Shows
How's It Hold Up?Fantastic Planet (La Planète Sauvage)(Spoiler Section Length - 10min 48sec)When you're passionate about animation, you end up knowing about a lot of movies by proxy, without having actually seen them. The French film with the giant blue people is one such film for Danika, and now it's finally time to watch the thing! It is significantly weirder than any of this podcast's cohosts could have imagined. But does it hold up? Listen to find out!
2025-07-021h 09
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Mickey's GardenWe're back for 2024, starting off strong with a cartoon that a certain co-host watched SO MUCH as a child. It's a Mickey Mouse cartoon where he goes on a pesticide-fueled drug trip and gets terrorized (along with Pluto) by bugs. So many parts of it are stuck forever in Danika's head, but does that make it good? Does this cartoon from her youth hold up so many years later? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org...
2024-01-0831 min
How's It Hold Up?Katy and the Katerpillar Kids (aka "Katy, Kiki y Koko" or "Katy Meets the Aliens")After over a decade of searching, an ebay purchase, and the borrowing of a VHS player, we can finally watch this obscure movie from Danika's childhood, involving woodland critters and aliens and a hawk named Gracko. This is a sequel to a film we haven't watched, and the English dub rather than original language version. Was this movie worth the effort, or did it deserve to be forgotten? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses...
2023-05-2451 min
How's It Hold Up?Blood: The Last VampireThe 2021 Halloween Spookaboo reaches its end with a movie that was too scary for Jan to watch! This is a short, gory horror action anime film that proved popular enough in Japan to spawn multiple sequels and spin-offs. It certainly proves spooky enough, but in the end, is this flick worth watching? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By...
2021-10-2956 min
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Silly Symphonies: The Skeleton DanceWe managed to get a Halloween-appropriate short in before the holiday season is over! This is not the first Silly Symphony short, but it is an early one and is arguably the most famous of the lot. As you might surmise from the title, it mostly involves skeletons dancing. But the question is... is that enough to make it a compelling short nearly 100 years after it was created? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses...
2021-10-2718 min
How's It Hold Up?Scooby-Doo and the Witch's GhostIt's time for another Scooby-Doo movie! This one has the dubious honor of being the first Scooby movie created after the fan-favorite Zombie Island. Rather than focusing on horror like that one, this returns to the regular Scooby forumla, but with a little Zombie Island-inspired twist. Does it still hold up today among the many, many Scooby-Doo movies? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2021-10-2053 min
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! The First Looney Tune: Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid (& Singin' in the Bathtub)We've seen how Mickey Mouse got his start, and even earlier in the Disney catalogue, too. But there's another major name that comes to mind when thinking of classic cartoon shorts: Warner Bros and their Looney Tunes. How did this series get its start, and who was their first cartoon star to compete against the Disney Mouse? It's not Bugs, or Daffy, or even Porky... no, it's Bosko, the oft-forgotten original Looney Tune. Why is he so often forgotten? And how does his original two appearances (one private, one public) hold up in the modern day? Listen to find...
2021-10-1528 min
How's It Hold Up?The Black CauldronFor our first 2021 Halloween Spookaboo episode, we check out the black sheep of the Disney animated film library. This movie is infamous for the scary imagery within, the cuts made to it, and for becoming something of a cult classic. Revisiting it 36 years later, does it deserve that cult classic status, or is this one best left in the Disney Dark Ages? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin...
2021-10-061h 16
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Mickey Mouse: The Barn DanceThis short is the first Mickey Cartoon made after his public debut! In this one, we see Pete used as a romantic rival rather than a straight-up villain, and a Minnie who doesn't find everything Mickey does charming. Will Mickey win Minnie over? And more importantly, is this short any fun to actually watch? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative...
2021-09-2927 min
How's It Hold Up?The Transformers: The MovieToday we watch the movie that traumatized a generation. It's a movie that's overall very silly and lighthearted in tone but that makes some decisions that bring death to a world previously bereft of it. But in the end, is it any good? Do you have to be a Transformers fan to enjoy it? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative...
2021-09-221h 02
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Mickey Mouse: Steamboat Willie & MoreThe Mouse is finally here! And while the world thinks of Steamboat Willie as his first cartoon, the truth is two others were made before it, but not officially released until after! Though Steamboat Willie ended up being Mickey's public debut, it's interesting to consider how the drastically different portrayals in Plane Crazy and The Gallopin' Gaucho would have potentially changed the initial perception of the future Walt Disney company mascot. And how do all three of these hold up as cartoons in the here and now? Are they fun to watch outside of their historical value? Listen to...
2021-09-1557 min
How's It Hold Up?Dreamworks' Sinbad: Legend of the Seven SeasToday we cover what is perhaps Dreamworks' most infamous film. This one almost sunk the company before it could give us classics like Shrek 2, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train Your Dragon, or Megamind. It's also one of the death knells for major releases of traditionally animated films. But all that said... how is the movie? Is this tale of pirates and chaos goddesses any good, or is it best left forgotten, the way Jeffery Katzenberg, creator of Quibi, would prefer? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)...
