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Geek Tyrant
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
SAMURAI JACK 5 Points Action Figure Deluxe Set From Mezco Toyz — GeekTyrant
Samurai Jack, the fan-favorite noble warrior, slices his way into the 5 Points action figure lineup with a deluxe set featuring Samurai Jack, the chaotic Mad Jack, and Master of Darkness himself, Aku! I loved watching this series and the stories that saw Samurai Jack battling his way through a strange and treacherous world, seeking a path back to the past and a chance to end Aku's reign once and for all! You can preorder the set here at Entertainment Earth for $65.99. If you buy anything, we may make a small commission. Each figure is individually packaged in a retro style blister card, and here are the details: THE 5 POINTS SAMURAI JACK DELUXE SET INCLUDES: Samurai Jack – a stoic samurai navigating a dystopian future, Jack features 5 interchangeable arms, 2 interchangeable stances, and his legendary katana & sheath which he can hold. Mad Jack – a chaotic manifestation of Jack's inner darkness, Mad Jack features 6 interchangeable arms, 2 interchangeable stances, and a katana & sheath which he can hold. Aku – a shape-shifting master of evil, Aku features 2 interchangeable head portraits and a scorpion version of himself. ACCESSORIES: Samurai Jack Five (5) interchangeable arms One (1) posing arm (R) One (1) sheath holding arm (L) Three (3) katana holding arms (L & 2xR) Two (2) interchangeable stances One (1) standing stance One (1) crouching stance One (1) katana One (1) katana sheath Mad Jack Six (6) interchangeable arms One (1) sheath holding arm (L) Two (2) posing arms (L & R) Three (3) katana holding arms (L & 2xR) One (1) katana One (1) katana sheath Aku Two (2) interchangeable head portraits One (1) smiling head portrait One (1) angry head portrait One (1) scorpion Aku
Yahoo
11-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Genndy Tartakovsky Knows ‘Fixed' Is a ‘Unicorn' of an Animated Movie
Having worked on the project for 15 years, Genndy Tartakovsky is fully aware that his latest film, 'Fixed,' is an anomaly. Here is a raunchy, capital R-rated 2D animated comedy about a dog having one last wild night out on the town before getting neutered in the morning and losing his precious family jewels. Despite having several acclaimed shows and a highly successful animated film trilogy in his resume, Tartakovsky's 'Fixed' could have easily not made it to the screen — and it almost didn't several times. 'I've always said this movie is a unicorn,' Tartakovsky told IndieWire ahead of the film's release at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival. 'It's a dream come true to have a 2D animated, hand-drawn, R-rated movie that doesn't rely on pop culture humor. It's very rare.' More from IndieWire The Beautiful, Brutal Action of 'Predator: Killer of Killers' David Harbour Admits He's Ready for 'Stranger Things' to End: 'How Much More Story Is There?' He is not wrong. Though on the surface, it'd be easy to dismiss 'Fixed' as this year's 'Sausage Party,' another animated movie that used the medium's endless visual possibilities to give audiences extremely graphic imagery. For Tartakovsky, who has worked primarily in the all-ages space for the past 30 years, even when he's moved to R-rated animation, he's never written this kind of humor before. Sure, 'Samurai Jack' has humor, but it's never raunchy, and 'Primal' has plenty of graphic imagery, but it's kind of lacking in the buttholes and testicles department compared to this movie. For the director, it was a challenge to have to change his sensibilities and make sure exactly where he wanted the movie to go. 'It can't be just straight dialogue all the way through,' Tartakovsky explained. 'It's my sensibility, it has to have some physicality.' That physicality comes in the form of striking, exaggerated, and caricatured animation straight out of the golden age of Chuck Jones and Tex Avery cartoons. For Tartakovsky, who fell in love with that style of animation growing up, it was a dream. 'I've been studying it for so long,' he said. 'It's part of me and it's informed my style.' Whether it's the slapstick humor of 'Dexter's Laboratory,' or the use of silence in storytelling in 'Samurai Jack' or even the way he uses Bugs Bunny-type physicality in non-comedy projects like 'Clone Wars,' Tartakovsky has brought an old-school sensibility to every project he's worked on, but 'Fixed' feels like the culmination of it. Though there is no squash and stretch, exactly, there is a shared sense of physical humor and slapstick in Golden Age cartoons and a sight gag of a pack of dogs chasing a squirrel and cutting to them tearing the poor creature to bloody bits. Having worked with French studio La Cachette for his last two projects, 'Fixed' was also new territory for Tartakovsky in the form of a new team of animators working to bring that Avery and Jones vibe to 'Fixed.' Despite working in the industry for decades, the caliber of his collaborators intimidated the creator. 