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How"s It Hold Up?

A podcast where a lesbian trans woman who"s an animation enthusiast, her mother who"s a teacher and has written a thesis on her love of videogames, and her Scooby-Doo-loving wife watch (mostly) animated movies and ask the eternal question: "how"s it hold up?"

tv & film film reviews

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00:22:54

Shorts! Mickey Mouse: Moving Day

How"s It Hold Up? ·

2024/08/19

The series of Mickey, Donald and Goofy cartoons started out featuring Peg-Leg Pete as an antagonist, and in this cartoon that antagonism continues in color! ...Sort of! Pete is here, at least, but notably missing is his peg leg! From here on out Peg-Leg Pete just becomes Pete, at least as far as the classic era is concerned. The peg-leg aside... how's the cartoon? Listen to find out! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howsitholdup/support

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00:47:48

The Land Before Time II: The Great Valley Adventure

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2024/08/07

(Spoiler Section Length - 5min 59sec)It's time for more sequels to Don Bluth movies that have no involvement from Bluth himself or any of the other original creators for that matter! Except unlike most such sequels, this one ended up spawning a long-running franchise with well over 10 films and even a tv series under its belt as of 2024. The Land Before Time franchise is a bit infamous for its length and how it changed the series to a musical format... but still, were the sequels ever any

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00:22:50

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit: Puppet Show

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2024/08/05

Oswald is a character originally created by Walt Disney, but who has long since been run by other directors, still creating shorts right alongside the much more popular Mickey Mouse series. Like Mickey, Oswald's design has changed with the times, but unlike Mickey that change at this point is so drastic that Oswald is hardly identifiable as the Mickey precursor that he started out as. All that said... this Oswald cartoon is also something of a 1920's throwback, with its mixture of

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00:52:58

The Land Before Time

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2024/07/24

(Spoiler Section Length - 6min 41sec)The second of the two Don Bluth and Steven Spielberg collaborations, The Land Before Time would also go on to become the premier children series about dinosaurs for the better part of two decades. While those later films (and tv series!) have a reputation all their own, this first one is the only film in the series to have Bluth and Spielberg's touch, and it therefore has a vibe all its own. Is it a good vibe? Listen to find out! --- Support this podcast:

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00:17:09

Shorts! Betty Boop: Grampy's Indoor Outing

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2024/07/17

Another Betty Boop cartoon, here in the era where her shorts are mostly not her own, but rather a vehicle for her dog, Grampy, or some other even less interesting character! This time Betty wants to take some kid to the carnival, but the weather isn't permitting. But good ol' Grampy cooks up an indoor carnival, with an impressive finale flourish! It might be one of the best Betty Boop cartoons of the year... but still, is it actually worth watching? Listen to find out!--- Support this

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01:16:13

Disney's Robin Hood (feat. Ryan)

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2024/07/10

(Spoiler Section Length - 5min 33sec)Disney films are often retroactively classified into various 'eras', with the period between Walt Disney's death and the start of the Renaissance often referred to as 'the Dark Ages'. Despite this ominous moniker, many fan-favorite films exist in this time period, including this very film! But this film is also infamous for its cheap nature, including multiple scenes in which animation from earlier films is reused and traced over. How heavily

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00:38:34

Shorts! Silly Symphonies: Three Little Wolves (feat....

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2024/07/05

Walt Disney famously hated sequels, though this wasn't an opinion he always held. At one point in time he was all for creating sequels to the hit cartoon Three Little Pigs, but when each short proved to be diminishing returns (at least financially), it contributed to his dislike of the concept of sequels. But looking back at this, the 2nd sequel in the series, were audiences right to dismiss it? Or should we be sad that Three Little Pigs never evolved into a long-running series? Listen to find

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00:47:05

Song of the Sea

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2024/06/26

(Spoiler Section Length - 5min 42sec)Today we cover another movie from Cartoon Saloon, creators of The Secret of Kells and also a lot of other things, some of which - like a short for the Star Wars anthology series Visions - have come out since we covered their first film. Their studio only continues to put interesting and beautiful works out, only continues to become more and more prominent, and yet still it feels like if one were to say the studio's name or the name of one of their movies to

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00:19:39

Shorts! Color Rhapsodies: A Boy and His Dog

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2024/06/20

Some pieces of media — be they cartoon shorts, feature length films, or even whole seasons of television — are worth watching a particular moment. That moment could be as short as a single seconds-long scene or as long as an entire episode, but something about it manages to massively exceed the quality level of the media it's a part of. Today, we have a cartoon that fits this bill... but is the scene in question really good enough to warrant watching the rest of the short? Listen to find

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01:17:14

Akira

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2024/06/13

(Spoiler Section Length - 16min 35sec)Some movies are known for being massively successful, massively influential, and pillars of their respective genre... and yet also get watched less and less as the years go by, as though knowledge of their reputation is enough and watching the actual film is no longer needed. In many ways, it feels like Akira is one of these movies - frequently mentioned when talking about 'greatest anime movies', but how many fans who started watching anime in the

