By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Raya and the Last Dragon, Disney’s 59th official animated film, has some of the hallmarks of a Disney Princess movie, while also feeling like somewhat of a departure for the studio. Not only is this their first film to feature a Southeast Asian Princess, there are also no… Read More Disney+ Review: Raya and the Last Dragon
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) DreamWorks Animation returns to prehistoric times in The Croods: A New Age, the long-in-development sequel to their 2013 box office hit The Croods. This follow-up film, which is arriving on Blu-ray this week following a limited release in theatres and on PVOD, pretty much offers more of the… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Croods: A New Age
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run is the third feature length adventure for the cartoon sea sponge, and also the first fully computer generated one. The result is something that, while far from being the best SpongeBob movie (which is still the 2004 original), still serves as… Read More Blu-ray Review: The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run
By John Corrado SpongeBob SquarePants has been on the air for over two decades now, and the complete twelfth season of the Nickelodeon cartoon is being released on DVD this week. The set comes with all 25 episodes from the season spread across three discs, and the Bikini Bottom adventures included herein serve as familiar… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Twelfth Season
By John Corrado ★★★★ (out of 4) Pixar’s latest film Soul, which is premiering on Disney Plus on Christmas Day after having its theatrical release cancelled due to ongoing theatre closures, shares a lot of common DNA with the studio’s 2015 film Inside Out. Now in case you think I’m saying that Soul feels like… Read More Disney+ Review: Soul
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) First published in 1960, Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham is one of the most beloved and enduring learn to read books of all time, with its irresistible rhyming scheme made up of just fifty words making it ideal for beginners, not to mention a delight to read… Read More DVD Review: Green Eggs and Ham: The Complete First Season
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) Disney pays tribute to the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special in the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special, which is premiering on Disney Plus today. The original TV special, which aired in 1978 between the releases of the first Star Wars and Empire Strikes Back, was so widely panned… Read More Disney+ Review: The LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
By John Corrado The idea of a primetime animated sitcom was very much a novelty when The Flintstones premiered in 1960. Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera under their company banner Hanna-Barbera Productions, the show about the “modern Stone Age family” was the first “cartoon” to ever land a primetime slot. And it became… Read More Blu-ray Review: The Flintstones: The Complete Series
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) Did you ever wonder what that loveable snowman sidekick Olaf (voiced by Josh Gad) was doing in the movie Frozen between the time when Elsa (Idina Menzel) brought him to life while belting out “Let It Go” on the side of a snowy mountain, but before he met… Read More Disney+ Review: Once Upon a Snowman
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) The latest feature from Cartoon Saloon and co-directors Tomm Moore and Ross Stewart, the same creative team behind The Secret of Kells and Song of the Sea, Wolfwalkers is another engaging and beautifully stylized animated film from the Irish studio. The film, which draws upon Irish folklore, is… Read More #TIFF20 Review: Wolfwalkers (Special Events)
By John Corrado One of the movies that I really enjoyed watching at home this summer was We Bare Bears: The Movie, which serves as a feature-length finale to the Cartoon Network series created by Daniel Chong. After initially only being available digitally in Canada, the film is now receiving a physical release on DVD,… Read More DVD Review: We Bare Bears: The Movie
By John Corrado ★★ (out of 4) Scooby-Doo, the classic cartoon dog from Hanna-Barbera, gets a shiny new CG makeover in Scoob!, a disappointingly bland animated adventure that features some appealing elements but mostly feels uninspired. The film, which bypassed theatres and went straight to video on demand a few months ago and is now… Read More Blu-ray Review: Scoob!
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The movie that changed the world when it bypassed theatres and went straight to video on demand earlier this year, Trolls World Tour is now arriving on Blu-ray this week in a special Dance Party Edition. The DreamWorks Animation sequel was all set to have a traditional theatrical… Read More Blu-ray Review: Trolls World Tour
By John Corrado ★★★½ (out of 4) I first discovered the Cartoon Network series We Bare Bears last summer when I came across an episode entitled Shush Ninjas in which the show’s three protagonists, a trio of adoptive bear brothers named Grizz (Eric Edelstein), Panda (Bobby Moynihan) and Ice Bear (Demetri Martin), go to a movie… Read More Review: We Bare Bears: The Movie
By John Corrado It’s SpongeBob’s birthday and we’re all invited to the party in the 2019 special SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout, which is being released on DVD today in a new compilation entitled SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash. The main attraction of this release is the extended episode SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout, which finds Patrick… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: Bikini Bottom Bash
By John Corrado Despite only opening in theatres a mere four weeks ago on March 6th, Disney and Pixar’s Onward is now available to watch on Disney+ as of today in Canada and the United States, for anyone with a subscription to the streaming service. This move comes after the animated film was previously made… Read More Disney and Pixar’s Onward is Now Available on Disney+ in Canada
By John Corrado Created by the late Stephen Hillenburg, the talking yellow sea sponge named SpongeBob SquarePants first made his debut on TV in 1999, and the wildly popular cartoon is still going strong over twenty years later. Now the complete eleventh season of the show is being released on DVD this week, in a… Read More DVD Review: SpongeBob SquarePants: The Complete Eleventh Season
By John Corrado ★★★ (out of 4) The 22nd feature from Disney and Pixar, Onward is an entertaining and emotionally resonant animated adventure that imagines a “suburban fantasy world” that has lost its sense of wonder and magic. You see, in days of yore real magic used to exist in this world, but it has… Read More Review: Onward
By John Corrado Disney’s Frozen II, which is arriving on Blu-ray this week, is a darker, more mature sequel that has aged with fans of the first one, and for my money it’s a follow up that is nearly if not just as good as its predecessor. This is already one of the highest grossing animated… Read More Blu-ray Review: Frozen II
By John Corrado ★★½ (out of 4) The latest film from Blue Sky Studios, and the first to be released by Disney following the Fox merger, the long-delayed flick Spies in Disguise is an animated action comedy that follows the adventures of Lance Sterling (Will Smith), a superstar spy who gets turned into a pigeon… Read More Review: Spies in Disguise
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