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Celmates
by Dick Ward & Kate Phillips
An animated discussion, comparing and contrasting two animated features. They're often Disney (but not always), often musicals (but not always), and often good (but not always). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Caroline/Paranorman - I guess you could say we Laika these!
After having some bad experiences with Laika in the past (looking at you Missing Link), we dive back in to the world of stop motion for some pleasant surprises! Two movies about weird kids that may or may not be lonely depending if you count ghosts as friends. We explore Coraline's weird…
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[Rewind] FernGully/My Little Pony: If You Had Wings
Heya friends! Lots going on around the Celmates house as we prep for the summer. No new episode today, but we'll have some hot steaming fresh content for you soon! In the meantime, here's a flashback to one of my favorites. A story of fairies and ponies and Megans....
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101 Dalmatians and The Aristocats: A Cat is Not a Dog
It’s reigning cats and dogs as we discuss Disney petnappings of all breeds: feline and canine; period and “present day”; delightfully watchable and not-so-delightfully insufferable. Meow! Woof! [woofing ensues for 20 more minutes across the entire country of England]...
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Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and The Mitchells vs The Machines: No Surprise--Dads
Y’know that thing where you’re trying to break through to your dad who just doesn’t understand you then TECHNOLOGY-INDUCED APOCALYPSE and all the sudden you have to work together to literally save the world? Yeah. That. https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast...
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Ponyo and Song of the Sea: Merseal, Pop. Merseal.
They want to be where the people--and seals--are: We center transformations into and out of the sea as we take on two impossibly cozy films that dive into their whimsical worlds with ease. https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/...
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Open Season and Home on the Range: Man vs Wild vs Film vs Us
We square up with two films that explore the eternal struggle between humanity and the wild. Kinda. Not really. Mainly we square up with two films that managed to put us to sleep multiple times due to flat characters, poor voice casting, and absolutely zero stakes. Oh, and Randy Quaid outperforms...
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Sing and Trolls: You Can’t Stop the Beat
It’s a musical extravaganza as we croon and dance our way through two films that champion (sort of) artistic expression through song. Do they succeed? Do they pander? Do they explicitly demonize the use of mental health medication? Find out! https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast...
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The Hobbit and The Black Cauldron: Lost in Movie Translation
We set out on a journey to determine how much of a sprawling fantasy novel universe you can cram into an 80-minute runtime with The Hobbit and The Black Cauldron... and why you maybe shouldn't? Thanks to listener Cameron for the pairing suggestion! https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast...
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[Rewind] March Madness - Disney/Pixar Edition
Happy March! We're taking an episode off because, you know, all the things in the world. We'll be back in two weeks, but for now, here's a flashback to our March Madness brackets from 2019! Dick and Kate discuss the kind of March Madness that they actually know things about! We've created a…
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Ice Age and Tokyo Godfathers: Three Beings and a Baby
Surprise: Baby! A century-old Western tale finds its way to Japan and prehistoric times (but probably Wyoming?) as trios of misfits learn to take care of small humans, themselves, and their “herds”. https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast...
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The Pagemaster and The Phantom Tollbooth - Booky Boys
Take a look, it's in a book, on Celmates Podcast! Enjoy an episode all about boys that travel into the world of books for... some reason. https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See...
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Antz, A Bug’s Life, The Ant Bully, and Bee Movie: FOURmicidae (but one’s a bee)
The ants go marching one by two by three by bee in our annual mega-episode folly as we take on FOUR bug-infested films. Will we persevere with teamwork like a colony or drop dead due to the exterminating powers of silly premises, obnoxious animation, and cringeworthy casting choices? ...Let's…
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Inside Out and Soul: Cranium Command, or Not
We journey inward with Riley and Joe (and Joy and 22) to tackle some of life’s most existential questions in metaphysical universes and beyond. And before. Look, there’s a lot going on. https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/...
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Castle in the Sky and Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Blue Crystal Fierce Frost Glacier
What’s that in the sky? And in the sea? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a bugplane? No, it’s two lost civilizations being descended upon by nefarious militaries while a scrappy crew of characters and a very special Strong Female Lead works to defend them! Brother of the Podcast Andy Phillips...
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Ratatouille and Kung Fu Panda: Anyone Can Kung Fu
Unlikely prodigies become masters of their fields as we explore two films that also make us very hungry. To cook or not to cook? To musical or not to musical? Just how many Po knockoffs are there? Answers await within! https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast...
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit and Space Jam: Wascally Wabbits
Toons (also: Tunes) infiltrate the real world in these two live action-animation hybrids of… varying quality. Tune in (also: Toon in) for our takes on best practices for using Bugs Bunny in a feature film, how big Michael Jordan’s house should actually be, and the exciting field of cel lighting...
