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The best humor is in the slapstick imagination of the extended action sequences, which push this computer-animated film into Looney Tunes territory for adventurous outrageousness.

Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Puss in Boots 3D Marshall Fine 2011

Yet here comes Steven Spielberg and Peter Jackson, bound and determined to transform the mildly humorous adventures of an intrepid boy reporter into a big-budget computer-animated hit.

Marshall Fine: Movie review: The Adventures of Tintin Marshall Fine 2011

In 1986, using part of his fortune from Apple, Mr. Jobs paid filmmaker George Lucas $10 million to acquire the computer-graphics division of Lucasfilm Ltd. The company Mr. Jobs formed from that purchase, Pixar Animation Studios, went on to create a string of computer-animated film hits, such as "Toy Story."

Steven Paul Jobs, 1955-2011 Yukari Iwatani Kane 2011

Not particularly safe for work (there is some computer-animated nudity), but worth a peek:

Charlie Sheen gets animated Liz Kelly 2010

Mr. Jobs turned Apple into the largest retailer of music and helped popularize computer-animated films as the financier and CEO of Pixar Animation Studios, which he later sold to Walt Disney Co. He was a key figure in changing the way people used the Internet and how they listened to music, watched TV shows and movies, and read books, disrupting industries in the process.

Steven Paul Jobs, 1955-2011 Yukari Iwatani Kane 2011

Not their greatest (WALL-E) or my favorite (The Incredibles), but ultimately the worst Pixar flick is still ten times better than the majority of computer-animated films out there.

Up, up, and away pabba 2010

Best Use of Technology: In Parks and Recreation's spoof of Taiwan's animated news videos, the local TV station in Pawnee, Ind., creates a computer-animated video for their "Curse Watch" coverage of the Harvest Festival.

Top Moments: The Bachelor's Love Woes and Glee's Dreamy First Kiss 2011

In recent years, the ads became more professional, with actual actors playing Empire customers and Mr. Cohen portrayed as a computer-animated figure.

Pitchman Rolled Out That TV Carpet Ad Stephen Miller 2011

Not their greatest (WALL-E) or my favorite (The Incredibles), but ultimately the worst Pixar flick is still ten times better than the majority of computer-animated films out there.

Up, up, and away pabba 2010

On Mr. Stainton's watch the studio made 2005's "Chicken Little," one of the first computer-animated films to be released in 3-D.

Paramount Hires President for Its New Animation Unit Ethan Smith 2011