2021-09-081h 21
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: Sky ScrappersToday we look at the final Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoon Walt Disney had a hand in, though it would prove to be far from the last short to use the character. Ortensia and Pete are back for this one, but instead of a fantasy setting, this short goes for a then-contemporary construction workplace setting. As the final Disney short before the start of the Mickey Mouse series, does this finale of sorts for the Disney Oswald series still hold up so many years later? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod...
2021-09-0223 min
How's It Hold Up?Hook (1991)Though this live action Steven Spielberg film is not officially a live-action sequel to Disney's Peter Pan, it can be interpreted as one, and it was an indelible part of many a 90's kid's childhood. Considered a failure, the film has recently undergone something of a cultural reevaluation as those who grew up with it analyze it as adults. So now it's time for us to do that! Is this film only good through nostalgia goggles, or does it have something to offer still in the year 2021? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises...
2021-08-251h 20
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Disney's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: Oh, What a KnightAfter the Alice Comedies, it was time for Walt to create a new star, one that didn't rely on a live actor being inserted into the animation. But this star was not yet Mickey Mouse, but instead Oswald the Lucky Rabbit! Today we look at perhaps the most iconic Oswald short, while talking about the character's origins. The short might be iconic, but is it any good? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2021-08-2328 min
How's It Hold Up?Disney's Peter Pan 2: Return to NeverlandIn the early 2000s, Peter Pan was one of many Disney movies that was given a sequel, and was also far from the first to focus on the child of one of the protagonists from the original film. This one stars Wendy's daughter Jane, who gets to go on her own Neverland adventure. Disney sequels have a bad reputation, but this podcast's opinions on them have been mixed rather than only bad. Is this one of the better ones, or is this sequel best left in the bargain bin? Listen to find out!The...
2021-08-111h 24
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Disney's Alice Comedies: Alice's Balloon RaceThe final Alice Comedy we'll be covering, this one is indicative of the trend with this series of Alice as a character being minimized so the short can focus on the cartoons. Also Pete's here and he's got a hat! Is this the best of the bunch, or was this series ready to be thrown out? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed...
2021-08-0523 min
How's It Hold Up?Disney's Peter PanThis movie is something of a double-edged sword for Disney, in that it's generally considered one of their most iconic and loved works, while also being one of their most infamously racist. Everyone knows the depiction of Native Americans in this movie hasn't held up, but how much does that affect the overall product? And how's the story around that? Is the good in this one worth sitting through the bad, or is this particular film best left to rot inside the Disney vault? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech...
2021-07-281h 15
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Disney's Alice Comedies: Alice Solves the PuzzleToday's Alice Comedy is the very first appearance of a Disney character that's still around and in use today! And I don't mean Mickey Mouse! No, I mean Mickey's eventual main villain - Pete! Yes, it's true, Pete, sometimes known as Peg-Leg Pete and in this cartoon known as Bootleg Pete, is older than Mickey or even Mickey's 'cousin' Oswald the Lucky Rabbit! But sure, the cartoon is noteworthy for that reason, but... is it actually any good? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative...
2021-07-2122 min
How's It Hold Up?Russian Winnie the PoohDid you know that Disney's animated Winnie the Pooh adventures are not the only ones? There's at least one other - a very different version based on the same stories and made in Russia by studio Soyuzmulfilm! This episode is actually not reviewing a movie, but three shorts that total around 40 minutes in total. Each is based on one single chapter from Winnie the Pooh, and none involve Christopher Robin. What is this alternate version of Winnie the Pooh like, and more importantly, how does it hold up?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech...
2021-07-1446 min
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Disney's Alice Comedies: Alice's Wild West ShowAnother week another Alice Comedies short! This one has a lot of live action in it and a lot of child actors! It was also released in theatres, unlike the first Alice Comedies short we watched. Did it deserve to be? How's this thing hold up?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2021-07-0725 min
How's It Hold Up?Your Name (Kimi no Na wa)This is our first CoMix Wave film, and is also likely the most well-known of the lot. To say this movie is popular in Japan would be an understatement. Needless to say, we were excited to watch it. But does this story of a boy and girl switching bodies with each other hold up five years later? Or is this one not worth the hype? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/...
2021-06-301h 09
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Disney's Alice Comedies: Alice's WonderlandMost people might think of the old black and white Mickey Mouse cartoons as Disney's first main cartoon shorts series, and some might even recall that a certain Lucky Rabbit had a series before Mickey. But Walt's first long-running series of cartoon shorts were actually the Alice Comedies - a series of live-action/animation hybrids featuring a little girl named Alice interacting with an animated world. This is the very first of those, though this particular cartoon was only used to try to sell the series to distributors, rather than to entertain an audience. Should it have been put...
