The Incredibles: Collector’s Edition
August 29, 2005
The Incredibles (2004) marks the first effort from the collaboration between Brad Bird (responsible for The Iron Giant) and Pixar. Where Warner Brothers had no idea how to market Bird’s first film, Disney had no problem with promoting his new movie...
Batfink
June 21, 2005
In 1967, Hal Seegar created ‘Batfink’ – a campy animated series, which no one cared about, not surprising since its competition was the likes of ‘The Flintstones’, ‘Scooby Doo’ and more similarly ‘Roger...
Garfield
June 15, 2005
And so the laconic lasagne-loving fat orange cat finally makes it to the big screen, now an entirely CGI creation, but will his fanbase go along for the ride? The answer is probably no, and Jonathan Frakes will probably tell you why after his disastrous...
The Iron Giant: Special Edition
June 13, 2005
When The Iron Giant was released in 1999, it flew in the face of the current trend popularized by Disney animated musicals. Based on the 1968 children’s book, The Giant: A Story in Five Nights, by late British poet Ted Hughes, The Iron Giant refuses...
Looney Tunes: Golden Collection Volume 2
June 10, 2005
Fresh from the success of their first volume, Warner Brothers has released a brand new collection of classic Looney Tunes cartoons just in time for Christmas. With the exception of a disc devoted entirely to Bugs Bunny, there is a surprising amount of...
Wacky Races: The Complete Series
May 25, 2005
Wacky Races debuted on CBS on September 14, 1968 and was Hanna-Barbera’s animated reworking of the Blake Edwards film, The Great Race (1965) that featured a slapstick journey around the world during the early stages of the automobile. Wacky Races was...
The Ren and Stimpy Show: Seasons 1 and 2
May 22, 2005
In September of 1992, after two groundbreaking seasons, Nickelodeon took the Ren and Stimpy Show away from its creator, John Kricfalusi. They gutted it, removing all the elements that made it funny and wonderfully politically incorrect. The show didn’t...
Tom and Jerry Spotlight Collection
May 21, 2005
The first Tom and Jerry animated short appeared on February 10, 1940 with “Puss Gets the Boot.” At the time, Tom was known as Jasper and animation legends, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera directed the cartoon. Under producer Fred Quimby’s guidance...
Mission Without Permission
May 20, 2005
When dad gets sick it’s up to Maddy and her clever friends to come up with the money for his operation and it just so happens mom is in charge at the new bank… Mission Without Permission (also known as Catch That Kid) tries to do the kiddie...
Santa Claus: The Movie
May 1, 2005
Christmas is a time of year that seems to stimulate many a good scribe to churn out a script based around the holiday season. Television will be bombarded with crap Christmas Specials of successful sitcoms, somewhere ‘The Snowman’ will be...
