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A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Documentary)
…materials accompany the documentary on disc, but I will give a point for the case’s insert (see below). Case Study: Standard keepcase. Inside the case, there is a one-page insert… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Silly Symphonies
…with one another. The male plays instruments and the female dances in the wind and plays with the flowers. There is an older tree that is the villain and he… |
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Director Kevin Munroe on TMNT
…of the day, we realized, “Let’s just make the whole thing lore.” Basically, they’ve lived all these adventures, and they’ve defeated all these villains. Now they find themselves without direction,… |
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Henry Selick talks Moongirl and more
…most of the CG animated features all look the same when there’s so much room for visual invention in the medium. I’m really impressed with the two big stop-mo features… |
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Tony Bancroft balances the yin and the yang in directing Mulan
…she’s sitting out in the rain and she sees her father and mother, then it starts. And then she walks into the temple and she blows up the candles and… |
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Perfect Nightmare: Henry Selick on Making Christmas before time!
…with, the bugs inside Oogie Boogie. Look into the shadow areas, there are hidden details there that have never shown up on previous DVDs but will show up on the… |
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DisneyToon Studios and The Sequels That Never Were, with Tod Carter
…as an animator. In the mid 90s there was an incredible boom in the industry which provided great opportunities for artists. At the time, I was given an opportunity to… |
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Peter & The Wolf: A Bird’s-Eye View (With A Balloon!)
…the set. AV: Were you involved in the making of the models? AW: I was involved in it from the beginning, but rather construction-wise than the models themselves. Just couple… |
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The Great Mouse Detective
…changes in theatrical release, the resulting movie finally reaches the shiny disc video format in its original incarnation of The Great Mouse Detective on the sleeve, but as The Adventures… |
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Paul McCartney: The Music And Animation Collection
…that they have had their nocturnal fun for the night, and waiting for the time they will be able to soar again. In the book, a statement appears on the… |
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Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers
…of the main feature itself. In Backstage Disney, Get The Scoop continues the theme introduced in the Cast Commentary that Mickey and the gang really are actors making a movie…. |
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Mulan II
…just about cuts the mustard, though as with the main movie, the extras on the whole feel very light. Case Study: Again following in the footsteps of its more illustrious… |
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Shark Tale
…allows the cast to “join” them in the studio, which is fairly fun to see. Also in this section is a pointer to the included DVD-ROM printables, as well as… |
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Kronk’s New Groove
…Pacha only turns up in the bookends, leaving Kronk front and center for the most part, aided by Yzma in the first half and Ms Birdwell in the second. The… |
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Peter Pan Giveaway – Winner!
We teamed with Walt Disney Home Entertainment to offer one lucky winner a copy of the classic release of Peter Pan on DVD in a 2-disc Platinum Edition set! The… |
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Great Clubhouse Hunt
…away from this tradition for the first time, Mickey’s Great Clubhouse Hunt promotes the characters as they appear in the production on the front of the sleeve, and the initial… |
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Happily N’Ever After: Widescreen Edition
…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… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: Your Host, Walt Disney
…housed just like the three other titles in the December 2006 wave of Treasures, in a double-width keepcase inside an embossed tin. The information sheet featuring the set’s contents is… |
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The Best Of Casper: Volumes 1 and 2
…they are presented in the “the aspect ratio of their original television exhibition”, so someone isn’t getting the right emails within the company! Design is cut and paste between the… |
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The Legendary Laugh-O-Grams: Fairy Tales by Walt Disney
…intact, and the informational segments only help to place them into historical context without interfering with the films themselves. Compilations such as these are really what cartoon connoisseurs should be… |
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The Reef
…sound overly pushed forward, nesting in the track appropriately, pleasantly letting the vocals be heard while the music and effects do their jobs. The Foleys are as involved as they… |
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The AristoCats Special Edition – Winners Announced!
…mischievous kittens and abandons them in the French countryside. Soon, they’re being escorted home by the charming Thomas O’Malley, a rough-and-tumble alley cat, who takes them to his pad along… |
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Get Enchanted with our behind the scenes exclusives!
…to many of the principal crew for a series of exclusive behind the scenes interviews, including composer Alan Menken, animation director James Baxter and the director of Enchanted himself, Kevin… |
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The Classic Cabelleros Collection Contest – Winners!
…and his artists are inspired to create a decidedly loopy llama… …And in Chili, the artists gain more inspiration – and a little perspiration! – while Walt joins in the… |
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101 Dalmatians II: Patch’s London Adventure Special Edition
…sterling work in keeping the block-colored styling from the first film in the backgrounds, but the attempt at retaining the pencil look in the characters’ line drawings is somewhat marred… |
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2006; summer 2007; Disney Blu-Ray…
Before I slip into today’s post, I just wanted to point you in the direction of James R Whitson’s review for Happily N’Ever After, our first bit of currently-in–theaters coverage… |
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Flushed Away reviewed, plus win a copy!
Just as I was about to get our full review of the Flushed Away DVD up on Friday, the Internet Gods played havoc with my connection and decided to cut… |
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Groovie Goolies: The Saturday Mourning Collection
…door of my home theater. The gags come thick and fast, the puns would be enough to make the real Dracula spin in his grave, and the songs – including… |
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Peter Pan's color catastrophe; and cropped Disney features
…I love the film, the DVD left me wishing it had “never-never happened”), I touched upon the poor restoration of the image, including comments on the lack of sharpness and… |
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American Legends (featuring John Henry)
…recouping their investment. When the film was finished, there was then the issue of actually releasing it, with the main reason given for its long no-show as it being a… |