'I don't get to animate as much, so when all of a sudden I'm working with great animators, I get in my head and think they'll see that I'm a fake because I've only done my own stuff for so long,' Tartakovsky said. 'I had Disney animators on my team — one of our guys worked on 'Roger Rabbit,' and he's incredible, so am I really going to give him direction? He can out-animate me at any time.' According to Tartakovsky, it ended up not being an issue. 'It was the most minimal amount of notes we've ever done on a film. It was never about the technical side of animation, I'd just talk to them about the joke and they got it right away.' Behind the sex jokes lies a rather heartfelt story of a group of friends trying to cheer up one of their own, and even a sweet romantic story. Possibly the most surprisingly tender, yet still very funny, subplot in the film involves Lucky, a neurotic dog obsessed with weird smells and tastes, learning to love himself after an encounter with Frankie, an intersex dog voiced by River Gallo. 'Everyone was holding their breath, asking if I was sure I wanted to include that,' Tartakovsky said. 'I thought, why not? It's funny and we're not making fun of it. We want to be sincere about it and not mean.' Indeed, there's a sincerity in the way Gallo voices Frankie that makes the humor of their big scene also become a moment of personal triumph, of acceptance, and also funny dog sex. 'Hiring a voice actor who is part of that community added a lot to it. Sometimes I'd do something and they'd explain why it could be misinterpreted because I don't have that perspective, so they'd explain it to me, and then I'd change it up. We worked our way through the whole movie like that.' Preventing the raunchiness from drowning the heart, and the heart from mellowing out the humor, was a balance critical to crafting the film. 'We're trying to build characters that we really like and that are funny,' Tartakovsky said. 'That's really hard to do from scratch in an original story.' It doesn't help that it's a feature, as, unlike TV, you can't just build on happy accidents from one episode to the next. Cracking the right balance took years and several variations of the script. Part of the beauty, but also the problem, of writing for animation is that something that works well on the page, or even with a specific art style, doesn't necessarily translate to another visual style. At one point, Tartakovsky was pressured into trying out 3D animation to sell the film more easily, but that had an unexpected effect on the film. 'Animated balls look better in 2D.' 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Gizmodo
19-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Gizmodo
‘Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith' Stands on the Shoulders of Animation
One way or another, Star Wars is a franchise constantly in conversation with itself. Whenever it's not interrogating its originally held beliefs or systems, it's providing a window into how those mechanics came to be. Sometimes it's good, a lot of times it can be weird, but it all adds up to something compelling despite the often botched execution. Look no further than Revenge of the Sith. The final chapter of the prequel trilogy recently came back to theaters ahead of its 20th anniversary, and picks up years into the Clone Wars which first begun at the end of its direct predecessor, Attack of the Clones. But real ones know there's a bit more to it than that: Revenge was preceded and followed by two different versions of Cartoon Network's Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated series that covered the gap between the two films. The original Clone Wars was made by Genndy Tartakovsky—a man heavily involved with Powerpuff Girls and creator of Dexter's Laboratory and Samurai Jack, all on the same network—and initially existed as a series of five-minute shorts that could play in between shows, with the last season having a more substantial 12-15 minute episode runtime. Like Samurai Jack (or his more recent adult animated series Primal), Tartakovsky's Clone Wars is a genre exercise featuring ultra-competent heroes and villains doing what they do best, often without dialogue and with gorgeous imagery. The prequels were dinged for making the Jedi into overly choreographed martial artists, and what was interesting about this version of Clone Wars was how much it leaned into that idea. Seeing 2D versions of the cast jump around and clash swords made for some thrilling fights, and it's easy to understand how some characters like General Grievious got the reputation they did back then. (It also makes you wish he got his due in the movie proper as he did where he first originated.) Five years later, the CG Clone