Extraordinary Tales
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 13 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 2, 2016
- Originally Released: 2013
- Label: Gkids Inc.
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Directed by | Raul Garcia | |
| Narrated by | Guillermo del Toro, Christopher Lee & Julian Sands | |
| Screenwriting by | Raul Garcia | |
| Original story by | Edgar Allan Poe | |
| Voice: | Roger Corman, Cornelia Funke & Stephen Hughes |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 2.5/4 --
The voices of the late Christopher Lee and Bela Lugosi reading from the text isn't quite the same. But Garcia compensates with a different animation style for each of the five stories.
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Boston Globe
Rating: 4.5/5 --
the definitive works of Edgar Allan Poe on the big screen
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Fat Guys at the Movies
Rating: 4.5/10 --
Unsure of its targeted demographic, Tales straddles the tonal line, flip-flopping like a fish left on the dock.
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Under the Radar
Harnessing a range of appropriately spooky-oddball narrators and striking visual styles -- including graphic novels, early photography and Expressionist painting -- the Spanish director and animator Raul Garcia simultaneously honors and reimagines.
New York Times
Rating: 2.5/4 --
Poe's storytelling gift is so timeless, and the voice actors assembled so captivating, that "Extraordinary Tales" can't help but work on some level. It just never quite rises above that faint praise.
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RogerEbert.com
Rating: C- --
For me The Tell-Tale Heart was really the only short I loved. The rest had major flaws that took me away from the film.
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rachelsreviews.net
Rating: 3/5 --
Poe's creepy, unevenly adapted tales aren't for young kids.
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Common Sense Media
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Product Info
- UPC: 883476150406
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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