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Shrek Forever After
…for the writers, Rumpelstiltskin continues the tradition (only soiled in the third film) of great villains. The beauty of Shrek bad guys is that they are not the bad guy… |
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Toy Story 3: Animator Victor Navone talks about his “Favorite Toys”
…who can help the newer animators. There was a lot of work upfront in pre-production to document the classic characters and create guidelines for the new animators in the form… |
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Toy Story 3
…lost in the historical aspects is the fact that is was a really great movie in its own right. The second film topped the first, and earned the Golden Globe… |
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8 minutes of next Tinker Bell movie now online
…who’s always believed in fairies despite being told that they don’t exist. The voices from the first two films in the series are returning, with Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon) joining the… |
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The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons
…writer and the notability of the particular cartoon. In a rare occurrence for these kinds of lists, I don’t think there’s one cartoon in The 100 Greatest Looney Tunes Cartoons… |
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The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo: The Complete Series
…the show, the Mystery, Inc. gang (Daphne, Shaggy, Scooby-Doo, and Scrappy-Doo) are on their way to Honolulu when they end up high in the Himalayan Mountains. There, they find a… |
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Disney documentary DVD exclusive offer!
…were actually there. The Boys: The Sherman Brothers’ Story is an intimate journey through the lives of Robert and Richard Sherman, the astoundingly prolific Academy Award-winning songwriting team. While their… |
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Prep & Landing landing again
…making the first ‘Prep & Landing’ special, and the response from the audience and our colleagues in the industry was so terrific, that we wanted to bring these great characters… |
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The Art Of Disney’s Tangled: an interview with author Jeff Kurtti
…the early Studio as was classical art. With the new generation of artists, the mistake for those observing from the outside is to overstate the idea of their inspiration. The… |
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SWAT Kats – The Radical Squadron: The Complete Series
…interesting discovery: With all the military hardware that ends up there, they have the means to build their own jet and continue their policing work as vigilantes. They construct their… |
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The Looney Tunes Treasury
…The sturdy, red “obi” type of strip on the back cover gives the book a nice touch of class, even if it obscures some of the artwork. (There is no… |
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Nausicaa Of The Valley Of The Wind
…the ship. There is little for Nausicaa to do to prevent the crash, which is blunt in its terrible destruction. The mystery of the airship is enhanced by the discovery… |
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Peanuts Double Feature: A Boy Named Charlie Brown & Snoopy, Come Home
…has been fairly aggressive in bringing the TV specials to DVD, Paramount has been extremely lame in their handling of the films. They released two bare-bones DVD releases, for the… |
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Happiness Is… Peanuts – Snoopy’s Adventures
…the youngest of the Van Pelt children. The first story, Snoopy’s Foot, is probably the best of the bunch. Snoopy breaks his foot while clowning around, just prior to an… |
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Cars 2 screenwriter Ben Queen on the race for his “Art Of” book!
As the world revs up for the imminent release of Disney/Pixar’s Cars 2, Jeremie Noyer puts the pedal to the metal to speak exclusively with the film’s screenwriter and Art… |
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Paramount Pictures to Launch its Own Animation Studio
…released to great acclaim in March 2011. The Western, directed by Gore Verbinski and featuring the voice of Johnny Depp in the title role, has grossed over $240 million worldwide… |
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Hoodwinked Too! Hood Vs. Evil
…the image is expectedly solid on both the BD and the DVD. Unfortunately, this doesn’t help disguise the low-cost origins, the Blu-ray especially rendering the locations in all their texture… |
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The Art Of Pixar – The Complete Color Scripts And Select Art From 25 Years Of Animation: an Interview with author Amid Amidi
…to see this art if the films themselves weren’t any good. We shouldn’t forget that all the artwork in these books aids the creation of moving pieces of art. AV:… |
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The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol : maxi-director Troy Quane on Sony’s mini-movie!
…plot; Scrooge, the three ghosts, etc. You have the same benefit with the Smurfs: the audience is already familiar with these characters so you don’t have the same pressure to… |
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Disney and Warner Bros. at war over Oz
With Disney’s upcoming Wizard of Oz prequel Oz: The Great and the Powerful coming to theaters next year, it was only a matter of time before Warner Bros.–the studio responsible… |
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Shazzan: The Complete Series
…Arabia in an effort to return their magic rings to their rightful owner, so that they can return home. Aiding them is their genie Shazzan, and a winged camel. The… |
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John Carter (Of Mars)
…fans were very excited, but the cracks were quick to appear. Unhappy with the performance of their then-recent girl-centric offerings The Princess Diaries 2 and the high-profile The Princess And… |
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Mia And The Migoo
…which is being threatened by the resort project. They are behind the numerous “accidents” at the site, though their culpability in the plight of Mia’s dad is glossed over. They… |
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The Halloween Tree
…involving themes and questions asked on the page struggled to make it to a convincing screen adaptation. On the small screen there have been many more translations, although the lower… |
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Artist Bob Camp recalls the ill-fated Space Jam 2
…NBA’s best and brightest had been stripped of their basketball skills by the nefarious Nerdluck alien race. The game, of course, was the one in the 1996 box office hit… |
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Don’t be a jerk! It’s a SpongeBob Christmas with Screen Novelties!
…the series, especially Tom Kenny, and with Santa’s John Goodman? SN: Tom and the rest of the cast are great. They’ve been doing these voices for a while, so the… |
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
…The Incredible Mr Limpet) didn’t exactly hit the bullseye. Ironically, some of these Studios had to then outsource their cartoon requirements when they found theatrical distributors balked at then paying… |
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Brave: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…like the best Pixar shorts, told completely in pantomime. The second, the cover-hyped The Legend Of Mor’Du (6:50) is perhaps the most disappointing and pointless of all the Pixar shorts,… |
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Combustible wins Grand Prize
…the Great Fire of Meireiki (also known as the Furisode or Long-Sleeved Kimono Fire) and the Great Fire of Greengrocer Oshichi, is depicted in an ornate and dramatic manner”, says… |
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ParaNorman
…and fascinatingly insane way to create animation. It’s also phenomenally good. The rigging of the characters is explored in Rigging The Game, and Bringing The Undead To Life reveals the… |
