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Hey, you guys! It's the Goonies!

Advantages: classic, fun and adventure.
Disadvantages: A wee bit dated now

...A film that stirs up the same warm feelings that Labyrinth did. That film, is of course, the goonies. Released in 1985, this film is a collaberation of Speilberg, and Colombus. So, it had to be good. Speilberg Has a way with kids films. He seems to blend in that extra touch of magic. The film is best described as an adventure, with a good whack of comedy thrown in. In fact, I think that I actually wet my pants, the first time that I watched it! Mind ...
...The plot ............................................ So, the goonies are a bunch of kids, who grew up on Goon docks, in oregon. They are pretty miserable. You see, their houses are about to be bulldozed by a local country club. Unless they find a substantial amount of cash, then they are gonna be homeless. On this particular day, they go up to the loft, and start looking through some old stuff. After a bit of general mucking about, and having fun, ...

giksy21 13.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Goonies (DVD)

This was only the beginning.

Advantages: Lovely family film.
Disadvantages: No DVD extras.

...ever popular toy range The Care Bears was given its own feature length animated movie, which was one of the first of its kind to be based on a toy line and not the other way around. The Care Bears movie begins divided between 2 sets of problems. Friend bear and Secret bear have traveled to earth to help Kim and Jason, a brother and sister who after loosing their parents refuses to become close to anyone, Tenderheart bear is sent to help Nicholas, ...
...the Care Bears help, an accident with the rainbow rescue beam( as sort of teleportation device) sees them in Care A Lot, the care bears cloud home, they are won round by the bears but their adventure is only just beginning. Tenderheart arrives too late for Nicholas who has been taken over by an evil spirit, determined to get revenge on the children that had laughed at him he casts a spell which stopped all the children caring, little does he know ...

piggypine 29.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Care Bears - The Movie (Animated) (DVD)

My favorite christmas film.

Advantages: Full of christmas magic!
Disadvantages: heart wrenching. No extras.

This is one of my favorite films from my childhood. I have no idea how old i was when i first saw it, and it took me years to get hold of a copy on vhs (and a lot of time on ebay!), but once it was released in the uk on dvd i snapped it up. This Disney story is about Abbie grainger - a young girl whose mum has lost her christmas spirit. With the magic of the angel gideon, they help her to get it back - with some heart wrenching moments along the ...
...be a little upsetting for younger children , but also has all the magic of a great christmas film - angels, hope, belief, tradgedy and of course father xmas himself! This film hosts some well known faces - Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, and Harry Dean Stanton. The dvd itself can be watched in English, French and portugese in surround sound, Italian in Stereo, and German and Spanish in Mono. It does however have many subtitled languages English, ...

chicken82 12.03.2008 · Read full review
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Review of One Magic Christmas (DVD)

The Anne Girl!

Advantages: Great film! Great Story! Great Acting!
Disadvantages: Quite expensive.

...some parts are from my Anne of Green Gables Trilogy Review, this is also a review of Video not DVD* Anne of Green Gables, 1985, Run time 199mins History The Anne of Green Gables Trilogy is made up of three videos; Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Green Gables The Sequel, and Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story. This film is the first in the series called Anne of Green Gables. The film is set at the turn of the century, Prince Edward Island ...
...films are based. The first Anne novel was published in 1919 and she went on to write 8 more. Kevin Sullivan and Laurie Pearson wrote the third film. The first two films are directed and produced by Kevin Sullivan; Kevin also produced the third and helped to write the screenplay for all three. Stenfan Scani directed the third film. The Story Matthew and Marrila Cuthbert are an elderly brother and sister both unmarried, they live alone together at ...

LIZKEMPO 29.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Anne Of Green Gables (DVD)

black cauldron

Advantages: good
Disadvantages: none

...best. it has children as the main characters however if i was a child i would not want to watch this film as it does appear to be scary at times and even made me jump. the characters are made well but look a little etchy as it was an earlier made disney film. it is good value for money but children should be with adults when watching. the story is good. its about him getting his pig back after it gets stolen. i would recommend it to people to watch ...

xmarymoobagx 06.06.2007 · Read full review
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Review of The Black Cauldron (Animated) (DVD)