I’ve always liked Tim Burton movies. I realize the beef a lot of people have with his films, but I have always enjoyed them. Although his style may be getting a bit predictable, he seems to have fun making them and it comes through on the screen. That can definitely be said about Alice in Wonderland.

It’s one of his most heavily-stylized movies to date, to the point where it makes you wonder why he didn’t just animate it. They went as far as enlarging the Queen’s head significantly, replacing Crispin Glover’s body with CG, and using mainly CG sets and background characters. Still, it gives the movie a unique (if cluttered) look.

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I got an email from Disney Living about a new product, and the name immediately had me reaching for the delete button, but when I googled Disney’s new Pook-a-Looz plush toys, I was overwhelmed with cuteness.

The Pook-a-Looz are quirky, handmade-looking plush toys based on Disney, Pixar, and Muppet characters. They’re supposed to be fairly cheap, thus fodder for collectors. The Buzz and Woody are kind of fantastic and I’ll probably pick those up for the office. The official promotional video is a little odd, but then again so are the toys.

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There hasn’t been a whole lot of news from the Disney/Marvel acquisition front yet, until now. Some enterprising fanboys discovered that one of Disney’s recent domain name purchases was ANT-MAN-THE-MOVIE.COM. We already knew that Disney has to keep their hands off the Marvel film franchises already in development with other studios, so they’re obviously frantically flipping through the pages looking for undeveloped characters.

Lets just hope that they stick with the Edgar Wright version of Ant-Man.

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I think I’ve confessed my love of Disney’s Chip ‘n Dale shorts around here before, and thanks to DVDs like Classic Cartoon Favorites Vol. 4 – Starring Chip ‘n Dale and a few of the Disney Treasures sets, I’ve been able to collect most of the shorts I grew up watching.

The Lone Chipmunks is one I have not been able to find for a long time, and for some reason only recently thought to look up on YouTube. It was great seeing it again, but now I wish I had it in DVD quality at least. Unfortunately, the only DVD it’s been released on is a random Davy Crockett Two-Movie set. Now the question is whether it’s worth $15 to me to have this short. Hmm.

Further Reading

The Lone Chipmunks on DisneyShorts.org

When G-Force came out in the theaters a while ago, I kept kidding my wife that we were going to go see it, whether she liked it or not. Well, that never happened, but I got the last laugh, because now we have it on Blu-ray.

How was it? It was exactly what I thought it would be. I laughed a lot, just maybe not for the reasons the filmmakers intended. I just wanted to watch some CG gerbils save the world.

It’s produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, so you know the action is going to be great, and it stars the voices of Nicolas Cage, Sam Rockwell, Jon Favreau, Penelope Cruz, Tracy Morgan, and Steve Buscemi. Oh, and Zak Galifianakis is in it too. What are you waiting for?

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