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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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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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Danger Mouse Vol 1

Advantages: Count Dukula, Biographies
Disadvantages: No programme menu selection

At 9.99 you can't lose, right? Six episodes of the worlds greatest detective packed in with Count Dukula's first ever episode. Absolutely class. Stories of exploding custard, stealing listening stations and killer washing machines are mixed with the humour that can only be found on "Dangermouse". And if that isn't enough David Jason does a voice in the series. If you are feeling like you want to relive your child hood, or just want to just get ...

cresswell84 26.04.2001 · Read full review
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TRON 20TH ANNIVERARY EDITION

Advantages: AMAZEING GRAFIX FOR THE TIME
Disadvantages: SEEM'S A BIT NERDY TO LIKE IT

...STORY AROUND TRON ----------------------------------------- In tron a computer names in the film the MCP (MASTER CONTROL PROGRAM) is slowly gaining contol of larger and larger company computor's plus there program's contained within ,flynn (played by jeff bridges) try's doing something about it but get's transported in to the computer throught a matter beam. Throught out the story flynn is inside the computor which look's like a neon fantasy world ...
...aligning herself and her work Tron just as Laura aligns herself and her work with Alan. Barnard Hughes - Walter/Dumont ----------------------------------------------- Walter is the old gray-bearded founded of the company he spends his time in the laboratory building new projects and does not live in the office like dillinger. His counterpart in the world of the computer is Dumat, the guardian of the I/O (Input/Output) Tower that the system needs ...

FUTURENOIR 20.02.2006 · Read full review
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