Animation Addicts Podcast - Animated Movie Reviews & Interviews For Disney, Dreamworks, Pixar & Everything In Between!

It's Chelsea's birthday episode! The Rotoscopers finally review one of the Disney films that they've had on their bucket list since they started the show: Walt Disney's Sleeping Beauty. Highlights Catch and fire with Chelsea! Nerdy Couch Discussion: Origins of the Sleeping Beauty fairy tale from the Sleeping Beauty art book. Main Discussion: Sleeping Beauty (1959) The making-of documentary from the end of the VHS tape. Discussion about the unique art style, backgrounds, and Eyvind Earle. The fairies are like midlevel Powerpuff Girls. The king's choir is always ready to serenade. Big discussion on Maleficent, her design, her backstory and the 2014 film Maleficent. The goons are based on classical art. Why Prince Phillip is the best Disney prince ever (the girls agree!). The eternal debate: pink or blue? New Disney Theory: Is this film a predecessor to The Sword in the Stone? We rate it! Voicemails: Erik, CJ, Adriana, Maegan, & Animated Madness. Emails: Joshua K, Sarah, Tris, Rob. Don't forget to buy the Rotosc

The Rotoscopers head back to medieval times to discover King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table and a really bizarre movie, Quest for Camelot. Highlights Main Discussion: Quest for Camelot (1998) Morgan has faint memories of seeing this with Chelsea, but...remembers nothing of the film. The movie poster turned Morgan off. This is an example of what happens when oblivious executives meddle in a film. The music suffers. What is it trying to be? Serious? Comical? A musical? Gandondorf aka Ruber: "Now all of Hyrule knows you are here." Garett: He has a bird companion who is not evil! The conjoined twin dragons are the worst part of this film. Why the goofy, obnoxious song? Why do animated films feel the need to dumb it down? What we (and our Twitter followers)would have done to make this movie better. Voicemail & emails: Jaclyn, Vishal, Joshua, Dan, Holly, Phoebe, Kristopher, Karifa. Don't forget to buy the Rotoscopers T-shirt! Runtime: 1:27:49, 22.0 MB Links Watch Quest for Camelot: DVD | Digital | Rent | iT

Highlights Nerdy Couch Discussion: Two new Disney theories! Wreck-It Ralph theory that the Disneyverse is one giant computer. Disneyverse has its own Disney within the Disneyverse. Main Discussion: We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story (1993) The early '90s were the era of the dinosaur. Vorb tops the list for annoying side character. Is this movie just a giant commercial for the cereal companies? Check out that '90s penthouse! Screweyes does know his audience. What a creepy villain death. That definitely stands out as one of the best villain deaths ever We rate it! Voicemails & emails: Mark, Joshua, Miguel, MJ, Tony, and Mike Runtime: 1:25:15 82.8MB Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It's an animated film of mammoth-size proportions: Blue Sky's first film, Ice Age. Highlights   Main Discussion: Ice Age History of Blue Sky Studios. It started out as a VFX and commercial studio. Interesting to see that a lot of studios start out as a commercial-making studio and then slowly grow to making features. Mother Gothel: "Enough with the migrations." Surprising voice talent. What the Jack Black? The dodo sequence! The big moment that pays off: the cave painting sequence. It helps you really understand Diego...finally. Sequelitis: we rant about sequels. "And this is how we end up with Ice Age 5." The random but pivotal moment of the sudden lava. Voicemails: Eddie Mail bag: Joshua, Frank, John, Matthew, Miriam Runtime: 1:13:44 71.9 MB   Links Watch Ice Age: Blu-ray | DVD | Digital | Rent | iTunes Buy Ice Age soundtrack: Amazon | iTunes Buy the Rotoscopers T-shirt   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 Rotoscopers Store Where To Find The Rotoscopers Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at contact@rotos

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

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: Par

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 Miyazak

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

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 contact@rotoscopers.com. Send us a voicemail at rotosc

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 contact@rotoscopers.com. 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

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

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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s Morgan and Mason for a M&M episode, where they review DreamWorks 2002 traditionally animated film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron. Highlights ■ Main Discussion: Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron ■ Who are Kelly Asbury and Lorna Cook? ■ Bryan Adam’s soundtrack. Phil Collins/Tarzan knock off? Gotta love the early 2000s. ■ “Tradigital Animation” – CGI opening scene with the eagle Morgan loves. ■ Matt Damon is channeling his inner Matthew Broderick. ■ Morgan’s motion blur rant. ■ What’s with the colonel in the clouds on the DVD cover? ■ Bryan Adams songs ever few minutes. Do they all sound the same? ■ Little Creek and the painted mare, Rain! ■ Rain’s “death”; not quite on Mufasa level. ■ THE NOD! ■ Listener Twitter Question: What would you rate SPIRIT and why? ■ Mail bag! Michael, Lauren, Geri, Hule, Todge, and Courtney. Runtime: 1:24:21 20.3 MB Links ■ Watch Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron: Blu-ray | DVD | Digital | Rent ■ Listen to the soundtrack ■ “This Is Me” openings in animation ■ “Run Free” sequence

