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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...make the viewer laugh, and no earwax or "ass"-is-a-synonym-for-"donkey" joke falls below their standards. Though not every wisecrack connects, the movie makes a commendable effort in creating an animated movie that is actually funny rather than "adventurous" and "poignant" as most other cartoon features tend to be nowadays...

Author: By Daniel S. Fox, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: An Unconventional Fairy Tale | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

Little Lee Doo Dam is just one example. He may have managed to hold out against Pokémon, but then the newest Japanese fad hit - the Digimon cartoon series. Doo Dam caved - like most of his buddies who have helped make the comics the top-selling children's books at Seoul's giant Kyobo bookstore. "It's fun and there is no Korean comic to match it," he says. "So I think it is O.K. to read Digimon. Even if it comes from Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Look Back In Anger | 4/30/2001 | See Source »

...funny. Its shameless self-promotion in the recent Josie and the Pussycats was seen, based on the film’s box office, by somewhere in the neighborhood of 15 people. And the press release for “Undergrads,” MTV’s most recent cartoon program, highlights the show’s major flaw. It’s not funny...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Can I Graduate? MTV Unleashes Its New Animated Series | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

...this show been made for NBC or CBS, it would have been reasonable not to expect much. Critics have made much of the fact that, with the exception of “The Simpsons” and a few other cartoon shows on Fox, no other network has had much success, critical or commercial, with attempts at a prime time animated series. But whenever this point is made, the reviewer is undoubtedly forgetting “Daria,” the “Beavis and Butthead” spin-off that has consistently been one of the best, most...

Author: By Nathan Burstein, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Can I Graduate? MTV Unleashes Its New Animated Series | 4/27/2001 | See Source »

DIED. ED (BIG DADDY) ROTH, 69, dotty hot-rodder whose cartoon alter ego, "Rat Fink," glared at convention and Mickey Mouse; of a heart attack; in Manti, Utah. He was called "the most capricious" of car customizers by Tom Wolfe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 16, 2001 | 4/16/2001 | See Source »

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