2021-06-2325 min
How's It Hold Up?The Pagemaster (feat. Ryan)A boy who's scared of trees in the night, a dad who refuses to try to understand his son, and an animated adventure through different book genres - The Pagemaster has got a lot going on. And that's before getting to the fact that it's got live action segments, traditionally animated segments, and even a bit of computer animation. And the cast! Ed Begley Jr, Patrick Stewart, and Whoopi Goldberg! There's so much happening with this film, but in the end, does it all come together into a solid whole? Listen to find out!...
2021-06-181h 31
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Out of the Inkwell: The PuzzleIt's time for another Out of the Inkwell cartoon, and as you might surmise there's a puzzle in this one! There's also a high-speed makeshift car adventure, a wacky land of mazes and mischief, and a cartoon tunnel big enough for a live-action man to crawl into. Is the short any good? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By...
2021-06-0922 min
How's It Hold Up?Christopher RobinIt's time for another Disney live-action remake! Or, perhaps more accurately, a Disney live-action pseudo-franchise-sequel? Christopher Robin is a movie that takes the titular character, always a boy in Winnie the Pooh media, and asks 'what happens when he grows up?' The concept, at least, is more interesting than a straight-up remake... but still, is it any fun to actually watch? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin...
2021-06-021h 00
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Felix the Cat: Felix Comes BackIt's time to finally watch a Felix the Cat cartoon! This one involves our mischievous feline getting dropped into the ocean and winding up in the far north, where he has various adventures before, well... the title might give you a clue. This is far from Felix's first short, but it's the first all three of us watched together... what did we think of it? Are we looking forward to more Felix shorts in the future, or is this cat best left in the past? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod...
2021-05-2619 min
How's It Hold Up?The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh & A Day for EeyoreThis time we go to the original four Winnie the Pooh Disney half-hour shorts, the first three of which are typically packaged together into a film. This is where the long-running Disney franchise begins! But how do these four shorts hold up individually, and how do the first three hold up as a movie? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative...
2021-05-191h 39
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Out of the Inkwell: Jumping BeansAnother 1920's silent short, and another Out of the Inkwell short, Jumping Beans nevertheless comes with some interesting surprises. It's difficult to predict where this short will go, and it's a wild ride the whole way. But is it any good? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2021-05-1217 min
How's It Hold Up?Persepolis (feat. Ryan)Sometimes you watch a film when you're a young adult that leaves an impression on you, that feels 'important', that comes back to your mind every now and then. For Valerie and Danika, Persepolis is such a film. It's a film with emotional highs and lows and a salient message to get across. It also came out 14 years ago. How well does its message hold up now? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2021-05-051h 19
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Out of the Inkwell: Reunion (feat. Ryan)It's another Out of the Inkwell short, and this time the clown's family is coming over! What shenanigans do they get up to, and how's it hold up compared to the clown's other adventures? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2021-04-2823 min
How's It Hold Up?Wolf Children (feat. Ryan)What happens when you take the inherently absurd premise of 'a woman has kids with a wolf man' and then take it seriously? The answer is you create this Mamoru Hosoda classic from 2012! This is a movie Valerie and Danika have seen more than once, but not for a while... watching it again with Jan and Ryan in tow, what did we all think? Did it hold up almost ten years later? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License...
2021-04-211h 30
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Disney's Laugh-O-Grams: The Four Musicians of Bremen (feat. Ryan)It's the early 1920s and Walt Disney has finally entered the animation scene! While this isn't his first short, it's the first starring animals instead of humans, indicative of the sort of cartoons he would eventually become famous for. But is it any good? Is there a reason to watch Walt's silent era shorts, or should you skip right to Steamboat Willie? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin M...
2021-04-1437 min
How's It Hold Up?Once Upon a Forest (feat. Ryan)Do you remember that movie? You know, that one you saw as a kid, had cartoon animals and they flew a little ship at one point? Maybe there was a scary scene with humans? You're pretty sure there was an environmental theme. Well, this is that movie! But is this film that's lived on the edge of your memories for years any good? Is it worth revisiting so the vague memory can become clear? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
2021-04-071h 26
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Out of the Inkwell: Mechanical Doll (feat. Ryan)Another Out of the Inkwell short, this one gets weird, with the still unnamed clown walking on telephone wires, creating a mechanical woman and getting murdered by oil. It's a trip, but is it a good one? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2021-03-3128 min
How's It Hold Up?Disney's Treasure Planet (feat. Ryan)Though Treasure Planet isn't the movie that signaled the first death of traditional animation at Disney, its box office failure unfortunately led the company toward that inevitable conclusion. On the other hand, the film is a passion project by a pair of directors that gave Disney multiple movies now considered classics. So while it failed financially it was nevertheless adored by those who created it, and has become a childhood classic for some people. Watching it years later, did it deserve to fail so hard, or was the passionate creative vision behind it right all along and simply not...
