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Aladdin: Platinum Edition

about the visual inspirations, drawings, and paintings made for the film. They talk about the thousands of drawings that didn’t make it into the film and what was already there

Directors Buck and Brannon on Surf’s Up

…studio. They’re just planting their feet. There’s a real enthusiasm because of that. Everybody is in the trenches together. There’s excitement, and there’s lots of willingness to take risks with…

A Conversation with Andreas Deja

There’s a really nice piece by Jack Davis, and there’s Charles Schulz sketches, all kinds of artists. AV: One last question – you mentioned previously that you had acquired Milt…

A Conversation with Eric Goldberg

…he doesn’t get mad. AV: I’m looking over there and I see some Disney pictures on the walls. EG: Yeah. There’s some John Hench stuff in there. AV: One looks…

Ariel’s Song: Glenn Slater, a sparkling lyricist for The Little Mermaid on Broadway!

…chasing another character. If there’s one thing that movies do fabulously well, it’s chase scenes, and there’s one thing that theater does extremely poorly, it’s chase scenes. Everything that we…

Sleeping Beauty Deluxe Edition

…anniversary edition LaserDisc box set. Disney kept up their tradition of porting much of the material from the LD sets over to the DVD edition, and there was a great…

The Adventures Of Ichabod And Mr Toad: Gold Classic Collection

…back-cover prodding to visit the Disney Videos site. All in all, there’s not a very varied selection of goodies, but some thought has been put into the games and at…

The Rescuers

…title looks a lot better than it does here. Well, there you have it. There’s little that ties to the actual main feature, and as usual the theatrical trailer is…

The Lion King: Platinum Special Edition

…each section contains content that you will have seen using the main screen icons, there are little extras to be found here as well. In Asia, there’s a hysterical Multi-Language…

Walt: The Man Behind The Myth

…Stores and theme park shops. This re-issue sees the documentary more widely available, and though specs from the previous release remain exactly the same, there really is a world of…

Brother Bear: Special Edition

…whimper that it would have had with Brother Bear, and also with a film created at the original Burbank Studio, rather than a satellite spin-off. There’s no actual problem with…

Mulan: Special Edition

…by Hercules’ David Zippel at the last moment. There’s no doubting that Schwartz’ take would have been more sombre (perhaps in keeping with the original treatment of the story), though…

The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition

…great bonus, and the mere fact of having so many animators on one track meant that there wasn’t any time that someone wasn’t talking (and usually saying something interesting). There

Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition

…concept I can’t recall being repeated to any extent until the recent Brother Bear. There’s also the obvious love story aspect about it all, too, being one of the Studio’s…

Cinderella III: A Twist In Time

…a deeper hole. But when it introduces its own little twist, and breaks free of the comparisons, Cinders III transforms and becomes something entirely different. There’s no real tonal change,…

Walt Disney Treasures: The Adventures Of Oswald The Lucky Rabbit

…up in a gorgeous looking new digital restoration that has new Disney Animation chief John Lasseter’s fingerprints all over it. Though there’s still some gate weave and contrast fluctuations, there’s

The AristoCats: Special Edition

…movies (there’s even one shot, with O’Malley falling off the back of a truck, that’s an exact duplicate of the same scene in Dalmatians), and is at times fairly episodic….

Spidey's tangled web…

…other arrogant, short-tempered teenager). Actually, this is very much to the detriment of the script, which desperately needs more weight, and isn’t helped in that there’s no big redemption moment,…

Lee a marvel at Mouse House?; Disney Songbook comes to London

…very enthusiastic about the first-look deal between Disney and Lee’s production company POW! Entertainment, there’s little to get excited about. Home video exec Bob Chapek has been spoken about being…

Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas

…the lifeless 3D with the 2D linking segment art to see that, while the faces are there, the souls are gone and there’s precious little magic left. Interesting too that…

Tweety and Sylvester back on DVD

…original run, and though he calls the mysteries themselves “thin and contrived”, he does admit that the show is not “a total loss for classic animation fans. In fact, there

Our extensive Sleeping Beauty review is up!

…what’s actually not been carried over from previous deluxe LaserDisc and DVD Special Edition releases. If there’s anything missing in here, it probably doesn’t exist! Having spent much of the…

Of Paramount importance: a pair of live-action reviews!

…egos didn’t want to stretch that far, though names apart that’s the basic idea and would have certainly added some levels. Funnily enough, after his breakthrough in There’s Something About

More Peter & The Wolf, Madagascar 2 – and a quick catch-up!

…“Practically Perfect” Songwriter! – Celebrating its 45th Anniversary, we speak to the legendary composer about Walt’s 1964 classic! There’s still lots more on the way, so stay tooned! — Ben….

New twists on Oliver, Poppins, Peanuts and Bugs' Looney Movie!

there’s a promise of some “classic cartoons” and the $14.98 list price ain’t bad. For those counting, this will only leave Daffy Duck’s Movie: Fantastic Island and the later, produced…

Pinocchio: Platinum Edition

…the soundtrack is probably more valuable as something else the Studio can promote as its own purchase. The LD’s original 22 minute documentary isn’t something I would start complaining about

The Disney Song Encyclopedia

…aimed at talking to everyone whatever the acquaintance with music. There’s always something to learn here about many of the Disney divisions using songs: animation, live-action, television, Broadway musical, records…

Tropic Thunder: 2-Disc Unrated Director’s Cut

Something About Mary, I’ve slowly slipped away from enjoying Stiller as much, though it’s certainly true that while he has repeated himself over and over, he’s far from becoming the…

Spider-Man 3

…to the detriment of the script, which desperately needs more weight, and isn’t helped in that there’s no big redemption moment, such as the one that just about saved Superman…

Wild about Wild Things, Up, Sister Act and more!

…in any much higher regard, but I must admit that Rodney’s enthusiasm for the series and its many surprisingly twisty and turned plots does sound like there was more thought…