Minnie the Moocher
Director: Dave Fleischer Release Date: March 11, 1932 Stars: Betty Boop, Bimbo, Cab Calloway Rating: ★★★★★ Review: This talkartoon is completely built around the title song, Cab Calloway’s huge 1931...
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'The Magic Mummy' is one of those typical nightmarish cartoons of the early 1930s. It opens happily enough, when Tom and Jerry, as policemen, listen to the police radio, which broadcasts two rather gay...
View ArticleThe Nut Factory
In 'The Nut Factory' Cubby Bear is a Sherlock Holmes-like detective, with the little cat from 'Fresh Ham' as his Watson. Our hero soon gets a call to solve a mystery of stolen false teeth.
View ArticleFranken-stymied
'Franken-stymied' starts with a classic stormy scene and Woody Woodpecker trying to hide from the storm in a castle. Inside the castle a Frankenstein-like mad scientist has made a chicken-plucking...
View ArticleThe Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton’s ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ is an impressive film. Combining replacement techniques with puppets with complex armatures, computer-controlled camera movements, and a bit of drawn...
View ArticleLekce Faust (Faust)
‘Lekce Faust’ (literally ‘Lesson Faust’) is Jan Švankmajer’s second feature film. It contains much less animation than his first feature film ‘Něco z Alenky’ (Alice) from 1988 and can be considered his...
View ArticleRunaway Brain
When compared to ‘Mickey’s Christmas Carol’ (1983) and ‘The Prince and the Pauper’ (1990), 'Runaway Brain' is a much less classic or classy affair. Based on a story idea by Tim Hauser, it has a genuine...
View ArticleHotel Transylvania
2012 was the year of animated horror. No less than three American animated feature films of that year were horror themed: Laika’s ‘Paranorman’, Disney’s ‘Frankenweenie’ and Sony’s ‘Hotel Transylvania’....
View ArticleFrankenweenie
‘Frankenweenie’ was the third horror-themed animated feature of 2012, after ’ParaNorman’ and ’Hotel Transylvania’. Based on a short live action film director Tim Burton made way back in 1984 when still...
View ArticleParaNorman
Laika’s ‘ParaNorman’ is the first of no less than three horror-themed American animated features released in 2012. It was followed in September by Disney’s ‘Frankenweenie’ and Sony’s ‘Hotel...
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