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Animation
Tuesday, 20 April 1999 |
Written by
Bill Warren
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title:
A Bug's Life
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studio:
Disney Home Video
MPAA rating:
G
starring:
(Voices)
Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, David Hyde Pierce, Joe
Ranft, Denis Leary, Madeline Kahn, Phyllis Diller, Roddy McDowall
release year:
1998
film rating:
Four and a Half Stars
sound/picture:
Four Stars
reviewed by:
Bill Warren
Pixar/Disney's second feature together may not be quite up to the
standards of A TOY STORY and its sequel, it's a terrific movie anyway,
and it's prettier; it has a spun-sugar, stained-glass look that fills
the screen with colorful light. This transfers especially well to
television presentation, where the light actually is coming from behind
the image.
Tuesday, 30 March 1999 |
Written by
Abbie Bernstein
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title:
The Rugrats Movie
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studio:
Paramount/Nickelodeon
MPAA rating:
G
starring (voices):
E.G. Daily, Christine Cavanagh, Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg
release year:
1998
film rating:
Three Stars
reviewed by:
Abbie Bernstein
Based on the popular Klasky/Csupo animated TV series, ‘Rugrats’ comes
to the feature arena with plenty of built-in audience goodwill. The
movie will live up to the expectations of the TV show’s fans and likely
surpass those of new viewers. It’s one of the rare animated features
aimed at very young children that can still be enjoyed utterly by
adults.
Tuesday, 23 March 1999 |
Written by
Bill Warren
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title:
Antz
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studio:
DreamWorks Home Video
MPAA rating:
PG
starring:
(Voices)
Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Sylvester Stallone, Dan
Aykroyd, Danny Glover, Jennifer Lopez, Christopher Walken
release year:
1998
film rating:
Three and a Half Stars
reviewed by:
Bill Warren
There was an odd kind of showdown in 1998: two all-computer animation
features squared off against each other, and both were about bugs.
DreamWorks' Antz beat Disney/Pixar's A Bug's Life into theaters, and
made a lot of money -- but then so did A Bug's Life. The most
surprising things about the movies turned out to be how different they
were, and that both were very good, though A Bug's Life does come out
ahead overall, on DVD as well.
The DVD of Antz has a kind of unattractive blurred quality, as if the
transfer was made from a flashed print of the film, rather than being
transferred digitally. There are DTS-encoded discs available, which is
fine, but the movie depends more ...
Tuesday, 02 February 1999 |
Written by
Abbie Bernstein
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title:
Mulan
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studio:
Disney DVD/Buena Vista Home Entertainment
MPAA rating:
G
starring (voices):
Ming-Na Wen, Eddie Murphy, Soon-Tek Oh, B.D. Wong
release year:
1998
film rating:
Three-and-a-Half Stars
reviewed by:
Abbie Bernstein
"Thrilling" isn’t usually the first word that comes to mind while
watching animated battle sequences, but there are a couple of moments
in ‘Mulan’ that make your skin prickle. At its best, the feature-length
animated Disney musical approaches the martial visual scope of, say,
‘Braveheart.’ At its worst, ‘Mulan’ slips into cartoon convention - but
even then, it shows some inventiveness.
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