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David Lean does it again, with a little help from Dickens!!

Advantages: A wonderfully atmospheric film
Disadvantages: None

...David Lean OLIVER TWIST I can hear your groans from here, “Oh no, she’s reviewing another oldie!!” and yes I am, and I don’t care!!!!! You’ve all heard it said that the oldies are the best!! This review is of David Lean’s 1948 adaption of ‘Oliver Twist’, the restored DVD released in 2008. (ASIN: B001AJ34C6) I am sure that when most people think of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist" on film, their thoughts automatically go to the 1968 musical ...
...the evil Bill Sikes. Oliver Twist was an early Dickens work, and it was a work with Dickens at this best trying to publicise the insufficient provision that was made for the poor in England's 19th-century workhouses. Dickens wrote with some experience as in 1823, his father spent a year in debtors prison and Charles had to support himself working in a dye warehouse, not terribly unlike Oliver Twist's experience in the workhouse I think that some ...

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Review of Oliver Twist (Special Edition) (DVD)

Oliver Twist Review

Advantages: It wasn't to expensive
Disadvantages: Its very long

Oliver Twist is a interesting film. It keeps you glued to your seets and its a film for all the family with bits of comedy and emotion. The film is about a young boy which is an orphan called oliver who is moved around to different orphanages regularly. As he grew up he was forced to work and live in a warehouse. Afterwards he ran from the warehouse and ended up in london, here he was found by a man called Fagan who took him him and taught him how ...
...the parts when Oliver is being taught and his character devepment during the movie. He grows in confidence and learns much from Fagan. Oliver twist is a long film and some of the story may be deemed boring for some of the audience. On the whole Oliver Twist is a fantastic production and was well worth the money i payed for it, I would recomend this dvd and the book to anyone. It has a fantastic opening and a fantastic ending and should be watchted ...

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Review of Oliver Twist (DVD)

Open Your Heart to Open Season

Advantages: The minor characters are really quite funny
Disadvantages: The plot is formulaic and the main characters aren't as funny as they think they are.

Relatively overlooked animated films seem to be catching my attention this week. "Open Season" was released in 2006 by Sony Pictures Animation which also brought us "Surf's Up" and "Monster House". In the age of 3D animation mega-films such as Shrek, Ice Age, Monsters Inc, anything by Pixar, these films rather fell by the wayside. My husband and I saw "Open Season" on television on a trip to visit my parents in Canada and were amused enough to actually ...
...my husband was buying something he really wanted). While the film is fairly formulaic and clichéd there are one or two bits that we reference regularly in our house, but more on that later on. THE PREMISE The star of the film is a grizzly bear named, Boog (voice by Martin Lawrence) who performs for crowds with his caregiver, Beth (Debra Messing), a park ranger and lives in her garage along with his teddy bear. Boog enjoys fishy crackers and the Teddy ...

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Review of Open Season (DVD)

Open Season

Advantages: Good Entertainment
Disadvantages: could have been far better

...help of a deer. Open season is approaching and the animals are out to survive and its up to the bear to save the day. A the deer causes much trouble for the bear, which is very entertaining The effects are quite good, and the river scene is breathtaking. A must see clip. Quite well done. Some of the comical aspects i quite enjoyed and had a good old laugh at one point, which still makes me laugh thinking about it. The dvd comes with some extras ...

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Review of Open Season (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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