey the dialog and the disco-inspired soundtrack. The dubbing on this version of the show is much better than that on the original 1960s series, largely due to the… |
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The Man Called Flintstone
…was Hanna-Barbera’s first theatrical feature, The Man Called Flintstone is significant for being the first of many spin-offs from the famed TV show. The film was produced just as the… |
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Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time For Nuts
…The Simpsons – they do a set-up in the first two minutes, and then they’ll spend the rest of the episode in Africa or something. [laughs] Specifically, Robin Hood Daffy… |
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A Conversation with Ben Balistreri
…called The Disney Boot Camp. That was a month long program that Disney tried out were they gathered art students from around the country and taught them about animation. The… |
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Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!
…from there. AV: How were the storylines and the book of the show developed? GS: Well, at the time, there was a different director and a different book writer. There… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…also been updated to include environmental themes while preserving the natural feel usually associated with the tale. Garnering prestigious accolades across the globe, the film was also honored with the… |
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Monsters, Inc.: 2-Disc Collectors Edition
…the animators for placing their characters within the scene. The viewer is able to “step through” these scenes using the next-button on the DVD remote, to get a closer look… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Limited Issue
…in the least, and there are no real pointers that the film was created in the “swinging 60s” apart from the animation process. The script has real moments of poignant… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…minutes, Scheimer ends his eventful tale and the rest, as they say, is history! The Groovie Goolie Get Together sing-along is the same series-closing extended version of the main theme… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 2
…The Huntsman asking why they were all fired from the show! The second half has Freakazoid meeting an invisible mummy, the Indiana Jones-like feel coming primarily from the art direction… |
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Cars: Ultimate Gift Pack
…alternate automobile world. Without starting to ask the “big questions” (like where they came from, who built them and what do they have in their insides if they don’t need… |
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Peanuts: 1970’s Collection Volume 1
…after the Great Pumpkin fiasco, he still tries to get the gang excited about the upcoming arrival of the Easter Beagle. The kids are somewhat sceptical, but we manage to… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…sometimes squashed to the back, sometimes right up front, but the dialogue is clean and the slightly cartoony aspect, especially of the Scrat scenes, of the spot effects means the… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…the ocean shore. The people of the town do not seem too surprised by the appearance of the young witch, as such things do happen from time to time. They… |
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Pixar’s great Muppet caper
It seems Disney is leaning on Pixar for a little more than just their own animation department: as well as reports of the CG studio offering notes for a round… |
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Tinker Bell picnics in the park
…Movie Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue was screened for more than 1,000 families in the local Los Angeles area. The event featured a dozen of L.A.’s most popular… |
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Rudolph / Frosty / Santa Claus: The Original Christmas Classics
…be many more plaudits heaped upon the team than the recognition they received, and Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town! ranks up there with the best of them. Certainly a… |
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Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare
…already stalking the grounds, and scaring away the children. When they finally arrive, they find the camp deserted and are notified that the camp is closing for the remainder of… |
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Disneynature: Oceans / The Crimson Wing: Mystery Of The Flamingos
…in the film. Life At The Camp, Life Of The Flamingo, a Making Of, more on the Lake Natron area, and the approach on the Music by the composers are… |
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Scooby-Doo / Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Double Feature
…the other names playing the characters, at least the show’s lead was the natural choice. As with Jurassic, anything that wasn’t human was a mix of ILM’s still-then unbelievable CG… |
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Mila Kunis to join Disney’s Oz: The Great and the Powerful?
Mila Kunis is apparently being considered for the role of the Wicked Witch of the West in Disney’s upcoming Wizard of Oz prequel, NY Magazine is reporting. The site reports… |
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Bambi Diamond Edition: an interview with Donnie Dunagan, the original “Young Prince of the Forest”
…the cycle of life. Look at the closing emotions of Bambi. He stands on the rock platform next to his dad, who then retires the responsibility of the forest to… |
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Winnie The Pooh‘s Henry Jackman, a “First Class” composer
…book review at university. They’re very smart people and they were very aware of what they were doing in the film. Also, they were very humble as they said they… |
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Au clair de La Luna with director Enrico Casarosa
…watercolor paper, with the texture a watercolor brush has. The same way for the boat: we actually painted each of the planks in watercolors and then mapped the planks on… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
…in the evolution of the brotherhood theme which carries all the way through the film. When they try to find the beans together and they’re staring down from the clouds,… |
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Arthur Christmas composer Harry Gregson-Williams: from Venice Beach to the North Pole!
…great fun to do. And the end of the movie. It was very satisfying to tie up the themes in the last five or six minutes of the film. That… |
