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Advantages: Learning media
Disadvantages: Kids can ask for more than we can afford to give

This is a film that will teach your kids how to love and take care of their toys. Its doesnt only do that but teach kids as well about friendship. Many times we think that the modern world makes our kids modern kids as well. But with medias like this we let them have fun the modern way and still teach them good values well of course not unless they take the bad guys side in the story they watch. So i suggest ask them as well what the stories lesson ... Read review

Advantages: Plot, character, animation, acting, direction, humour, pathos
Disadvantages: You do need to sleep on a regualr basis so can't watch it endlessly

Personally I enjoyed Toy Story, watched it with the kids. great. This sequel is the only sequel I can ever remember which is actually better than the original film. Why? Well the adult-orientated humour is more prominent in this one, which keeps it interesting for mum and dad. I'ts also got brilliant special effects - not really surpassed even in later movies I'd say. Great action sequences - rescuing Woody from his predicament gives us a great, ...
...of Al McWhiggen, and evil toy collector, and then you have all the elements for a classic children' adventure. So Buzz Lightyear leads the toys in setting off to rescue Woody. All the great actors of Toy Story one are back doing the voices - Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney ... The quality of the acting combined with the animation makes this a near perfect film,. Yes, really. it's just a joy. Like when ... Read review

Advantages: fun for all the family
Disadvantages: none

Excellent dvd that combines both the first and second Princess Diaries. Well worth a watch one for the whole family and kids of any age. Girls especially will love this film as it features all the must have elements comedy, fashion and make up, romance and good looking boys/men, so one for the mums too! Both of these films are charming starring Ann Hathaway who makes an excellent Princess Mia and Julie Andrews as the Queen of Genovia (Andrews is ... Read review

Advantages: Some watchable comedy, reasobnable performances
Disadvantages: Ridiculous storyboard

...but is watchably comic enoughof the time to avoid the need to grip the sick bucket all the way through. My three year old daughter also enjoyed it in passing, though she couldn't concentrate all the way through. The film was mde in 2001, and there is now a sequel. The main character, Mia, opens the film as a bright but gawky schoolgirl in San Francisco who is uncool in the high school environment and so nervous of speaking in public she throws ...
...country. Her grandmother the Queen (Julie Andrews) devotes time and effort to coaching her to take the throne so she herself can abdicate, and she gradually changes into an A list princess who attracts media attention and all the A list boys she can handle. Julie Andrews does a competent job of being regal, despite the ludicrous premise that she didn't even tell her grandaughter of her heritage until she was 15. Some cute and touching scenes develop ... Read review

Advantages: It was funny and entertaining
Disadvantages: Quite unrealistic

I have three of the Princess Diaries books by Meg Cabot. I must say that the books were duller than ever, set in a diary format that didn't interest me in the slightest but since I was given them as birthday presents I read them. When The Princess Diaries 1 came out I found it on offer in Woolworths and I thought it was worth a try, and when I watched it I was pleasantly surprised! So when the second film came out we got it on DVD and I was just ...
...WHO HAVENT SEEN IT The original Princess Diaries is a bout a 15 year old girl named Mia Thermopolis, whose life turns upside down when she discovers that she is the only heir to the Genovian throne. Her grandma, the queen of Genovia, comes to visit to tell her that she is actually a princess, and when she turns 16 she must decide whether she wants to pursue her grandmother's wishes and take the role as the upcoming queen of Genovia. Of course, there ... Read review