2021-03-261h 50
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Out of the Inkwell: Modeling (feat. Ryan)The first few Out of the Inkwell shorts were produced by Bray Productions, but soon enough the Fleischer Brothers decided to create their own studio, and this short is perhaps the first one they made! And it certainly feels like they're trying to go all-out, with even more interactions between the animation and live action parts, more rotoscoping and even some claymation! There's a lot going on in this short, but ultimately, is any of it enjoyable to watch? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under...
2021-03-1732 min
How's It Hold Up?Momotaro's Sea Eagles & Divine Sea WarriorsIt's time for Japan's first feature-length film, along with the shorter film it's a sequel to. And both of them are overt Japanese World War II war propaganda! As such the viewing was, in some ways, harrowing, especially given the shorter film is literally about Pearl Harbor. But still, the second one is historically important to animation in Japan! So do either of them hold up? Are either of them worth watching over half a century after the war they were created for? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2021-03-101h 09
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Namakura Gatana (The Dull Sword)We've looked at some of the earliest bits of American and European animation - but what about other countries? What about Japan? We look at the oldest surviving bit of Japanese animation, followed by the oldest surviving animated short. Are they enjoyable to watch in 2021 or later? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp...
2021-03-0319 min
How's It Hold Up?Fleischer Bros' Gulliver's Travels (1939)This particular film is this podcast's second Gulliver's Travels, the first animated telling of the story, and the second American feature-length animated film. It's also one of two feature films by the Fleischer Bros, better known for Betty Boop and Popeye. This movie begs direct comparison to Disney's Snow White, since it was made to directly compete within the market Disney's movie had just created. How does it compare? And how does it compare to the Gulliver's Travels from nearly 40 years later? Is this one worth a watch, or is it best left forgotten? Listen to find out!
2021-02-241h 02
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Out of the Inkwell: The Tantalizing FlyIt's time to dive into our first series of theatrical cartoon shorts! We're still a long ways from Looney Tunes and Mickey Mouse, but even back in 1919 characters were being created who are still known today! In this particular case, the cartoon stars a clown who would eventually be known as Koko, and would become best known for being a side character in early Betty Boop cartoons. This time it's just him and an obnoxious fly... and also the animator Max Fleischer himself! Is this cartoon from over 100 years ago still funny or enjoyable to watch in the year 2021...
2021-02-0325 min
How's It Hold Up?Disney's Snow White and the Seven DwarfsThe very first Disney movie, and the beginnings of animated feature films in America is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Its a film many have seen, but when was the last time they actually watched it and paid attention to it? Is it... worth that? Or is this a relic of a bygone era that's inferior to the vast body of work made in its wake? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2021-01-271h 43
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! Winsor McCayOut of all pre-Disney cartoon shorts, Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur is perhaps the most well known. Today we take a look at it and its predecessor, Little Nemo, based on the comic series of the same name, to examine McCay's best-known contributions to animation as a medium. But, outside that historical context, how are these two shorts as pieces of entertainment? Are they still enjoyable, over 100 years after they were first conceived? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
2021-01-2041 min
How's It Hold Up?The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)The oldest surviving animated feature film is actually the third one known to have been made, and even still it is over ten years older than Walt Disney's Snow White. It also does not use traditional animation, but instead a cutout and silhouette animation style hybrid. It's also German, while the story itself is based on the 1001 Nights. So all that said... is it any fun to watch? And does something that is nearing 100 years old still hold up all these years later in like ANY regard? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises...
2021-01-131h 00
How's It Hold Up?Shorts! The Earliest AnimationAnimation has existed for well over 100 years now, yet in the grand scheme of things, it is a relatively young medium. How long ago did it begin, exactly, and who pioneered it? What of the earliest bits of animation still survives today, and perhaps more importantly - is any of it any good? Like, historically, sure, but is there any other reason to watch these things? Watch to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2021-01-0630 min
How's It Hold Up?The Snow Queen (1957)Our final episode of the year is another Soyuzmultfilm movie! The most well known in the west of the studio's output, actually. This is a film many people might remember from their childhoods, albeit in an English dub form. But how does the original hold up? Do the Russian voices hold up, and does the film itself deserve to be well known? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin...
2020-12-231h 42
How's It Hold Up?Wakko's WishOn the second episode of our 2020 Holiganza, we see the final hurrah of the original Animaniacs run, featuring not just the Warner siblings but practically every minor character that ever appeared in the show. It's a wild ride with cartoon antics and zany songs - but in the year 2020 with an Animaniacs reboot already out, how does the finale of the original series hold up? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/...
2020-12-161h 12
How's It Hold Up?Mickey's Christmas Carol & The Prince and the PauperFor our first Holiday 2020 episode, we cover two classic half-hour Mickey Mouse shorts from the 80s and early 90s. The first is one of the many, many interpretations of the classic Dickens tale, while the second is a classic 'two people from different walks of life switch places' type of story. How do these compare, and more importantly, how do they hold up so many years later? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2020-12-091h 54
How's It Hold Up?Gulliver's Travels (1977)We've arrived at our first Gulliver's Travels movie, but it certainly won't be the last. This is a strange one from 1977 featuring Richard Harris and cartoon Lilliputians. The budget is clearly low, and the video quality on the Youtube copy we watch is poor, but... does the movie hold up anyway? Is this one of the better versions of this story, or is this one best left to obscurity? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org...
