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Out on DVD | Up – Pixar’s unlikely heroes float away to adventure

Posted on 15 February 2010 by Jason Best

A racing certainty for this year’s Best Animated Film Oscar, Pixar’s buoyant comedy adventure Up is another triumph for the studio behind Toy Story, Ratatouille and Wall·E – and it’s just as enchanting in 2D on DVD as it was … Continue reading →

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At the Cinema | Astro Boy – Cartoon hero zips into action with all-guns blazing – including those in his butt!

Posted on 5 February 2010 by Jason Best

Created in 1951, Japanese comic-book hero Astro Boy has been a TV cartoon staple for decades, both in black-and-white and colour. Now he gets a CGI-animation reboot in this lively sci-fi comedy adventure featuring a starry voice cast that ranges … Continue reading →

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The Best View | 9 – Too grim for children; not clever enough for grown-ups

Posted on 28 October 2009 by Jason Best

Animated movies have reached such heights of visual sophistication that we’ve come to take the most astonishing feats of technical virtuosity for granted. Which is all to the good. Now that we’ve stopped gasping at animators’ skill at rendering fur … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Up – Pixar’s buoyant comedy adventure soars aloft

Posted on 9 October 2009 by Jason Best

With their buoyant new movie, Up, those computer animation wizards at Pixar have come up with another cartoon gem to match such earlier triumphs as Toy Story, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Wall·E. And they’ve scored with the same winning formula: … Continue reading →

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The Best view | Wall·E & Short Circuit – Separated at Birth?

Posted on 24 November 2008 by Jason Best

The arrival on DVD of the Disney/Pixar animated comedy Wall·E has got us thinking. The eco-friendly movie features as its hero a lonely robot who is still tidying a rubbish-choked Earth seven centuries after those litter louts, humans, deserted the … Continue reading →

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