The film received positive reviews for the film's stop motion animation, musical score and original storyline and was a box office success, grossing $ 50 million.

" Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times compared the film's innovative animation to Disney's Who Framed Roger Rabbit, saying " Both movies take apart the universe of cinematic visuals, and put it back together again, allowing us to see in a new way.

" Due to the film's animation, Richard Corliss of TIME claimed that it was "... the year's most inventive comedy.

Artist Ira Turek inked the outlines of these photographs onto cels with a Rapidograph, the technical pen preferred by Crumb, giving the film's backgrounds a stylized realism virtually unprecedented in animation.

Among the film's several celebrated animation sequences is an extended fight between three actors and seven living skeletons, a considerable advance on the single-skeleton fight scene in Sinbad.

Although Janet Maslin of The New York Times criticized the film's animation, she later went on to say that the film is a " fond tribute to Looney Tunes characters ' past.

The " march " alluded to in the film's title begins as the soldiers march out of the toy shop ( filmed in a stop-motion animation sequence by Roy Seawright ).

Elfman and Burton created a rough storyline and two-thirds of the film's songs, while Selick and his team of animators began production in July 1991 in San Francisco, California with a crew of over 120 workers, utilizing 20 sound stages for filming .. Joe Ranft worked as a storyboard artist, while Paul Berry was hired as an animation supervisor.

Prior to the film's release, Disney stated that it would be their last film in their animated features canon to use traditional animation.

The film's animation was created by then-unknown animator John Muto.

Because of the film's low budget, Muto created all of the film's animation sequences himself.

Additionally, the film's use of animation set against photographic backgrounds established the style for many of his later films.

This is self-reflexively acknowledged in the film's Killer Cars animation ; the voiceover narration ( done by Eric Idle ) mentions " a scene of such spectacular proportions that it could never in your life be seen in a low-budget film like this.

Reviews praised the film's visuals, but criticized the story and characters, as well as the combination of live-action and animation, which some critics felt was unconvincing.

Artist Alex Niño signed a contract with Bakshi to work on the film, and was granted a work visa, but was unable to gain permission from the Philippine government in order to leave for the United States until two months afterward, and later found that by the time he had arrived in the U. S., not only had the film's animation had been completed, but Niño's visa did not allow him to submit freelance work on any other projects.

" While Anime News Network writer Carlo Santos praised the animation, calling it " outstanding ", he criticized the film's plot, arguing that people who had not played Final Fantasy VII would not understand the story.

When released, it was criticised mainly for the quality of its animation and the similarity of its plotline to the original film's.

He also had cameos in two theatrical features: as an elevator operator in Who Framed Roger Rabbit ( where he was voiced by the film's animation director Richard Williams ), and in Tom and Jerry: The Movie ( voiced by Messick ).

The film's animation technique combines traditional hand-drawn animation ( with digital ink and paint / animation using Toon Boom ) and extensive use of computer generated imagery and features the voices of Matt Damon, Bill Pullman and Drew Barrymore.

Go motion is a variation on stop motion animation, and its use in Dragonslayer led to the film's nomination for the Academy Award for Visual Effects ; it lost to Raiders of the Lost Ark, the only other Visual Effects nominee that year, which special effects were also provided by ILM.

The film's visible brain creatures were created using stop-motion animation, very unusual on such a low budget science fiction thriller of this era.

In the latter film's ending as well as the original video animation, Cagalli makes a peace agreement with ZAFT, remaining in Orb.

Since an objective viewer might well conclude that this is not a situation that would often arise, the film's extensive discussion of the problem seems, at best, superfluous.

Desson Howe, in this review for the Washington Post praised the film's style: " Bill Pope's cinematography is gymnastic and appropriately frenetic.

The film's most striking quality is its extensive use of the split-screen.

The film's depiction of the Battle of Stirling Bridge is often considered one of the best movie battles in cinema history.

It is also true that the content of certain films ( such as dark subjects, alienation, transgressive content, or other controversial subject matter ) can also decide whether or not a film is a " cult film ", regardless of the film's budget or studio affiliations.

The film's title was inspired by the line, " Bring me my chariot of fire ," from the William Blake poem adapted into the popular British hymn " Jerusalem "; the hymn is heard at the end of the film.

The film's title is an allusion to a poem by Guillaume Apollinaire.

The film's original French title is Le fond de l ' air est rouge, which means " the air is essentially red ", or " revolution is in the air ", implying that the socialist movement existed only in the air.

This Harkonnen is nearly identical to the film's version of Vladimir in both appearance ( minus the belt-mounted suspensors ) and personality, and also dies by poisoning.

This version generally followed the storyline of The Further Adventures of Dr. Syn and made it clear that Syn did not die or stage his own death: at film's end, he is having a cup of tea with the Squire, who admits to now owing a debt of gratitude to the Scarecrow.

Film theory is an academic discipline that aims to explore the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to reality, the other arts, individual viewers, and society at large.

Although this is not a creative role, it is pivotal in ensuring that the film's post-production budget is manageable and achievable, and that all deadlines are met.

Because large amounts of money are involved, and most of a film's budget is spent during production, the post-production period can often be difficult and challenging.

: The Director is responsible for overseeing the creative aspects of a film, including controlling the content and flow of the film's plot, directing the performances of Actors, organizing and selecting the locations in which the film will be shot, and managing technical details such as the positioning of cameras, the use of lighting, and the timing and content of the film's soundtrack.

: The Visual Effects Supervisor is in charge of the VFX crew, working with production and the film's Director to achieve the desired in-camera optical effects of the film.

The film's hero, played by Gary Cooper, is a former baseball player now bumming around lacking any goals.

His grandson, Frank Capra III, is a Hollywood director and worked as an assistant director in the 1995 film The American President, which referred to Frank Capra in the film's dialogue.

8, which states in the film's plot synopsis, A spectacular duel is arranged on the summit of Mt.

" Joseph Savitski of Beyond Hollywood said the film's music is " a major detraction ", but added that it's " not only one of the most imaginative films in the series, but also the most enjoyable to watch.