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Alice In Wonderland Virtual Roundtable With Artist And Conceptual Designer Dermot Power

I have several things coming up to get you excited for the June 1st release of Alice in Wonderland. Stay tuned for a great book, the Blu-Ray release itself, and more, but for now I have a virtual roundtable with Dermot Power. Artist and concept designer for the film, Dermot shared a lot of his work, and let us in on how many of the ideas came together.

Also in on this event were David Jessen, VP of DVD productions with Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, and also Jim Davy, producer of the Alice and Wonderland Blu-ray DVD, and they added some interesting information as well. Particularly, the way the Dermot’s Oraculum art from the film has been turned into the Blu-Ray menu system.

It was really a fascinating event, and I hope you can share in the experience to some degree.

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Futterwacken Your Way To An iPad With Alice In Wonderland

In celebration of Frabjous Day and the upcoming Blu-ray™ & DVD release of ALICE IN WONDERLAND on June 1st, Walt Disney Studios is asking America to “Show Us Your Best Futterwacken!”

For those who haven’t seen the film, this is the crazy, awesome dance performed by The Mad Hatter. In the world of Alice’s Wonderland, the Futterwacken is a dance of unbridled joy.

The contest challenges ALICE fans to submit their best interpretation of the Futterwacken dance to www.Disney.com/Alicedance and add their own original twists, turns and dance moves. So start gathering your muchness and go completely Gallymoggers as you Futterwacken vigorously!  The more creative your dance moves, the better your chance to win!

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The Princess And The Frog Blu-Ray Review

The best thing about The Princess and the Frog may turn out to be what also keeps it from truly being great. It’s a return to hand-drawn animation. A return to an “older” theory. A return to the Disney musical. In many senses, a return to the very roots of Disney feature-length efforts. These are all things the special features will play up at you rather specifically. But, somewhere in the valiant effort, we may have gone too far.

As much as it is a masterpiece of historic significance, and a frolicsome delight for the child within you, Sleeping Beauty is not particularly entertaining for the child with you. It’s likely that today this is as much a problem of pacing as it is the shortfall of humor children can latch onto, but The Princess and the Frog takes the general adult orientation up a few notches. Not content simply to go over their heads, or try their attention abilities, it rather rules them out completely in some respects.

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Earth – Movie Review -

There’s a sense in which it seems fairly nonsensical to review Earth, the pseudo-docu-whatever released by Disney via BBC and The Discovery Channel, but in the end it delivers so well that some manner of kudos are in order… even if a review isn’t.

Before the movie starts, you’re going to hear about Disney’s True Life Adventure series, which were naturementaries that received high praise back in the pre-1960 world of entertainment. Now, we might just be trying to sell you on your plans for next Earth Day, but I was glad for the promo. I remember a different era of Disney. Wondering what you were going to save your last few E tickets for, and a better viewpoint behind the production schedule.

Earth is rather reminiscent of a different kind of Disney. There’s a certain kind of story to the thing, but mainly it’s just a loosely-worked frame that is our excuse to look at some incredible imagery… and cute, baby animals. And, that’s okay. And, there are lessons to be learned, whether they are the ones we are meant to learn or not. For instance, if an elephant was smart enough to just step on a lion’s head when he could see the damn thing, a lot less elephants would get eaten by lions.

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