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Adventures on Button Moon

Advantages: my kids love it and so do i
Disadvantages: none

...watching the tv series of Button Moon in the 1980's as a child in the mornings on ITV and singing along t the theme tune. "We're off to Button Moon will follow Mr Spoon Button Moon Button Moon." I really liked this programe as a child but it dispeared off our screens without trace. This was proberley due to advancing technogoly and kids wanting better effects on the telly. Button Moon is aimed at the under fives It's written by Ian Allen. The DVD ...
...his telescope and goes to Button Moon.(a big yellow button.) Only sometimes will Mrs Spoon and Tina Teaspoon go with him. Once Mr Spoon arrives at Button Moon he always will take out his telescope for everyone to look through and find out whats happening on Button Moon. Sometimes he also will look over to other planets aswell. When he is looking through the telescope this reveles the story line for the episode. My kids love this DVD and i like my ...

dcojago 28.03.2004 · Read full review
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Review of Button Moon - Adventures On Button Moon (DVD)

"I Y'am What I Y'am!"

Advantages: Nostalgic, lightly entertaining, ahead of it's time!
Disadvantages: "I got millions'o emenies. And you is 10 or 12 of 'em!"

How did Popeye the Sailor become strong to the finish? Where did he come from, and what was his family like? This charming 1980 film musically explores Popeye's origins, and the quirky town of Sweet Haven with it's criminally pinioned populace. From the moment Popeye discreetly rides an ebbing storm into this odd port, we know his life will never be the same again. Street toughs and the local crime-boss, The Commodore, rule the town, and the only ...
...Williams and Shelley Duval as Popeye and Olive Oyl. "Children! They cry at you when they're young, they yell at you when they're older, they borrows from you when they's middle-aged and they leave you alone to die. Without even paying you back!" ~Poopdeck Pappy This joint production between Paramount and Disney displays a lot of talents. Harry Nillson wrote all the original songs. There is plenty to enjoy for those who are fond of musicals. The lullaby ...

Entwife 15.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Popeye (DVD)

Herbie the Bug you wouldn't wanna Squash

Advantages: More of that little love bug
Disadvantages: can never find a problem with herbie

Herbie goes bananas, I don't think the title is anything to this little bugs health, more to do with the films location. This time Herbie's in Central America (Rio D, Janero) were he's set to enter the Grande Premio race. But the fun starts as his owners are setting of on the voyage to Rio, This time the owners after deal with a smuggling syndicate, a midget pickpocket and little Herbie even has to go head to head with a mad Bull. As usual with ...
...cheekiness brings smiles and laughter all the way through. Allthough I am biased on my views as I love anything to do with Herbie, a lot of the humour may seem a bit outdated for the younger generation (teens) of today, and some of the acting a touch prim and proper compared to what there used to. It will be enjoyed by most, but possibly more of a nostalgia trip for the older ones. The film is 88 minutes long, which I find is about perfect timing ...

dreamscancometrue 16.12.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Herbie Goes Bananas (DVD)

Have a musical Christmas with old Worzel

Advantages: Great entertainment and many funny parts
Disadvantages: Can be a little too musical for some

...CHARACTERS… Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally Geoffrey Bayldon as The Crowman Charlotte Coleman as Sue Peters Jeremy Austin as John Peters * Other characters…. Mike Berry as Mr Peters Meg Jenkins as Mrs Braithwaite Norman Bird as Mr Braithwaite Thorley Walters as Colonel Bloodstock Bill Maynard as Sergeant Beetroot Norman Mitchell as PC Parsons Michael Ripper as Mr Shepherd Bill Pertwee as Lorry Driver. This Christmas ...
...** BRIEF PLOT… Worzel is excited about the forthcoming scarecrow ball and is thinking of inviting his beloved Aunt Sally as his guest… unfortunately, for the turnip head, his carefree actions force the crowman to ban him form the ball. As Worzel wonders the fields around Scatterbrook farm, depressed at not going to the ball, he soon meet up with some old friends, like Saucy Nancy, (played by Barbara Windsor), who is on a pirate ship heading for ...

blissman70 31.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Worzel Gummidge - Christmas Special - Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake (DVD)

A Flash in the pan - I think not!

Advantages: Good fun
Disadvantages: Bad Acting

...And that film is Flash Gordon (1980) directed by Mike Hodges (who is probably best known for directing Get Carter - the original and better version with Michael Caine) and produced by Dino de Laurentiis (he has produced the likes of Manhunter, Hannibal, Red Dragon and Hannibal Rising to name a few). Why I should love this film so much is more deeply rooted by circumstance than anything else. I loved it before I even saw it in full. My parents are ...
...holidays which showed the original Flash Gordon series which tweaked my interest. So when I realised there was a film not only did I want to go and see it (only to be told no by my parents) but I also collected all the picture discs for my Viewmaster (you know the chunky red devices that allowed you to view pictures on paper discs with film in) from cereal packets that I could find. I collected stickers for my sticker album so I knew all the characters ...

Suzela 29.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Flash Gordon (DVD)