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Advantages: funny, well written, and you don't have to concentrate too much to follow the plot
Disadvantages: it means all the old disneys we love have to take a back shelf

This is such a great film for all ages. It's got good comedy writing (with a little adult humour - the mild kind children don't pick up on but make the adults chuckle) mixed with sentimental slushiness and is one of those movies you can watch again and again. The plot focuses on some rather unusual looking monsters (not at all scary though, definitely safe to sit the kids in front of) who are trained to scare our children for a living. When a human ... 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: Great fun, colourful, imaginative, brilliant animation
Disadvantages: None to mention

Monsters Inc is an outstanding creation by the 7 time Academy Award winning Disney Pixar animation team. They dreamed up hugely popular films such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo. Monsters Inc is actually Pixars fourth animated feature brought out by the team. The movie was released in 2001and was nominated for many awards. The movie tells the story of a world of Monsters that generate their power supply by the screams of human children. Monster Incorporated ...
...environment in which to gather the screams. This tale is of a friendship between two monster friends. Sulley; a huge, furry blue monster; who happens to be the cities best child scarer, and his working partner Mike; the small, one-eyed, green monster who helps him out with all the paperwork. Together they come across a lost little girl who should not be in the monster world as they are contagious to the Monster population, and if she is found by ... Read review

Advantages: A good family film
Disadvantages: none

After watching the first Toy story a million times, thanks to my son, there was no way I was going to miss out on the second one. So, on my son's birthday I asked him what he wanted, his reply, Woody 2. No sooner said than done, off to the local supermarket and bought said video. We bought some munchies and along with his older sister we sat down to watch it. I have to admit I am a little worried when it comes to sequals. They usually just keep ...
...sale, Woody saves a toy from the sale only to be kidnapped himself. Woody then finds out he was famous, he was on the telly in 'The round up gang' . He meets Jessie, Bullseye and The prospector,(who is still in his original box) who are members of The round up gang. The kidnapper needed Woody to complete his collection of merchandise to sell to Japan. After some persauding Woody agrees to go to Japan with the others. Join Buzz Lightyear, Mr Potato ... Read review

Advantages: Its got the two films and four excellent discs.
Disadvantages: none

...lost my previous release of Toy Story and Toy Story 2 3 disc box set i was happy to find this new 4 disc release in the dvd charts for £19.96 in Tesco. This is a special edition so i'm guessing it won't be available after a short while. I appologise for the lengthy review but there are many excellent features i feel they deserve a mention! #History Disney is a well established company but very little is known about Pixar. It started in 1984 when ...
...really hard to believe that Toy Story is 10 years old. First released in 1995 it was the first fully computerised animation to hit the big screens and was the highest grossing film of 1995 raking in $362 million worldwide. It won 2 Golden Globe awards and was eventually released on video in 1996. There was nothing like this film at the time but other sucessfull films quickly followed, such as "Bugs Life" and "Monster's Inc". Other companies jumped ... Read review