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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… |
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Star Trek (2009)
…ever consider myself to be a Trekker, though I have followed all incarnations of the show over the years and know enough of the in-jokes to pick up the references… |
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Up:rising with Story Artist Enrico Casarosa!
…They’re all quite accomplished musicians, so they fancied themselves as entertainers and all the residents loved it! In the meanwhile they were also studying quite carefully their audience, looking at… |
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Oscar reactions from Coraline, French Roast
…LAIKA and Focus Features very proud. And the diversity of the nominees in both storytelling and animation techniques gladdens my heart: The Princess and the Frog and The Secret of… |
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You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
…Vince Guaraldi, which was what always made the TV specials stand as their own phenomenon. At least the voice cast for the kids was kept young; the actors’ young voices… |
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My Neighbor Totoro
…black creatures in the house, which they learn are “soot sprites,” and thus they are introduced to the magic present around them. The soot sprites are the least of the… |
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Iron Man: The Complete 1994 Animated Television Series
…was formed, why it formed, or who the heck these people are. For the record, those characters included The Scarlet Witch (though not really the one from the comics), Spider-Woman… |
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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1980s: Volume 1
…Kids. In the case of The Flintstones, I think that the kids show brought the classic dynamic between the famous characters into a new situation allowing them to break free… |
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Peanuts 1970’s Collection: Vol. 2
…And there’s no insert this time. As before, though, the disc contents are described in greater detail on the reverse of the front cover, readable through the inside of the… |
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Alice In Wonderland
…the themes of the story and make many insightful observations. The Mad Hatter (6:02) explores Depp’s take on the quite literally “mad” character, with the actor expressing his desire to… |
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Toy Story 3
…the Toy Story universe. The rest of the film continues to run along re-running themes from the first two films: Woody is disassociated from the rest of the group, Jesse… |
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Don Hahn discusses Fantasia 2000 and Waking Sleeping Beauty
…of the Animals with the watercolor style, and the flamingos and the yo-yo. You may not do it a whole feature, but you can take there amazing artistic liberties in… |
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Scooby-Doo: Where Are You! The Complete Series (Mystery Machine Edition)
…work, since they’re usually featured in montage sequences that have the gang interacting with the monster of the week, though they’re the biggest thing to date the shows today, like… |
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Yogi Bear’s All-Star Comedy Christmas Caper
…of the last times where the classic H-B characters really felt like themselves. The bonus special on the disc could have easily been the headliner itself, with the 1960s versions… |
