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DVD FEATURES:
  • Number of Discs: 4
  • Screen: Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV
  • Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1
  • Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo
  • Features:
    • Happy Feet - 2 additional scenes sequences, Savion Glover private dance lesson, 2 music videos, classic cartoon I Love to Singa
    • Corpse Bride - Documentaries about the craft of stop-motion animation, puppetry, voices, scoring and more, plus a music-only track
    • The Ant Bully - 7 hilarious animated shorts, additional scenes and It Take A Colony featurette gallery
    • Scooby-Doo - Additional scenes, cast/filmmaker commentaries, more cool making-ofs, outkast music video and more
AWARDS
  • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
  •     Won Best Animated Feature - 2006
  •     Nominated Best Animated Feature - 2005 (Mike Johnson, Tim Burton)
  • American Film Institute
  •     Won Best Picture - 2006
  • British Academy of Film and Television Arts
  •     Won Best Animated Feature - 2006
  •     Nominated Best Film Music - 2006 (John Powell)
  • Broadcast Film Critics Association
  •     Nominated Best Animated Feature - 2006
  •     Nominated Best Soundtrack - 2006
  •     Nominated Best Animated Feature - 2005
  • Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Animated Feature - 2006
  • Hollywood Foreign Press Association
  •     Won Best Original Song - 2006 (Prince)
  •     Nominated Best Animated Feature - 2006
  • Los Angeles Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Animated Feature - 2006
  • New York Film Critics Online
  •     Won Best Animated Feature - 2006
  • New York Film Critics Society
  •     Won Best Animated Feature - 2006
  • Online Film Critics Association
  •     Nominated Best Animated Feature - 2006
  •     Nominated Best Animated Feature - 2005
  • Producers Guild of America
  •     Nominated Producer of the Year in Animated Theaterical Motion Pictures - 2006 (Bill Miller, George Miller, Doug Mitchell)
  •     Nominated Producer of the Year - Animated Film - 2005 (Allison Abbate, Tim Burton)
  • Satellite Awards
  •     Nominated Best Aminated or Mixed Media Film - 2006
  • Toronto Film Critics Association
  •     Nominated Best Animated Feature - 2006
  • Venice International Film Festival
  •     Film Presented - 2005
  • Washington D.C. Film Critics Association
  •     Won Best Animated Feature - 2006
  • Women Film Critics Circle
  •     Won Best Animated Female - 2006 (Nicole Kidman, Brittany Murphy)
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REVIEWS:
  • In 2005, March of the Penguins identified a real appetite among moviegoers for flightless waterfowl. (As movie characters, mind you, not menu items.) The next year, Happy Feet drove that phenomenon over the top, grossing just shy of 200 million dollars on its way to upsetting perennial favorite Pixar for the Best Animated Feature Oscar. The victory was an upset not just because Pixar's Cars was better than expected, but also because Happy Feet isn't as good as the numbers suggest. George Miller's film does benefit from a delightful concept. According to Happy Feet, the mating ritual made famous by March is actually a matter of mutual serenade, with penguins finding their soul mates to the strains of modern pop music. But Happy Feet gets kind of stuck in this concept phase, never blossoming into an involving narrative. Mumble, voiced by Elijah Wood, is your standard outsider -- insert your favorite ugly duckling metaphor here. But his supposed deficiency is that he dances rather than sings -- a complementary skill, one would think, whose uniqueness should elevate him, rather than ostracizing him toward a mission of heroic redemption. This mission allows for some strong set pieces and breathtaking images of the Antarctic landscape and fauna, but it also brings audiences into contact with two super-annoying Robin Williams characters, both voiced as politically incorrect racial stereotypes. By the time it's finished, Mumble's journey has gone places that stretch even the minimal logic required for a kid's movie. Perhaps that gets at the shortcomings of the entire film. While it's infectious enough to slot right in as a new classic for young children, and visually advanced enough to wow audiences of any age, it's also flawed enough that adults won't want to join in on their kids' inevitable repeat viewings. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