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00:24:07

Shorts! Merrie Melodies: I Love to Singa

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2024/06/06

Though Tex Avery tends to be known for his more violent, slapstick and sometimes horny cartoons, the man was also capable of making cartoons that were strangely sweet. This is perhaps the most well-known example, though don't let the 'sweet' description fool you into thinking the short is devoid of laughs. Featuring a jazz-singing owl, disappointed parents, and a talent competition, this short has it all... but is it good? Listen to find out!--- Support this podcast:

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01:12:44

Steven Universe: The Movie

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2024/05/29

(Spoiler Section Length - 12min 34sec)Like Ranma 1/2 before, this time we're covering another animated film that's tied to a long-running animated series! Unlike that movie, which was fairly standalone, this film is actually a direct continuation of Steven Universe, taking place after that series' finale. Like the show that spawned it, there's lots of fighting, lots of singing, and lots of queerness. But do they all come together well to create a feature film? Listen to find

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00:21:02

Shorts! Popeye the Sailor: Swee'Pea

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2024/05/23

Popeye is back, and he's got a baby this time! Trying to be a pal to Olive Oyl, Popeye takes little Swee'Pea to the zoo, but this baby has a habit of running loose and causing problems that it's up to Popeye to fix. This is one of those cartoons that's alright overall but has one particular moment that makes you laugh out loud. Does that moment make the cartoon worth watching? Listen to find out!--- Support this podcast:

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00:56:49

Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers

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2024/05/15

(Spoiler Section Length - 3min 24sec) We've watched several half-hour shorts for Mickey and his friends before, but we've never seen the mouse feature in a full-length film... until today! That's right, Mickey and his pals are Musketeers, on a feature-length adventure of daring-do and classical music. The gang's all here - Mickey, Donald, Goofy, Minnie, Daisy, Pete, Pluto, the Beagle Boys, Clarabelle... okay well Horace didn't make the cut. But we did get a French turtle? Does it

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00:22:10

Shorts! Mickey Mouse: Thru the Mirror

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2024/05/08

Mickey's pals Donald and Goofy might be swiftly gaining in popularity, but at least in 1936, Mickey himself wasn't down for the count yet! This time we have a Through the Looking Glass inspired romp in store for Disney's favorite mouse, with Mickey dancing, playing and fighting over the course of the short. It's all a dream and Mickey knows it, so he might as well have some fun while it's happening, even if it makes the King of Hearts mad. Is this Mickey Mouse misadventure any

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01:17:34

Adventures of Mowgli (Russian Jungle Book)

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2024/05/01

Yep, we've still got more Jungle Book! But this particular version came out the same year as the original Disney movie... or at least the first part of it did. That's right, this is actually a series of shorts that can be viewed together for a movie experience, and in some cases is actually edited together that way. This is a wildly different take on the world and characters than what we're used to, but ultimately, is it any good? Listen to find out!--- Support this podcast:

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00:28:30

Shorts! Happy Harmonies: To Spring

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2024/04/24

The Happy Harmonies series is an oft-forgotten series of shorts that largely serve as a vehicle for the increasingly racist depictions of former Looney Tunes star Bosko, and also a bunch of cartoons that ape the sensibilities of Disney's Silly Symphonies series. Which is to say, it's oft-forgotten because there is not much there of quality to remember. That said, the series did, through this cartoon, harbor the directorial beginnings of a man who would go on to immeasurably affect the

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01:36:24

One Piece: Baron Omatsuri and the Secret Island

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2024/04/17

(Spoiler Section Length - 22min 50sec)Mamoru Hosoda is back, and this time, like his previous Digimon films, he's working on a previously existing series, rather than his own original work. One Piece is a long-running series with many, many movies under its belt, both before and after this, and a legacy stretching over 25 years. Its creator is of course the inimitable Eiichiro Oda, whose sense of whimsy, adventure and iconic art style has won hearts and minds the world over. Hosoda, meanwhile,

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00:23:18

Shorts! Looney Tunes: The Blow Out

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2024/04/10

Tex Avery is at it again over at Warner Bros, and this time Porky Pig isn't just a side character, but the star! This little pig just wants some soda, but also there's a serial bomber on the loose, and of course the two end up meeting. Does this reach the heights of Avery's last Looney Tune, and perhaps more importantly, does it avoid the racist lows? Listen to find out!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howsitholdup/support

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00:45:48

Charlotte's Web

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2024/04/03

Can a pig and a spider be friends? And can a pig and a goose be brothers? Can a little girl understand what animals are saying when they talk to each other? All these questions and more have answers in this classic movie that all three of our hosts have great nostalgia for. But nostalgia can be dangerous... not everything holds up when you go back to it. Does this? Listen to find out!--- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/howsitholdup/support

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