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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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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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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… |
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Mars Needs Moms
…device play, which truly stretches the gamut in the ways you can view the film, from the big-screen multi-dimensional experience to a tiny thumbnail image. While it’s nice to see… |
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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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Toy Story / Toy Story 2 / Toy Story 3 – 3D Editions
…their content. Included are what amount to tiny toy stories that played as television bumpers, though there are some funny little gags to be found amongst, it has to be… |
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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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Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection
…Tiny’s Big Adventure (1:10) is a quick little joke spot that features the littlest elf attempting to make a cup of coffee, while Kringle Academy (4:50) groups three spoof training… |
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ParaNorman
…to have found a natural bonding with such subject matter over the years, especially in recent times. George Pal’s Puppetoon series in the 1930s often featured a terrified character called… |
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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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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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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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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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Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse In Living Color, Volume Two
…1933 cartoon The Mad Doctor – another one of my favorites. Fans will finally be able to see this brilliant cartoon, and get a real kick from the in-jokes (apart… |
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Il était une fois…Walt Disney – Artistic Sources Exhibition
…the informative years of growth at his Studio. It was a time that saw such leaps and bounds as the first cartoon in Technicolor, the first full-length color and sound… |
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Lady And The Tramp: 50th Anniversary Platinum Edition
…forgets one is watching a cartoon, the whole look smacks of authenticity both in the designs and the deep, lushly painted backgrounds. The editing is also less frantic than we… |
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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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Kronk’s New Groove
DisneyToon Studios/Walt Disney Home Entertainment (December 13 2005), single disc, 75 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS Surround, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard: Set five… |
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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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Bambi: Platinum Edition
…loves and fulfil his destiny… The Sweatbox Review: If Beauty And The Beast was the next generation of Disney artists’ take on the Snow White-styled fairy-tale, and Aladdin their knockabout… |
