Animation Addicts Podcast - Disney, Pixar, & Animated Movie Reviews & Interviews | Rotoscopers

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August 01, 2014 072 Dinosaur - Well, Here It Is...
In this episode, the Rotoscopers have a riveting discussing about one of Disney's most forgotten about animated films Dinosaur.
Highlights
Main Discussion: Dinosaur Only the hardest of hard core fans remember this film. It is not recognized as a Disney classic in the UK? Wait what?
Lots of hype, but a lot of disappointment after seeing it. Lack of character development. Unappealing characters make you not care about them. Theme of abundance vs. scarcity. Why does it seem that almost every dinosaur animated film has to be about a migration? This is one reason why we're looking forward to Pixar's The Good Dinosaur.
We rate it!
Voicemails: Jess, Thomas.
Emails: Joshua, Mary Kate, Chris C., Patrick, Jess.
Runtime: 1:08:59, 36.3 MB
Links Watch Dinosaur: Blu-ray | DVD | Digital | Rent | iTunes
Buy Dinosaur soundtrack: Amazon | Digital | iTunes Dinosaur quotes | DisneyQuotes.com Winnie the Pooh cussing
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Where To Find The Rotoscopers
Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at [email protected].
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Where To Find The Hosts
Mason Smith: Twitter, Portfolio
Morgan Stradling: Twitter, Instagram
Chelsea Robson: Twitter, Facebook

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1 hr 16 min
July 18, 2014071 The Land Before Time - Fellowship of the Tree Star
The Rotoscopers kick off our Dinos & Dragons series by reviewing Don Bluth's 1988 classic The Land Before Time!

Highlights
Main Discussion: The Land Before Time (1988)
We just right into the the commercials and merchandise of this film. Pizza Hut birthday commercial and Pizza Hut puppets, anyone?
The Land Before Time beat out Oliver & Company!
This movie is the epitome of childhood epitome.
Originally started as "Bambi with dinosaurs." Why do the animated mother's always have to die?
Props to Don Bluth for his stunning hand-drawn effects like bubbles, tar, egg shell fragments, lava, rain, and, of course, the classic Don Bluth sparkle.
9 minutes of cut footage, mostly of sharptooth attacks scenes.
Mason Conspiracy Theory: Littlefoot is a jinx.
Many themes in this film: segregation, dealing with loneliness,
Listener Twitter Question: How important was The Land Before Time to your childhood?
We rate it!
Mail bag: Joshua, Tony, Abbi, Lauren, Adam, Robert, Dan, Brooks, Andrew.
Don't forget to use the hashtags #AnimAddicts and #DonBluthDazzle when talking about this episode on Twitter!
Runtime: 1:27:59 84.5 MB

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1 hr 33 min
July 04, 2014 070 Tarzan - Attack of the Disney Theories
It's Mason's birthday episode! The Rotoscopers review the last film of the Disney Renaissance Disney's 1999 film Tarzan.
Highlights
Nerdy Couch Discussion: Frozen crossover theory.
Main Discussion: Tarzan. The soundtrack is one of the most iconic Disney albums. One of the greatest openings in an animated film. How do we feel about the side characters Terk and Tantor? In what societal class is Jane? Thank you creators for making a plausible way for them to overcome the language barrier (unlike the magical leaves from Pocahontas.) Clayton is a weak villain. What's his motivation? Just greed?
Two lessons for kids: don't run away from home and don't swing on branches. Epic battle at the end, plus death by hanging.
We rate it!
Voicemails: Sebastian, Dylan, Sammie, Esther.
Mail bag: Matthew C., Natasha, Nihit, Matt W,. Frank, Joshua, & Ben.
Runtime: 1:54:20, 27.5 MB
Links Watch Tarzan: Blu-ray | DVD | Digital | Rent | iTunes
Buy Tarzan soundtrack: Amazon | Digital | iTunes Deep Canvas demo
The Making of Tarzan: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 Tarzan animation pencil tests Tarzan quotes on DisneyQuotes.com
Where to Find The Rotoscopers Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at [email protected].
Send us a voicemail at rotoscopers.com/voicemail or call (406) 646-6575.
Find us on the web: Rotoscopers.com, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Hypable & Animated Views.
Visit our sponsors: Audible, Amazon.
Where To Find The Hosts
Mason Smith: This Animated Life Blog; Twitter
Morgan Stradling: Twitter, Instagram
Chelsea Robson: Twitter, Facebook

