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Riveting Robots?

Advantages: Fun film with a strong voice cast and good animation
Disadvantages: In the face of stronge competition, it doesn't quite match up

...meets an eclectic bunch of robots who show him how to survive metropolitan life. Rodney's skills are soon necessary as the evil robot, Ratchet, who is now running Bigweld threatens the survival of his new friends and potentially that of his aging parents. SO SHOULD I SEE IT? "Robots" is a great little film. I cannot honestly rate it as highly as some of my animated favourites such as Shrek, Ice Age, Kung Fu Panda or really any of the Pixars. However, ...
...the old, nuts and bolts robots with the shiny futuristic robots keeps your interest. It also goes to show that you can't judge a robot by its upgrades as the line between goodie and baddie cannot be drawn based on the appearance of a robot. The humour in the film is fairly traditional Robin Williams though with some moments of Mel Brooks (yes, that's one of the voices to look for). It is family friendly, but with the odd reference thrown in to delight ...

Mountainlilly 06.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Robots (DVD)

The sky DID fall!

Advantages: Fish & breakdancing porcupine in end credits
Disadvantages: Goes on a bit to long

...was the entire point of Chicken Little's story (it's basically a misunderstanding on his part) so exactly what are they going to do with the remaining 1 hour and 19 minutes? Some of the jokes in the background (a bird flying into a window, a bull running a china shop) are going to go unnoticed (it seems you'll have to buy this one on DVD and watch it several times, most likely the commentary will point that kind of thing out). Voice talent includes ...
...but was there to set Chicken Little back to not a loser any more only to screw up in people's minds again, when another stop sign shaped object falls from the sky and hits him in the head. This getting hit in the head all the time can't be good for his brain, can it? When the "invisible thing" kidnaps Fish & leads them to the baseball ground (someone's seen "Close Encounters" and Cruise's "War Of The Worlds" then?) it proves to be aliens invading. ...

atytyut2434 27.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Chicken Little (DVD)

say please and thankyou!

Advantages: fun family film
Disadvantages: tips for children to be naughty

...fun sunday afternoon!! Nanny Mcphee is a modern day Mary Poppins with a slight twist. The film starts off with Mr Cedric brown (Colin Firth) telling you about the story that is to come with the picture showing a pink chair, which his late wife used to sit in. Mr Brown has seven children who are very naughty to say the least and have already just seen off the 17th nanny and when he goes to try and get another nanny to work for him the door is closed ...
..."the person you need is Nanny Mcphee" but is then told she is not on their books. That night the children go wild at home and tie the cook to the kitchen table as they get up to no good, the whole household is in turmoil as a black figure appears at the door which turns out to be Nanny Mcphee (Emma Thompson)she has a long black dress on and holds a crooked walking stick which in time proves to be magic, her face is quite ugly as she has one large ...

pompeysmick11 08.03.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Nanny McPhee (DVD)

madagascar dvd

Advantages: great film
Disadvantages: none

...special edition also includs the madagascar penguins a christmas mission where young private ventures out of the zoo on a mission, but runs into trouble when he is mistaken for a christmas toy. Skipper, Kowalski and Rico set off to rescure their buddy in time to share the holidays together. bonus features mad mishaps-lively outtakes from the film meet the wild cast see the amazing tech of madagascar downlad dvd rom printables of your favourite characters. ...

pinklady35 16.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Madagascar (DVD)

Winnie the Pooh - Heffalump Movie

Advantages: Great morals
Disadvantages: Somewhat predicatable (but this is of course not a worry for children)

...just like in all the Winnie the Pooh films, and they guarantee at least a smile if not a great laugh. The story line is not too obvious for children. It is nice to see Roo (and a little bit of Piglet) as a focus in this film as he isn't normaly much of starring role in the Pooh films; so it is good for those who have Piglet down as their favourite character :) Extras: A great little hide and seek game to play, backstage feature, recipe Subtitles: ...

magicalglitter 02.07.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Winnie The Pooh - Pooh's Heffalump Movie (Animated) (DVD)