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The Happiness Dragon.

Advantages: KIDS WILL LOVE HIM.
Disadvantages: NOTHING.

CHORLTON AND THE WHEELIES SERIES 1 = Recently watched this with my kids and it brought back quite a few memories. Chorlton is a happiness dragon and one day he wakes up or rather is hatched in Wheelie world. From that point on he brings light to darkness and happiness to all who meet him. He finds the wheelie people being terrorised by Fenella an evil and frankly hapless witch. She and her minions try every trick and ...
...wheelie friends. But Chorlton always prevails over all of her evil plans. You follow his adventure through 13 episodes on this DVD and kids today would love it, Guaranteed. If Chorlton had been created today the spin off in merchandise would have earned quite a bit with characters such as, Chorton himself, his friends… Zoomer, King Otto and Queen Doris, and Jenny. Equally lucrative would have been the evil ones, Fenella and her cohorts, Claptrap, ...

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Review of Chorlton And The Wheelies - Series 1 (DVD)

The Law's gone to the Dogs

Advantages: funny without vulgarity, watchable for entire family incl adults, good underlying mesages, enaging storyline
Disadvantages: preferably watched after 1959's original version of The Shaggy Dog

In the 1970's Disney was churning out a lot of live action family films. Designed as a sequel to the popular 1959 film, The Shaggy Dog, in which a young boy, Wilby, uses a magic ring to turn himself into a dog and gets into scrapes, the Shaggy DA follows the young lad once again as an adult. He has graduated from university with a law degree, and is a respected member of the community. The town's district attorney is a crooked man, however, and tired ...
...Wilby decides to run for the office of District Attorney. Unfortunately, someone has stolen the magic ring, and he keeps turning into a hairy sheepdog. Who has stolen the ring, and will he be successful in his quest to restore justice? This film is rather underrated. This is quality slapstick comedy, and while younger members of the family may not grasp the finer points of the storyline, they will definitely get the gags. The jokes are pretty high ...

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Review of The Shaggy D.A. (DVD)

Fun, though Swift wouldn't have been impressed...

Advantages: Very funny in places, decent storyline, great for kids
Disadvantages: The songs!!! Aaaauuuurrrrrggghhhh!!!!!

Gulliver's Travels is, as I am sure you already know, an all-time classic novel by Jonathon Swift, and is one of the sharpest satirical novels ever written. There have been many film / TV versions, few of which have adhered closely to the original storyline. On a compilation we got recently for a bargain basement price, I came across this version. As far as following Swift's overall storyline goes you can forget it, but that doesn't stop it from ...
...Potter films, this version of Gulliver's Travels is notable for being one of the first films to ever mix live action and animation. The storyline revolves almost entirely around Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput, the tiny land full of tiny people, where two empires wage bloody war over which end a boiled egg ought to be broken. I'm sure you know the basic story - Gulliver gets shipwrecked on Lilliput, is taken captive by its inhabitants who think ...

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Review of Gulliver's Travels (DVD)

Fully Entertainment

Advantages: Surprising, Adventurouse, Entertaining, and good animation.
Disadvantages: Dialogues are not that much clear according to the small kids.

Harry Potter is filled with full of adventure , action and mind blowing animations. When you once start watching it you will not get up even for pee. Becuase it contains lots of surprising events which raises your hair. Interesting is that Harry Potter is a very courageouse kid and his friends really remains with them till the end. Watching this movie is really money value movie. Regarding character of the movie and the story line, its amazing. ...
...The Hobbit and a witch in “The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe”. I also think that the emphasis on magic is different than its use in the book “A Wrinkle in Time”. If you found those themes objectionable in the Harry Potter books—they are very convincing in the film. ...

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Review of Harry Potter - Years 1-5 (Box Set) (DVD)

Very funny Film

Advantages: movie recommended
Disadvantages: none

Charlotte's Web is primarily a book written by EB White, and it is a book that I remember having read and reread again and again when I was younger. I so loved that the characters were brought to life by the author and I was overjoyed when the animation is out to please me as well. Now, several years later they have done for a film and was recently released on DVD this week. Seeing that the weather was so bad I sent my boyfriend to choose the DVD ...
...of Julia Roberts. Charlotte's voice is perfectly produced by Julia Roberts, and it is truly representative of the charter in question wonderfully close to the original. Charlotte is the savior of the story that really intrigue continues with farm animals set about saving Wilbur's bacon! They tell him he can expect to be served on the table at Christmas, but want to see Wilbur for the snowfall is something they all want him to achieve. Charlotte games ...

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