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Wonderful Literary Chick Flick Trilogy Box Set

Advantages: Well acted, Great Book Adaptation Storylines, Fun for All Ages
Disadvantages: Each Movie is About Three Hours Long

...the wonder and story of Anne Shirley. If your not familiar with this movie trilogy or the books, let me help you understand in a brief summary. Anne Shirley is an orphan in the early 1900's who gets adopted (quite by accident) by an old spinster woman and her bachelor brother. She's full of imagination and kindness in the midst of being mistreated as a child. Her love of life and sometimes overdramatic personality wins her new adopted family over. ...
...first movie takes you through Anne and her childhood through around the age of 17. You see her go through the trials of being past around from Orphanage to foster home most of her child life. Her pre-teen foster care was with families that were only using her to babysit their other children. To say they treated her inhumane is an understatement. She's given up to an orphanage at the age of 12 and someone finally gives her an opportunity to be adopted ...

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Review of Anne Of Green Gables (Box Set) (DVD)

The story of a boy who never grew up by a man who never grew up.

Advantages: A heartfelt, beautiful film, and one of the best dramas I've seen in years.
Disadvantages: None really - ignore my little rant!

FINDING NEVERLAND Michael: Mummy, can we have Uncle Jim for dinner? Sylvia: Have him to stay for dinner, Michael. We're not cannibals. A FILM ONLY REVIEW I could say that I watched 'Finding Neverland' as I am a huge fan of Peter Pan, or that I am fascinated by creative process, and wanted to see the writer at work. Or I could be honest and say that I like Johnny Depp's films!! 'Finding Neverland ' is a 2004 biopic about playwright ...
...a resounding flop Finding Neverland is really the story of Barrie's unfolding friendship with four young boys: George, Jack, Michael and Peter Llewelyn Davies (Freddie Highmore) and their recently widowed mother Sylvia (Kate Winslet). In this (semi - fictional story), Barrie meets the family as they are playing and flying kites in Kensington Gardens while he is sat there writing, and consoling himself about the failure of his play. Barrie's platonic ...

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Review of Finding Neverland (DVD)

desert

Advantages: Adaptation, first fighting new Mobile suits, new weapons.
Disadvantages: 1 episode short

...Kira learns to adapt his Mobile suit to different terrain for battle, and How he unlocks his berserker mode making him a outstanding pilot. We learn how the Archangel designed for galactic travel is not as suitable for battle in the earth atompshere where gravitiy exists, and we watch as a new plane takes to the sky. Along with the introduction of many new PLANT mobile suits, for the air and for the sea. From episodes 19 to 23, a 5 episode volume ...
...dolby digital surround sound audios of Original Japanese dub and English dub, with a list of subtitle options of european and english subtitles. with chapter selection and Character info. My experiences of this DVD, was well how to describe it, I was really absorbed into it, I actually felt the characters pain, I had fun watching this the battles were amazing and I enjoyed the story. ...

shintai88 29.08.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Vol.4 (DVD)

Riveting Robots?

Advantages: Fun film with a strong voice cast and good animation
Disadvantages: In the face of stronge competition, it doesn't quite match up

...meets an eclectic bunch of robots who show him how to survive metropolitan life. Rodney's skills are soon necessary as the evil robot, Ratchet, who is now running Bigweld threatens the survival of his new friends and potentially that of his aging parents. SO SHOULD I SEE IT? "Robots" is a great little film. I cannot honestly rate it as highly as some of my animated favourites such as Shrek, Ice Age, Kung Fu Panda or really any of the Pixars. However, ...
...the old, nuts and bolts robots with the shiny futuristic robots keeps your interest. It also goes to show that you can't judge a robot by its upgrades as the line between goodie and baddie cannot be drawn based on the appearance of a robot. The humour in the film is fairly traditional Robin Williams though with some moments of Mel Brooks (yes, that's one of the voices to look for). It is family friendly, but with the odd reference thrown in to delight ...

Mountainlilly 06.07.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Robots (DVD)

The Muppet Show. The Opening number

Advantages: interesting to see how the show developed, the pilot episode
Disadvantages: not the best series for a casual fan to buy, Muppet morsels can be annotying, no listing of episodes

...about my favourite TV show The Muppets again. Disney (unfortunately) have bought out my beloved fuzzy puppets and to make their money's worth they have started to release box sets of the Muppet seasons. My old video box set ;s quality was starting to deteriorate due to overuse so I thought I would treat myself to Season One of the Muppet Show on DVFD when I saw it in the Amazon sale or a fantastic £17.99. The box set contains four DVDs and a whopping ...
...the Muppet Show ran for 24 episodes and was first shown in 1976 and 1977. The Muppet Show was a take on the variety shows that used to be on TV such as Sunday Night at the Palladium.. It was made up of different songs and sketches performed by acts such as the Electric Mayhem Band, Miss Piggy and Fozzie Bear. These were held together by the capable flippers of Kermit the Frog. I am not usually one for going into detail about the packaging but there ...

duskmaiden 29.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of The Muppet Show - Series 1 (Box Set) (DVD)