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The Little Mermaid, every girls dream

Advantages: a wonderful sing song
Disadvantages: none

...mermaid, it is one of the most magical films disney has done with its wonderful art work and fantastic music it is a joy to watch for both child and parent. Starting in the center of the ocean with an old fashion ship, before diving down into the depths of the merpeople where you meet Ariel. Right form the begining Ariels spirit shines though creating her as one of the best heroins, with Ursula the sea witch being one of the most exciting villians. ...

vdaflee 03.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Little Mermaid (DVD)

Labyrinth- one of the most enchanting children's films ever made?

Advantages: Fun, imaginative family-friendly film, enchanting storyline, charming characters.
Disadvantages: Slighty gimmicky in places, stereotypically '80s'.

Jim Henson, as most of us know, is chiefly recognised for his puppetry and crazy protagnonists. His films are mainstream and child- friendly, and this fits nicely into that category. However, just because this is a mainstream production, doesn't mean to say it lacks charisma and charm, and it doesn't have a consistent yet surprising storyline. Sarah, played by Jennifer Connelly (Requiem for a Dream, A Beautiful Mind), is a young woman with a big ...
...baby brother Toby (Toby Froud) would be taken away by goblins... and her wish is granted. The ringleader of the goblin cult is Jareth, played by glam rock legend David Bowie, which contributes an outstandingly colloquial yet gripping performance. Connelly, as always, is on top form here, representing her character naturally and effortlessly. This film is aimed at children, but there are a lot of elements that an older audience can identify with- ...

Venus_In_Furs 20.06.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Labyrinth (Collector's Edition) (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)

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)

Tell me, butterfly, have you seen the other unicorns?

Advantages: Extraordinarily faithful adaptation, well voiced, charming story
Disadvantages: Gratuitous songage

This is a review of the film only. The DVD is available as a region 2 from Amazon from £3.98. It is easy to forget, in the computer age that is 2009, that animated films were once all hand drawn; each cell painstakingly illustrated; backgrounds pencilled and inked, the artists’ hands shaping the final product. A Ralph Bakshi film is immediately recognisable as coming from his studio, and instantly distinguishable from an offering from the Disney ...
...the late 20th Century may seem primitive, lacking the 3D rendering of today’s computer generated products, and also lacking the consistency of style that most modern animated popular cinematic films seem to have. The Last Unicorn dates from 1982, and comes from the pen of Peter S Beagle, adapted by Mr Beagle from his novel of the same name, and the directorship of Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin Jr. It follows the story of the eponymous Last Unicorn ...

mattygroves 09.04.2009 · Read full review
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