2020-11-251h 10
How's It Hold Up?Robot CarnivalThe first anthology film this podcast has covered that's more than two shorts, Robot Carnival is a movie created by animators in Japan to showcase their craft. With a unifying theme of "robots", Robot Carnival runs the gamut in tone, length and focus. It's certainly a fascinating film - but is it a good one? Do all of the segments hold up, or is it better to just watch one or two shorts rather than the whole movie? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative...
2020-11-111h 58
How's It Hold Up?Vampire Hunter D: BloodlustFifteen years after the original, a second Vampire Hunter D movie was made. What had been learned in those years? Would this sequel follow the original's schlocky mold, or do its own unique thing? Ultimately, is it worth watching, or are the Vampire Hunter D films relegated to the niche? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
2020-10-281h 09
How's It Hold Up?Vampire Hunter D (1985)In the early days of anime OVAs, a movie based on one of Hideyuki Kikuchi's novel series released, and 35 years later we watched it. Both anime and OVAs have changed a lot since then - how does this early production, which pushed the violence and sexuality farther than it could if it were made to air on television, hold up in the year 2020? Also, since we're in the midst of our Halloween Spookaloo, how spooky is this thing? And finally, has an ending song ever slapped as hard as the one in this movie? Probably not. For the answers...
2020-10-2154 min
How's It Hold Up?Invader Zim: Enter the FlorpusNext up on our 2020 Halloween Spookaloo is an entry that was admittedly shoehorned in, but look this movie kept getting pushed back and needed to be worked in somewhere. Anyway, this sequel to the early-2000's television show was a long time coming, but is it any good? Will Zim fans like it? Will people who've never heard of the show like it? And how's the "lol random" humor holding up in this day and age? All these answers and more in today's episode!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed...
2020-10-141h 16
How's It Hold Up?The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. ToadWe're finally touching one of Disney's infamous 1940s package films - the last of them, in fact! This is also the start of our Annual Halloween Spookaloo, even if only half the movie fits the theme! Do either of these half-hour shorts hold up, and more than that, do they hold up together as a complete film? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)...
2020-10-071h 26
How's It Hold Up?The Flight of DragonsThe lesser known of the late-70s-early-80s Rankin-Bass fantasy movies, The Flight of Dragons is also the most intriguing one, mostly due to how little was known going into watching it. The Last Unicorn and Tolkien movies might be beloved, but should this one be too? And besides dragons flying, what even happens in this thing? To find the answers, my friend, you must do the logical thing, and give this episode a listen!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp...
2020-09-2357 min
How's It Hold Up?Mulan RemakeIt's finally here - the latest, at least at the time of this writing, Disney (live-action) remake! It would be a stretch to say most people were looking forward to it, and in fact some people are actively boycotting it, but still it has arrived. Is it any good? And how does it compare to the original, or heck, even the sequel? We've got lots of opinions - some good, some bad, some in-between - but at the end of the day, would we recommend it? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin...
2020-09-091h 46
How's It Hold Up?Mulan IIIt's Disney direct-to-video sequel time again! These are renowned for being universally terrible, but we've found them to be a bit more of a mixed bag so far. Is this one of the better ones, or one of the worse ones? Or perhaps middling? There are easily-accessible scenes that were cut from the movie, too - did those hint at a better movie that could have been, or were they best left on the cutting room floor? How does the film itself hold up, not only as a sequel, but on its own? Listen to find out!
2020-09-021h 23
How's It Hold Up?Trailer: How's It Hold Up?If you're looking for a trailer to show your friends what this podcast is all about, or you stumbled across us yourself and are wondering what our deal is, then this should clue you in!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2020-08-2900 min
How's It Hold Up?MulanThe time has come! The Mulan remake has an official release date, so it's time for us to cover all three films! Let's go back now to 1998, when 98° was more than just a temperature (actually, they're apparently still around but I'm keeping that joke). One of the last movies in the Disney Renaissance, Mulan came after relative disappointments Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Hercules. Did this movie manage to get the magic of the Renaissance back, or was it just another in a series of diminishing returns? Listen to find out!The Cu...
2020-08-261h 57
How's It Hold Up?The Rescuers Down UnderThe very first Disney sequel, as well as the first Disney sequel to be released theatrically! For a long time after this Disney sequels would only be direct-to-video, until that whole enterprise was stopped in the late 2000s. This is also one of the early Disney Renaissance films, as well as the one most often forgotten when discussing that period. Should it be? Is this one worth revisiting, and how does it stack up against the original? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons...
