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It's never too late...

Advantages: Fascinating... thought-provoking.
Disadvantages: None... unless you're a Scrooge!

...Roger O. Hirson Based on a story by Charles Dickens published in 1843 Drama / Fantasy Released November 1984 (UK) MAIN CAST: George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge Frank Finlay as Jacob Marley's Ghost Angela Pleasence as Ghost of Christmas Past Edward Woodward as Ghost of Christmas Present Michael Carter as Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come David Warner as Bob Cratchit Susannah York as Mrs. Cratchit Anthony Walters as Tiny Tim Roger Rees as Fred Holywell/Narrator ...
...The story begins with a glimpse into the wretched life of miserly Ebenezer Scrooge (Scott), as he goes about his daily activities on Christmas Eve. After a perfunctory and cold discussion with his nephew, who has come to visit him at his office in order to invite him to a small fete he and his wife are organizing for friends and relatives on Christmas Day, a discussion which ends by Scrooge remarking on his nephew's stupidity (of a sorts) for marrying ...

GoFigure 15.03.2007 · Read full review
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Watch out the Muppets are About!

Advantages: Great family film, good puppets
Disadvantages: None from my boys

...always had a love for the Muppets stretching back from his childhood days and as soon as my boys were old enough he showed them what it was all about. Since then my eldest two have really liked them. After a long hard and busy morning at pre-school my 4 year old came home and decided that he wanted to watch the Muppets in Manhattan DVD. The film stars all of our favourite characters and stars off with Kermit writing a new show which he is hoping ...
...able to get it on the stage in Broadway but it will cost $300 each. The Muppets do not have this money and as they are trying to discuss this the police barge into the office and arrest the agent for theft of money. The Muppets leave the office with heavy hearts but Kermit says that they will find some way of getting the money needed to put on their show. They all end up in a restaurant in Manhattan where they all decided that they have been too ...

sewbizzie 11.02.2009 · Read full review
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Fraggle Rock DVD

Advantages: good sound and picture quality
Disadvantages: not many extra features to play with

...in 2004 of the original Fraggle rock series 1 episodes created in 1984. Fraggle rock always takes me back to being a child of the 80's and I still adore them just as much as I used to. With this newely restored imagery DVD format of the 12 first episodes of Fraggle rock I am really really pleased and am sure will be loved equally as much by any fellow fraggle fan! What I love the most about fraggle rock is that it can be enjoyed by oldies like ...
...This double disc edition of fraggle rock has 12 episodes on it for us all to enjoy. These include: The Secret of Convincing John , Capture The Moon , Boober's Dream, Mokey & The Minstrels, The Day The Music Died , Boober's Quiet Day , Invasion of the Toe Ticklers , A Friend In Need, Booberock , Red's Club , The Doomsday Soup, Junior Sells The Farm. My favourites are doomsday soup and the day the music died as they really pluck at my heart strings, ...

mints4merlin 02.03.2007 · Read full review
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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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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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