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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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WALL-E: 3-Disc Special Edition
…such is the tearaway impact of the film in regards to it being a “cartoon”, that Pixar’s parent distributor Disney is rumored to be eyeing a push for a Best… |
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The Little Mermaid II: Return To The Sea – Special Edition
…ever so tiny and out of the way Morgana just about edging herself into the bottom left and, on the right, the usual proud image of Triton that may as… |
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Snoopy! X-Men! The Calgary Expo!
Hello toonfans, and a happy “May Day” Holiday to those in the UK. If you’ve been trying to (unsuccessfully) access our review of Gulliver’s Travels, please note that it’s now… |
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Warner Archive: The Our Gang Collection
…is well and truly to be lamented. Not that we also lost the guaranteed addition of an animated cartoon on the bill, as well as often very entertaining second features… |
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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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Saturday Morning Cartoons – 1960s: Volume 2
…Scaredy Cat, the hilarious Bugs-as-conductor cartoon Baton Bunny, and Foghorn Leghorn’s stab at fatherhood in Feather Dusted. And it is cool to see this show intact, with the original opening… |
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Pixar Short Films to debut on ABC Family
…in the larger lamp. Even though he is a bit unpredictable, the elder Luxo gives him room to grow and explore. And the tiny light has no problem with that…. |
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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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Thunderbean Roundup: Van Beuren Studio Cartoons and Other Strange and Commercial Rarities
…Van Beuren Studio’s Toddle Tales & Rainbow Parades Cartoons and Cartoon Commercials! The Sweatbox Review: Animation preservationist Steve Stanchfield, through his Thunderbean distribution company, has for several years now been… |
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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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Tom & Jerry: Deluxe Anniversary Collection
…through later TV incarnations, to Joe Barbera’s last outing produced for the Cartoon Network. But the puzzling choices begin right with the package in one’s hands: what is a Deluxe… |
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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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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
…of humiliation and anger involved, and the outcome of this story reverberated through the comic strip and the cartoon specials for years to come. The beauty of casting Linus in… |
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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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Stop-Motion Marvels!
…highlight of this disc for me was seeing a Puppetoon I’d never seen before. The Sky Princess (1942) is from George Pal’s beloved series of shorts (best showcased on disc… |
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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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Superman: The Motion Picture Anthology
…swapped for a CG cartoon (created by Sony Imageworks, who just can’t get away from rubbery humanoids) instead. There had been rumors that Singer had lost interest in the film… |
