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Justice League Unlimited: Season Two

…a high note, the creators thought they had gone out with a bang. When they unexpectedly got picked up for another season, they revamped the show, expanded the League’s roster,…

Batman Beyond: Season Three

…of thirteen episodes, the producers of Batman Beyond had the opportunity to explore more of the original Batman’s past should they choose, but as this collection shows, they kept the

Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume Two

…of the heroes this time out, with the interiors carrying their respective model sheets. The outer slipcase, in the tradition of the He-Man sets, switches to having the villains take…

Popeye The Sailor: Volume 1 1933-1938

…after years of lamenting the fact that these gloriously great golden age cartoons were not available on home video. Due to legalities involving the rights to these cartoons, they have…

Looking ahead to the long weekend

…anemic DVDs of Cars and Ratatouille, but I’m really jazzed about the possibilities of presenting behind-the-scenes material within the context of the movie itself, which is what BluRay will offer….

The Muppet Show: Season Two

…of The Great Gonzo. The show got plotlines to a greater extent in Season Two than what was seen previously, and the increased interaction with the guest stars meant the

Superman – Doomsday

…else that I did not care for. It’s ironic then that the weakest part of the comic book story is the strongest part of the movie version. The movie opens…

Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season

the other episodes. I know my child enjoys the goofy Titans stories a great deal, and that’s fine. I prefer the harder-edged stories that they tend to utilize in their…

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

Schoolhouse Rock!: The Election Collection

…More Kings, The Shot Heard ‘Round the World, Fireworks, Mother Necessity, and The Great American Melting Pot. Three of the shorts deal with the American Revolution and the American Declaration…

A Pup Named Scooby-Doo: The Complete 2nd, 3rd & 4th Seasons

…features great stories with clever villains. I love the running gags and the clever puns used on the show. The characters are funny and consistent throughout the episodes and the

Dalmatians 101: Marc’s wife Alice Davis talks about her Legendary husband

…also the first time that they were printing the artists’ work right on the cells through Xerox. And the animators were pleased with it because for the first time they…

Get Enchanted! Chapter Two: Disney executive Doug Short, Giselle’s champion!

the version we presented to the Studio. So, for me, that was probably the definitive moment, the most important role I played, I think: getting the draft of the movie…

Ariel’s Song: Robert Reece, a fortunate writer under the sea!

…scenes and I was lucky enough to get involved. It was exciting to be in the booth as the actors recorded the tracks and then eventually see the scenes I…

Lorraine Feather & George Griffin on You’re Outa Here

…about Max Fleischer’s Out of the Inkwell, but the transformation, in the bridge, of these hands into animation also made me think about the beginning of Fantasia, with the orchestra…

The Incredible Mr Limpet

…what they come up with and how they make it work, but for the time being, the original is more than adequate. Even in these uncertain times, The Incredible Mr…

Chuck Jones: Extremes And Inbetweens, A Life In Animation

the Jones-directed The Grinch. Much of the animation is completed, although some music and dialog is missing. The clip condenses the first half of the story down adequately for the

The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition

…part of the point, and this helps the animation tremendously – the fact that these are animated characters only strives to help the reality of their lives and situations sink…

Watershipped Rabbits And Plagued Dogs: The Animated World Of Richard Adams

…characters – Fiver, Hazel, Big Wig among them – all of which have their importance to the group and to the plot. As they face their foes along the way,…

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…

Popeye (live-action movie)

the late 70s. Paramount, who had held on to the character rights if not the films themselves over the years, thought that the time was ripe for a big live-action…

Cultoons! Volume 1: Ads And Oddities

…and changing the overall branding line from the Animation Classics Collection to The Golden Age Of Cartoons banner on the front. Great is the four-page color liner notes insert (possibly…

Kung Fu Panda / Secrets Of The Furious Five

the sheer amount of knowledge and care the two have for their craft and their movie is evident throughout. It was nice to hear them evoke the ethos of Walt…

Snow White: Disney’s Animation Research Library’s Lella Smith reveals the Dwarfs’ Once Upon a Time!

…on the princesses to follow, how did Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs influence the animators and the creators of The Princess and the Frog? LS: Well, they always come…

Sunset Boulevard: Centennial Collection

The second disc holds the rest of the bonus material, a mix of content from the 2002 disc (a 25 minute Making Of Sunset Boulevard retrospective, the film’s Theatrical Trailer,…

Snow White: Marge Champion, a Model Princess!

…also fixed their stardom through frequent television appearances including “The Red Skelton Show,” “General Electric Theater,” “The United States Steel Hour” “The Dinah Shore Chevy Show” and “Toast of the

Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!

…gone into them than meets the eye, and Rodney notes the “complex storylines” and “plenty of entertainment value. I would rate this season among the best of the show”. Also…

Superman: Ruby-Spears on their Man Of Steel

…of Superman we wanted. We had several different models – the crying/feeling Superman, the lecturing/do-gooder/save-the-day Superman, then there was the hip Superman and even the long-haired Superman. And, of course,…

A Christmas Carol: director Robert Zemeckis’ season’s greetings!

…from her head. The great thrill for me was having the tools to do justice to what Dickens wrote and put all these surreal and fantastic images up there on…

Fantastic Mr Fox

their clothing ruffled around by the animators’ hands, though giving the foxes the constant appearance of wind blowing through their fur. This brings a stylized but highly naturalistic look to…