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Talking Polar Bears!?!?!

Advantages: Some good special effects
Disadvantages: Poor ending, repetitive, poor acting by some

...night I decided to give the Golden Compass a go. Released in December 2007 this film was based on Phillip Pullman's 'His Dark Materials' books. There was a huge amount of hype and publicity surrounding the release of this film but did it live up to it's hype? In my opinion no! The Plot In this film humans souls are carried outside the body in the form of an animal called a 'demon'. These demons take many forms ranging from dogs to rats and accompany ...
...are portrayed in the film as each humans best friend. The Golden Compass is based around the story of a young orphaned girl called Lyra who resides at a college in Oxford. Many of the local children have been mysteriously disappearing and Lyra tells stories of Gobblers who she believes are responsible. Lyra's uncle Lord Asriel (Daniel Craig) is with Lyra at the college at the start of the film but he departs on a voyage to the Artic Circle to find ...

withers1979 22.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Golden Compass (DVD)

Oliver Twist Review

Advantages: It wasn't to expensive
Disadvantages: Its very long

Oliver Twist is a interesting film. It keeps you glued to your seets and its a film for all the family with bits of comedy and emotion. The film is about a young boy which is an orphan called oliver who is moved around to different orphanages regularly. As he grew up he was forced to work and live in a warehouse. Afterwards he ran from the warehouse and ended up in london, here he was found by a man called Fagan who took him him and taught him how ...
...the parts when Oliver is being taught and his character devepment during the movie. He grows in confidence and learns much from Fagan. Oliver twist is a long film and some of the story may be deemed boring for some of the audience. On the whole Oliver Twist is a fantastic production and was well worth the money i payed for it, I would recomend this dvd and the book to anyone. It has a fantastic opening and a fantastic ending and should be watchted ...

thebobfather 24.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Oliver Twist (DVD)

War is coming Lyra!

Advantages: Great story, great acting, great animation
Disadvantages: Does not stick to the book

...SHOWING ON SKY PREMIERE (over the Christmas and New Year period)*** Several years ago I was babysitting for one of my sister's friends; at about 7.00pm I put the little girl to bed and was told that her mum always read to her, at least a chapter of her book each night and she wanted me to do the same. She told me she had been read all the Harry Potter books so far and was now listening to Philip Pullman's The Northern Lights. I sat on her bed and ...
...I had greatly enjoyed reading the book and with the recent arrival of the Harry Potter books which were widely accepted to appeal to both children and adults I decided that I too would like to read the Northern Lights. I tracked down a copy from the local library and quickly devoured the entire book, unable to put it down. I then realised that this was not a stand alone book, but was part of the Dark Materials Trilogy, comprising also of The Subtle ...

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Review of The Golden Compass (Blu-ray)

High school musical 2 dvd.......very disappointing

Advantages: a few good songs, same actors/actresses from last film
Disadvantages: poor setting, predictable ending, quite irritating

...got to be a true High school musical fan to purchase this film and you have to watch number 1 first otherwise you won't get any of it. I suppose it's entertaining in a way...by the end of the film you'd probably know the words to the songs....don't think Disney spent that much on this film which is a shame because High school musical 1 and 3 are brill. ...

maisie2000 22.04.2009 · Read full review

Review of High School Musical 2 (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)