Family > DeBlois, Dean Family

Ohana means Family

Advantages: lovely quality of drawn animation, positive messages, realistic body forms and facial feautres
Disadvantages: some of the extras could have been left off without harm

...teens herself, struggles to provide Lilo with a home. Being young, she doesn't have the wisdom and experience their parents had, and so has certain, perhaps unrealistic expectations of Lilo. Lilo's parents understood her free spirit, and helped channel it, and with them gone, she has more or less lost her way. With Lilo getting into scrape after scrape, her older sister Nani is at her wits end, terrified she will be seen as incapable of caring for ...
...Lilo might find solace and be occupied relatively trouble free if she gets her a dog, so takes her to the local animal shelter. There, she and the local shelter assistant are horrified at the tremendously ugly and odd mannered dog Lilo brings out and names Stitch. It soon becomes rather obvious that Stitch is no dog at all. No, a Man in Black masquerading as a social worker arrives on scene to assess the alien situation, for the truth is, Stitch ...

Shroud 07.09.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Lilo And Stitch (Animated) (Special Edition) (DVD)

Go and a ride with Lilo & Stitch

Advantages: brill family film
Disadvantages: nothing

...to a little girl named Lilo Pelekai who is living with her 21-year-old sister Nani, as their parents have recently died in a car accident. ("It was raining, and they went for a drive, and...") Lilo is lonely and a bit of an outcast. Her friends don't seem to include her in their gang, and in rage she punches one of them. A social worker named Cobra Bubbles is monitoring Nani's progress, as he is concerned that her parenting techniques do not meet ...
...putting Lilo into foster care. Nani is fearful of this, as Lilo is the only family she has left, and vice versa. Lilo doesn't help, as she doesn't really know what may happen. To try to help, Nani takes Lilo to an animal shelter, so she can adopt a dog, and she finds 626. He had been running from Jumba - who had arrived soon after him. She thinks it is a dog - whom she names "Stitch." She identifies with Stitch's strong antisocial tendencies and ...

Jonni_boi 06.01.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Lilo And Stitch (Animated) (DVD)

It's supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!

Advantages: Three special editions of 3 great family films
Disadvantages: Possible double film if you have bought one of the three before

...winning performance in the unforgetable Mary Poppins the magical nanny who comes into London on the wind and enriches the lives of two children, Julie Andrews'voice sparkles especially when she sings "feed the birds" Dick Van Dyke's accent may not be great but his superb singing and his endless energy during the brillant dance routines is infectious. Then to Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan the little boy lost in the jungle and brought up by gorillas,is ...
...is a classic and the film manages to keep all ages interested.and entertained throughout. Finally Lilo & Stich one of the more recent Disney classics, the story of an alien & a little girl who find friendship and the bonds of family can survive anything even alien space authorities! Lilo is a great character who isn't the typical disney princess brand but has personality. The soundtrack features Elvis too so it's all good! There are loads of features ...

loungekitten 26.01.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Mary Poppins / Tarzan / Lilo And Stitch (Animated) (3 Special Edition Classics) (Box Set) (DVD)

The T-rex Trek

Advantages: More of those loveable characters
Disadvantages: A typical film number 3

...I wanted to see was Ice Age 3, mostly because I wanted to complete the series and find out what happens, having seen the other two films on the way out. Please bear in mind that if you have not seen the first two films, I do not recommend you read this review (even if that means I miss out on your rating!) That’s because if the film sounds like your thing, I will have spoilt both those first two films within this review of the third. So staying on ...
...all as eggs! If the Ice Age animals didn’t think their mother was scary enough, when Rudy comes along, they are really in for a surprise. He is a much bigger challenge for Buck, and an even bigger terror for all the others, when he makes mummy dino look a dwarf. Sadly we don’t really get that much communication from the dinosaurs as they don’t seem to talk, just “grr”. Admittedly this helps distinguish them from the others as the real predators or ...

Ayesha- 08.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs

City of Ember Smoulders Without Really Catching Light

Advantages: A fun, well told family adventure
Disadvantages: Underdeveloped characters. Understated ending.

...see “City of Ember” at the cinema, but I had taken one look at the trailer and dismissed it out of hand. However, when it made a recent appearance on the Sky Movies schedule, I relented, thinking that, without the added investment of having to buy cinema tickets, a bucket of popcorn and perhaps more importantly, using up a rare night out, I could always fall asleep on the couch if I wanted to. SYNOPSIS The film starts out with a flashback to ...
...catastrophe is soon to make the earth uninhabitable, so a group of scientists (American obviously – they’re always American) create an underground city, called Ember, to which a select group of lucky souls will be sent – a modern day ark – to safeguard the future of the human race. A silver box, the contents of which are not known at this stage, is entrusted to the first mayor, with instructions to pass down the box from mayor to mayor until the ...

Hishyeness 08.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The City Of Ember