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...device was hidden inside a length of chair-rail molding ingeniously milled and painted to blend into the aging woodwork of a conference room used by the oceans and environment bureau. "This is really a sort of James Bond scenario," marvels a top official. "This is not something you go in and slap under the table and walk out the door. It's extremely professional in nature and sufficiently concealed so that you or I wouldn't find it in a hundred years...
Like Andy in Toy Story, audiences have a choice: they can drop their $7.50 on the technologically advanced new kid on the block or the familiar veteran. But in actuality, Pixar and Disney are more like the Buzz Lightyear and Wood of Toy Story 2. A blend of the new and old has equated victory. Buzz and Woody work together in Toy Story 2 to get Woody home after being kidnapped. Since 1989, Pixar and Disney have worked together to achieve mega financial and critical success and to blow the competition away...
What's the next adventure for the dynamic duo? To repeat their previous success with Monsters, Inc., slated for release in 2000. Clearly, Pixar and Disney will continue to dominate the industry. The blend of incredible animation, writing and song make them near unstoppable. A comparison between Toy Story and its sequel reveals the great strides in technology; the humans and clothes in Toy Story 2 have become markedly more realistic. Pixar and Disney's look "To infinity and beyond...
Butoy has another lovely piece: Hans Christian Andersen's The Steadfast Tin Soldier grafted onto Shostakovich's Second Piano Concerto. The one-legged soldier and his ballerina love battle an evil Jack-in-the-box in a gorgeous blend of traditional and computer animation. Eric Goldberg has a snippet set to Carnival of the Animals--flamingoes playing with yo-yos--that is giddy enough to remind you of Bob Clampett's 1943 cartoon classic A Corny Concerto. The Goldberg variation on Rhapsody in Blue is a smartly syncopated tribute to ageless caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. In the style of the NINAs...
...after all, a wee mouse. But sooner or later, in both cases, disbelief is suspended, and we take the brave, chipper and very decent rodent (voiced by Michael J. Fox) to heart. Though Stuart's adventures seem more breathless onscreen than they did on the page, the blend of digital animation and live action is first rate. Eventually Stuart wins over even Snowbell, the Littles' cat (Nathan Lane). That scheming feline is a tougher audience than any Stuart is likely to encounter in theaters...