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...PHRASE] Cartoon bumbler in live-action comedy...
Blue's Clues does meet Anderson's criteria (he was a consultant). Shown on Nickelodeon, it is the highest-rated show for preschoolers on commercial television; among all shows for the age group, it comes in third behind Barney and Arthur, a cartoon about an aardvark that was developed mainly for older children. Blue's Clues has a rigid structure: in each episode, a young man named Steve (played by Steven Burns, who could not be more likable) tries to figure out the answer to a question. Blue, his animated pet dog, provides clues by putting his paw print...
...gorgeous, gasp-inducing spectacle. And most of the time, it works dramatically. The fable of Simba the lion cub, who believes he has caused his father's death and exiles himself out of shame, is perhaps the most powerful of all the Disney latter-day cartoon myths. The story still depends too much on the exaggerated villainy of Simba's uncle Scar (John Vickery, nicely reprising Jeremy Irons' silky voicing of the character in the film); can't a kid disobey his father without help? And some of the comedy here, especially Geoff Hoyle's hammy-English-butler routine...
...several of the songs are cluttered with heavy-metalish guitar asides that seem lifted from Spinal Tap B sides. The last song on this album, Go the Distance, is a fitting closer. It's from the animated movie Hercules, and every line has the two-dimensionality of a cartoon...
...heart of Citizen Soldier is with Willie and Joe, Bill Mauldin's famous editorial-cartoon dogfaces. Today they would be well into their 70s, if the Lucky Strikes and Spam didn't do them in. They would probably be bypassed in more ways than one. But they won't be forgotten as long as citizen-scholar Ambrose keeps his desk...