Toon Talk: Kronk's New Groove
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DVD Bonus Features:
In addition to the Disney Fast Play option, the disc includes
How to Cook a Movie, which takes the Chef Kronk idea and runs with
it. Patrick Warburton hosts a mock cheesy cooking show with “special guests�?
Saul Andrew Blinkoff and Elliot M. Bour, a.k.a. Kronk’s talented
directors, who go on to explain how the movie was made. It’s a quick “making of�?
feature that succeeds where many have failed before: with its Dating Game
music and the fabulous Eartha Kitt, it is actually funny.
Rounding out the disc are two above average set-top games, Kronk’s Brain Game and Pyramid Scheme, that both offer multiple branchings that allow repeated play and fun, another rarity in today’s DVDs.
Toon Talk Rating: A-
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In this ‘Toon Talk’ feature, I’ll briefly highlight a recommended film or DVD, outside of the Disney universe, of similar interest to the main subject. Classy Culinary Classic The 1987 Academy Award-winning foreign language film from Denmark, Babette’s Feast (Orion Classics) tells the simple tale of Babette, a French refugee who is taken in by a Protestant pastor and his two adult daughters and becomes their housekeeper and cook. Upon the father’s death, Babette decides to repay his kindness by offering to make his commemorative dinner, which turns into an elaborate feast that the guests aren’t quite sure what to make of. The film is a gentle story of overcoming preconceptions and embracing the joys of humanity, using food as a metaphor for life. Just be sure you’re not hungry before you watch it … Starring Stephane Audran, Birgitte Federspiel, Bodil Kjer and Jarl Kulle. Directed by Gabriel Axel. DVD available from MGM Home Entertainment. |
Coming Soon in Toon Talk:
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Now available, wave 5 of the Walt Disney Treasures series, with Disney Rarities: Celebrated Shorts, Legendary Heroes: Elfego Baca and Swamp Fox, The Adventures of Spin and Marty and The Chronological Donald, Volume 2.
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Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, Toy Story 2 gets a new two-disc Special Edition of its own December 26.
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Toon in for the Toon Talk Top 10 of 2005.
And Coming Soon from Buena Vista Home Video:
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Only four months after its first DVD release, Frank Miller and Robert Rodriguez’ Sin City is back again, this time “Re-cut, Reedited and Uncensored�?; Mark Wahlberg leads an all-star cast in another director’s cut re-release, The Yards; Heath Ledger stars in the crime thriller Two Hands; the ESPN original movie Four Minutes, based on the true story of Roger Bannister (Jamie MacLachlan), the first man to break the four-minute mile; Vanguard Animation’s Valiant comes home to perch; and four Roger Corman “classics�? - Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, Death Race 2000, Dinoroc and Big Bad Momma - get the special edition treatment (December 13).
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The Academy Award-winning Chicago finally gets a special edition with a “Razzle Dazzle Edition�?; another Broadway fave, Once Upon a Mattress, fresh off its television debut, stars Carol Burnett and Tracey Ullman; Heath Ledger and Matt Damon co-star in Terry Gilliam’s latest, The Brothers Grimm; and Benjamin Bratt and James Franco lead the war drama The Great Raid, available separately in the theatrical release and an unrated director’s cut (December 20).
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Jennifer Connelly stars in the thriller Dark Water (December 26).
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-- Posted December 13, 2005