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The Book of Life and Over the Moon: Rocket to the Land of the Remembered
The Book of Life and Over the Moon: Rocket to the Land of the Remembered Celebrate the season, literally! From Mid-Autumn Festival to Día de los muertos, we journey through folklore, lands of the living and the dead, and surprisingly effective musical choices (we need Ken Jeong concert tickets...
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Pinocchio and Over the Garden Wall: Into the Unknown
Pinocchio and Brothers, spooky, scary. Boys becoming Trees. Trees becoming Boys. We celebrate the spooky season with two frightening journeys into the woods and into the woodworkers’ shop. Body horror, dancing skeletons, No Face references, whale with teeth... this episode has every element of…
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Foodfight!, The Emoji Movie, and Ralph Breaks the Internet: I’m Gonna Brand It!
Foodfight!, The Emoji Movie, and Ralph Breaks the Internet: I’m Gonna Brand It! How do you do, Fellow Kids! Late Stage Capitalism proudly presents three films that try very, very hard to be very, very relevant. Today’s episode brought to you by Roku, Netflix, Hulu, Vudu, Behringer audio…
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[Rewind!] Cars/Bolt: Lightning McBolt Across America
Things are a little crazy in the Celmates household right now, so in lieu of a new episode, we're republishing one of our favorites. From June of 2019 - it's Cars and Bolt! Two movies about things that go fast, and don't really hold up under mild scrutiny! Also you’re going to want to Google...
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A Goofy Movie and Onward: Dad 2 Dad
We embark on two animated road trips this week, navigating our way through emotional father-son relationships, possum animatronic tourist traps, motorcycle fairy gang confrontations, and Dad Pants (with and without full Dads). To the open road… and… onward...!...
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Toy Story 2 and Frozen 2: We’re Back (NOT A Dinosaur’s Story. Unless you count Rex…)
There are many reasons to produce a sequel to a monster hit of an animated movie: expanding the world, developing beloved characters, dropping the audience into a pit of confusing plotlines and endless MacGuffins... Friend of the podcast Sarah Evans joins us to tackle how to (and how not to)…
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Howard (Not The Duck)
We take a break from our usual format to talk about the contributions of Howard Ashman, and about the new documentary, Howard. It’s also about Howard Ashman. Ashman not only wrote the lyrics to the songs in Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and parts of Aladdin, but he had a huge influence on...
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The Sword in the Stone and The Flight of Dragons: Whiz-bang Whizards of Whimsy
We journey back a few centuries to the age of wizards, dragons, and jerk tutees. Will magic or science prevail? Will the transfigured tutees master flight? Will any type of clear plot emerge? Adventure with us to learn the answers to these questions as well as a little about astronomy, biology,...
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Elena and the Secret of Avalor and Tangled Before Ever After: Redemption!
Elena and the Secret of Avalor and Tangled Before Ever After: Redemption! Have you ever watched the first episode of a show and asked “Hey, was there a movie or something I was supposed to watch before this?” We sure have! We examine the movies that start of two Disney Channel hits, discuss the...
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Zootopia and UglyDolls: Intent and Impact
Perfect and Ugly, Predator and Prey, Zombie and Cheerleader (we might have tried to talk about too many things) square off in these movies that tackle prejudice and discrimination in the doll and animal worlds. How do they hold up when examined through a 2020 lens? Well………......
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Hair Love and Sparkshorts Collection: Salute Your Shorts
Why Venn Diagram two animated films when you can go for EIGHT (short) FILMS?? We discuss Hair Love, the seven short films that currently comprise Pixar’s Sparkshorts collection, and those storytelling voices long overdue for exploration and amplification. There’s also a human that hilariously...
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Happy Feet and WALL-E: Put on your Sunday Tap Shoes
A misfit finds love through abilities only he possesses and… SURPRISE, THE ENVIRONMENT IS DYING. We examine two tales of split cinematic personalities. https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on…
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Yellow Submarine and Interstella 5555 (and some of Fantasia): A Polyphonic Spree
Music takes center stage in these Beatles and Daft Punk “filmtrack” (™, Celmates Podcast) adventures through sound, space, blue characters, and (we presume) filmmakers under the influence of the most popular drugs of their respective decades. https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast...
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Despicable Me and Megamind: Villains and Minion(s)
Former Dunder Mifflin Scranton Branch Managers wrestle with their villainy, Minion counts, and Apatow Pack rivals in these two films about Bad Guys who are not, as it turns out, bad guys. Brother of the Podcast Andy Phillips returns to round out his trilogy of superhero-related guest episodes!...
