Eighty-five years ago today, on November 18, 1928, Walt Disney introduced the world to the character that would make his studio an almost unrivaled force in the animation business. The appealing, fun-loving rodent was christened […]
By Brandie Ashe In 1989, the Walt Disney animation studios dipped back into the fairy tale well–one they’d largely avoided, with varying success, since the release of Sleeping Beauty in 1959–and adapted Hans Christian Andersen’s […]
The ethos of Disney’s newest animated feature Planes can be summed up in the advertisements before the film even begins, in which the movie’s characters are used to promote Target and American Airlines. And to further hone […]
The Fast and the Furious with snails. That’s how writer-director David Soren pitched Turbo, the latest release from DreamWorks Animation. And yes, the film is just that implausibly simple: gastropod Theo (Ryan Reynolds) yearns to […]
These days, the art of producing animated features in Hollywood feels like a hit-or-miss game. Some films succeed spectacularly–and deservedly–due to stunning visuals, intriguing story lines, and spot-on vocal performances (a majority of the Pixar […]
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