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When DS Screens Meets The Silver Screen

Advantages: Voice acting, charming, family film, solid soundtrack and score and colourful characters.
Disadvantages: Not many special features, film's conclusion might confuse people.

...~Information~ It's not the first time a video game has been adapted to a film, and it won't be the last either. Based on the commercially successful Professor Layton game series for the DS, it's bound to have the odd puzzle here and there. People enjo ...

CGholy 05.01.2011 · Read full review
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Review of Professor Layton And The Eternal Diva (DVD)

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Professor Layton Hits The Big Screen!

Advantages: Great animation that remains faithful to the game. Enjoyable, clever and funny.
Disadvantages: None

Professor Layton has been solving puzzles ever since Professor Layton and the Curious Village first hit the Nintendo DS in 2008. Three years on and this tea-loving gentleman has racked his logical brain in six games so far. The game play has been hugely s ...

MonsoonBaby88 26.08.2011 · Read full review
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A pirate comic come to life

Advantages: adds more detail and expands to the Watchmen film, simple but brilliant story
Disadvantages: not quite what I had expected...

I read the Watchmen graphic novel and was interested to watch the movie version, however when I was looking to get it I came across a related DVD; Watchmen - Tales of the Black Freighter. I absolutely loved this part of the comic, it was my favourite piec ...

zombieflesh 27.05.2011 · Read full review
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Thieves! Gangsters! Murder! Immortality? ... It's Baccano!

Advantages: Captivating story, an amazing ensemble cast of colourful characters and great audio and visuals.
Disadvantages: Graphic violence may perhaps be too much for some people, slightly confusing at first

The name Baccano is actually taken from the Italian language and translates to "din" and that's exactly what Baccano is, a giant noise of characters, plot and action. Baccano was originally written as a series of light novels by Ryohgo Narita but was ...

Desperado19 30.05.2011 · Read full review
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Summer Wars: exciting, compelling, but not perfect.

Advantages: Superb animation, intriging premise, action and dramatic scenes blend well
Disadvantages: Main characters uninteresting, not that original story, AI villain is a letdown.

Summer Wars is a 2009 anime (Japanese animation) film. The director is Mamoru Hosoda who also did the Studio Ghibli classic 'The Girl Who Leapt Through Time' some years prior, and like that film 'Summer Wars' combines a story of science fiction and romanc ...

Anti_W 16.10.2011 · Read full review
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