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1 hr 59 min
June 20, 2014069 Princess Mononoke - Go Away
The Rotoscopers review Studio Ghibli's epic film Princess Mononoke with special guest host, Rotowriter Mayra Amaya.
Highlights
Main Discussion: Princess Mononoke
First thoughts and recollections about this movie; reactions to the violence!
Interesting insights from Miyazaki about the the film from his biographies.
Disney drama with the release and censoring the film.
The most impactful moment in the film: San with the blood.
Miyazaki is a master of composition; the forest-spirit scene.
This is the second longest animated film ever and it feels like it.
Major themes in the film: curses, humans vs. nature, hatred.
The ending is a bit rushed and hard to swallow.
We rate it!
Voicemails: Jemma, Dylan, Frank, Eric, Hank Hill, Yuri
Mail bag: Jemma, Susanne, Chris
Don't forget to use the hashtags #AnimAddicts and #GoAway when talking about this episode on Twitter!
Runtime: 1:38:54, 51.7MB
Links
Watch Princess Mononoke: Blu-ray | DVD
Buy soundtrack: Amazon
The Art of Princess Mononoke: Amazon
Miyazaki's biography: Starting Point (1979-1996) and Turning Point (1997-2008)
All of Mayra's articles
The Making of Princess Mononoke
Sullivan Bluth Studio Video

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1 hr 44 min
June 05, 2014 068 One Hundred and One Dalmatians - Do You Got Any Chloroform?
The Rotoscopers review Disney's first modern animated movie, the 1961 canine classic One Hundred and One Dalmatians.
Highlights

■ Nerdy Couch Discussion: Animated henchman - who are our favorites, what qualities do you like in a henchman?
■ Main Discussion: One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
■ What if Disney made a live-action movie telling the tragic backstory of Cruella De Vil?
■ Differences from the book and movie.
■ This was the first film to use the iconic Xerox method, which Disney used for many of the films from this era.
■ The incredible opening credits. Good thing they had Xerox...all those dalmatians in one frame!
■ Pongo's opening monologue, talking about the different prospects. Gotta love dogs looking like their owners.
■ If they are so poor, how can they afford a housekeeper?
■ The nonsense version of Cruella De Vil.
■ Jump-starting the puppies and their obsession with TV.
■ Introduce our two henchmen: Horace and Jasper.
■ The twilight bark and Lady and the Tramp cameos.
■ Hall Hall and the hilarity of What's My Crime?
■ The animation of the cars in the film.
■ Gotta love the villain-henchmen hissy fit.
■ Old 1990s merchandise: happy meal toys and talking books.
■ Listener question: who is your favorite character and why?
■ We rate it!
■ Voicemails & mail bag: Yuri, Brandon, Billy, Joshua, Chris, SimbasGuard, and Sophie. Plus special snail mail from Billy!
■ When talking about this episode on Twitter, use the hashtags #AnimAddicts and #YouIDIOT!

Runtime: 1:58:51 117.2 MB

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2 hr 4 min
May 23, 2014 067 All Dogs Go to Heaven - You Can Never Come Back
The Rotoscopers talk about Don Bluth's classic 1989 animated film All Dog's Go to Heaven!

Highlights
■ Update on everyone's life!
■ Nerdy Couch Discussion: Animated dogs
■ Main Discussion: All Dogs Go to Heaven
■ Brief history of Don Bluth's studio and name changes over the year.
■ This movie is dark and gritty: smoking, drinking, gambling.
■ Burt Reynolds as Charlie (and his contractual stipulations) as well as Don DeLuise, who was Don Bluth's lucky charm.
■ The tragedy of the murder of Anne-Marie's voice actress and the original production cells.
■ Crazy settings and Charlie's story arch.
■ Why does Carface get to go to heaven?
■ We have nothing negative to say about the songs.
■ Why does there ALWAYS have to be a sassy, fat alligator?
■ Mail bag from Mike, Sarah, Leigh-Ann & Jacob.

Runtime: 1:28:50 54 MB

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1 hr 34 min
May 09, 2014 066 Up - Pablo's Bell
Morgan and Chelsea are joined by RotoWriter Pablo Ruiz to review Pixar's only film to be nominated for Best Picture, Up!
Highlights
■ Main Discussion: Up
■ Why the "Married Life" sequence is so good.
■ The punching-filled "Married Life" sequence that could have been.
■ Michael Giacchino's whimsical, 40s-esque score has its own life and takes the film to another level.
■ The movie goes all over the place visually: house floating with balloons, South America, and more!
■ Enter the dogs: Doug, Alpha, Beta, and Gamma!
■ Flying dogs take it too far.
■ Voicemails: Mario, Janice Marie, Jemma, Brandon, Adriana, Yuri, Kimber.

