Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
by Masami Hata, William T. Hurtz
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Actor: Danny Mann, Gabriel Damon, Laura Mooney, Mickey Rooney, Rene AuberjonoisDirector: Masami Hata, William T. Hurtz
Brand: PLATINUM DISC LLC
Writer: Bruce Reid Schaefer
Writer: Chris Columbus
Writer: Edward Summer
Writer: Jean Giraud
Writer: Ray Bradbury
Writer: Richard Outten
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-27
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Model: 61849
Studio: Platinum Disc
Product features:
- Welcome to the fantasy world of "Little Nemo," filled with dreams of enchanted lands and new friends, amazing magic and fun-filled adventure. It's a place where anything is possible and the only boundaries are those of the imagination. In this major motion picture, Nemo journeys to the Kingdom of Slumberland. The King of Slumberland welcomes Nemo with open arms, making him heir to the
Movie Reviews of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
Movie Review: Don't blow money on the OOP version! This is the SAME edition!
Summary: 5 Stars
Though this film deserves a full-blown special edition designed with adults in mind--or at the very least a book detailing its troubled production history--the best treatment it's had to date was the 2004 TMS/Funimation/Our Time Family Entertainment DVD from 2004. That disc has long been out of print and fetching inflated prices via eBay and various Amazon Marketplace sellers.
But now it's back. And despite Amazon incorrectly listing the aspect ratio as 1.33:1 and the distributor as Platinum Disc, rest assured that this is EXACTLY the same disc content as the 2004 edition: the film is presented in ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN, with 5.1 Surround Sound (plus a basic Stereo option) plus all the extras from the original release, which are decidedly aimed at children unfortunately. You get: static-screen character profiles; a Slumberland Singalong featuring three songs from the film; a "Make Your Own Royal Scepter" craft project (text frames) and four trailers, one of which is for a computer-animated children's feature called A WOBOTS CHRISTMAS that looked so horrendously out-of-date even in 2004 that it could only be a Christian film, plus three other trailers for much better productions: the likewise computer-generated Canadian feature SANTA CLAUS BROTHERS (2001), the flat-animated short NOEL NOEL (also from Canada), and a lengthy spot for one of the early ARTHUR DVDs.
As with the Funimation edition, the packaging states the film runs 100 minutes, while the film itself actually runs 95 minutes. No big deal, and at least it's not the heavily cut version that appeared in the days of VHS.
But the real gem here is, as mentioned, the WIDESCREEN presentation of the vastly underrated LITTLE NEMO. If you're a fan of either American, Disney-style animation, or Japanese, Miyazaki-style anime, you OWE it to yourself to pick up this budget-priced release to see what you missed.
If you're looking for proper extras, your best bet these days is YouTube, where you can find several "Making of" features from around the time of the film's release (look for these ones: =mhS6jPZvURI , =IJ6f81ZYIfI) as well as Osamu Dezaki's 1987 pilot anime film (=fCLXfJFOlUY&NR=1) and the rare and spellbinding Miyazaki test footage (=fnL-6yLzgWA) that never made it to the final production once he left the project.
Fantastic to finally have this film back on DVD, and at a decent price to boot!
Summary of Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
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