Saturday-morning cartoons had been in a rut, nothing but superheroes, toys, and other franchise properties, and certainly little that was flat-out funny. In the nick of time (1987 to be exact), along came Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures to save the day, and, as the theme song promised, things wouldn't be like they'd been before. Born in creative anarchy, Mighty Mouse brought a Looney Tunes sen…
Monster House ~ Monster House Directed by Gil Kenan
Monsters University (Blu-ray Combo Pack)
Monsters ~ Monsters
These shorts from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) illustrate how animated films can be used to present information in a concise, entertaining form. Prepared in conjunction with UNICEF's Declaration of Children's Rights, the Oscar-winning short "Every Child" (1979) deftly blends hilarity and pathos. A small child is passed from household to household, like an unwanted fruitcake at ho…
Bored, bored, bored. That's how young Keith feels about being stranded at the time-worn Mountain View Inn with his parents. Then he meets Ralph, an equally stir-crazy mouse who quickly befriends Keith and begs to ride Keith's toy motorcycle. Soon Ralph masters the tiny two-wheeler and "rrroom-zzzooms" through the hotel hallways, dodging four-legged predators, adults, and the occasional va…
Mr. Magoo: The Television Collection, 1960-1977
This 1962 special marked the last hurrah of Mr. Magoo, who starred in 43 cartoon shorts, including two Oscar® winners, from the UPA Studio between 1949 and 1959. Magoo appears as Scrooge in a Broadway production of "A Christmas Carol" in this minimally animated hour. The play-within-the-show features forgettable songs by Jules Styne and Bob Merrill: Tiny Tim ("played" by the animated character…