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Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax: Deluxe Edition
DePatie-Freleng (1972), Warner Home Video (February 14, 2012), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 25 mins, 4:3 ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0, Rated G, Retail: $24.98 Storyboard: A forest creature pleads with… |
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One Hundred And One Dalmatians: Diamond Edition
…G, Retail: $36.99 Storyboard: When Anita and Roger Radcliffe’s none-too-welcome acquaintance Cruella de Vil learns that their Dalmatians Pongo and Perdita are about to be parents, she plans to buy… |
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Farmageddon: A Shaun the Sheep Movie
…myself! “The most daring decision the filmmakers made when creating the story is to keep the entire movie dialogue-free. Yes, that’s in keeping with the TV show, but what works… |
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Freakazoid!: Season 1
…fill in the Freakazoid origin story, and a pretty elaborate episode it is too, even if the more structured storyline hampers some of the comedy. But then, as the credits… |
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Batman – The Brave And The Bold: Season Two, Part One
…clearly harkens back to the 1950s era Batman, and that’s no more evident than in the main story, actually adapted from a comic book story from that era. In what… |
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Director Roger Allers on The Little Matchgirl
…Andersen’s story, he never really said where the story takes place. He describes the girl; he describes her actions with people of the town. But he never actually says what… |
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The Blazing Dragons of Monty Python’s Terry Jones
…second season story editor Erika Strobel, “Gavin had written a series bible (concept, characters etc.) as well as a pilot script.” So Jones and Scott would be credited as the… |
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Spies in Disguise
Spies in Disguise is a unique story with a stellar voice cast, nice animation, all wrapped up in a package that’s a lot of fun. Unfortunately, it could’ve been so… |
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Co-director Chris Renaud on No Time For Nuts
…reviewed as a story artist, but I didn’t really understand the position. I mean, I had seen behind-the-scenes things with Pixar. But I had done a lot of storyboards for… |
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The Beatrix Potter Collection
…$29.98 Storyboard: Also known under its production and broadcast banner The World Of Peter Rabbit And Friends, this collection brings together the delightfully animated versions of Beatrix Potter’s beautiful illustrations…. |
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A Charlie Brown Christmas: Remastered Deluxe Edition
Melendez/Mendelson Productions (1965), Warner Home Video (October 7, 2008), 1 disc, 25 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 1.0 Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: The… |
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How to Train Your Dragon: Dragonvine
…first book The Serpent’s Heir. Dragonvine does feature in its entirety Burning Midnight, a 10-page story that was published on Free Comic Book Day in 2016, where Hiccup and the… |
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The Jungle Book 2: Special Edition
…wish to read our DVD review of the original release of The Jungle Book 2 here. Storyboard: Despite making new friends in the village, Mowgli yearns for the jungle, and… |
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DC Universe Original Movie Justice League: Crisis On Two Earths arrives February 23, 2010
…Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer’s Identity Crisis, and why this story struck the right chord with the comic book audience. The story is a personal one for the creator, as… |
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How Dean Wright and Wendy Rogers brought FX to Prince Caspian
…But the goal is, for the effects, not to ever overpower the story, overpower the film. It’s about about supporting the story, creating the supporting characters for the kids to… |
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The Good Dinosaur
…mantra: “story is king”. But here the story is either non-existent or too-often told. The plot is a very basic, almost bare-bones, coming-of-age road trip about a young dinosaur who… |
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Puss In Boots: composer Henry Jackman’s Spanish Hour
…the symphonic orchestra can deliver storypoints and grandeur and emotion in a way a guitar couldn’t. Fortunately for me, there is a history in concert music of Spanish influence appearing… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Complete Goofy
…Disney for some time in the story department. Coming from a circus background, he knew what would make the audience laugh. After doing some great impressions during the story department… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…sets up its story and runs with it, providing economic storytelling coupled with quality animated slapstick and wit. The animation has clearly been advanced from what was achievable when the… |
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The New Adventures Of Superman: DC Classics
Filmation Associates (September 10 1966), Warner Home Entertainment (June 26 2007), 2 discs, 252 mins plus supplement, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard:… |
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Woody Woodpecker And Friends: Classic Cartoon Collection
…cartoon, where one could be mistaken for thinking that Walter Lantz almost single-handedly made these shorts all by himself. He’s seen hammering out the story, drawing the story sketches, advising… |
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It's the story, fool!
…story. In the end, Disney’s franchise and the animation medium may have been sullied and diluted, but like its own classics, it was by the stroke of Disney’s own hand.”… |
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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse
Virtually everyone knows the story of Peter Parker and his thrilling adventures as Spider-Man. One of the most popular superheroes since his creation by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko in… |
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Scooby-Doo: Stage Fright
Hanna-Barbera/Warner Bros. (2013), Warner Home Video (August 20, 2013), 1 Blu-ray + 1 DVD, 78 mins, 16:9 ratio, DTS-HD Master Audio, Not Rated, Retail: $24.98 Storyboard: Fred and Daphne enter… |
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The Animated Seuss
…simplistic and boring books that kids had normally been given to read in school. Still using only “approved” words from the Dolch reading list, he managed to create a story… |
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Soul
…and you’re going to enjoy the movie. Go in expecting a laugh-fest, you’re going to be disappointed. With that out of the way, the story is almost pitch-perfect. Unfortunately for… |
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Frozen
…hills (literally!) and leaves Arendelle in a perpetual winter. It’s up to Anna to find her sister and save the kingdom. The storytelling style of Frozen is very much in… |
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Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving – 10th Anniversary Edition
…The Sweatbox Review: The adventure begins with the same storybook opening of the original shorts before a narrator begins telling the story of how Winnie the Pooh and his friends… |
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Beowulf: Director’s Cut (HD DVD)
Paramount (2007), Paramount Home Entertainment (February 26, 2008), 2 discs, 114 mins plus supplements, 2.35:1 ratio, Dolby Digital, Not Rated, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: The oldest story in English literature is… |
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2017: Animated Views’ Review Of The Year!
…found the story a little predictable in how it tried to surprise the audience, it was a total pleasure to simply bask in the beautiful animation and exquisite storytelling. Oftentimes,… |
