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Tim Burton is A Class

Advantages: Interesting characters, expertly created
Disadvantages: Songs can get stuck in your head

...Nightmare Before Christmas is about the Pumpkin King Jack Skellington who doesn't get fulfilled in doing Halloween every year anymore and stumbles across Christmas where he decides to take over the job of 'Sandy Claws' where havoc is created. This film has it all - the humor, the love story and the Boogie man! I thoroughly enjoyed this film especially the songs 'This is Halloween' and 'What's This?' It has kept me entertained many years after getting ...
...including the little ones. It was even really good entertainment when it came out in 3D in the cinemas. In my opinion, Tim Burton has a great mind and this comes across in his films (Edward Scissorhands, Sleepyhollow) and I look forward to his Alice in Wonderland film. I would recommend this film and others by Tim Burton to other people. ...

cattyd 20.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Nightmare Before Christmas (DVD)

It's halloween Family film but not for children!

Advantages: Nice, Adventure, Action, FANTASY, Comedy with the Oslen Twins
Disadvantages: scary for the youngers

This is a scary movie(spells, witches, wizards) not due to the Halloween content, but because two little girls run away from home, talk to a stranger (a man who lives under a bridge, then they go into another stranger's house ( a dwarf male clown). Although these fellows turn out to be nice guys, we all know that this doesn't always happen in the real world. This movie is a bad message for kids who are supposed to be learning not to talk to strangers ...
...tho, I have seen this film a lots of times (I'm 19) because I like the adventure. This is the best film that the Oslen Twins have filmed when they were youny, I believe! I think they where cute and nice when they were kids, now they are in my age 19 years old and they look and act like they are 30! Anyway i'll continue with the movie... The twin's family are in financial trouble and might have to sell their house, but young twins, Kelly and Lynn ...

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Review of Double, Double Toil And Trouble (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)