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The best film!

Advantages: Fun and adventure
Disadvantages: None

...beginng to end! Heres the story Madame Adelaide Bonfamille's is giving her fourtune to her cats Duchess and 3 kittens. But nasty butler Edgar wont have any of it he wants the fourtune and will do anything to get it. One night he takes the cat Duchess and her 3 kittens and throws them in a river while they are sleeping. When the Duchess and her kittens wake up the next day they are shocked, lost and cold until a Tomcat helps them with a little help ...

sarahd1111 18.08.2007 · Read full review
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Scrooge

Advantages: Seasonal Film
Disadvantages: ?

...unfamilar with the story of Scrooge here goes, Scrooge is a money lender and very careful with his money. He is visited over the course of Christmas night by his dead partnet Jacob Marley who implores him to change his ways or endure the fate of Marley walking for eternity carrying a huge chain - the chain he forged in life - for his inhuminity to his other men. To push his point home Marley sends Scrooge visits from three ghosts over the course ...
...present and the future and how things may turn out if he does not mend his ways. Well eventually he does and he wakes Christmas Day a changed man This has been filmed seriously many times prehaps most famously by Alistair Sim in the 1951 version. Well hot on the heels on the success of Oliver in the late sixties came this muscial and although not as great as Oliver it aint arf bad either guvoner. Finney was a strange choice as whilst he carries ...

scampbellajc 06.12.2005 · Read full review
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The Clangers - A Time of Innocence

Advantages: Child Friendly
Disadvantages: None

...********************* ~Introduction~ ***************** The clangers are a timeless, enduring and charming animated series. The complete Clangers is a 2 disc DVD set containing all 26 episodes of the classic television series. ~Synopsis~ ************** The clangers story is about life on the small blue planet, somewhere out in space, that is home to these long-nosed, gentle, pink creatures with their distinctive whistling language. They live ...
...by objects from space. Fortunately, clangers have armour to protect their little knitted bodies. The whistling language allows children to use their imagination and fill in what they think is happening. There is a narration but it does not interfere with the running of the story lines which the children can imagine for themselves A peaceful race, the clangers live in harmony with the other inhabitants of their world--the soup dragon, the froglets, ...

Maximus-Qualitus 07.03.2008 · Read full review
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The T-rex Trek

Advantages: More of those loveable characters
Disadvantages: A typical film number 3

...I wanted to see was Ice Age 3, mostly because I wanted to complete the series and find out what happens, having seen the other two films on the way out. Please bear in mind that if you have not seen the first two films, I do not recommend you read this review (even if that means I miss out on your rating!) That’s because if the film sounds like your thing, I will have spoilt both those first two films within this review of the third. So staying on ...
...all as eggs! If the Ice Age animals didn’t think their mother was scary enough, when Rudy comes along, they are really in for a surprise. He is a much bigger challenge for Buck, and an even bigger terror for all the others, when he makes mummy dino look a dwarf. Sadly we don’t really get that much communication from the dinosaurs as they don’t seem to talk, just “grr”. Admittedly this helps distinguish them from the others as the real predators or ...

Ayesha- 08.11.2009 · Read full review
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City of Ember Smoulders Without Really Catching Light

Advantages: A fun, well told family adventure
Disadvantages: Underdeveloped characters. Understated ending.

...see “City of Ember” at the cinema, but I had taken one look at the trailer and dismissed it out of hand. However, when it made a recent appearance on the Sky Movies schedule, I relented, thinking that, without the added investment of having to buy cinema tickets, a bucket of popcorn and perhaps more importantly, using up a rare night out, I could always fall asleep on the couch if I wanted to. SYNOPSIS The film starts out with a flashback to ...
...catastrophe is soon to make the earth uninhabitable, so a group of scientists (American obviously – they’re always American) create an underground city, called Ember, to which a select group of lucky souls will be sent – a modern day ark – to safeguard the future of the human race. A silver box, the contents of which are not known at this stage, is entrusted to the first mayor, with instructions to pass down the box from mayor to mayor until the ...

Hishyeness 08.11.2009 · Read full review
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