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Tim Burton is A Class

Advantages: Interesting characters, expertly created
Disadvantages: Songs can get stuck in your head

...Nightmare Before Christmas is about the Pumpkin King Jack Skellington who doesn't get fulfilled in doing Halloween every year anymore and stumbles across Christmas where he decides to take over the job of 'Sandy Claws' where havoc is created. This film has it all - the humor, the love story and the Boogie man! I thoroughly enjoyed this film especially the songs 'This is Halloween' and 'What's This?' It has kept me entertained many years after getting ...
...including the little ones. It was even really good entertainment when it came out in 3D in the cinemas. In my opinion, Tim Burton has a great mind and this comes across in his films (Edward Scissorhands, Sleepyhollow) and I look forward to his Alice in Wonderland film. I would recommend this film and others by Tim Burton to other people. ...

cattyd 20.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Nightmare Before Christmas (DVD)

Roald rules

Advantages: Brilliant story, well adapted for teh screen
Disadvantages: The real life bits

James And The Giant Peach is a splendid film version (part real life, part animation) of a wonderful book by Roald Dahl. It tells the story of a boy who is orphaned and goes to live with his foul old aunts but ends up sailing away on a giant peach which grows in his garden. Sounds pretty naff, don't it? But rest assured the reality is a wonderful thing and the book is as good as any that Dahl ever wrote. The film version, however, is absolutely ...
...voyage by all manner of friendly but very prickly giant insects (the spider is a worrying, perverse, very sexy creation). I've seen the film several times and believe me it doesn't age with the viewings - this is one of those timeless family entertainment films that gives the genre a good name. I don't know anyone apart from one other writer on Ciao who doesn't love this film. I can't see the problem and I disagree with a lot of what he says. Trust ...

dave27 23.03.2001 · Read full review
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Review of Five Children And It / Two Brothers / James And The Giant Peach - Live Action / Animated (DVD)

An outstanding genuis

Advantages: Highly entertaining and very funny
Disadvantages: none

This story is centered on an eith year old who was accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a chrismas vacation to france, To survive, he adapted himself to the care of his well beign, his home and his nieghborhood from burglars. When Kevin McCallister is accidentally left 'home alone' by his family, vacationing in France, he takes his house into his own hands and haves himself his own vacation. But his delight ends up crashing and ...
...and Marv, that are after his house. I learnt alot of lessons from a genuis of an eight years old, who did all he could to survive through what should have been the trauma of his boy hood, felt as though i was the one acting in the movie, forgetting the reality that i am only a viewer. ...

makeitgr8 07.10.2008 · Read full review
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Review of Ice Age / Chicken Run / Home Alone / Mrs Doubtfire / James And The Giant Peach (DVD)

You probably think this is a dream come true. Well, you're wrong.

Advantages: Great storyline and an amazing director! Amazing characters!
Disadvantages: May be a bit scary for young children.

Coraline Details: Directed By Henry Selick Release Date8 May 2009 Certification PG Runtime 96 minutes Starring Dakota Fanning Teri Hatcher Jennifer Saunders Dawn French Keith David John Hodgman Robert Bailey Jnr Introduction When this film was advertised on TV, the words my 13 year old brother used were “that looks rubbish”, myself, I thought it looked quite good. I usually love animated films, and I loved the ...
...had nothing to do with Coraline as far as credits are concerned, though I cannot say he didn’t do some art work behind the scenes as I wouldn’t know. So just to clear things up, Tim Burton is nothing to do with this film! :) So anyway, I decided to watch this film on Movies on Demand last night with my husband, I had heard it was a little scary, and that although it had been widely acclaimed, it wasn’t really suitable for young children as it did ...

stephbond89 28.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Coraline (DVD)

Coraline

Advantages: Brilliant Film
Disadvantages: Slightly too scary

Coraline This weekend I settled down with a DVD that had not been opened for a couple of months because I naively thought that it was a simple child’s story. The DVD was bought for me as a gift from one of my brothers and I believe it costs around £11 new which is pretty standard for a DVD that is both popular and only recently released. If you have not seen Coraline then you may have seen the trailer of this stop-motion 3D animated film, it’s ...
... The story of Coraline is based on a book written by Neil Gaiman about a young girl who moves with her mother and father from Michigan to a converted mansion called ‘the Pink Palace’ which is also home to a crazy Russian Circus Master and two whacky actresses called Miss April Spink and Miss Miriam Forcible, Coraline is noticeably unhappy with the move, and her parents job leaves her bored and unimpressed with her new home and she explores the ...

amyloop 26.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Coraline (DVD)