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The Smurfs Blu-ray 3D Review

February 8, 2012 By Jonas Allen Leave a Comment

I am a child of the ‘80s. Memories of my childhood include The A-Team, Battlestar Galactica (the original), Buck Rogers in the 21st Century and The Smurfs -- and that was just Saturday’s TV lineup. Hearing that The Smurfs were making a theatrical comeback with Doogie Howser, er, Neil Patrick Harris, in a lead role stirred-up mixed emotions. On one hand, watching The Smurfs could be a great trip down memory lane, and Hank Azaria as Gargamel could inject a nice dose of slapstick. On the other hand, mixing live-action and animation often …
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Tekken Hybrid Review

February 5, 2012 By Jeff Paramchuk Leave a Comment

The Tekken series was a mainstay during my time in college and even though it was a long time ago, I still remember using all the classic characters like it was yesterday, and I am bad now as I was then. It’s been a few years since home consoles have seen Tekken come back, and just in time for the arcade version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 (in Japan at least) comes this strange ‘collection’ of the Tekken series. Tekken Hybrid isn’t a new game in the series – but more a glimpse of the future, a visit to the past and something to help …
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Tora! Tora! Tora! Blu-ray Disc Review

January 24, 2012 By Jonas Allen Leave a Comment

Tora! Tora! Tora! is the kind of movie that only a historical film fan could love. It’s not a terrible film by any means, but it’s the kind of movie with a pacing aimed more at delivering historical accuracy than being an exciting thrill-a-minute ride. If you’re looking for an action-packed very-loose interpretation of the events of Pearl Harbor, than rent Pearl Harbor. If, however, you’re looking to see a seminal event in American history from both sides, then Tora! Tora! Tora! is definitely worth watching, and the new Blu-ray special …
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Toy Story 3 Blu-ray 3D Review

January 1, 2012 By Jonas Allen Leave a Comment

As a parent, I find Toy Story 3 to be an incredibly sad movie. Well scripted, meaningful and great, to be sure, but emotional and sad nonetheless. As a so-called graphics whore, I find Toy Story 3 to be one of 2011’s benchmark CG films, with animations and textures so refined they’d make granular sugar cry. Yet as a fan of the Blu-ray 3D format, I find Toy Story 3 to be a bit disappointing. The technological jump from the first to second film was remarkable, as I noted in my Toy Story 2 Blu-ray 3D review, and the impact of those …
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Toy Story 2 Blu-ray 3D Review

January 1, 2012 By Jonas Allen 1 Comment

Pixar is always one to make evolutionary leaps in technology, with subtle changes between in films that somehow make all the difference. Yet when it comes to the Blu-ray 3D presentations of Toy Story and Toy Story 2, the jump is more drastic than any Pixar has taken to date. The straight-up graphical improvements cannot be denied, but it’s the little nuances between the first and second outings of Buzz Lightyear and Co. -- things like depth of field and improved animations -- that help make the 3D effects so much more robust and refined. The …
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Toy Story Blu-ray 3D Review

December 30, 2011 By Jonas Allen 1 Comment

Toy Story was the industry’s first full-length CG film, so it isn’t surprising to see Disney release the Toy Story trilogy on Blu-ray 3D, a still-fresh technology that’s bound to take over your living room someday. Toy Story has been out on standard Blu-ray for a while, but its 3D appearance presents a whole new take on the Buzz and Woody experience. Ironically, though, it’s not necessarily the 3D effects that stand out most. The new 3D presentation opens with a Pixar logo that’s got depth and rotates, and follows that with a great …
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G-Force Blu-ray 3D Review

December 30, 2011 By Jonas Allen 1 Comment

Superhero guinea pigs doesn’t sound like the most intriguing movie, let alone something readers would want to learn more about, so the first time G-Force released on Blu-ray I skipped it entirely. But there Disney went, releasing G-Force on Blu-ray 3D, and suddenly my review ears perked up. “Hmm, it mustn’t be half bad, if it’s getting the Blu-ray 3D treatment,” I thought. Still...superhero guinea pigs? I wasn’t sold. Now that I’ve watched G-Force in 3D, though, I’m pleased to say that it presents some interesting 3D effects, if …
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Disney’s Chicken Little Blu-ray 3D Review

December 15, 2011 By Jonas Allen 2 Comments

Chicken Little was the first movie I saw theatrically in 3D, so watching it at home via Blu-ray 3D was an oddly reminiscent experience. The story -- a young chicken sees the “sky” fall but tries desperately to repress it until all alien Hell breaks loose and he can’t -- does feel a bit dated, but at the time of Chicken Little’s theatrical debut you could overlook that because the technology was so novel. Now the novelty of 3D has worn off to a certain degree, at least in my corner of the world, so the story triteness is a bit more …
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Bolt Blu-ray 3D Review

December 15, 2011 By Jonas Allen 1 Comment

Bolt was one of a handful of animated movies I didn’t mind watching more than once. Sure, John Travolta voicing a superhero dog was funny, especially when you consider his owner was voiced by Miley Cyrus, but the narrative itself was decent enough that it warranted a couple of views. As a result, I was intrigued to see Bolt make Disney’s Blu-ray 3D release list this holiday season, because if the movie itself was worth a view, imagine what it would be like in 3D -- especially if the 3D effects were as expertly conceived as another archival …
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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides Blu-ray 3D Review

October 27, 2011 By Jonas Allen Leave a Comment

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides needed to prove something when it released this summer, and prove something it did: the film grossed more than $1 billion worldwide. What it needed to prove wasn’t the franchise’s status as a cash cow, nor Johnny Depp’s ability to make being a thieving drunk look so fun. No, what Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides needed to prove was that the abomination of At World’s End was simply a fluke, a bad movie that tarnished an otherwise awesome franchise. Pirates of the Caribbean: On …
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