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Lion King (2019) and Cats (2019): Digital Fur Technology
In our second and final offering of Cat Meownth 2020, we try our best to make sense of two digital kind-of-animation remakes (read, “misunderstandings”) of successful feline musicals. Be prepared--but don’t you dare sing those words--for two utter CATastrophes....
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Oliver & Company and Cats Don’t Dance: Little Kitty, Big City
Happy Cat Meownth! Kicking off our long-anticipated followup to 2019’s Mouse Month: a listener suggestion pairing featuring orange, feline protagonists who sing, dance, and community organize their way to sticking it to the ruling class. https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast...
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The Road to El Dorado and The Emperor’s New Groove: Frenemies in Lost Civilizations/Movie Drafts
Four directors set off on a journey producing two grand musical movie epics… and wind up as three totally different directors on two buddy comedy projects. So many twists, turns, and discarded Elton John and Sting songs await you on this adventure of an episode!...
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Special Episode: Celmates Podcast Goes to Walt Disney World!
As very dedicated, very professional animated feature film podcasters, we felt it was our DUTY to travel to Walt Disney World, ride and/or view every* attraction based on an animated movie, and develop a tiered system to classify and review the various means WDW adapts and themes these…
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Sleeping Beauty and The Swan Princess: A cup of Chai kovs tea.
In one movie, a princess gets put to sleep for a little while! And in the other, the princess is relegated to Swantanamo Bay. And they’re both based on ballets by Tchaikovsky! We talk about the stark contrast in the films villains as well as their ability to pull off songs. Also, one of these...
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My Neighbor Totoro and Wonder Park: Pure Imagination
What to do if you’re a child coping with a parent’s possibly grave and definitely vague illness? Create an imaginary friend or two or several! Or… ignore them? We discuss the wildly varying degrees of success with which these two films explore socioemotional maturity, fantastical worlds, and...
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Dumbo and Charlotte’s Web: Some Animal
“Exceptional” animals and their hype-animal sidekicks take center ring and county fair bandstand as we blast into the past to examine often complicated eras of animated films gone by. Crunchy! https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/...
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The Son of Bigfoot, Smallfoot, Missing Link, and Abominable: SasQuad
Are you covered with fur? Does your movie have yaks? When you glow blue and hum, can you heal body parts? Were your pictures released in two years back to back? Does your scene on a bridge feature sedative darts? Because Yeti Films can and Yeti Films do Yeti Films do and Yeti Films can Yeti Films...
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Frozen and Big Hero 6: Brothers & Sisters
Do you want to build a sibling relationship? Or a white, fluffy innocent who steals the movie? If either answer is--and especially if both are--”yes”, have we got an episode for you as we explore two highlights of the last decade of animation just as we step into a new one!...
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The Nightmare Before Christmas and Klaus: Making Christmas
Santa Claus is coming to towns--for the very first time! We festively discuss two twisted Christmas origin stories, how they do (or don’t?) stack up to the holiday classic canon, and… Surprise! Greg Proops. https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast...
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30/30 Days of Plus: Mickey Mouse Shorts (2013) + 30 Day of Plus Final Cut!
It All Ended with a Mouse 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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29/30 Days of Plus: The Plausible Impossible
Walt conjures Donald Duck just to mess with him. 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See...
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28/30 Days of Plus: Bao (and a little of Elena of Avalor)
Show don't tell. (Someone please help us like Elena of Avalor?) 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on...
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27/30 Days of Plus: The Rocketeer
Way better than Labyrinth 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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26/30 Days of Plus: Marvel Super Hero Adventures
It's a feature. 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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25/30 Days of Plus: The Little Mermaid Live!
Is it great? No. Did we really enjoy it? Yes. 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See...
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24/30 Days of Plus: The Legend of the Three Caballeros (Eps 1 & 2)
"The best show we know of to originally debut on a streaming service in the Philippines" 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/...
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23/30 Days of Plus: One Day at Disney
"Dick, you just want to work at Disney" 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See...
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22/30 Days of Plus: Gargoyles (S1 Eps 1 & 6)
Are there... rules? 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more...
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21/30 Days of Plus: "How To" Goofy
It's pronounced "shee-ing". 1/30th of our daily, unpaid, monthlong journey through the Disney+ catalogue. #30DaysofPlus https://www.facebook.com/celmatespodcast https://twitter.com/celmatespodcast http://celmatespodcast.com/ [email protected] Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
An animated discussion, comparing and contrasting two animated features. They're often Disney (but not always), often musicals (but not always), and often good (but not always).
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HOSTED BY
Dick Ward & Kate Phillips
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An animated discussion, comparing and contrasting two animated features. They're often Disney (but not always), often musicals (but not always), and often good (but not always). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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