Essential Skills - Big Dry Flies For Fast Water DVD

Advantages: Lovely colours, cute dinosaurs and a heart warming tale
Disadvantages: none, apart from a lack of featurettes and extra bits

...quality of the graphics and animation, I'd say it was quite a let down. It's not really been improved very much from the old Video tape format. The songs and sound quality however is noticably different, either that or my speakers are much better than when we had the VHS's. But the colours still blur, which is disappointing for me as I'd expected some improvement. The kids on the other hand, adore it and don't care that it's not as digitally mastered as other animated films, for example, those in the genre of Finding Nemo and Toy Story. Title: The Land Before Time 9 - Journey To Big Water Format: Animated, PAL Language English Region: Region 2 Number of discs: 1 Classification: U Studio: Universal Pictures Video DVD Release Date: 22 Sep 2003 Run Time: 71 minutes Overall 4 star rating, a super storyline and follows quite... Read review

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Advantages: good for basic football skills and drills
Disadvantages: no slow motion effects

...Giggs's goals during his time as a youth player and professional football player. Some of the best goals including his wonder 'solo' goal against Tottenham are worth watching over and over again. Goals include during his youth days and Premiership. Advantages The DVD guided basic soccer skills and certain features like Additional Footage provides good replay value. As I watched this DVD over and over again, although the DVD simply explain basic soccer techniques and skills, it reflects in my opinion Ryan Giggs's characteristics on the football pitch. In short, honing these skills are essential to become a great 'Welsh Wizard' winger. Downside Ryan Giggs is a relatively quiet person so we don't get to know his true personality. Most of the skills are explained in detail by Bobby Charlton instead of Ryan himself... Read review

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Advantages: Hilarious comedy, good viewing
Disadvantages: only 3 episodes, expensive to buy whole set individually

...as the Reliant was entering the parking area. A frustrating watch - but he manages to leave eventually (for free!). iii) Lunch time for Mr Bean and he decides to take it in the park. He makes himself a sandwich from scratch and in most ridiculous way possible! Hilarious to watch, I do ask how they thought up these sketches. First he cuts the bread with scissors, spreads the butter with his credit card, he washes the lettuce with a fountain and uses his sock to dry it, he crushes the peppercorns with his shoe, and pretends to kill two dead fish. He even makes tea in a hot water bottle, using his mouth to transfer milk from a baby bottle to the hot water bottle. Eventually, however, the pepper makes him sneeze and he drops the sandwich. The man next to him (Angus Deayton) offers Bean half of his own sandwich, which Bean gratefully accepts. Another... Read review

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