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Tell me, butterfly, have you seen the other unicorns?

Advantages: Extraordinarily faithful adaptation, well voiced, charming story
Disadvantages: Gratuitous songage

This is a review of the film only. The DVD is available as a region 2 from Amazon from £3.98. It is easy to forget, in the computer age that is 2009, that animated films were once all hand drawn; each cell painstakingly illustrated; backgrounds pencilled and inked, the artists’ hands shaping the final product. A Ralph Bakshi film is immediately recognisable as coming from his studio, and instantly distinguishable from an offering from the Disney ...
...the late 20th Century may seem primitive, lacking the 3D rendering of today’s computer generated products, and also lacking the consistency of style that most modern animated popular cinematic films seem to have. The Last Unicorn dates from 1982, and comes from the pen of Peter S Beagle, adapted by Mr Beagle from his novel of the same name, and the directorship of Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. It follows the story of the eponymous Last Unicorn ...

mattygroves 09.04.2009 · Read full review
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'We're walking in the air!'

Advantages: A beautiful story that captures the innocence of childhood
Disadvantages: None

The Snowman is an animation that is based on a book of the same title by Raymond Briggs. It is introduced by Father Christmas and tells the story of a young boy called James who is aged around 8. James wakes up one morning and finds to his delight that it has been snowing all night. He rushes down the stairs excitedly and out into the garden where he has a great time stomping through the snow. He then decides to build a snowman, which he completes ...
...downstairs and peers out of the window to check on his snowman. As the clock strikes midnight, to his utter amazement the snowman comes to life. The young boy invites the snowman inside and they have a great time exploring the house. The Snowman is intrigued by modern appliances such as the television, light switches and running water and has a great time trying these out. They then head upstairs to James’ parents room where the Snowman tries on ...

tecnomars 28.12.2009 · Read full review
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Oliver Twist Review

Advantages: It wasn't to expensive
Disadvantages: Its very long

Oliver Twist is a interesting film. It keeps you glued to your seets and its a film for all the family with bits of comedy and emotion. The film is about a young boy which is an orphan called oliver who is moved around to different orphanages regularly. As he grew up he was forced to work and live in a warehouse. Afterwards he ran from the warehouse and ended up in london, here he was found by a man called Fagan who took him him and taught him how ...
...the parts when Oliver is being taught and his character devepment during the movie. He grows in confidence and learns much from Fagan. Oliver twist is a long film and some of the story may be deemed boring for some of the audience. On the whole Oliver Twist is a fantastic production and was well worth the money i payed for it, I would recomend this dvd and the book to anyone. It has a fantastic opening and a fantastic ending and should be watchted ...

thebobfather 24.10.2009 · Read full review
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Welcome Death, Quoth the Rat, When the Trap Fell

Advantages: Rejuvenates cartoon cinema, causing Disney to back off for a while.
Disadvantages: Uneven plot, perhaps too many similarities to cartoon tradition.

...first animated feature since leaving the sleazy corporate tyranny of Disney behind, remains one of the most accomplished and critically acclaimed in the history of cartoon cinema, and easily upstages all of his company's subsequent productions despite the greater box office success of 'An American Tail' and 'The Land Before Time.' It was produced by Bluth's dedicated, overworked team over the course of thirty gruelling months from 1979 to 1982 as ...
...on their laurels and lacked the excitement and magic of the company's distant golden era. 'The Secret of NIMH' was created specifically to return to older, more intricate styles of animation while conversely continuing to push the format to greater extremes and innovations, and the result, while perhaps not a timeless masterpiece due to its position so far down the line, seems to have been unanimously praised as a success. The film is adapted from ...

Frankingsteins 14.05.2008 · Read full review
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Where ever there is danger he'll be there!

Advantages: its damgermouse!
Disadvantages: should be even more episodes

This now my fourth Dangermouse DVD in my collection! (vol. 1, vol. 2, vol.3) and now Viva Dangermouse make up the collection. I was amased to find this DVD on www.cdwow.co.uk when on www.amazon.co.uk it said it was not available until September 2003. However after another great delivery from CDWOW I was in possession of this great DVD. Yet again it has 8 fantastic episodes that will keep you glued to the screen! As a young child this was the ultimate ...
...Watching it again about 15 years on and the jokes just get better. This is one of those programmes that have a 2 tier age group for the jokes, let me explain. As a child you will pick up on the simple obvious jokes, but as an adult there are more subtle cleverer jokes! So don’t think that just because you are an adult you are too old to buy this DVD. CHARACTERS Dangermouse Occupation – Hero Distinguishing features – Black eye ...

scholes69 18.08.2003 · Read full review
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