There was such a magic on the screen in 1995 when the people at Pixar came up with the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story. Their second feature film, A Bug's Life, may miss the bull's-eye but Pixar's target is so lofty, it's hard to find the film anything less than irresistible. Brighter and more colorful than the other animated insect movie of 1998 (Antz), A Bug's Life is the s…
Features include: •MPAA Rating: G •Format: DVD•Runtime: 94 minutes
Chicken Run ~ Chicken Run
Nick Park, who made his reputation with the delightful Wallace and Gromit shorts, won his first Oscar in 1990 with his clever clay animation impressions of zoo creatures. Inventive vignettes of delightfully designed animals are voiced by real-life elderly London apartment dwellers commenting upon their own confining apartments, and children reflecting upon zoo life. The dryly hilarious and some…
In the tradition of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and Santa Claus Is Coming to Town, Davey and Goliath is the long-standing children's stop-motion 3D-animated television show many of us grew up admiring. Conceived by Art Clokey, creator of Gumby, in the mid-1960s, these stories were embraced as a welcome alternative to the "violent" children's programs and cartoons of the times. What set Davey…
The two-disc Collector's Edition speaks directly to the film's core audience: kids and animation enthusiasts. Along with a widescreen version of the film, the first disc is very kid-friendly with two games ("Aladar's Adventure" is quite fun) and an informative short naming the dinosaurs seen in the movie. Using the "Fossil Dig" mode to watch the film, a viewer can see behind-the-scenes footage …
American Legends ~ American Legends
After viewing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote to Walt Disney about adapting his novel of an ape-man into a feature animated cartoon. Sixtysome years later, the tale is finally told with brilliant design work that looks unlike any previous animated film. The story is a natural for Disney since the themes of misunderstood central figures have been at the heart of its …
60th anniversary edition dvd of Disney's beloved animated feature "Dumbo".