Morgan, Chelsea, Mason and special guest host Whitney Grace come together to discuss Rankin-Bass's 1982 film The Last Unicorn. Highlights ■ Email from Zora, requesting one of her favorite movies from her childhood. ■ Main Discussion: The Last Unicorn ■ History of Rankin-Bass, adapting this film and the RankinBass.com retro website. ■ First memories, major themes. ■ The red bull doesn't give you wings (and turn you into an alicorn). ■ History of unicorn in folklore. Powers of the unicorn horn. ■ Gotta love the Harpy and crazy Mommy Fortuna. ■ Things get Studio Jiggling on us real fast! ■ List of movies where animals turn into humans and visa versa. ■ The pirate cat is the best part of this movie! He needs his own Saturday morning spinoff cartoon! ■ Deep thoughts with Chelsea: "There are no happy endings because there is no end."; What does the red bull represent? ■ We rate it! ■ Mail bag: Luis, David Lee, Georgina, Adriana, Mike, and Marc. Runtime: 1:54:05, 30.8MB Links ■ Watch The Last Unicorn: Blu-ray | DVD 

The people have spoken! The top requested film in 2013 was The Lion King! Go along with Mason, Morgan, and Chelsea as they talk about the iconic film from their childhood! Highlights ■ First impressions and stats: The Lion King vs. Frozen. ■ Story: was this REALLY based on Hamlet? A Mason theory. ■ How can you go wrong with Hans Zimmer, Elton John, and Tim Rice? ■ How does "The Baboon Priesthood" actually work? ■ Scar vs. Mufasa. Why Scar is the prototype of a child predator. ■ Two thumbs WAY way up for the voice acting! ■ "This is worse than when Zazu and Iago took over the Tiki Room!" ■ They should have a deleted scene with "The Birdie Boiler". ■ More reasons why Mufasa is so great. ■ Scar: The lame Pokemon trainer. ■ "Hey look it's Jim Cummings!" ■ The Stampede. Hans Zimmer is the master of mood. ■ Scar should have waited it out and stayed in the lion senate. ■ Mason voices Matthew Broderick. ■ Special bonus Zelda episode coming at you. ■ All of us need a "Remember who you are" moment. ■ The Disney vulture

Morgan and Chelsea jump right in the the discussion on this unconventional and under-appreciated French film, A Monster in Paris! Highlights ■ What is going on with PARIS?! The disgusting truth of where all this water came from! Nasty! ■ The film is actually better the second time! Who is this leprechaun-looking dude? ■ Who is Bibo Bergeron? Where is the making of? ■ Animation: They used their money wisely.  ■ Character breakdowns and major plot points. ■ We're learning French as we go. ■ Chelsea talks about her 'American Idol Season 8' experience. ■ The one-hit wonder! ■ It almost went into disturbing territory... ■ The music. ■ We rate it!  Mail Bag!  ■ Jessica: What educational cartoons did you watch? ■ Sara Costa: How can we contact Whitney of Animated Interviews? @storysequence ■ Peter: The Art and Making of Peanuts Animation. ■ Anja: Frozen, some Norwegian trivia, Morgan's singing, and the Podcast Awards! Runtime: 103.46; 32.7 MB Links ■ Watch A Monster in Paris: Blu-ray | DVD | Digital | Rent ■ A Monst

It's big and LOUD! The Rotoscopers look into the one and only film from Turner Feature Animation, Cats Don't Dance. Highlights ■ The animation competition in 1997. The age of the musicals. Highlights ■ Animation quality vs the merchandising! ■ Director Mark Dindal: What happened to him? Seriously... does anyone know? ■ The Aristocats' canon is expanded. The tragic tale of Marie! ■ Chelsea's schedule to stardom. ■ Darla Dimple. Clearly inspired by Shirley Temple. ■ Mason's question and Chelsea's soap box. ■ Why do we care so much about Sawyer? ■ Little Steven Spielberg ■ Yzma and Kronk are recycled ■ We Rate It! ■ Emails from Mike, Andrew Chee, Kynan, Alex Hatch, Mark, Joe T. ■ And of course...bloopers! Runtime: 1:16:52 Links ■ Kynan's alternate version of the Disney Renaissance. ■ Joe T's Blip Page. ■ Stephen Schwartz and Mumbia Musical. ■ Princess Profiles: Elsa by Gary Wright. Where To Find The Rotoscopers Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an email at Contact@rotoscopers.com Send us a voicemail

We kick off the new year by looking back at 2013 at the best moments from the Animation Addicts Podcast. Also, we announce the results of the 2013 Rotoscopers Awards! Sit back and get ready for some good laughs from this past year. Highlights ■ 1st Annual Rotoscopers' Awards results! ■ Our favorite moments from 2013! Including best intros, funny discussions and random fun you never heard! ■ Voicemails from Jessica, Daniela, Jemma, and Susanna.  ■ Emails from Joshua, Esther, Abraham, Jemma, Michael, Arianne, Anibal, David, Stephanie, MB, Jarlett, Thomas, Shelby, and Lindsay. Runtime: 2:10:00, 63.0 MB Links ■ Animated Music videos: What Makes You Beautiful, Girlfriend, non-Disney Villains. ■ "The Scarecrow". ■ Theory Animation. ■ Wicked as a Disney animated film concept art  & YouTube video. ■ Morgan's suggestions on the History of Animation books & resources: Of Mice and Magic, The World History of Animation & Traditional Animation. Where To Find The Rotoscopers Questions, comments, suggestions? Send us an ema