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Welcome Death, Quoth the Rat, When the Trap Fell

Advantages: Rejuvenates cartoon cinema, causing Disney to back off for a while.
Disadvantages: Uneven plot, perhaps too many similarities to cartoon tradition.

...first animated feature since leaving the sleazy corporate tyranny of Disney behind, remains one of the most accomplished and critically acclaimed in the history of cartoon cinema, and easily upstages all of his company's subsequent productions despite the greater box office success of 'An American Tail' and 'The Land Before Time.' It was produced by Bluth's dedicated, overworked team over the course of thirty gruelling months from 1979 to 1982 as ...
...on their laurels and lacked the excitement and magic of the company's distant golden era. 'The Secret of NIMH' was created specifically to return to older, more intricate styles of animation while conversely continuing to push the format to greater extremes and innovations, and the result, while perhaps not a timeless masterpiece due to its position so far down the line, seems to have been unanimously praised as a success. The film is adapted from ...

Frankingsteins 14.05.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Secret Of Nimh (Animated) (DVD)

Hell has just frozen over...

Advantages: Giant killer snowman
Disadvantages: Cheesy dialogue

Starring Stephen Mendel, F William Parker, Rob Labelle, Eileen Seeley and Scott MacDonald as Jack Frost! Packaging - Big scary skull with pointy teeth, this has nothing to do with anything in the film! Rating - 18 (UK) Plot - Convicted serial kiler Jack Frost is on his way to be executed when the van carrying him is overturned after colliding with an 18-wheeler and he escapes - however just as he breaks free of the prison van the tanker (which ...
...melts him into the snow below his feet. Needless to say he comes back as a killer snowman who travels to a small town in the mountains intent on gaining revenge over the police officer who captured him and sent him to jail. Review - The film contains lots of laughs as the townspeople concoct various ludicrous methods to finally see off the demonic snowman - did I really just say "demonic snowman"? - they eventually manage it but not before he wreaks ...

iateamonkey 08.05.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Captain Jack (DVD)

a fab dvd

Advantages: good stories
Disadvantages: none

This bob the builder dvd has five episodes. It is rated Universal and is suitable for all ages. The running time is 50 minutes. Roley and the rock star - Bob has to build a pond at a rock stars house. Roley gets to meet his hero- lennie lazenby. Farmer pickles pigpen - Farmer pickles loses his phone after visiting bob at the builders yard Watercolour wendy- Wendy has the day off work, and goes to do some watercolour painting, but scruffty comes ...
...in this episode wendy gives bob a personal organizer. But when it goes blank, bob is forced to tie knots in his hankie so he can remember what jobs he has to do! A great fun dvd, and was great value (i paid £4) so worth the money!! ...

xblondebarbiex 14.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Bob The Builder - Roley And The Rock Star And Other Stories (Animated) (DVD)

Scarecrow dizzy and stories! Ace!

Advantages: great episodes
Disadvantages: none

This bob the builder dvd has five episodes on it. It is rated Universal, suitable for all ages. Its running time is 50 minutes. Scarecrow dizzy - Bob is building a shed and wendy is white washing farmer pickles house. Dizzy has to gaurd to wet cement from a crow. Wendy gets spud to help whitewash the house and it goes really wrong! Scoops in charge- Bob and wendy go to lunch at the town hall and leave scoop in charge. They must finish building ...
...bob find some hedgehogs in a fireplace, roley then must look after them at the yard. Bob and the bandstand- Farmer pickles is going to conduct a band, bob has to refurbish the band stand, but some of the sheet music goes missing so the concert is cancelled. Spud takes the sheets of music and makes paper aeroplanes. Scoop has fun- naughty spud convinces scoop to play tricks on the other machine team We have had many hours of fun watching this over ...

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Review of Bob The Builder - Scarecrow Dizzy And Other Stories (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 ...

mouche202 29.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (DVD)