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Third Best 'A Christmas Carol' film

Advantages: Looks very Christmassy, Well Directed
Disadvantages: The people look creepy

...for those who live in a hole or have dementia, A Christmas Carol is the story of Ebonezer Scrooge (Jim Carey) and is passage by fire from twisted, grumpy, old miser who hates Christmas to the very opposite (except he stays old). After the death of Scrooge's business partner, Scrooge has got even more miserable and spiteful than ever and everyone fears and avoids him. Even his sole employee, Bob Cratchet (Gary Oldman) lives in misery, not allowed ...
...this film is so fantastic a telling, this would merely enhance the tediousness of an overly told story but the computer generated recreation and the direction of this film make it wonderful to watch. It’s directed by Robert Zemeckis, the man responsible for The Polar Express and Beowulf . He uses the same sort of 3-D capturing here that he used in those films. Basically this is a technique were he captures the movements etc. of real actors and ...

Phelthew 10.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of A Christmas Carol (DVD)

Its the bare Necessities

Advantages: great film for all family, very funny, never gets old
Disadvantages: nothing

...he meets all the different jungle characters including baloo, the big bear, bagheera, the friendly panther, king louie, the ape who everyone knows the song too. "i wanna walk like you, talk like you". The film shows his journey and how he finally makes it too the tribe. Cast: Mowgli, Baloo, Shere Kahn, Bagheera, kaa andKing louie! Information: Genre: Family, Animation, Comedy Runtime: 78 MIns Cert. : U Writer: Rudyard Kipling (Novel) Director: ...

chris-greenfield 23.11.2007 · Read full review
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Worzel Gummidge Series 1

Advantages: Nostalgic memories aplenty and a great series for the next generation
Disadvantages: Poorer quality produced on DVD and taken directly of origional film.

Worzel Gummidge is the somewhat scary scarecrow that came to our TV screens during 1979 and 1984. I was asked by a colleague to give a little talk on a popular TV programme for children from my youth and Worzel Gummidge came to mind. In an effort to remember the series I decided to purchase the complete 4 series' and even the fifth and sixth series based down under in New Zealand called Worzel Gummidge Down Under. The series has now become a firm ...
...small moral undertone. Worzel Gummidge is a childrens character from the books of Barbara Euphen Todd and after a number of years in print it was then played as a childrens show on British radio in 1947. The television adaption was decided by Southern TV in late 1970's and with the clever writting talents of Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, Worzel Gummidge was born in glorious colour. Worzel Gummidge the hapless scarecrow that had a number of heads ...

DuwDuw 27.05.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Worzel Gummidge - Series 1 (DVD)

Let's Look At Diggers Visit The JCB Factory

Advantages: Learn more about diggers
Disadvantages: None

About The DVD Let's look at Diggers is a great DVD for any child who loves diggers and excavators. Put on your hard hat and come along for a fascinating tour around the JCB Factory. Rob has always dreamed of driving a digger and has the same dream everynight until one night he is dreaming of diggers when he hears a voice calling him.....the next thing he is at the JCB factory. He gets a full tour around the factory and gets to see how the JCB's ...
...diggers and the JCB GT which can acheive speeds of more than 100 miles per hour! He learns the company was founded fifty years ago by Joeseph Cyril Bamford and that's how it got its name JCB. The Scenes include: 1: JCB HISTORY 2: JCB FACTORY 3: DIGGERS IN ACTION 4: DIGGERS AROUND THE WORLD 5: SPEED DIGGERS 6: DANCING DIGGERS 7: ARMY DIGGERS 8: TIME TO GO Main Feature Length 4O Minutes Sound: Dolby Digital Stereo PAL Region 0 (all regions) ...

debmercury 21.02.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Let's Look At - Diggers (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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