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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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Review of Scrooge (DVD)

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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Review of The Aristocats (DVD)

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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Review of Clangers - The Complete Clangers (Box Set) (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 ...

mouche202 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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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)