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Bee Movie Fun Facts
…react if they knew that humans were taking and selling their invaluable product…and that’s where the idea for Bee Movie’s storyline came from. Welcome to the sandbox: Jerry Seinfeld was… |
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Jack Frost: Deluxe Edition
…few story points that don’t go anywhere and ends the story rather unluckily for Jack himself. This departure from the main plot, and a couple of standard song moments (for… |
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Casper and Wendy’s Ghostly Adventures
Famous Studios (1951-1962), Classic Media (July 30, 2002), 1 disc set, 82 mins, 1.33:1 original full screen ratio, Dolby Digital Stereo, Rated G, Retail: $9.95 Storyboard: Casper and Wendy’s Ghostly… |
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Once Upon A Time In New York City: Oliver & Company Animator Dave Pruiksma!
…some as indecisive as a director, but I never had any trouble with him. You must also remember that this was a very difficult time in the history of Disney… |
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Ambitious plans for Portland-based animation studio Laika
…of which could be its next project. Ultimately, it may produce all three: Here Be Monsters! from the books by Alan Snow, is a steampunk-flavored story set in a fantasy… |
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The success story of Disney On Ice
…Broadway powerhouse. He and David Schrader, a Disney executive vice president, worked with Feld Entertainment to make the shows more theatrical by improving storytelling and tinkering with components like costumes… |
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Oliver & Company: 20th Anniversary Edition
…Storyboard: Charles Dickens’ classic story of little orphaned Oliver is given a delightfully contemporary Disney twist, swapping the action from ye olde Victorian London town and planting it firmly in… |
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Mary Poppins: 45th Anniversary Edition
…that is good about Disney films: great characters, wonderful showmanship and a strong story, even if it is episodic by its book-adapted nature. Like Peter Pan, the story opens with… |
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Azur & Asmar: Michel Ocelot’s Quest For Tolerance
…will compete against each other to be the first one to rescue the fairy.” This is the new story animation wizard Michel Ocelot (Princes and Princesses) tells us in his… |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars – A Galaxy Divided
…and planning. The themes are always well integrated into the storylines for each episode. Some of the storylines introduced in the first few episodes include the diplomatic battle between the… |
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Bedtime Stories
…widescreen, DTS-HD 5.1 Surround, Rated PG, Retail: $39.99 Storyboard: Babysitting his sister’s kids, Uncle Skeeter (Adam Sandler) finds the stories he tells them starting to come to life in his… |
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Ratatouille
Unlike every other review written for Pixar’s Ratatouille, I promise no cheesy food puns… except for that one. Ratatouille is the story of a rat named Remy who has an… |
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Kung Fu Panda
…in a lot of their films). But story-wise things just weren’t clicking for me. In the past DreamWorks has competed with Disney by making two different types of movies. There… |
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Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs
…good job with it. There are several really fun and exciting sequences that will have kids on the edge of their seats and adults watching with interest. The story itself… |
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From one sanctuary to another: Christophe Vacher on art directing 9
…in a feature film. This way, I could totally understand what he was trying to do in terms of storytelling, combining that kind of esoterism with a human story –since… |
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Disney Princess Enchanted Tales (with Bonus Disc)
…Storyboard: A ton of unsold copies of Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams are repackaged with a redundant new bonus disc bundled in. The Sweatbox Review: First released back in 2007,… |
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Grave Of The Fireflies: Collector’s Series
…Complete Storyboards Of The Film, which is definitely something that animation aficionados can sink their teeth into. Here we have graphic storytelling in its purest form, undiluted with ink or… |
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Danger Mouse: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2
…Dream Cloud story gets positively surreal, and the outer space scenes in Custard are fun. At one point in that story, DM goes Tex Avery by re-drawing a map of… |
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest: Family Fun Edition
…General Assembly Hall— on Earth Day, introduced by Olivia Newton-John!) The goal of the creators was to tell a story that every child and adult could relate to, a story… |
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Ultimate Avengers: The Movie
…Storyboard: Captain America is discovered frozen in ice just as America is starting up its new Super Soldier program. Cap is joined by an assortment of heroes who each have… |
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The Tick Vs. Season One
…Not Rated, Retail: $34.99 Storyboard: A lovable big, blue dufus and his little pal fight crime in The City. The Sweatbox Review: Citizens! Behold the origin of the mighty Tick!… |
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The Fox And The Hound 2
Disney (Direct to DVD), Walt Disney Home Entertainment (December 12, 2006), single disc, 69 mins plus supplements, 1.78:1 anamorphic widescreen, Dolby Digital 5.1/ DTS 5.1, Rated G, Retail: $29.99 Storyboard:… |
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Walt Disney Treasures: The Mickey Mouse Club Presents The Hardy Boys
…Storyboard: The famous boy detectives find themselves on the trail of pirate gold in their first adventure, which was originally serialized on The Mickey Mouse Club. The Sweatbox Review: The… |
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
…animated show is integrated into Trek history. Lastly, Show History provides some useless text that simply rehashes what has already been covered elsewhere. Ignoring this final entry, Paramount has put… |
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Defenders Of The Earth: The Complete Series, Volume Two
…the first disc. This story includes an extensive flashback to a real story from the 1930s Phantom newspaper strip that featured a female band of air pirates, and ties it… |
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Space Ghost & Dino Boy: The Complete Series
Hanna-Barbera (1966), Warner Home Video (July 17, 2007), 2 discs, 420 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital Mono, Not Rated, Retail: $26.98 Storyboard: An outer space… |
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Teen Titans: The Complete Fifth Season
Warner Bros. (2007), Warner Home Video (July 8, 2008), 2 discs, 299 mins plus supplements, 1.33:1 original full frame ratio, Dolby Digital 2.0, Not Rated, Retail: $19.98 Storyboard: The Teen… |
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It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: Remastered Deluxe Edition
Melendez/Mendelson Productions (1966), Warner Home Video (September 2, 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: Linus… |
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Director Torill Kove on The Danish Poet
…because that’s what I enjoy doing. Even if it’s not your own story, make sure you really like the story, because you’re going to be stuck with it for a… |
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Madame Tutli-Putli vs. The Crazy Locomotive
…complicated, but totally useless! We began doing storyboards, but very quickly, we realized that it didn’t work. It made something pedantic and static. Storyboard drawing is not at all our… |
