Family > 10 GBP to 15 GBP Family > 2001

Thieves, Cosmetic Surgery, and Santa Claus

Advantages: big names give good performances despite the material, "canon" characters reappear
Disadvantages: horribly executed animation, dubious storyline, shoddy song writing

...original Rankin Bass production of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer is considered a modern classic of stop animation cinematography. It has a loyal following of viewers who join in the annual Yuletide viewing, singing along to Burl Ives as Sam the Snowman singing "It's a Holly Jolly Christmas" , laughing at Bumble and Yukon Cornelius as they prospect for peppermint, and cheer on Rudolph and Hermey the elf, as they each seek to fulfil their destinies. ...
...reprise showcasing a triumphantly confident Rudolph and his pals spreading more Christmas cheer. No, this is a neurotic Rudolph and Hermey, and well, it is as if their happy ending never happened at all. As for the Island of Misfit Toys, ummm, well, some decidedly strange transformations have occurred there too. For starters, there is a palace with guards who are rather violent with our two heroes, and a rather portly queen like hippopotamus rules ...

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Review of Rudolph And The Island of The Misfit Toys (DVD)

Bear faced fun!!!

Advantages: Henson puppets rock
Disadvantages: gets addictive

...I was made aware of Bear in the Big Blue House when it was on Channel 5's Milkshake - a series of programs aimed at the under 5's on between 6.30 and 9.30 in the mornings. Every time the theme tune for this came on my son would stop what he was doing from an early age and start laughing - we ended up taping one episode to start with just to stop him crying, it was great. Now 3 years on he still loves this big furry bear and all his friends who he ...
...lives in the house with Bear - he has his own little mouse hole where he tries to fit as much cheese into as possible. OJo is a young female bear cub who's favourite toy is snow bear. Pip and Pop are 2 fun loving otters who live in the pond in the garden. Treelo is a mad lemur who finds it difficult to stay still for long and gets very excited. Ray and Luna are the sun and moon who sing songs with Bear in the morning and at night. Then there is Shadow ...

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Review of Bear In The Big Blue House - Tidy Time With Bear (DVD)

Good fun!

Advantages: Dialogue, cracking pace, excellent animation
Disadvantages: May not be suitable for children who are old enough to understand innuendo

...for adults as well and Ice Age 3 certainly delivered on that front. I've seen Ice Age2 on TV but not the first film and never in the cinema. On top of that this was a 3D show. The story essentially follows Manny, the mammoth, his heavily pregnant wife, Ellie and Diego, the sabre toothed tiger as they venture under the ice to a land where dinosaurs are not extinct. They do this to try and rescue Sid, who feeling unloved due to the impending arrival ...
...subsequently been carried off with his 'children' by their real mother. In dinosaur world they meet Buck, the weasel with the Sylvester Stallone eyepatch and knife, the British accent (Simon Pegg voices him) and the literary connections to Captain Ahab of Moby Dick (both have been left injured by 'the great white beast', both are unnaturally obsessed and slightly unhinged by it). As a sideline, Scratt is still seeking his acorn but this time there ...

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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (DVD)

"I thought you guys were extinct?"

Advantages: amazing picture quality, good fun for all the family!
Disadvantages: Cant think of any.

I bought my wife Ice Age 3 for Christmas. She asked for it. Can't say its my type of film, but being a loving husband I sat down and watched it with her anyway. The first thing that struck me, being a blu ray, is the amazing quality. Animated films and comic-esque outings (like the Simpsons) always take full advantage of the High Definition nature of blu ray and make a movie a pleasure for the eye to behold. Ice Age 3 is quite possibly the best example ...
...were apparently living below the ice and meeting a swash buckling weasel who helps save the day. All the while, we get to watch the fun adventures of the little chap chasing his acorn, that have been present in the past films. This time, there's a love interest!! Its quite a good watch and plenty of fun for all the family. The usual deleted scenes and such are present, I can't say I watched them though, sorry, but its not my cup-of-tea, as I said. ...

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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Blu-ray)

PAINT THE WHOLE WORLD.

Advantages: THE KIDDIES WILL LOVE WATCHING IT
Disadvantages: NOTHING

RAINBOW "Up above the streets and houses, Rainbow climbing high, Everyone can see it smiling over the sky”. “Paint the whole word with a Rainbow” First aired in 1972 and ran for an incredible 20 years and contained an astonishing 1071 episodes. The general format was, what is quite common now, where it would be on twice a week, usually for around 15 – 20 minutes. It was aimed squarely at kids and contained some iconic figures that ...
...revolved around adventures to go on, usually around the house, or more likely problems to be solved. It would always be resolved by the puppets or by a song. Cast: = Zippy Loud and opinionated and always right about everything, well in his mind. George A shy pink hippo, go figure? He was always getting into trouble. Bungle A huge brown and very clumsy bear. Very unfrightening and a bit dozey. Geoffrey The father figure of the group and ...

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Review of Rainbow: Zippy Sets Them Up (DVD)