Universal City, California, December 4, 2019 – Everyone’s favorite creepy and kooky family is back in the “frighteningly funny and fresh” animated feature film, The Addams Family, arriving on Digital December 24, 2019 and on Blu-ray, DVD and On Demand January 21, 2020 from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM) and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
The very first full-length animated film about the eccentric and unconventional family,
The Addams Family on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital showcase the wonderfully weird world of the Addams family with a variety of exclusive bonus features not seen in theaters including deleted and extended scenes, an interactive charades game with Thing, behind-the-scenes footage, music lyric videos and more! Filled with wildly funny moments and a fresh take on the beloved characters created by Charles Addams, The Addams Family celebrates the uniqueness of every family and delivers spooky fun all year long.
From directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, The Addams Family boasts...
The very first full-length animated film about the eccentric and unconventional family,
The Addams Family on Blu-ray, DVD and Digital showcase the wonderfully weird world of the Addams family with a variety of exclusive bonus features not seen in theaters including deleted and extended scenes, an interactive charades game with Thing, behind-the-scenes footage, music lyric videos and more! Filled with wildly funny moments and a fresh take on the beloved characters created by Charles Addams, The Addams Family celebrates the uniqueness of every family and delivers spooky fun all year long.
From directors Conrad Vernon and Greg Tiernan, The Addams Family boasts...
- 12/5/2019
- by ComicMix Staff
- Comicmix.com
The creepiest, kookiest, and altogether ookiest cinematic family returned to the big screen in a new Addams Family animated movie this Halloween season, and if you missed it in theaters or you want to experience it again from the comfort of your own home this winter, you may be delighted to know that the family-friendly film is coming to Digital on December 24th, followed by a Blu-ray, DVD, and VOD release on January 21st (the same day Zombieland: Double Tap comes out on physical home media) via Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM) and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment:
Press Release: Universal City, California, December 4, 2019 – Everyone’s favorite creepy and kooky family is back in the “frighteningly funny and fresh” animated feature film, The Addams Family, arriving on Digital December 24, 2019 and on Blu-ray™️, DVD and On Demand January 21, 2020 from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM) and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
The very...
Press Release: Universal City, California, December 4, 2019 – Everyone’s favorite creepy and kooky family is back in the “frighteningly funny and fresh” animated feature film, The Addams Family, arriving on Digital December 24, 2019 and on Blu-ray™️, DVD and On Demand January 21, 2020 from Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios (MGM) and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment.
The very...
- 12/4/2019
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
"Toy Story 2" is a triumph at every level. In its third feature film -- following the totally delightful "Toy Story" and "A Bug's Life" -- Pixar Animation Studios has raised the bar considerably in terms of wit, character development, storytelling and computer technology. Pixar and its partner Walt Disney Studios can look forward to a tremendous worldwide success with this very funny, clever and original film.
"Toy Story 2" does what few sequels ever do: Instead of essentially remaking an earlier film and deeming it a sequel, the creative team, led by director John Lasseter, delves deeper into their characters while retaining the fun spirit of the original film.
The film begins in a familiar setting: young Andy's upstairs bedroom, where his toys come alive only when their owner is absent. Woody, the cowboy doll (voiced by Tom Hanks), is now best buddies with his rival from the first film, the high-tech space ranger Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen). The story springs to life when Woody gets "kidnapped" by Al McWhiggin (Wayne Knight), a toy store owner who recognizes Woody's value as a collectible.
This launches the toys into adventures in many new environments: bustling downtown streets, Al's cavernous toy store, his 23-story high-rise art deco apartment building including its forbidding elevator shaft and, in perhaps the wildest set, an airport baggage-handling area whose myriad conveyer belts act like a gigantic amusement park ride.
Woody's kidnapping opens up a whole new world to him: He discovers he was a toy that derived from a 1950s black-and-white TV show called "Woody's Roundup". And he has a previously unknown family in Jessie the cowgirl (Joan Cusack), his horse Bullseye and Stinky Pete the prospector (Kelsey Grammer).
So while Buzz and the other toys -- Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles), Slinky Dog (Jim Varney), Rex (Wallace Shawn) and Hamm (John Ratzenberger) -- plunge into various escapades to rescue their purloined pal, Woody must decide whether he wants to return to Andy's room (with the full knowledge that Andy will one day grow up and get rid of his toys) or remain forever with his new family as collectibles in a Japanese museum.
So, as with the original film, "Toy Story 2" is a meditation on the value of friendship and fears of abandonment -- things that concern children and adults alike.
The design of the characters and their interactions with their world is infinitely more sophisticated than it was a mere four years ago. The camera is more fluid, with less cutting to express movement. And the rendering of human characters -- in particular Al and the Cleaner (Jonathan Harris), who restores old dolls -- represents a quantum leap in computer technology.
Humans have always been the most difficult to portray with computer animation. Pixar's animators, who began experimenting with humans in their 1997 Oscar-winning short "Geri's Game", have now succeeded in creating human figures with realistic facial and muscle movements.
The screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao and Doug Chamberlin & Chris Webb never lets up in its action or humor. (Most appealingly, one tends to feed the other.) In the toy store sequence, for instance, Andy's gang joy rides in a toy car, Buzz Lightyear has a startling encounter with a vast wall of Buzz Lightyear dolls, some very hip Barbie dolls swing into action, and Buzz's nemesis, the evil Emperor Zurg (Andrew Stanton), gets activated.
The action only slows once, for a ballad by Jessie (penned by Randy Newman and performed by Grammy winner Sarah McLachlan) that may cause young children to grow a tad restless.
Pixar's animators have once again drawn characters that fit their voice artist to perfection. (Is Hanks starting to look like Woody, or is it the other way around?) Given the wealth of toy characters and a 93-minute running time, it's amazing how swiftly the audience becomes familiar with all these personalities and their idiosyncrasies.
