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NEVER Throw Away an Old Pair of Shoes!!!

Advantages: Sweet Little Program - Still Great For Kids After All These Years!
Disadvantages: None....

...cute little kids show from the late 80's was created by James Driscoll and a suprise hit show, that seems to have been forgotten over the years. So imagine my surpise when i was on ebay and saw that it had been released on DVD! All 26 episodes as well let me add! Every episode ever made on one disc! AND All for £5.99!!! The show started with an old shoe repair shop, where the owner could never face throwing away the old shoes, that were beyond repair. ...
...up the shop everynight...this is where we are bound to secrecy....Can You Keep a Secret?......Good!.......The shoes come to life! But not in the back of the shop, no! In SHOE LAND! The very original characters, all had their own houses and personalities, from PC Boot, Trampy to Baby Bootie! Every episode lasted around 5mins, but they got up to allsorts of stuff in that time! The cartoon has stood the test of time and is still as enjoyable now, as ...

lulu984 18.08.2005 · Read full review
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Review of The Shoe People (DVD)

Snow White-The next installment

Advantages: A good sequel
Disadvantages: I don't like the Prince, the villain scared me as a child!

...Disney, it is Starvison Filmation's Snow White In "Happily Ever After". Basically, it starts off where the Disney one finishes. Snow White is happily getting married to her Prince (who has no name apparently!) and is riding off into the sunset with him. She wants to invite the seven dwarfs to the wedding, so they are going to ask them. Snow White stops to pick some flowers in a field, and thinking that she has nothing to fear with the wicked Queen ...
...an arrow and he lets Snow White go. He then turns on the Prince and the Prince tells Snow White to run into a forest nearby and not look back. The dragon then turns into a tall dark (very sinister!) man who goes by the name of Lord Maliss (voiced by Malcolm McDowell). He resides in the "Realm Of Doom". He had come back to see his sister, but then the magic looking glass told him that she is dead because of Snow White. Lord Maliss vows revenge on ...

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Review of Snow White In Happily Ever After (DVD)

Good fun!

Advantages: Dialogue, cracking pace, excellent animation
Disadvantages: May not be suitable for children who are old enough to understand innuendo

...for adults as well and Ice Age 3 certainly delivered on that front. I've seen Ice Age2 on TV but not the first film and never in the cinema. On top of that this was a 3D show. The story essentially follows Manny, the mammoth, his heavily pregnant wife, Ellie and Diego, the sabre toothed tiger as they venture under the ice to a land where dinosaurs are not extinct. They do this to try and rescue Sid, who feeling unloved due to the impending arrival ...
...subsequently been carried off with his 'children' by their real mother. In dinosaur world they meet Buck, the weasel with the Sylvester Stallone eyepatch and knife, the British accent (Simon Pegg voices him) and the literary connections to Captain Ahab of Moby Dick (both have been left injured by 'the great white beast', both are unnaturally obsessed and slightly unhinged by it). As a sideline, Scratt is still seeking his acorn but this time there ...

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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (DVD)

"I thought you guys were extinct?"

Advantages: amazing picture quality, good fun for all the family!
Disadvantages: Cant think of any.

I bought my wife Ice Age 3 for Christmas. She asked for it. Can't say its my type of film, but being a loving husband I sat down and watched it with her anyway. The first thing that struck me, being a blu ray, is the amazing quality. Animated films and comic-esque outings (like the Simpsons) always take full advantage of the High Definition nature of blu ray and make a movie a pleasure for the eye to behold. Ice Age 3 is quite possibly the best example ...
...were apparently living below the ice and meeting a swash buckling weasel who helps save the day. All the while, we get to watch the fun adventures of the little chap chasing his acorn, that have been present in the past films. This time, there's a love interest!! Its quite a good watch and plenty of fun for all the family. The usual deleted scenes and such are present, I can't say I watched them though, sorry, but its not my cup-of-tea, as I said. ...

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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Blu-ray)

PAINT THE WHOLE WORLD.

Advantages: THE KIDDIES WILL LOVE WATCHING IT
Disadvantages: NOTHING

RAINBOW "Up above the streets and houses, Rainbow climbing high, Everyone can see it smiling over the sky”. “Paint the whole word with a Rainbow” First aired in 1972 and ran for an incredible 20 years and contained an astonishing 1071 episodes. The general format was, what is quite common now, where it would be on twice a week, usually for around 15 – 20 minutes. It was aimed squarely at kids and contained some iconic figures that ...
...revolved around adventures to go on, usually around the house, or more likely problems to be solved. It would always be resolved by the puppets or by a song. Cast: = Zippy Loud and opinionated and always right about everything, well in his mind. George A shy pink hippo, go figure? He was always getting into trouble. Bungle A huge brown and very clumsy bear. Very unfrightening and a bit dozey. Geoffrey The father figure of the group and ...

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Review of Rainbow: Zippy Sets Them Up (DVD)