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The Simpsons: Bart Wars (2005) - DVD Review
Posted on 05.23.05 by Cosette @ 1:33 am
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Film:
DVD:

Created by Matt Groening
Starring the voices of Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Nancy Cartwright, and Yeardley Smith

Features:

  • Four episodes: "Dog of Death," "Marge Be Not Proud," "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson," and "Mayored to the Mob"
  • Animatics and storyboards on the first act of "Mayored"

Released by: Fox Home Entertainment
Rating: NR
Region: 1
Anamorphic: N/A; released in its original 1.33:1 format

My Advice: Grab it if you're a Simpsons fan.

The Simpsons are back with four classic episodes. In "Dog of Death," Santa's Little Helper needs an expensive operation. The family resents having to sacrifice other things to pay for it, and he runs away, only to become an attack dog of Mr. Burns'. Bart gets caught shoplifting in "Marge Be Not Proud," and has to find a way to earn his mother's respect again at Christmas. "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson" finds Bart sent off to military school after a typical Bart incident, and Lisa decides she wants to go, too, only to find herself the butt of the other cadets' hazing because she is a girl.

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The Incredibles (2004) - DVD Review
Posted on 05.14.05 by Widge @ 1:37 am
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Film:
DVD:

Written & Directed by Brad Bird
Starring the Voices of Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Sarah Vowell, Spencer Fox

Features:

  • Running audio commentary by writer/director Bird and producer John Walker
  • Running audio commentary by the animation team
  • New animated short: "Jack-Jack Attack"
  • Bloopers and outtakes
  • Deleted scenes and alternate opening
  • Making-of featurette plus extended making-of sequences
  • Short film: "Boundin'" with running audio commentary by director Bud Luckey
  • Bud Luckey featurette
  • NSA files on all supers
  • New animated short: "Mr. Incredible & Pals" with optional running audio commentary by Mr. Incredible & Frozone
  • Featurette: "Vowellet" with voice actor Vowell
  • Intros by Bird

Released by: Buena Vista.
Rating: PG.
Region: 1
Anamorphic: Yes.

My Advice: It's a Pixar release. What do you think?

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Categorized as: Animation and Reviews
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Animal Farm (1954) - DVD Review
Posted on 12.16.04 by Widge @ 1:08 am
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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
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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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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
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