Add to this the army of artists needed to produce such a film, and you can't help being impressed at how seamless the unity of purpose is behind this film.
At the close of the century, it's certainly fair to say that in terms of feature animation, "Toy Story 2" is as good as it gets.
TOY STORY 2
Buena Vista Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures presents
a Pixar Animation Studios film
Producers: Helene Plotkin, Karen Robert Jackson
Director: John Lasseter
Co-directors: Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon
Writers: Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin & Chris Webb
Story: John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton
Screenplay: Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlain & Chris Webb
Executive producer: Sarah McArthur
Director of photography: Sharon Calahan
Production designers: William Cone, Jim Pearson
Music: Randy Newman
Editors: Edie Bleiman, David Ian Salter, Lee Unkrich
Supervising technical director: Galyn Susman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Woody: Tom Hanks
Buzz Lightyear: Tim Allen
Jessie: Joan Cusack
Prospector: Kelsey Grammer
Mr. Potato Head: Don Rickles
Slinky Dog: Jim Varney
Rex: Wallace Shawn
Hamm: John Ratzenberger
Bo Peep: Annie Potts
Al McWhiggin: Wayne Knight
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
"Toy Story 2" does what few sequels ever do: Instead of essentially remaking an earlier film and deeming it a sequel, the creative team, led by director John Lasseter, delves deeper into their characters while retaining the fun spirit of the original film.
The film begins in a familiar setting: young Andy's upstairs bedroom, where his toys come alive only when their owner is absent. Woody, the cowboy doll (voiced by Tom Hanks), is now best buddies with his rival from the first film, the high-tech space ranger Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen). The story springs to life when Woody gets "kidnapped" by Al McWhiggin (Wayne Knight), a toy store owner who recognizes Woody's value as a collectible.
This launches the toys into adventures in many new environments: bustling downtown streets, Al's cavernous toy store, his 23-story high-rise art deco apartment building including its forbidding elevator shaft and, in perhaps the wildest set, an airport baggage-handling area whose myriad conveyer belts act like a gigantic amusement park ride.
Woody's kidnapping opens up a whole new world to him: He discovers he was a toy that derived from a 1950s black-and-white TV show called "Woody's Roundup". And he has a previously unknown family in Jessie the cowgirl (Joan Cusack), his horse Bullseye and Stinky Pete the prospector (Kelsey Grammer).
So while Buzz and the other toys -- Mr. Potato Head (Don Rickles), Slinky Dog (Jim Varney), Rex (Wallace Shawn) and Hamm (John Ratzenberger) -- plunge into various escapades to rescue their purloined pal, Woody must decide whether he wants to return to Andy's room (with the full knowledge that Andy will one day grow up and get rid of his toys) or remain forever with his new family as collectibles in a Japanese museum.
So, as with the original film, "Toy Story 2" is a meditation on the value of friendship and fears of abandonment -- things that concern children and adults alike.
The design of the characters and their interactions with their world is infinitely more sophisticated than it was a mere four years ago. The camera is more fluid, with less cutting to express movement. And the rendering of human characters -- in particular Al and the Cleaner (Jonathan Harris), who restores old dolls -- represents a quantum leap in computer technology.
Humans have always been the most difficult to portray with computer animation. Pixar's animators, who began experimenting with humans in their 1997 Oscar-winning short "Geri's Game", have now succeeded in creating human figures with realistic facial and muscle movements.
The screenplay by Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao and Doug Chamberlin & Chris Webb never lets up in its action or humor. (Most appealingly, one tends to feed the other.) In the toy store sequence, for instance, Andy's gang joy rides in a toy car, Buzz Lightyear has a startling encounter with a vast wall of Buzz Lightyear dolls, some very hip Barbie dolls swing into action, and Buzz's nemesis, the evil Emperor Zurg (Andrew Stanton), gets activated.
The action only slows once, for a ballad by Jessie (penned by Randy Newman and performed by Grammy winner Sarah McLachlan) that may cause young children to grow a tad restless.
Pixar's animators have once again drawn characters that fit their voice artist to perfection. (Is Hanks starting to look like Woody, or is it the other way around?) Given the wealth of toy characters and a 93-minute running time, it's amazing how swiftly the audience becomes familiar with all these personalities and their idiosyncrasies.
Add to this the army of artists needed to produce such a film, and you can't help being impressed at how seamless the unity of purpose is behind this film.
At the close of the century, it's certainly fair to say that in terms of feature animation, "Toy Story 2" is as good as it gets.
TOY STORY 2
Buena Vista Pictures
Walt Disney Pictures presents
a Pixar Animation Studios film
Producers: Helene Plotkin, Karen Robert Jackson
Director: John Lasseter
Co-directors: Lee Unkrich, Ash Brannon
Writers: Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlin & Chris Webb
Story: John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Ash Brannon, Andrew Stanton
Screenplay: Andrew Stanton, Rita Hsiao, Doug Chamberlain & Chris Webb
Executive producer: Sarah McArthur
Director of photography: Sharon Calahan
Production designers: William Cone, Jim Pearson
Music: Randy Newman
Editors: Edie Bleiman, David Ian Salter, Lee Unkrich
Supervising technical director: Galyn Susman
Color/stereo
Cast:
Woody: Tom Hanks
Buzz Lightyear: Tim Allen
Jessie: Joan Cusack
Prospector: Kelsey Grammer
Mr. Potato Head: Don Rickles
Slinky Dog: Jim Varney
Rex: Wallace Shawn
Hamm: John Ratzenberger
Bo Peep: Annie Potts
Al McWhiggin: Wayne Knight
Running time -- 93 minutes
MPAA rating: G...
- 11/18/1999
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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