Will audiences defy critics and turn out to support an animated feature inspired by a mobile gaming app?
"The Good Dinosaur" isn't the greatest Pixar film ever made, according to reviewers -- but its painstaking replication of the Real World is astounding.
Charles Schulz's Charlie Brown always failed, then triumphed, then failed, and so on. According to critics, "The Peanuts Movie" pretty much does the same.
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/review-roundup-the-peanuts-movie-plays-it-safe-121479.html
Critics lambasted "Hotel Transyvlania 2," but the complaints were directed at Adam Sandler's underwhelming humor and not Genndy Tartakovsky's directing.
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/hotel-transylvania-2-talkback-120103.html
The new two-part Walt Disney documentary premieres tonight and tomorrow night. Share your thoughts on the film with the rest of the animation community.
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/disney/disney-american-experience-117618.html
Critics pretty much couldn't stand Adam Sandler's videogame vehicle, but who couldn't see that coming?
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/sonys-pixels-packs-vfx-punch-but-not-much-else-116574.html
The 'Minions' is a hit with audiences and a miss with critics. Who got it right?
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/minions-review-roundup-115819.html
The rest of America can have their Super Bowl tomorrow, but the animation world's big night is TONIGHT. Slap on your cleanest pair of underwear or panties, wedge that huge tub of ice cream inbetw...
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"Frozen," Disney's 53rd animated feature, directed by Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee, opens this week. What did you think of it?
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/talkback/frozen-talkback-91584.html
Dallas animation studio Reel FX makes their big splash into animated features this weekend with the release of their first film Free Birds. Directed by Jimmy Hayward and released by … Continued...
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This weekend is the opening of DisneyToon Studios’ Planes directed by TV animation veteran Klay Hall (King of the Hill, Father of the Pride and the D2V release Tinker Bell … Continued
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Few industry observers are banking on Turbo, the David Soren-directed DreamWorks pic about a garden snail who races in the Indianapolis 500, to be a blockbuster. But the film is … Continued
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Despicable Me 2, which debuted in the United States on Wednesday with a mammoth $34.3 million, is headed into what is guaranteed to be a huge opening weekend. The film … Continued
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Pixar’s fourteenth feature film, Monsters University, opens this weekend in the U.S. and many other countries. The film, directed by Dan Scanlon, is playing better with audiences, who have give...
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Desperate-for-a-new-hit-show Nickelodeon debuted a new animated series Sanjay and Craig this morning. The show, which is about an Indian boy Sanjay and his talking pet snake Craig, was created by...
https://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/sanjay-and-craig-talkback-83353.html
Blue Sky’s eighth feature film, Epic, directed by Chris Wedge and based on a book by children’s author Bill Joyce, opens in the United States today. Reception to the film … Continued
Chris Sanders and Kirk De Micco’s The Croods opens today in the United States along with over 45 other countries. Critics haven’t been particularly kind, and the film has a … Continued
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Critic A.O. Scott in The New York Times had mixed emotions about Dreamworks’ Rise of The Guardians saying, “like so much animated entertainment these days, (it) is by turns silly, … Continu...
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After several months of monster/horror animated features, it feels down-right refreshing to see a simply funny new “cartoon” from Disney. Wreck-It Ralph (along with the innovative cg/hand dra...
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I’ll be seeing Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie on Saturday afternoon with my ASIFA-Hollywood peeps at a screening on the Disney lot. Looking forward to it – especially as Betsy Sharkey in … Co...
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