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The Regular Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons
…consistently funny. And then there are the more “way out” episodes, where you just have to admire the craziness of the plots. The first episode, The Power, involves a magic… |
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From Johan to Jordan: Peyo’s daughter tells the Smurfs’ story
…the licensing. Then I started to oversee the broadcasting of the series worldwide – except in the U.S. since Hanna-Barbera did it there – and also the albums. For 30… |
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Now Playing: The World’s End and more
…reading before heading out to the theatre. The World’s End After Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, the third film in the not-quite-a-trilogy Cornetto trilogy from Edgar Wright, Simon… |
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The Lego Movie
…the design of the characters and the world they inhabit was limited by the product itself, where the artists really were able to play with the animation were in the… |
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Justice League: War
…52 movie. As always, the success of these adaptations hinges on the greatness or mediocrity of the source material, and… well, I was not a huge fan of the New… |
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Mr. Peabody and Sherman
…time periods, they interact with the people they meet and help them with a problem that needs solved — and then move on to the next. Secondly, the writers doesn’t… |
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Jack And The Cuckoo-Clock Heart
…When the mother slips out the door and abandons the baby, Madeleine has to raise the boy herself. It is a challenge she is grateful to accept. The boy, who… |
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Star Wars – The Clone Wars: The Lost Missions
…out the prequels immensely, and even makes them better. The machinations of Palpatine, the descent of Anakin, and the mysteries concerning the Clones come into much greater focus here than… |
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Kiki’s Delivery Service
…sets out with her black cat Jiji. She eventually finds the perfect city— a bustling place sitting on the edge of the ocean. The people of the town do not… |
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Uncle Grandpa: Tiger Trails
…being destroyed. Another one–which is easily the strangest of the twelve episodes included here–has the characters running for their lives after a game of “funny faces” somehow leads to the… |
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Cinderella
…this time!) before the ball, and the movie does make the somewhat curious decision of turning the Grand Duke into a villain during the third act. But, for the most… |
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Home
…them to Earth. They relocate all the Humans to a single colony and take over the rest of the planet for themselves. But when the world is in trouble, one… |
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More Cartoons For Victory!
…never mind having the opportunity to view them. According to the liner notes, many of these films only just became available for viewing in the past few years at the… |
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Spirited Away
…the wait, as the image here brings the film to even greater heights, with a wider offering of the film’s amazing colors and better-defined lines. Everything is perfectly balanced, with… |
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Dinotrux
…living there. Can Ty Rux get the other dinosaurs/trucks to set aside their differences and work together for a greater goal? Here’s the most shocking thing about Dinotrux: It’s not… |
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The Lion Guard: Return Of The Roar
…that being said, it makes sense that Disney has returned to the franchise in the form of The Lion Guard, an upcoming cartoon show that they’ve launched with the new… |
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World of Tomorrow
…There is a point in the film where the Emily Clone explains how the information sharing network known as the internet has expanded into a more physical and visual entity… |
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Open Season: Scared Silly bringing together old and new faces for franchise’s 10th anniversary
…The event coincided with the tenth anniversary of the release of the first Open Season, which was also the first feature from the studio. Present in hosting the event were… |
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Exclusive WonderCon 2016 Recap
…series. I asked them a question that would elaborate the last point as they were essentially redoing the origin story from the first game and they assured us that their… |
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Composer Mark Watters on Disney’s Silly Symphonies music
…the 1930s, the Silly Symphonies laid forgotten for years. Some of them had a second showing in the ’60s on an occasional episode of Walt’s TV show, The Wonderful World… |
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Elstree 1976
…anything, but then their remarks are from the aspect of being so on the fringes of the action that clips from the movie have to highlight where some of the… |
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Storks
…have had some diversity during the first 85 minutes of the film! The art in Storks is the usual high quality you’d expect from a major studio. The sets of… |
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The Venture Bros.: The Complete Sixth Season
…they got there. Now, they are all the more focused on delivering the next chapters of their sordid tale of failure, redemption, and more failure. The most important thing to… |
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Trolls
…Bergen can experience happiness. But the Trolls fled their homeland many years ago, and the care-free Princess Poppy is convinced that the Bergens are no longer a threat, despite the… |
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Some time with Borrowed Time directors Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadj
…with the character, instead of leading them and forcing them to feel something with the music. The music should be there to support the way the audience feels, not force… |
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The BFG
…Lyndon that we hear in the opening). The film retains the 1982 setting of Dahl’s book, but even back then the streets were never as strangely unpopulated as they appear… |
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Animated Views’ 2017 Animated Movie Guide
…may not be the most demanding ones out there, but they deliver on the wacky shenanigans they promise, and there’s no reason to assume this one will be any different…. |
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The Powerpuff Girls: Tiara Trouble
…these characters are so charming that they remain entertaining regardless of which series they are in. The biggest strength of the new show is that it’s very funny. Of the… |
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Legend Quest
…just facing a monster-of-the-week type of stop on their journey just for the sake of it. Speaking of which, there’s great fascination with the monster-of-the-week approach as it offers an… |
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Miss Hokusai
…nationally and the more local daimyos. Culturally, the arts were in favour, which meant fame for the artists who were most greatly appreciated. Hokusai was among the greatest artists of… |
