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Batman Beyond: The Complete First Season
…remarkable aspect of the audio on the show, though, is the music. The producers used the musical score to further distinguish Batman Beyond as its own entity, ditching the much-admired… |
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The Chipmunk Adventure
…was also reluctantly called into service to direct the film after the original director quit the project. Incredibly, they financed the picture themselves, Janice was directing her first feature, they… |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
…that the scripts are on par with the original series (the good and the bad, but mainly the good), and the characters are still the same old Enterprise crewmates. I… |
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The Last Unicorn: 25th Anniversary Edition
…I have never cared for the look of the Rankin-Bass cel-animated characters in their various films. The designs here are similar to the bulbous ones seen in their Tolkien adaptations,… |
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Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
…even if there have been modifications along the way. The Thimble Theater characters are truthfully a bit ugly and bizarre, but they also have a roundness that still allows them… |
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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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Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show: The Complete Series
…up the slack again. On The Case Of The Dreadful Dolls, we get a discussion of the “minority heroes”, and on The Royal Ruse there are comments made about the… |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume Three
…not compromise her secret identity… and she almost takes things way too far. The Quest/Bannon case is taken to the highest court there is— on the Justices League’s orbiting satellite…. |
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The Adventures Of Aquaman: The Complete Collection
…well as interloping bad guys from the surface world. Specific menaces are described in these colourful titles: The Rampaging Reptile Men, The Crimson Monster From The Pink Pool, The Ice… |
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Beetle Bailey: The Complete Collection
…“episodes” in this two-disc set, rather than in the beginning. Each of the first eleven “episodes” on the discs simply group together four of the television cartoons, while the last… |
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It’s The Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…the loss of his credibility following The Great Pumpkin debacle, Linus tries his best to get the gang excited about the coming of the Easter Beagle. The Sweatbox Review: The… |
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Wonder Woman
…there are three characters that set the pattern for most of the superheroes that followed. The first of these archetypes was represented by Superman, the science-themed, super-powered alien hero. Then… |
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Ice Age: 2 Disc Special Edition
…in many different languages, as well as the trailers. Included are the teaser trailer (the intro of the movie was used), and the two theatrical trailers. There is also a… |
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Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword
…and the rest of the Mystery, Inc. gang travel to Japan for their latest adventure. There, they explore the delicate relationship between modern Japanese culture and ancient Japan. The Sweatbox… |
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Disney On Ice: The Incredibles Magic Kingdom Adventure
…and mundane adventures that keep the audience in stitches throughout the evening. Even with its unique combination, the show has a wonderful balance of The Incredibles and the Magic Kingdom… |
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Director Jim Kammerud on The Fox and the Hound 2
…tell the story of what happened before they grow up, because when they grow up, they’re not really friends any more at the very end of the movie. I wanted… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…it was the physical beauty that would be possible. Also, in pre-revolutionary Russia, the extremes of the haves and the have-nots – the wealthy classes and the poor people –… |
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Mike Scully on The Simpsons Movie
…lot of the townspeople – a lot of the popular supporting characters. But Homer really is the focus of the movie. AV: Going back to when the concept of the… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…right. People have been conditioned to not trust themselves when they’re confronted with a mystery. They feel like they’re missing something, but they’re not. They’re just uncomfortable with not knowing…. |
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Dalmatians 101: Lisa Davis’ “puppy love” for a dog-gone Disney classic
…one day! That’s the way we did it back then. They don’t do it that way now. When they do it today, they do it relatively quickly and the person… |
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Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron
…situations along the way, until they meet again the Cavalry colonel, who has been pursuing them… The Sweatbox Review: DreamWorks’ Spirit: Stallion Of The Cimarron was a strange experience for… |
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Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Vacation
…Steven Spielberg “updating” the classic characters and reinventing them as the “next generation”. To be honest, against the earlier, wackier Looney Tunes and the later, even more wackier Animaniacs, Pinky… |
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The DisneyLand Anthology
…color in the mid-1980s, although it may have been the result of the colorization process. The prints used are fine, and comparable to the episodes found on the Behind The… |
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Pinchcliffe Races Home: A Look Back At Caprino Studios
…satire on bureaucracy, as noted by the disc notes on the film, but otherwise plays along the same lines as the other films in the unofficial series, in that the… |
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter Of Loaf And Death
…saw the value in the characters and offered its support in the short’s completion, also guaranteeing the young creator-animator a full time position at the company. Aardman had always enjoyed… |
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Scrat's director; new BCI live-action; Flushed deals!
…gorilla Tracy on their team! In the super-secret missions assigned to them by the mysterious “Zero”, the trio of bumbling detectives confronts phantoms, vampires, werewolves, the Frankenstein monster, mobsters, Vikings,… |
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The Ten Commandments
…Shrunk The Kids craze in the late 1980s and throughout the 90s. And then we have the impressive voice cast – all of them “names” – which doesn’t explain how… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…parents into questioning such weighty themes as the very nature of reality and, not least, the idea of the quantum multiverse! Not wishing to partake in these theories is Jane… |
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Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut
…that precede the movie proper. These are great fun (“Approved For…Audiences” the green rating card reads) and parody the kinds of films the three fictional heroes have made their names… |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
…online only from the Warner Archive Collection) The Movie: The demise of the short subject since the collapse of the Studio System and their monopoly on the movie theater chains… |