  • The glut of digital animation that hit theaters in 2006 finally took its toll -- on the wrong movie. Despite first-rate visuals, an all-star vocal cast, and a new spin on some familiar territory, The Ant Bully trickled out of the Top Ten within three weekends, leaving Warner Bros. and producer Tom Hanks with a certified flop. Meanwhile, Barnyard's box office continued to prove the earning power of far less inventive films. Antz and A Bug's Life may have gotten to this microscopic world eight years earlier, but it took The Ant Bully to explore the age-old one-sided battle between ants and "human destroyers" -- i.e., cruel children who stomp on anthills. Director John A. Davis and company have developed an imaginative variation on the landscape their predecessors established, one that's surprisingly unburdened by what came before. Plus, they've provided children a positive message regarding perspective that has both a literal interpretation (don't kill other living creatures) and a figurative one (don't pick on the little guy). Although Lucas Nickle adapts unnaturally quickly to his change in circumstances -- nary a freak-out about his shrunken size -- his immersion in the colony and eventual bonding with its members are both handled well. This sets up a series of strong set pieces, including a wasp attack, a mission into Lucas' house to get "sweet rocks" (jelly beans), and a narrow escape from a determined bullfrog. The climactic battle against the exterminator -- voiced by Paul Giamatti in a regrettably brief showpiece of vulgarity -- is a final summary of all the film's clever decisions about size and the possibilities therein. If audiences finally decided they preferred something really "different," it was a poor time to reach that conclusion. Better to give fresh life to old material than approach new material in a derivative way. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
  • Tim Burton's Corpse Bride is essentially a reunion of every actor, composer, or animator the director has ever worked with. This is good news if you're a Burton fan, not such good news if his familiar milieu has worn thin. Those entranced by Burton's gothic stylings will find Corpse Bride resembling an obvious source of inspiration, the drawings of Edward Gorey, perhaps more than anything Burton has filmed. The blue-tinted, chiaroscuro world of the living is practically an homage to Gorey's work, full of jagged angles, caricatures ranging from gaunt to rotund, and gnarled, haunting beauty. It's when Burton goes downstairs to the world of the dead that Corpse Bride begins feeling like a lazy rehash of his own work. This full-color revue of singing skeletons is his third such visitation to a land of campy undead, following Beetlejuice and The Nightmare Before Christmas. The cheekily grotesque whimsy of these characters, with their removable body parts and PG-rated gore, felt fresh in those films, but here it just seems perfunctory and warmed over. Danny Elfman's lyrics and songs have also lost their charm to the point of anonymity, and his score, complete with its standard complement of ethereal choral voices, is as much a tired self-allusion as anything Burton's guilty of. Perhaps if the plot were sturdier, these elements wouldn't be so noticeable. Some obvious reservations aside, Corpse Bride is overall a winning achievement, as Burton's collaborators mostly continue to excel at what they do. The vocal talent is evocative, notably Helena Bonham Carter (Burton's "collaborator" in more than one way) as the forlorn corpse bride herself. It's just that such great things are expected of Burton as a visual trailblazer, it can't help but be disappointing when he doesn't go very far off the path. ~ Derek Armstrong, Rovi
  • With its snarky, eye-popping production design and disparate cast of popular young thespians, this live-action take on the Saturday-morning staple seemed like it had half a chance of pleasing Baby Boomers and Generation X. Instead, though, it's a children's flick, suitable only for Generation Z and almost completely lacking in Brady Bunch Movie-style winking. Scooby Doo does contain a few laugh-out-loud moments and lots of in-jokes about marijuana, but the film has been carefully engineered so as not to offend or confuse the kiddies. (Pointed references to Velma's sexual orientation ended up on the cutting room floor, along with lots of other subversive hijinks if the Internet movie spies are to be believed.) The result is a movie that looks good and stays relatively true to its source material without ever seeming edgy or even engaging. Perhaps a cartoon whose very appeal has always been its extreme lameness couldn't really afford to be enclosed in yet another set of quotation marks. But given the pedestrian CG and by-the-numbers spookiness on display, it seems the filmmakers couldn't come up with anything compelling to replace the missing irony. Scooby-Doo himself is an computer-generated monstrosity who mixes poorly with the human actors. Of those performers, their watchability varies highly: The delightful Matthew Lillard mimics Casey Kasem perfectly but also invests Shaggy with something approaching human feeling. Linda Cardellini and Sarah Michelle Gellar both subvert feminine stereotypes and provoke chuckles, though within very strict parameters. The less said about Freddie Prinze, Jr., the better, though his blond dye job is far worse than his acting. The real blame for this supremely adequate outing lies at the feet of the corporate gatekeepers who decided to play it safe. Very young children will probably enjoy it, but for anyone older than 10, it's a slight trifle at best. ~ Brian J. Dillard, Rovi

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