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It's a vet's life!

Advantages: Good, solid family entertainment
Disadvantages: Seeing animals sick or dying

...vet, predominantly because of watching All Creatures Great and Small. Those not yet in their 30s will probably not have heard of this series, which was broadcast in the early 1980s and is based on the books by James Herriot about his own life as a vet in the 1930s and 1940s. I was thrilled to get hold of the first series recently - unfortunately this show doesn't seem to have been rebroadcast recently, at least not on the main channels. The author ...
...have more acting jobs between All Creatures and Doctors, because I always thought he did a superb job in All Creatures. Watching it again now though, I thought his acting was a little wooden, at least to begin with, although his acting does improve towards the end of this series. His character is young and energetic, with a passion for his job. His boss is Siegfried Farnon, played by Robert Hardy. Hardy has had a variety of acting jobs in the past, ...

sunmeilan 08.12.2005 · Read full review
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Review of All Creatures Great And Small - Series 1 - Part 1 (Box Set) (DVD)

Chorlton finally wins out.

Advantages: Fun
Disadvantages: nothing

CHORLTON AND THE WHEELIES SERIES 3 = 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, ...

MaldivesHoliday 11.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Chorlton And The Wheelies - The Complete Series 3 (DVD)

Bunnies do Exodus

Advantages: Groundbreaking story, remarkable cast..
Disadvantages: A little too monotone for modern tastes, perhaps?

Watership Down (1978) 93 minutes Dir: Matin Rosen Voices: John Hurt, Richard Briers, Michael Graham Cox, Ralph Richardson The book of this provided one of my fondest memories of school. Fourth year English with Mr Doyle: he introduced us to Shakespeare which I REALLY couldn’t get my head around. However, Watership Down was another matter: a story about rabbits escaping from their warren, suffering hardship on their travels and finally arriving in ...
...this turns out to be Watership Down: a hill he spies from afar. However, once they arrive it seems like a hollow victory. Hazel and his troop have no does amongst their number. No does, means no kits which means the new burrow will die out… So the search begins for females to join the group. Hazel leads an unsuccessful effort to free some captured white rabbits from the local Nuthanger farm – being nearly mauled by a cat and shot by a farmer in the ...

runningman77 14.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Watership Down (Animated) (DVD)

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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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs

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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Review of The City Of Ember