Runtime: 1:25:20 51.6MB
Links
■ Watch Up: Blu-ray | DVD | Digital | Rent
■ Buy the Up soundtrack: Limited Edition CD | Digital
■ Making-of Featurette: Married Life
■ Ed Catmull's new book Creativity, Inc.
■ Paradise Falls is based on the real-life Tepui (flat mountains)

The Rotoscopers
Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at [email protected].
Send us a voicemail at rotoscopers.com/voicemail or call (406) 646-6575.
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Visit our sponsors: Audible, Amazon.
The Hosts

Mason Smith: This Animated Life Blog; Twitter
Morgan Stradling: Twitter, Instagram

Chelsea Robson: Twitter, Facebook

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1 hr 30 min
April 25, 2014 065 Balto - Street Dog
Highlights
Main discussion:
Balto Live-action beginning with pigeon lady from Home Alone 2. Jim Cummings rocks it as Steele, dog character designs, inspirations from The Lady & the Tramp. Really heavy 1st act. Lots of exposition. What's with all the sidekicks? Did Balto have to be half wolf? How Mason would have expanded the story. All the different possible deaths of Steele. We rate it! Voicemails & mail bag! Bloopers: No one cares about Chelsea, Stuffed Balto, Disney Scene-It
Runtime: 1:05:00
Links Watch Balto: DVD | Digital | iTunes Rotoscopers T-shirt contest ends April 30th! Send in your submissions! Andreas Deja's blog: post about Sleeping Beauty's goons
Where To Find The Rotoscopers
Questions, comments, suggestions?
Send us an email at [email protected].
Send us a voicemail at rotoscopers.com/voicemail or call (406) 646-6575.
Find us on the web: Rotoscopers.com, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Hypable & Animated Views. Visit our sponsors: Audible, Amazon, Donate.
Where To Find The Hosts
Mason Smith: This Animated Life Blog; Twitter
Morgan Stradling: Twitter, Instagram
Chelsea Robson: Twitter, Facebook

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1 hr 10 min
April 11, 2014 064 The Lord of the Rings - So Many Miniskirts
Morgan, Mason and Chelsea have a rotospective at Ralph Bakshi's 1978 The Lord of the Rings. Highlights ■ Nerdy Couch Discussion: Disney Horses!
■ Why are horses so sassy? Which are our favorites?
■ Non-canonical horses from Enchanted Stables.
■ Main Discussion: Lord of the Rings (1978).
■ A little backstory and bio of Ralph Bakshi.
■ Ralph Bakshi and Don Bluth are some of the only animation directors whose films are seen as their films, instead of the studios.
■ Bakshi's own thoughts on the film.
■ Character design and extreme use of rotoscoping. What is the true definition of rotoscoping?
■ It's hard to talk about this film without referencing Peter Jackson's The Lord of The Rings *cue music*.
■ How to tell someone in the Living Scriptures animated videos are evil...the schnoz!
■ Is one of the ringwraiths wearing a cowboy hat?!
■ It starts losing steam after Moria. The Two Towers sequence is muddy and doesn't hold our attention.
■ "The orcs are vanquished. Saruman is defeated and we saved Middle Early! Roll credits."
■ Would you want to see Bakshi finish and do The Return of the King?
■ We rate it!
■ Mail bag and bloopers!
■ Use the hashtags #AnimAddicts and #SoManyMiniskirts.
■ Coming Up: Dog movies! Balto, Up, All Dog's Go To Heaven
Runtime: Links ■ Watch The Lord of the Rings: Blu-ray | DVD | Digital
■ Ralph Bakshi's Last Days of Coney Island Kickstarter
■ Ralph Bakshi's website
■ A book about Ralph Bakshi: Unfiltered: The Complete Ralph Bakshi
■ Buy Ralph Bakski cells on eBay
■ Pokemon Podcast Pillows!
■ Rotoscopers T-Shirt contest!
■ Pump-up Week articles: 20 Unforgettable Moments from Ralph Bakshi’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’
Where To Find The Rotoscopers Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at [email protected].
Send us a voicemail at rotoscopers.com/voicemail or call (406) 646-6575. Find us on the web: Rotoscopers.com, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Instagram, Hypable & Animated Views. Support the show: Audible, Amazon, Donate. Where To Find The Hosts Mason Smith: This Animated Life Blog; Twitter Morgan Stradling: Twitter, Instagram Chelsea Robson: Twitter, Facebook

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1 hr 39 min
March 28, 2014 063 Hercules - Gotta Know Your Clouds
Highlights

■ Main Discussion: Hercules
■ Hercules is getting a Blu-ray Release!
■ Movie did not do well, critics said it took too many liberties with the mythology
■ Discussion of characters and the actors who voiced them
■ The choice of a gospel chorus for the Greek chorus
■ Comparison of the original Greek mythology vs. Disney's adaptation
■ Gorgeous color palette for the gods on Olympus
■ Go the Distance is a great song for any spirituality
■ This movie uses lots of pop culture references much like Alandin and Shrek
■ Megara's character ark
■ Once in Every Show from Spamalot
■ Voice mails
■ Mail bag!

Runtime: 1:37:05 46.7 MB

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1 hr 42 min

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