Flash Gordon: The Greatest Adventure of All

The best version of Flash Gordon ever made.

And if you don't agree, all I have to say is, tinkery tonk!


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Law of Should Have Seen It Coming Consequences

Because Wall-E has been so successful at the box office and so well received by the public, Broadway is considering reviving Hello, Dolly, which Wall-E uses clips from.

Haven't we suffered enough?

Wall–E

I saw Wall–E last night and must say that it made R2D2 look like a dustbin in comparison. Several reviews have compared the eponymous robot to Charlie Chaplin and I must agree with them. This is not only an excellent animated feature and a decent science fiction film, but is also a damn good picture full stop. It even makes the "green" message, which is forty years out of date and inexcusable even on its own terms, forgivable for the set up it gives for a marvelous romantic comedy that shows its more "serious" competitors for the shams that they are.

Also, my soon-to-be-six-years old daughter thought the bra over the eyes joke exceptionally funny, which must count for something in the scheme of things.

John Carter, TAS

The animated version of John Carter of Mars that never was, yet could be again.

Famous Five Follies

Disney has demonstrated that their bolderisation of Winnie the Pooh was not a one-off and is bringing back Enid Blyton's Famous Five-- or, at least, an "updated" animated version.

Unsurprisingly, one of the girls is now a Californian "shopaholic", the other is, in accordance with the 1975 Childhood Integration Act that requires that any gathering of more than two juveniles must include a member of an officially recognised ethnic minority, Anglo-Indian, one of the boys is a computer nerd and no doubt we will subsequently learn that the blond boy is homosexual.

What character atrocity is planned for the dog remains undetermined.

According to the BBC,

Producers say the animated tales remain faithful to the themes of storytelling, mystery and adventure central to the original books but add a contemporary twist.

That's "contemporary twist" as in looking like every other PC cartoon on television.

Fantastic Voyage

The animated version.

More of a Somewhat Fantastic Voyage.

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

Ironic how an abstract cartoon can so neatly skewer modern art as the dumb show and pretense that it is.

Cars of Tomorrow

The automotive future isn't what it used to be.

Isms

When cartoons give a clearer argument than most politicians.

Tip o' the hat to the Captain's Quarters.

The Intruder

I don't think NASA realises half the trouble they cause mucking about with space probes in other people's backyards.

The Cat Came Back

Why I don't have a cat.

Future Past: The Animated Series

Max Fleischer's take on the 1939 New York World's Fair