2020-08-121h 17
How's It Hold Up?The Rescuers(Warning: The audio for Danika and Valerie in this episode isn't at the usual quality level. Fortunately we fixed the issue before recording the next episode, but in this one we definitely sound a bit off. To the best of my ability, I have made it listenable, but still, I apologize for it not being at our usual quality level.)The Rescuers is one of Disney's later features in their "Bronze" era (also referred to as their "Dark Age"), and perhaps one of the most well known. Unfortunately, one of the reasons it's so well known is...
2020-08-051h 15
How's It Hold Up?Rock & RuleAn 80s cult classic by a new (at the time) studio called Nelvana, Rock & Rule is a film filled with music, rat people, and that 80s aesthetic. But why is it considered a cult classic, and does that reason help it hold up after all these years? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp...
2020-07-221h 06
How's It Hold Up?Spirited AwayOne of Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli's best known works, Spirited Away is a movie most people know about even if they haven't seen it. But it came out close to 20 years ago now... Does it still hold up? Is this a shining example of traditional animation that helps prove superiority over 3D animation? Are Chihiro's parents bad at parenting? And how much time passed by the end of the movie? Hear our answers to these questions and more in this week's episode!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative...
2020-07-081h 31
How's It Hold Up?Joseph: King of DreamsThough Prince of Egypt is not as well known as most Disney films or Dreamworks' later works, its prequel, Joseph: King of Dreams is even less well known. It is, perhaps, the least well known of any of Dreamworks' films. Is it a lost gem, or does this one deserve to be lost to the sands of time? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2020-06-241h 22
How's It Hold Up?The Prince of EgyptDreamworks' first animated movie that they produced, even if it ended up releasing second, is not the sort of movie that the name 'Dreamworks' brings to most people's mind nowadays. But before the company shifted direction following Shrek's success, they made several traditionally animated movies - and this was the first. Following the story of Moses, this particular version takes that well-worn tale and focuses in on the relationship between Moses and his brother Ramses, with a dramatic musical touch to boot. But all these years later... how's the movie hold up? Should we lament that Dreamworks no longer...
2020-06-171h 48
How's It Hold Up?Bedknobs and BroomsticksKnown to some as "that live-action Disney musical with an animated part that ISN'T Mary Poppins" and to others as "better than Mary Poppins", Bedknobs and Broomsticks is a film that has a complicated legacy. And that legacy is only further complicated by the fact that there are multiple versions of the film, and that Disney Plus chose the less good version to host on their website, without even putting the cut scenes into the extras.But, okay, that's a lot - does it matter? Is this film worth watching, in any form? And what's this movie...
2020-06-031h 29
How's It Hold Up?April and the Extraordinary WorldAfter 2011's Winnie the Pooh, traditionally animated films in the United States virtually stopped being made, at least on a theatrical level. But just because the US gave up on them, doesn't mean the rest of the world did. And I don't just mean Japan! A French, Belgian, Canadian co-production, April and the Extraordinary World is a fascinating film - but is it a good one? And more than that, how does it hold up five years later? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative...
2020-05-201h 07
How's It Hold Up?Ranma 1/2: Big Trouble in Nekonron, ChinaThe first of the movies based on the anime/manga series Ranma 1/2, and also the first movie based on an anime/manga series that we're watching! I have a lot of love for this series, Valerie has a little nostalgia, and my Mom knows nothing about it. Will we all enjoy it? With characters like Happosai at the fore of the movie, will it hold up? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2020-05-1359 min
How's It Hold Up?Bartok the MagnificentThe only sequel to his movies that Don Bluth has ever worked on, Bartok the Magnificent is also, perhaps, the least well known. Also, it's technically a prequel, rather than a sequel, though good luck figuring out how the two movies connect. All that said... how's this Anastasia follow-up that has none of that movie's characters besides Bartok hold up? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech...
2020-05-061h 10
How's It Hold Up?Anastasia (1997)Generally hailed as a return to form for Don Bluth after a string of less-than-well-received movies in the 90s, Anastasia is that one movie that everyone keeps thinking is a Disney Princess movie, even though it's not. Or wasn't? Who knows now with Disney owning so much of Fox's stuff. But though it was loved in its time, it's been over twenty years since it came out - how's this Russian fairy tale hold up for a modern day audience? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed...
2020-04-291h 30
How's It Hold Up?Dumbo RemakeWe're on to the second of the four live-action Disney remakes that were released in 2019. Was this one better than Aladdin? Worse? And how does it compare to the original? Is it a good movie in its own right? And how does this remake manage to essentially double the screentime of the original when that movie had such a simple plot? All those answers await in this week's episode, so give it a listen!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons...
2020-04-2259 min
How's It Hold Up?Dumbo (1941)Dumbo came at an important time for Disney, when the really needed a financial win and this movie was able to provide it. It's no wonder its been celebrated ever since, despite also being infamous for racism. It's been around 80 years, but people still show this movie to their kids - should they? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons...
