…between the Monstars and the Looney Tunes. The fates of the Looney Tunes and Michael Jordan rest on the outcome. Marvin the Martian shows up to ref the game, apparently…

…observation of the humans and the learning of the ancient art of transformation. Unfortunately, the raccoons are lazy and easily distracted, but eventually they do take their war to the…

…The Tick to star in a newsletter published by New England Comics, with The Tick first appearing there in the summer of 1986. After escaping from a Minnesota asylum, The…

…issues with the ending, which left the outcome of the final battle largely out of Iron Man’s hands, which therefore weakens the film. A secondary ending in the corporate boardroom…

…pull off an occasional masterpiece even without Jim there to guide them in person. The Muppet Christmas Carol, for example, is an underappreciated gem, and then there is the television…

…the boy’s destiny. They have evidently escaped some sort of attack, but their foe is still with them. In a nod to Superman, the boy’s escape is made, the intent…

…slickest animation, given the budget restraints. The stories from the Kneitel team also tend to be better presented than some of the other efforts. The greatest number of cartoons were…

…the original negatives, and there is some dust here and there. The biggest problem, though, is the banding seen at the sides of the frame throughout the episodes. Depending on…

…audio are the best we’ve seen for these releases, and the featurette, though short, nicely places the show in context even if it does less than the featurettes on the…

…bare-bones releases. Their releases petered out altogether in 2004, except for the release of a couple of the theatrical Peanuts movies and the This Is America, Charlie Brown miniseries. There…

…Andy Mangels. They discuss the importance of the morals in the series (more so than in the movie), and the slick look that the show managed to maintain. Disc Four…

…but the Fleischers kept the sailor remarkably fresh throughout their tenure on the shorts. I was frankly amazed at just how few of the cartoons in this set followed the…

…(The Price Of Deceit, which also has an extended conversation, and The Power of Grayskull). For show fans, these are great gateways into the thinking of the creators and the…

…course, and the kids then proceed to sing about the lovable loser. When narrator Don Sherwood goes on to describe the characters from the strip, animation shows such classic set-ups…

…cycles, and so forth. The last piece of the puzzle was Bay jazz pianist and composer Vince Guaraldi, whose music would provide the perfect accent to the struggle between the…

…the world’s parents, rendering the mom-and-dad free kids more than willing and able to pursue their wildest dreams! Trouble is, they all find out soon enough that there are some…

…the next piece, The Party, which features a post-premiere radio broadcast over images from the premiere party, held on the Chinese Theater’s parking lot. The broadcast is fun to listen…

…though they realize from the outset that those captors will chase them and want bring them back. During the pursuit, the dogs likewise only carry out their confused actions with…

…to rid the colony of them in the belief that they are hording the “gold” for themselves, and Pocahontas and Smith find their love in danger of becoming exposed and…

…as Siegfried & Roy themselves, saving the show from the brink. Their crazy, random inserts are as aloof and mysterious as the real-life duo, and the obscurity of the language,…

…problem with the sheer amount of rubbery-ness on show in the finished movie. The Voices Behind The Stars runs 7:35 and completes these two companion pieces, naturally concentrating on the…

…the picture do nothing but pull the audience out of the story in a flash, the majority of them wondering where they’ve seen the gags before (and in much better…