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Animal Farm (1954) - DVD Review
Posted on 12.16.04 by Widge @ 1:08 am
Animal Farm (1954) DVD cover art

Film:
DVD:

Written by: Joy Batchelor, Joseph Bryan III, John Halas, Borden Mace, Philip Stapp & Lothar Wolff, based on the novel by George Orwell
Directed by: Joy Batchelor & John Halas
Starring the Voices of: Maurice Denham & Gordon Heath

Features:

  • Original storyboards of scenes
  • Running audio commentary by film historian Brian Sibley
  • Making-of featurette from the BBC: "Down on Animal Farm"
  • Liner notes by art historian Karl Cohen

Released by: Home Vision
Region: 1
Rating: NR
Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 format

My Advice: Animation fans must own.

Manor Farm has a problem...its human owner. Mr. Jones is a cruel drunkard, who sleeps off his hangover while his animals go hungry. Finally, after a stirring speech by the porcine patriarch, Old Major, the animals decide they've had enough. They drive off Jones and successfully defend the farm, making it their own. The problem is that after a revolution, there's always the question of: now what? Stay free...or become something worse?

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Categorized as: Animation and Reviews
Comments: None



Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Season 1 (2003) - DVD Review
Posted on 02.02.04 by ScottC @ 6:16 pm
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Season 1 DVD cover art

Film:
DVD:

Character Created by: Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, published by Marvel Comics
Starring the Voices of: Neil Patrick Harris, Lisa Loeb, Ian Ziering, David Carradine

Features:

  1. Running audio commentary on all episodes by select members of the cast and crew, including writer/producer Brian Michael Bendis and creator Lee
  2. All thirteen first season episodes
  3. In screen trivia pop-ups
  4. Production artwork
  5. Test footage
  6. Outtake reel
  7. Featurettes: "The Making of Spider-Man," "Spider-Man Tech: Creating the Models," "Spider-Man Tech: Animating Performance," and " Spider-Man Music: The Composers"

Released by: Columbia Tristar
Region: 1
Rating: NR
Anamorphic: Yes

My Advice: Wait for cable.

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Categorized as: Animation and Reviews
Comments: None




Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) - DVD Review
Posted on 12.07.03 by HTQ4 @ 5:59 pm
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Film:
DVD:

Written by: Robert May & Romeo Muller
Directed by: Kizo Nagashima & Larry Roemer
Starring: the voices of Burl Ives, Larry D. Mann, Billie Mae Richards, Paul Soles, Janet Orenstein

Features:

  • Interactive Trivia Game
  • "Fame and Fortune" song
  • Original TV Promo
  • ReadSpeak Action Captions

Released by:
Region: 1
Rating:
Anamorphic: N/A; appears in its original 1.33:1 format

My Advice: Own it

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer had a very shiny nose and, if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows. All of the other reindeer...oh hell, you know the story. But this DVD tells you the untold story of Rudolph; how he and his friends, Yukon Cornelius (Mann) and Hermey the elf (Soles), conquered and tamed the dreaded Abominable Snowman, how he and his friends saved the toys on the Island of Misfit toys, and how he won the heart of Clarice the Regular-nosed Reindeer (Orenstein). That's right, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer: Wild Beast Tamer, Philanthropist, Lover.

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Categorized as: Animation and Reviews
Comments: None



A Bug's Life (1998) - DVD Review
Posted on 12.07.03 by Widge @ 3:39 pm
A Bug's Life: 1999 Collector's Edition DVD cover art

Film:
DVD:

Written by: Don McEnery, Bob Shaw & Andrew Stanton based on a story by John Lasseter, Joe Ranft & Andrew Stanton
Directed by: John Lasseter & Andrew Stanton
Starring: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Denis Leary, Phyllis Diller

Features:

  • Audio commentary with Lasseter, Stanton and supervising film editor Lee Unkrich
  • Early executive presentation starring "Fleabie"
  • Behind-the-scenes coverage of the film with introductions and explanations by the filmmakers
  • Original story treatment and pitch boards
  • Character designs, concept art and color script
  • Sequences abandoned for the final film
  • Storyboard-to-final-film split-screen comparison
  • Behind-the-scenes look at voice talent
  • Early production tests
  • Production progression demonstration with each of the stages of production represented
  • Sound designer Gary Rydstrom on the sound effects in the film
  • Trailers and posters
  • Behind-the-scenes look at how the film was altered to accomodate whackos who like full-frame movies
  • Both takes of outtakes along with a featurette regarding them
  • Pixar's short, "Geri's Game"

Released by: Disney
Region: 1
Rating: G
Anamorphic: Yes

My Advice: Own it.

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Categorized as: Animation and Reviews
Comments: None



Justice League (2001) - DVD Review
Posted on 12.07.03 by Doc @ 7:37 am

Film:
DVD:

Written by Stan Berkowitz, Rich Fogel
Directed by Butch Lukic, Dan Riba
Starring the Voices of Susan Eisenberg, Kevin Conroy, George Newbern, Michael Rosenbaum, Phil LaMarr, Carl Lumbly, and Maria Canals

Features:

  • Character Bios
  • Cast & Crew
  • Trailers of other WB Family titles
  • DVD-ROM Web links

Rating: NR, suitable for audiences 7+
Anamorphic: N/A; episodes presented in their original 1.33:1 format.
My Advice: Rent it.

Most of my generation remembers well their first real exposure to DC's Justice League: the venerable (though incredibly cheesy) Hanna-Barbera production Superfriends. The plots were goofy, there were ridiculous sidekicks thrown in (I can't decide to this day if I dislike the Wonder Twins or Wendy & Marvin worse), but it was cool when we were seven and Saturday morning was awash in cheesy cartoons. So it was with a great deal of joy and anticipation that I awaited the premiere of Cartoon Network's new treatment, Justice League. Developed by the same people that brought out the wicked Batman/Superman Adventures show, it promised to provide a new look at the Superfriends of old, without Gleek or silly craft projects led by Aquaman.

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Categorized as: Animation and Reviews
Comments: None



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