2020-04-151h 02
How's It Hold Up?It Was I Who Drew the Little ManOur second Soyuzmultfilm movie! This one's a straight-up morality play, told for a communist audience rather than a capitalist one, which isn't something we've seen before. But how does the movie actually hold up? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2020-04-0849 min
How's It Hold Up?Pom PokoThe first non-Miyazaki Studio Ghibli movie that any of the three of us have seen, we were excited but nervous about what this film would have in store. Pretty much all I knew about it was that it involved tanuki - but also, I didn't know a lot about tanuki. You might not either, in which case I recommend this informative video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icyOAc_pAvYBut what is Pom Poko about? What do the tanuki in the movie DO? Is the film any good? And more specifically, how's it hold up? Listen...
2020-04-011h 18
How's It Hold Up?Bonus Episode: Disney-Pixar's CocoDue to the whole Coronovirus thing as well as personal issues, no new episode this week. But please enjoy this bonus episode we recorded back in October for Coco!WARNING: This episode is barely edited, and has cursing and no spoiler jump. Might not be appropriate for children.We should be back next week with a new episode!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2020-03-2555 min
How's It Hold Up?Update, Playlist and The Lost EpisodeHey everyone, no regular episode this week, unfortunately. But we didn't want to leave y'all empty-handed!The links mentioned in the episode: http://bit.ly/animatedpopballadsspotify and http://bit.ly/animatedpopballadsThe Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2020-03-1828 min
How's It Hold Up?Quest for Camelot (feat. Vaughn & Ryan)In the 90s, many studios attempted to copy the success that Disney was having with their films, including Warner Bros, whose efforts were a little all over the place. After Space Jam and Cat's Don't Dance, but before The Iron Giant, there was this film, based on a novel and Arthurian legend, and stuffed to the brim with singing talent, including Eric Idle, Bryan White, The Coors, and Celine Dion. Its one of those films that many 90s kids remember fondly - but is it worthy of being introduced to a new generation? Listen to find out!
2020-03-112h 06
How's It Hold Up?Nezha's Triumph Against the Dragon KingConsidered a classic of Chinese animation, Nezha's Triumph Against the Dragon King is a 1979 movie filled with dragons, fighting, and fabulousness. Did we enjoy it? And how does it hold up so many years later? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2020-03-0459 min
How's It Hold Up?Taro the Dragon BoyLet's jump back to 1979 with a Toei Animation movie based on an old Japanese folk tale! This is an interesting one, because of how heavily it's based in Japanese mythology and story structure. This movie's got a message to send, but is it good? The answer is complicated. Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License...
2020-02-261h 09
How's It Hold Up?Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders (feat. Vaughn)Starting from Zombie Island, this is the third Scooby-Doo movie in what would become a long line of them, and also the final one to be animated with traditional cells. It played on Cartoon Network often, maybe even more often than Zombie Island, so for a certain age demographic, it's considered a classic on principal. But how does it actually hold up, in the year 2020? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/...
2020-02-191h 15
How's It Hold Up?Digimon Adventure & Children's War GameThe Digimon movie isn't just the beginning of the Digimon series, it's the directoral debut of Mamoru Hosoda, who would go on to direct several episodes of the series, a second Digimon movie, and, eventually, many classic movies of his own. How do these first two movie efforts of his hold up? And are they enjoyable even if you're not familiar with the series? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool...
2020-02-121h 11
How's It Hold Up?The Thief and the CobblerOne movie, two VERY different versions of it. All three of us, including guest Valerie, watched the Miramax version of this movie many years ago. But since then, a version known as The Recobbled Cut has emerged, and become known as the only true way to watch the film for most people. How do they stand up against each other? And, perhaps more importantly, how does each movie stand up to the march of time? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0...
2020-02-051h 43
How's It Hold Up?Disney's HerculesDipping back into the Disney Renaissance, we rewatch Hercules, an old stand-by from Danika's youth. The soundtrack is definitely still a bop, but how's the rest of the movie hold up? And how embarrassed am I that we forgot who Rip Torn is, then proceeded to mention Men in Black later in the episode? The answer to the latter is 'very', but to the former? You'll have to listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses...
2020-01-291h 27
How's It Hold Up?The Secret of KellsFinally we get to a foreign, non-Japanese animated film that Danika has been curious about for quite some time! After all this time, we now know what Kells is. What is it, you ask? And how well does this 10 year old movie hold up? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses...
2020-01-221h 00
How's It Hold Up?A Letter to MomoMost people have heard of Studio Ghibli and Hayao Miyazaki. And a decent amount of anime nerds in the west have heard of people like Mamoru Hosoda or Satoshi Kon. But there are plenty of other brilliant people making animated films in Japan, and today we cover a movie by Hiroyuki Okiura - 2011's "A Letter to Momo". We already gave Ghibli masterpiece My Neighbor Totoro a full 5 star rating - how does this lesser known film stack up? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under...
