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January 20th, 2024, 9:16 am

Frozen II has a coherent plot. It's not a good plot, but it's got one at least.

And it's less misandist than either Wish or the first Frozen!

Peter MacNichol, star of Dragonslayer, Bean: the Movie, and Ghostbusters II!

It feels more like contractual obligation, to say that these films played theaters-- They're playing regular release and not Fathom screenings, right? Unfortunately, streaming aside, this is the reality of re-releases in the physical-disc era, when studios kept claiming "Audiences want shorter home-...

Her 50s film Miranda always got overshadowed by Mr Peabody And The Mermaid, but do check it out if you ever get a chance. Where she briefly played against young English comic actor...David Tomlinson! https://www.tcm.com/video/1083530/miranda-1948-did-you-catch-any-big-ones And followed by the 1954 ...

Always liked to watch RudolphSNY on disc during the in- between week before New Year’s, since the Rudolph specials were some of the….better Rankin-Basses? In that they didn’t use the usual corny ear-bending one-foot-in-front-of-the-other cookie-cutter Maury Laws-Jules Bass songs, but went back to Ru...

Why is Japanese animation so popular, despite that country being where most American animation was outsourced to four decades ago? Four decades ago, when Starblazers was on local stations, I asked that same question. Three-and-a-half decades ago, I took a wrong turn at a gaming convention and saw t...

Meanwhile, on the Classic front: Those who haven't been able to watch the nearly-complete Classic Who on Britbox in the US can now catch the Classic episodes, organized by Doctor era collection, free-with-ads on TubiTV-- Or, for those starting out, a sampler collection of two or three best story arc...

More like "So it isn't a total loss...", for those who never had D+, and to make them "official" theatrical movies, even though most of them are on disc now. Still, it's the same problem when Fantasia 2000 opened in regular theaters in June '00: Everyone had knocked themselves out seeing it in the I...

Review for Across the Spider-Verse is up! https://animatedviews.com/2023/spider-man-across-the-spider-verse/ Bumping this one after six months, now that it's on Netflix: (Just think, we used to have to pay to rent last summer's movies we missed in theaters!) I agree, there's too much filler--Maybe ...

And marvels opens to $47m. Again, many movies would love to open to that, but this is an mcu film. This is really low for them! It's down there with incredible hulk and inhumans the movie! There was an Inhumans MOVIE, or was it just distributed theatrically overseas? (Unless you meant Eternals, and...

Sorry to hear Wish is terrible, but then I wasn’t really expecting otherwise. I just don't think Jennifer Lee is the person to be running Disney… Could have done so much more for a proper 100th anniversary movie. From the start, Wish just sounded so insipid! I know I Cassandra'ed this earlier on, b...

Of course, nowadays, the young kids like to use: but we take your meaning.

Soul, Turning Red, Lightyear, the last six MCU, Strange World, Encanto, Artemis Fowl... Despite my loyalty for getting folks back in to the theaters, I just haven't been having much luck with the Disney movies I passed on and waited for D+ instead. They tend to confirm my better judgment. (Well, oka...

Oo, is "Christmas with Walt Disney" another rare 50s-60s special from the Archive, or just D+'s own thrown-together cash-in?

I dare not hope they finally dug up Walt's Peter Pan Christmas-special that never appeared on the discs like the Alice special did.

We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story has a great *look* to it, but the film goes nowhere! It is, however, completely batty, random and nonsensical that it’s kind of loveable for those reasons. This was early-90s, back before Spielberg and Katzenberg got together to make more DreamWorks Lion King clones, ...