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Whatever happened to Robert Zemeckis?
…not live-action and the audience can’t identify directly with the actor, thus rendering the nuances that thousands of tiny mo-cap suit balls can’t possible register redundant. Then again, it’s not… |
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Popeye (live-action movie)
…an instant hit, soon catching the eye of cartoon producer Max Fleischer and his director brother Dave, who were looking for a possible replacement for their Betty Boop cartoon series… |
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Ratatouille
…only just one teeny, tiny problem…Remy is a rat! The Sweatbox Review: What can be said that hasn’t already been said about this year’s clear animation winner? Essentially, all the… |
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Oscars, Richard Sherman, SuperFriends and more – it's another packed Monday!
…commanding about this latest, ultimately redundant version. In anticipation on Warners’ Academy Award Animation release on February 12, we’ve been sent a teeny, tiny clip from the end of Knighty… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut
…fancy name you give it, is like old-school pencil drawn rotoscoping, where the movement is so tailored to reality that it then doesn’t actually fit in a cartoon world. And… |
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Horton Hears A Who!: Deluxe Edition
…the multiple cartoon specials (including George Pal’s 1944 Puppetoon And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street) that lend it a multi-media quality that predates the later Sesussical… |
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The Astonishing Work Of Tezuka Osamu
…this film initially reminded me of Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange, until I remembered that his film would not be out yet for a few years after this cartoon was created…. |
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Gigantor: The Collection, Volume Two
Tele-Cartoon Japan/Delphi Associates (1966), E1 Entertainment (September 15, 2009), 4 discs, 650 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $39.98 Storyboard: The space… |
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A Christmas Carol: director Robert Zemeckis’ season’s greetings!
…characters and Gary Oldman plays the ghost of Scrooge’s former business partner Marley, as well as Scrooge’s clerk Robert Cratchit and Cratchit’s son, Tiny Tim. We have a wonderful cast,… |
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Wood and Williams return for Happy Feet 2
…tap dancing penguin Mumble, while Williams will be reprising the roles of two characters, the tiny Ramon and the larger than life penguin guru Lovelace. Happy Feet 2 is currently… |
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Prep & Landing
…up the engines”, which is accomplished by a tiny elf dropping in front of the two lead reindeer, Dasher and Dancer, and basically pumping them up for the launch. Actually,… |
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Studio Ghibli’s Next Film Announced
…book The Borrowers by the late British author Mary Norton about a race of tiny people who “borrow” things and keep their existence a secret. The Borrowers series has previously… |
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How To Train Your Dragon
…but add nuance to the characters and their changing relationships: a tiny reaction to a touch or a hint of a sidewards glance. These are the types of responses real… |
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Toy Story 3
…and not at all forced. The last five minutes deserve special praise. Without giving anything away, just note how every expression, every look, and even something as tiny as an… |
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He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown – Charlie Loses Snoopy (clip)
…Brown sends the offending beagle away to puppy boot camp. Equipped with a tiny suitcase and his own doggy dish, Snoopy heads to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm but never… |
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He’s Your Dog, Charlie Brown – Let’s Build An Ice Rink (behind the scenes)
…Brown sends the offending beagle away to puppy boot camp. Equipped with a tiny suitcase and his own doggy dish, Snoopy heads to the Daisy Hill Puppy Farm but never… |
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Arrietty, the Borrower and Cecile Corbel, the Composer…
…you much, but what I can tell you is that she’s a tiny little girl about 3 inches tall. She’s a pretty girl, very fresh and seems so fragile due… |
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A Christmas Carol
…extras into his way. And then Zemeckis doesn’t know when to cut, the chase turning into an overproduced cartoon with plenty of perspective background animation that was amazing back when… |
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Charlie Brown’s Christmas Tales
…the only instance of the characters’ hometown ever being named. This tiny tribute to Charles “Sparky” Schulz is just a little throwaway thing, but I enjoyed it. Seasons Greetings From… |
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A Charlie Brown Valentine
…with age, and countless additional hours of cartoon viewing in the intervening years that have taken much of the edge off the novelty of seeing those funny drawings move. And… |
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Tangled
…to a tiny thumbnail image. Across all of the discs in the set, Sneak Peeks include Cars 2, Tron: Legacy, The Lion King, Winnie The Pooh, Dumbo, The Incredibles and… |
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Captain America (1990)
…to follow through on a planned theatrical release (except overseas, where it did a tiny amount of business), it did come out officially onto VHS in the USA around 1992,… |
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Treasure Planet: 10th Anniversary Edition
…seems with Silver and the rest of the crew, when the cyborg stages a mutiny. Jim’s quick thinking saves his immediate friends and their eventual escape leads them to the… |
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New Smurfs 2 Trailer Gives Away More Story
…is available for viewing. It explains a bit more about what we can expect in the sequel, returning cast members, journeying back to our world, and new tiny creatures that… |
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Wreck-It Ralph: Ultimate Collector’s Edition
…to introduce a new Disney (anti-)hero…had we not recently seen the exact same shtick play out in one of the Toy Story Toons in which rejected fast-food meal toys come… |
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Mulan: 15th Anniversary 2-Movie Collection
Walt Disney Feature Animation, DisneyToon Studios (June 19 1998, November 15 2004), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (March 12 2013), Blu-ray plus two DVD discs, 88 and 79 mins plus supplements,… |
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Choose which Amazon.com pilots become series
…the lineup include the adult comedy Supanatural as well as kids series Positively Ozitively, Sara Solves It, Creative Galaxy, Teeny Tiny Dogs and Tumbleaf. During its selection process, Amazon will… |
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From Up On Poppy Hill
…a tiny bit abrupt at the very end), and ends what has been an enlightening journey through Japanese history and a special friendship. The pace of the film is leisurely,… |
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Muppet designer Faz Fazakas passed away
…well. He is credited with making Muppets ride bikes, world-building on The Dark Crystal, and designing the control mechanisms for the huge Gorgs and tiny Doozers in Fraggle Rock. Faz… |
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Annie Award nominees for 2013 films revealed
…and Walks – Regular Show – Cartoon Network Studios • Tom Kenny as the voice of Ice King – Adventure Time – Cartoon Network Studios Voice Acting in an Animated… |