Wars series came rolling in with 22-minute episodes, and George Lucas' direct involvement alongside then-supervising director and current franchise steward Dave Filoni. The 2008 Clone Wars had a lot more run time to work with leading up to Revenge of the Sith, so it spent its time exploring different corners of the Star Wars universe and playing around with what its cast could know or be leading up to their grim fates. With 100 episodes already greenlit, the show could pit the clones up against an abusive Jedi who just wanted them all dead in one arc, and have Obi-Wan rekindle his situationship with Satine in the next. The new shades given to him and Anakin and other pre-established characters, plus the evolution of Anakin's newly introduced Padawan Ahsoka Tano, made for some great TV back then. At the time, it was the only Star Wars we were consistently getting, so it's only natural it continues to be held in such high esteem that it got to end its story three times. The shadow of Revenge of the Sith looms over both Clone Wars shows, but the 2008 series actually got to be in the thick of it. While much of what goes down in its final season establishes or sets up future animated adventures for its characters—it introduces the Bad Batch, who headlined the next CG series, and explained how Ahsoka and Darth Maul got to where we first see them in the already ended Star Wars Rebels—the moments where it exists concurrently with Revenge deliver on the series' original promise. Unlike the film's montage of Jedi getting gunned down by their Clones, it really does feel like a tragedy when Palpatine's directive hits Rex and Ahsoka's ears. A lot of what Star Wars is has been built off the ground work laid by Revenge and its two spinoffs. Since the true, proper end of the second Clone Wars, the franchise has tried for a similar interconnected importance across the original and sequel trilogies via projects like Andor and Filoni's own Mandalorian saga. Whether those succeed is in the eye of the beholder: Andor likely enrichens Rogue One for many, or at the very least, makes you wish that film got the proper time to cook. Meanwhile, the time spent explaining elements of the sequel trilogy isn't really Filoni's primary objective with his shows, which can make the moments where they are interested in that feel out of place. For better or worse, there is no current Star Wars without Revenge of the Sith, and that itself doesn't exist without either iteration of The Clone Wars. On its own merits, it's the best Star Wars prequel movie—and take that as you will—and made better by the two animated series that exist to beef up its weaker elements and deliver some fun military sci-fi action. But what's made the film and its particular time period feel so poignant is that Tartakovsky, Lucas, and Filoni knew it had to be an end for its key players. That inevitability is gone from Star Wars now, but at least we got a taste of it while we could.
Time of India
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Fixed OTT Release Date: When and where to watch Genndy's adult animation film ft. Adam Devine and Kathryn Hahn
Fixed OTT Release Date: Brace yourself for one of the craziest, raunchiest, and oddly heartwarming animated rides of the year. Fixed, the new adult animated film from Emmy-winning creator Genndy Tartakovsky (the mind behind Samurai Jack and Dexter's Laboratory), is all set to stream on Netflix from August 13. And no, this is not a film for kids. Who's in it? Leading the pack is The Out-Laws star Adam Devine as the voice of Bull - a charming but slightly out-of-control dog who just found out the worst news of his life: his owners plan to get him neutered. Yes, that's right. Snip-snip. Joining him is the ever-fabulous Kathryn Hahn (Glass Onion) as Honey, a classy show dog and Bull's big crush. Other voices in the pack include Idris Elba as the cool, confident boxer Rocco, Bobby Moynihan as the lovable goofball Lucky, Fred Armisen as a social media-obsessed dachshund named Fetch, Beck Bennett, Michelle Buteau, and River Gallo, among others. One last night of freedom So what's a dog to do when he finds out his manhood is on the line? Go out with a bang, of course. Bull gathers his gang of neighbourhood dogs and sets out on a wild, no-rules night across the city. The goal? Confess his love to Honey before it's too late. Expect naughty jokes, wild chases, awkward dog moments, and yes, some surprisingly emotional beats about friendship, fear, and freedom. Tartakovsky, in a media statement, shared, 'I love caricatured and exaggerated animation, so I knew the sensibility that I like to do, and it was a matter of dialling up the amount of exaggeration. I think it started as a rated-R Lady and the Tramp, then as we got into it, it naturally became more cartoon-y and specific to itself.' Are you all 'adults' ready to binge-watch Fixed? Drop your thoughts @indiatimes.
