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)

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)

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)

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 ...

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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (DVD)

"I thought you guys were extinct?"

Advantages: amazing picture quality, good fun for all the family!
Disadvantages: Cant think of any.

I bought my wife Ice Age 3 for Christmas. She asked for it. Can't say its my type of film, but being a loving husband I sat down and watched it with her anyway. The first thing that struck me, being a blu ray, is the amazing quality. Animated films and comic-esque outings (like the Simpsons) always take full advantage of the High Definition nature of blu ray and make a movie a pleasure for the eye to behold. Ice Age 3 is quite possibly the best example ...
...were apparently living below the ice and meeting a swash buckling weasel who helps save the day. All the while, we get to watch the fun adventures of the little chap chasing his acorn, that have been present in the past films. This time, there's a love interest!! Its quite a good watch and plenty of fun for all the family. The usual deleted scenes and such are present, I can't say I watched them though, sorry, but its not my cup-of-tea, as I said. ...

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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Blu-ray)