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Destino (2003) - Animation Review

Posted on 02.20.04 by Rob Levy @ 8:27 pm
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Written by: John Hench & Salvador Dali
Directed by: Dominique Monfery

My Advice: Don't miss it.

Before he left the company his family founded, Roy Disney revived a project that had been dormant since 1945. In that year surrealist Salvador Dali and animator Walt Disney, under a shroud of secrecy, began work on "Destino." Originally intended for use in a later Disney animated compendium, the project was constantly troubled. Dali and Disney were very good friends, yet their filmic collaboration was arduous. Both were artistic craftsmen with intense eyes for detail. Both were control freaks determined to have precision and syncopation in the film. In 1946, constantly bogged down by financial troubles, "Destino" succumbed to incompletion.

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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series: Season 1 (2003) - DVD Review

Posted on 02.02.04 by ScottC @ 6:16 pm
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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:

Running audio commentary on all episodes by select members of the cast and crew, including writer/producer Brian Michael Bendis and creator Lee
All thirteen first season episodes
In screen trivia pop-ups
Production artwork
Test footage
Outtake reel
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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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964) - DVD Review

Posted on 12.07.03 by HTQ4 @ 5:59 pm
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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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A Bug's Life (1998) - DVD Review

Posted on 12.07.03 by Widge @ 3:39 pm
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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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Justice League (2001) - DVD Review

Posted on 12.07.03 by Doc @ 7:37 am
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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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