Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
• DVD Release Date: May 25, 2004
• Run Time: 84 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0001OGVOY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #157,278 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Spike & Mike’s Cutting Edge Classics: Favorites From The Classic Festival Of Animation is an amazing collection of audacious, wildly original animated shorts from the world’s most promising animators. Each work is a stunning blend of comedy and pathos, challenging the boundaries of both genre and form. These groundbreaking shorts raise the bar for all animated films to follow.

• While the wildly popular Sick & Twisted series (Full Frontal and Unprotected!) contains material for adults only, this collection is appropriate for a wider audience, albeit not children. The content is mild and the focus is on the art of the animation. • This is the first "Best Of" DVD issue of the Classic Animation festival, featuring top international and local animation.

Contents:
1. An Old Story (1:20) Zohar Shahar
2. Brother (8:00) Adam Elliot—2000
Australian Film Critics Award for Best Australian Short Film 3. Drink (4:30) Patrick Smith
4. Hello, Dolly (3:00) Mariko Hoshi—2000
Winner of the Special Jury Prize— Leonard Prix 2000 (Parma, Italy)
5. Iddy Biddy Beat Boy (4:30) Mo Willems
6. Insect Poetry (6:00) Marilyn Zornado
7. Little Milosh (3:30) Jakub Pistecky—Best
Canadian Film at the Student Animation Festival of Ottawa
8. Pigeon and the Onion Pie (3:30)
Wholesome Products 9. Snowman (5:00) Lane Nakamura
10. Cane Toad (3:55) David Clayton and Andrew Silke 11. Maakies (4 titles) (4:00) Tony Millionaire
a. Drinkie Crow Gets A Job
b. Uncle Gabbie Sees Some Rats

c. Tar Trap
d. Uncle Gabbie and Drinkie Crow On Vacation 12. One Day A Man Bought A House (7:00)
Pjotr Sapegin 13. Mons The Cat (5:30) Pjotr Sapegin
14. Stubble Trouble (4:00) Calabash Animation
15. It’s My Life (3:20) Natalia Berezovaya
16. Balance (7:40) Christophe and Wolfgang
Lauenstein (1989 Academy Award winner) for Best Animated Short
17. Ropedancers (8:00) Raimund Krumme
18. Semper Idem (8:00) Joachim Bode

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars no new films, no extras, no digital quality., June 30, 2004

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kitten meyer (seattle) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Spike and Mike's Cutting Edge Classics (DVD)

Spike and Mike scrape the barrel again to re-release another old collection of rehashed animated shorts on DVD, with minimal extras and unrestored VHS picture and sound quality.

There's very little rhyme or reason as to the selection process behind such a random compilation. Aside from a couple Internet cartoons that you could just watch online for free, everything else here has been previously available on other, superior collections. All I can guess is they had some old film licenses lying around that were close to expiring and they wanted more of your money.

I have to sadly agree with the other reviewers here, that Spike and Mike is truly dead. Pick up the "Animation Show" instead, or if you can still find them, the old out-of-print "Tournee" animation collections.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars a GREAT collection!, April 27, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Spike and Mike's Cutting Edge Classics (DVD)

I think the point of this collection is that it collects classic shorts from the past 15 year that were on the cutting edge at the time of their release. That's why they're classics. Looked at that way, there is a ton of great material here. My favorite is Rope Dancers, which is really trippy--almost like what Escher would have done if he had worked in animation. There are plenty of other great clips here, as well. If you're new to animation, this is a great starting point, and if you've scene it all before, then this DVD is a fantastic set of highlights.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Give it Another Try, June 18, 2004

By 

BlaskoFilms (Coon Rapids, MN United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Spike and Mike's Cutting Edge Classics (DVD)

When I first wrote my review for this disc, I panned it. Recently, I've given it another go, and I have to say that this isn't such a bad little compilation after all. I still don't have too much interest in the blood-guts-and-butts humor of "An Old Story," "Maakies" or "Cane Toad," but the disc also includes some fascinating work like Patrick Smith's "Drink," Mo Willems' "Iddy Biddy Beat Boy," Pjtor Sapegin's "One Day a Man Bought a House," and Raimund Krumme's "Ropedancers." "Stubble Trouble" is quick and humorous, and with The World's Best Animation DVD out of print, it's nice to see the German film "Balance" available for a new generation of artists.

So, Spike and Mike, I take back some of what I said before. While I still prefer your previous release, "Spike and Mike's Classic Festival of Animation," I appreciate the effort in putting some very unique animations on one very affordable disc. Here's looking forward to an even better compilation in the future!