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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…compilation features and television programs galore based around old cartoon output combined with new animation. He took Scrooge McDuck – a comics phenomenon – and put him on the screen… |
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Pinocchio In Outer Space
…little ditties. The collector in me bought this DVD, but the cartoon fan in me enjoyed it. Is This Thing Loaded? And here’s another example of how Image didn’t just… |
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Chicken Little comes to BluRay
…high definition disc, over at our Toon Review section. Chicken Little is far from Disney’s best work, but as a completely CGI film, it does offer an eye-popping presentation in… |
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Shrek The Weak reviewed, Enchanted leads box office
…million dollars domestically and has already made over 100 million dollars worldwide. Anyhoo, toon in tomorrow for my review on the last Super Friends series, a review that would have… |
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Gargoyles: The Complete First Season
…blood was animated in a Disney cartoon. Behind the show were people like Greg Weisman, the creator and producer of the show, and Frank Paur, the show’s co-producer and director… |
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Comic-Con 2006: Animated Coverage!
…group revealed that Silly Dreamer will soon be working with Shorts International, which provides programming to entertainment companies representing television, broadband internet, airlines, home video, mobile phones, and iTunes. Toon… |
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Another Conversation with Eric Goldberg
…eight-minute cartoon called A Monkey’s Tale for a Buddhist cultural center outside of Hong Kong. The Ngong Ping Village attraction (Ngong Ping 360 as they are officially calling it) was… |
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Get Enchanted! Chapter Four: Artists Harald Siepermann and Troy Quane
…on to do some storyboards in Los Angeles for Toon Town, the only sequence when Eddie Valiant is in a cartoon. From there on, Harald had one foot at the… |
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Who Discovered…Lyricist Glenn Slater?
…Amblin, but rather a prequel. Originally entitled Roger Rabbit II: Toon Platoon, the script, involving Nazi spies infiltrating Hollywood (and especially radio, where Jessica was working) was soon reworked, following… |
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Dumbo: 60th Anniversary Edition
…compliment) cartoon feature arrived with little fanfare, but with many new bonus extras that will please fans. After the mega success of Snow White in 1937, and the then less… |
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Lion King II: Simba’s Pride – Special Edition
DisneyToon Studios (October 27 1998), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (August 31 2004), 2 discs, 81 mins plus supplements, 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Surround, Rated G, Retail:… |
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Anastasia: Family Fun Edition
…studio’s other releases had been co-productions, pickups or distribution deals). Anastasia first hit screens almost a decade ago, in 1997, and came toward the end of the toon boom of… |
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Something for the weekend…?
…we’re – hey! – giving away three copies of the new toon Bah, Humduck! and one set of the Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Volume Four to a handful of lucky… |
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Aardman's new home; Treasures still a comin'; new contest and more reviews on the way, plus a recharge to the site coming soon…
…and on other projects. You’ll find a little recap on my recent woes and why I haven’t been showing up for these Tooning In… updates here, but rest assured that… |
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Ben's shamelessly blatant Film Festival event plug…
Okay…time to come clean! Although I’ve been keeping up with this ol’ Tooning In column better than usual, one of the reasons I still haven’t managed to get to that… |
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Mickey quits…
…post our official theatrical Toon Review sometime around Monday morning. And don’t forget that Josh’s interview with the film’s writer-prodocer Mike Scully is still fresh for a good read! In… |
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Renaissance
…its native French original, shot in motion-capture and cel-shaded not to look like a cartoon, but to look like the hard inked lines of a black and white comic book…. |
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Crazy triple bill: Popeye, The Simpsons, and 300 Spartans!??!
Things couldn’t get any better today as the Popeye: 1933-1938 Collection finally comes to DVD and is in stores right now for you classic cartoon nuts to go and pick… |
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Birdman's back! And so are Raggedy Ann and Andy!
As promised, Randall has dropped in with his latest review, for the Cartoon Network spoof Harvey Birdman, Attorney At Law: Volume Three, the show that takes classic Hanna-Barbera characters, shoves… |
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Not even a B- for Bee Movie!?
As promised our theatrical Toon Reviewer James R Whitson has posted his thoughts on Bee Movie, the meeting of computer animation giants DreamWorks with giant comedian Jerry Seinfeld. But wait…that… |
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It's Kung Fu Monday!
…and a very rewarding recipient of its $60 million opening box-office weekend! Kicking us off is James R Whitson’s full Toon Review of the movie, which eagle-eyed readers will spot… |
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WALL•E wins over the critics; Brit legend Oliver Postgate RIP…
…James has also just let me know that his animated view on Bolt should be making its way to the Toon Review line-up sometime today, so stay tooned! – Ben…. |
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Oscars, LaserDiscs, Lost Chords, and Wild animals!
…thought I’d add my toon cents worth; starting at the top with the Best Animated Feature nominees (where else!?), it’s really pleasing to see a bona fide Disney movie back… |
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Nick Animation Festival to showcase entries
…entries will be showcased on Nicktoons from November 16 through November 20, and will also be featured on their website. Check out Toon Zone for the full list of winners…. |
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The Princess And The Frog
…own CAPS system to their using the industry-standard Toon Boom packages, the lines being ever so finer and the colors not quite as “deep” as on the previous tradigital films… |
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Disney planning Planes franchise
…main characters will be jets an helicopters instead of cars and trucks. The first film is set to come to DVD and Blu-Ray from Disney’s Toon Studios sometime is 2013…. |
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Planes teaser flies online
…Disney Toon Studios, which is also responsible for the company’s current Tinker Bell series. Planes is the first movie in what Disney hopes will become a new franchise. It is… |
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Have A Laugh! Volumes 3 and 4
…first two Have A Laugh volumes had me beaming, because on top of the (ultimately redundant, it has to be said) cut-downs, the original, full-length cartoon shorts had been restored… |
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New Clip from Justice League: Doom
…League: Doom set to be on the streets February 2012, they can watch this clip from Toon Zone. If you can’t wait for the 28th, it is available for digital… |
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Care Bears Gets Reanimated Again
We’ve seen many of our beloved 1980s cartoon return to TV via the Hub, Cartooon Network, or single DVD release for a quick profit return. Toon Zone reports that American… |
