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One of the best

Advantages: amazing film
Disadvantages: how accurate?

...is the Disney version of Pocahontas and the directors were Mike Gabriel and Eric Goldberg. Again this is one of these films where none of the voices stick out as being something i recognize perhaps this is because i didn't pay attention to things like that when i was young or because it is because it is animated.The only one that really sticks out is Mel Gibson who played the voice of John Smith. **Story** Soldiers from England have sailed "to ...
...has decided that his daughter Pocahontas will marry the best warrior in the village. Pocahontas doesn't agree with this as she has foreseen that change is coming to the village.She makes friends with John Smith (the captain of the ship) and they have to stop war from happening.The people from the ship think that the indians are hiding the gold and the Indians think that the white people will destroy the land. Another great Disney film.The graphics ...

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Review of Pocahontas (Animated) (Special Edition) (DVD)

A Native Princess

Advantages: good imagery and few good songs
Disadvantages: Lies about Pocahontas

...i agree with. They have Pocahontas a fully grown pretty woman who falls in love with John Smith, whereas in real life Pocahontas was 12 Powhatan girl when she first met John Smith and he was a middle aged man. She first met John Smith around 1607 but he was sent home injured after a gunpowder accident, she was told he was dead. She was held captive by the Englishmen for a ransom, and thats when she fell in love with John Rolfe, a tobacco planter. ...
...about the movie. PLOT Pocahontas is a daughter to a native chief, where everything is going fine until the settlers arrive. John Smith, alongside other settlers are lead by a greedy Governor, Ratcliffe. Once the settlers land they start cutting down trees and digging for gold, when the natives prepare for the worst, knowing that the white man will want war. Alongside Meeko, a racoon and Flit, a hummingbird, Pocahontas goes to seek motherwillows ...

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Review of Pocahontas (DVD)

Kris Kringle Is Not Crackers

Advantages: original version is cleaned up and presented in original black and white
Disadvantages: remake suffers greatly when presented with the original for comparison

...as Kris is released. The miracle has not happened yet though, for that is a miracle of the heart. No, that happens on the way home, as a young Susan sees the house of her dreams on the route Kris has told them to take to avoid traffic. A house, with a cane like Kris' leaned against the chimney and a wedding proposal from Fred to one now thawed hearted Doris. Aww... Starring Maureen O' Hara as Doris, John Payne (Fred Gailey), Edmund Gwenn (Kris Kringle), ...
...is indeed a star studded affair. Natalie Wood's childhood portrayal is precociously good, with no playing for the camera or simpering and makes this a fun film to watch. Maureen O'Hara does quite well with what could have been a difficult role to play. Doris Walker is a complicated character; she is caring, yet cynical and a bit hard, yet with a centre still a bit marshmallowy if you can get past the slightly crunchy exterior. She manages to pull ...

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Review of Miracle On 34th Street (1947)/Miracle Of 34th Street (1994) (DVD)

MULAN - *you dont meet a girl like that every dynasty*-by emperor

Advantages: funny, great for whole family to watch
Disadvantages: i really cannot think of any

MULAN This movie is one of my all time favourites i love it. In my opinion it is funny and what makes it funny is the characters in the film you have mulan, the little dragon, the slightly crazy grandma, the soldiers and the 'lucky' cricket all of whom make this film a joy to watch. I believe that this is a great film with a great story line to it. The basic story line is that Mulan who is basically a tomboy who is deemed unmarriable. There ...
...man from every family must go to help fight which means Mulans father who can hardly walk after the last war has to go as there is no son .Mulan takes his place disguising herself as a man. A little dragon is sent by Mulans ancestors to bring her home but he decides to help her instead and make her a war hero. Along with her horse, cricket and dragon she risks everything to save china. I think this film is great for the whole family to watch together ...

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Review of Mulan (Animated) (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)