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Forget the Kids, me and Hubby Loved this!

Advantages: good story, great acting and effects
Disadvantages: may be too 'scary' for younger children

...a children’s film phase at the moment, maybe I am trying to re-capture my youth! I have fancied seeing this film for some time now so decided to treat myself to it last time I went into Tesco. The film is about a family of 4, the mother and 3 children who move to their Great Great Great Uncle Spiderwick’s old derelict house. When they arrive they discover that things are not as they seem. Their Great Great Aunt was taken from the home and put into ...
...Jared is not happy with the move as he wants to go and live with his Father. On this particular morning he stumbles across something in the walls of the house, he tries to find out what it is but gets into trouble for putting a hole in the wall. Soon he finds an old dumb waiter and decides to find out where it leads. He arrives in an old room which no one has been in for years and soon finds a mysterious creature who loves honey. Jared also makes ...

sewbizzie 23.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Spiderwick Chronicles (DVD)

Don't 'walk away' from this one

Advantages: Zac Efron, catch songs, decent plot
Disadvantages: Predictable.

I had seen High School Musical 1 and 2, and didn’t think too much of them even when all of my friends seemed to be in love with the franchise. When the third instalment was released, I wasn’t really too bothered about going to see it, but lots of my friends wanted to go and see it and there was so much buzz generated about it, I thought that I would see if it actually did live up to all the hype. I didn’t expect too much from the film, basically ...
...that after starring in the High School Musical films, the main actors wont be taken seriously, but some of them actually show quite a wide range in this film, and develop into much more interesting people than just the jock or nerd that we saw in the first film, and partially the second film. Zac Efron was my favourite in the last two films, because he is quite nice to look at, at least something about the films my friends agree with me on, and he ...

fleurdelacour 27.05.2009 · Read full review
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Review of High School Musical 3 - Senior Year (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 ...

Shroud 31.12.2009 · Read full review
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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 ...

charmelly 30.12.2009 · Read full review
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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 ...

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