2020-01-151h 07
How's It Hold Up?Batman: Mask of the PhantasmConsidered by some Bat-fans as the best of all Batman movies, including the live-action ones, this Batman: The Animated Series tie-in movie is nearing 30 years old! Has it aged well? Or is this version of The Bat just not up to snuff?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2020-01-081h 12
How's It Hold Up?The Muppet Christmas CarolThere are countless retellings of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol", but only one of them has Muppets! When we go back and watch a movie that Jan considers her second favorite out of ALL movies, can we possibly be objective? No, but we try!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2019-12-251h 03
How's It Hold Up?The Night Before Christmas (1951) [feat. Valerie]An animated Russian film featuring the devil, a witch, and several men hiding themselves in bags. It's not the story that title might make you think it is, in other words. What did we think of this old film from a culture we're unfamiliar with? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org...
2019-12-1840 min
How's It Hold Up?Klaus (2019) [feat. Valerie]When covering 2D/traditionally animated movies, it's rare to see one that's from the U.S. and that bears a date later than 2011. And yet this very year a new movie of this sort came out! A Christmas movie, no less, with a director who worked on Disney Renaissance classics like The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, and Tarzan! Is this the modern western traditionally animated movie we deserve, or is it bogged down in outdated tropes that make it not worth seeing? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2019-12-111h 23
How's It Hold Up?Aladdin Sequels (feat. Valerie)Aladdin not only had two sequels - Return of Jafar was the FIRST direct-to-video Disney sequel (though not the first actual sequel). It also was basically the pilot for the Aladdin tv series, while Aladdin and the King of Thieves served as the end to both the tv series and the Aladdin series as a whole. Danika watched both of these movies A LOT when she was young, but how do they hold up now, over 20 years later?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License
2019-12-041h 19
How's It Hold Up?Aladdin Remake (feat. Valerie)We finally get to our second Disney remake! We actually enjoyed the 2015 Cinderella quite a bit... but will we feel similarly about 2019's Aladdin? Listen to find out, and to hear speeches about what makes certain characters great and why what DIsney has been doing the last few years is not-so-great.The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp...
2019-11-271h 46
How's It Hold Up?Disney's Aladdin (feat. Knox)Revisiting a childhood favorite is always risky business. There's always the possibility that the thing just isn't as good as your nostalgia tells you. And then there's the worry that it will be full of gags that have aged poorly and taint an otherwise great film. So when Danika goes back and watches her absolute favorite Disney film that she watched over and over again as a child 20-something years ago... how's it hold up now? Join her, Jan, and their friend Knox as they find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
2019-11-201h 04
How's It Hold Up?Ernest & CelestineTime to make our first exploration into foreign animated films that AREN'T from Japan. Danika had heard a lot about this one, and was excited to see it for the first time. Does this Best Animated Feature nominee hold up? And more importantly: is it better than that year's winner, Frozen?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp...
2019-11-1348 min
How's It Hold Up?My Neighbor Totoro (feat. Valerie)This week we cover perhaps the most well-known Studio Ghibli film, besides maybe Spirited Away. The movie is over 30 years old now... has time treated it well?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2019-11-0647 min
How's It Hold Up?Paranorman (feat. Valerie)The second of our two spooooky episodes! Taking a little bit of detour from traditional animation, we visit Laika's early-2010's Coraline follow-up Paranorman! There was a lot of talk about a gay character in this movie back in when it came out... how does both that and the rest of the movie hold up over five years later?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under...
2019-10-3051 min
How's It Hold Up?Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (feat. Valerie)On the first of our two Halloween spooktacular episodes, we also have our first guest - my wife, Valerie! This particular Scooby-Doo movie is much loved by fans, but over twenty years after it first released, how's it hold up?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2019-10-2338 min
How's It Hold Up?All Dogs Go to Heaven SequelsDid you know there are two sequels to All Dogs Go to Heaven? Also an animated series! We're not covering the latter here, but the former? Yes. Danika actually saw All Dogs 2 when she was a kid, but neither her nor Jan have seen the third one. How do they hold up? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By...
2019-10-1657 min
How's It Hold Up?Don Bluth's All Dogs Go to HeavenThis week Danika and Jan cover an old favorite, allowing Jan to embarrass Danika for loving Scratchy the dog so much as a kid. He's a good boy, Jan! Oh, also, does anyone remember that this movie's got some overt racism in it?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2019-10-091h 01
How's It Hold Up?Disney's Cinderella RemakeOn this episode we watch the the first of many Disney remakes that we'll eventually be covering! Danika's seen almost none of those remakes, and this is the one she's most optimistic about. Is that optimism misplaced? Listen to find out!The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2019-10-091h 07
How's It Hold Up?Disney's CinderellaThis week, on the very first episode of "How's It Hold Up?" we cover Disney's 1950 classic Cinderella. Both Danika and Jan saw this movie when they were young, but what's it like watching it for the first time in years in the year 2019?The Curtain Rises Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/Kool Kats Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
2019-09-1655 min