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Good old Mr Toad!

Advantages: funny, appeals to all ages, good actors
Disadvantages: you will likely already know the plot

This is the latest version on dvd of the Wind in the Willows which was released out on dvd 26/03/2007. I found this version of the classic tale to be the greatest version yet and i think Matt Lucas from little Britain play a quality character as good old Mr Toad. This dvd will appeal to children and adults alike, definately a must see film. The film is set in the english countryside with lovely picturesque views, the dialogue of the characters and ...
...your little rowing boat across the river. costumes - very detailed, although i doubt anyone would want to wear the simple clothes of Mole or Badger, the lovely suits worn by Mr Toad, Rat and the weasels are simply divine. soundtrack - very upbeat and jolly music when all is well and good but things turn sinister when theres a weasel around. story - The weasels have bought a field from Mr Toad leaving poor Mole (lee ingleby) without a place to call ...

slik321 03.04.2008 · Read full review
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Review of The Wind In The Willows (DVD)

A lengthy mystical adaptation

Advantages: Imaginatively filmed, some funny gags
Disadvantages: Painstakingly slow and some annoying characters

The Hogfather is a film based on a novel by Terry Pratchett. I've not read any of his books but generally like all things fantasy-based so decided to sky-plus this when it was on over the Christmas break. The Hogfather is a tale set in a mythical city called Ankh Morpork which is an important city in the DiscWorld. It is Hogswatch time (a winter festival in which gifts are exchanged, not unlike Christmas). The Hogfather - DiscWorld's equivalent of ...
...on Hogswatch Eve. However the Hogfather has a bounty on his head. Something or someone wants to end Hogswatch and much more. The Hogfather's colleague Death decides to take his role and delivers presents aided by his side-kick Albert who brings some much needed comedy to the situation. Whilst presents are being delivered Death's grand daughter Susan tries to save the day. Meanwhile Mr Teatime (pronounced Te-ah- timeh) captures the tooth fairy and ...

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Review of Hogfather (DVD)

Twas the night before Hogswatch.....

Advantages: A very entertaining and funny programme.
Disadvantages: May not appeal to everybody as it is Fantasy/Discworld.

...set out to rescue the Hogfather and ensure that the Sun will return. I do hope that I have not given too much away. Those who have already read the book or watched the original Sky One production will know the story. A screen play is not the same as a stage play or the book upon which it may have been based. So this production does not follow the book word for word. Not every character from the book is present and some are not as prominent. Anybody ...
...Dominic Borrelli ... Grotto Hogfather John Boswall ... The Chair of Indefinite Studies Ed Coleman ... Ponder Stibbons Craig Conway ... Chickenwire David Decio ... Unseen University student wizard Rachel Edward ... Bobble-hat Child's Mother John Franklyn-Robbins ... The Dean Roger Frost ... Bursar Peter Guinness ... Medium Dave Gregor Henderson-Begg ... Pixie Helper Geoffrey Hutchings ... Mr. Brown David Jason ... Albert Richard Katz ... Constable ...

Coloneljohn 26.04.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Hogfather (Limited Edition) (DVD)

Sweet Dreams from the BFG!

Advantages: good animation based on a children's classic!
Disadvantages: none

THe BFG is an excellent animated film made in 1990 and based on the wonderful story by Roald Dahl.. It tells the story of a little orphan girl called Sophie, who looking out of her bedroom window one night, spots a giant. He realises that he has been spotted and before she knows it she is scooped up in his hand and taken away to Giant Land. She is, unsurprisingly, very frightened, until he explains that: 'I is not like all the others. I is a nice ...
...are nowhere as nice as the BFG though. They go by the names of Bloodbottler, Fleshlumper and Butcher Boy, to name a few, and they are nasty hideous creatures who go round eating 'human beans'. The BFG only eats snozzcumbers which taste disgusting. The BFG spends his days catching lovely dreams for boys and girls, and each night he goes and blows them into their bedrooms. When, they realsie that the other giants have a nasty scheme to eat up lots ...

kingfisher111 26.04.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The BFG (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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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (DVD)