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* A bugs life *

Advantages: Enjoyment
Disadvantages: None

...life< I found that a bug’s life was a great film for both adults and children alike. I thought Flick had some great ideas and used his ideas really well and imaginative, encouraging children to be like him, I loved his inventions and how he carried it through to a conclusion, I also like it how he apologised and how he tried to make amends. Being a student studying childcare I found this film to be a great way to calm children and let them relax. ...

sarahd1111 18.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of A Bug's Life (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)

The adventures of a bug!

Advantages: Fun, great animation and cast to support the characters
Disadvantages: None

A bug's life was the second brilliant Disney and Pixar master piece to be released following the success of Toy Story and was released back in 1998. I know a lot of people didn't rate this film as highly as Toy Story which, to be fair, is fine as let's face it Toy Story was brilliant but, it still has that fantastic animation and great storyline with a great cast of actors and actresses to make it a top class film. The story: Flik is an ant living ...
...Pixar and Disney have employed a range of well known names to do the voices of the characters in this animated film. Some not as well known back then but interestingly are know very well known for more up to date roles. The main cast are below - Flik - Dave Foley Atta - Julia Louis Dreyfus Hopper - Kevin Spacey Dot - Hayden Panettiere Rosie - Bonnie Hunt Heimlich - Joe Ranft Slim - David Hyde Pierce Molt - Richard Kind There may be a couple ...

frankiecesca 18.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of A Bug's Life (Deluxe Edition) (DVD)

In The Middle of the Night, Something Is Not Right

Advantages: A lovely moral tale about twelve little girls in a school in Paris ~ and their adventures
Disadvantages: Lord Cucu-face / aka Lord Covington / Nigel Hawthorne

...smallest, most fearless pupil: Madeline. Madeline had her appendix out. Madeline climbed where she shouldn't and got into impossible scrapes wherever she happened to be, but always with the best of intentions; she shows prejudice but learns lessons in getting on with people who are different; somehow, with Madeline about, people's lives were changed: whether because of, or despite is up for interpretation. Too sophisticated for children? The ...
...In 1952, the story of Madeline having her appendix out was made into a Jolly Frolics cartoon feature by animators Bill Melendez and Frank Smith for Columbia Pictures in Techniolor. This lasted less than ten minutes but is delightful, bringing the original drawings to life, and basically reading the story. Narration was by Gladys Holland. This cartoon is included in the DVD Extras on the MADELINE DVD issued in 2004. Following the success of the 'Madeline' ...

jesi 26.01.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Madeline (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)