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Scrooge

Advantages: Seasonal Film
Disadvantages: ?

...unfamilar with the story of Scrooge here goes, Scrooge is a money lender and very careful with his money. He is visited over the course of Christmas night by his dead partnet Jacob Marley who implores him to change his ways or endure the fate of Marley walking for eternity carrying a huge chain - the chain he forged in life - for his inhuminity to his other men. To push his point home Marley sends Scrooge visits from three ghosts over the course ...
...present and the future and how things may turn out if he does not mend his ways. Well eventually he does and he wakes Christmas Day a changed man This has been filmed seriously many times prehaps most famously by Alistair Sim in the 1951 version. Well hot on the heels on the success of Oliver in the late sixties came this muscial and although not as great as Oliver it aint arf bad either guvoner. Finney was a strange choice as whilst he carries ...

scampbellajc 06.12.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Scrooge (DVD)

Santa's a thug

Advantages: None
Disadvantages: Enough to put you off Christmas for life

...Christmas spirit, so we rented Miracle on 34th Street, a Christmas film that I’d never actually got round to watching before, but had heard lots of good things about. Synopsis Cole’s department store is in trouble, it has just warded off one attempted buy out, but the claws are out from their opposition, and they’re determined to do whatever they can to own that shop. At the same time as the news of the failed buy out hits the papers, Dorey ...
...for Doris, her Santa is a drunk and as far from the image of Santa as you could get. But as luck would have it, an old man who goes by the name of Kriss Kringle just happens to be passing, and bare and uncanny resemblance to Santa, Doris randomly approaches him in the middle of the park as he’s leaving the parade area, and offers him the job, which he accepts. Kriss makes a good impression at the store, and on Dorey’s daughter Sarah, although Doris ...

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Review of Miracle On 34th Street (DVD)

Good, not great

Advantages: It's tthe Simpsons!
Disadvantages: It's a bit too long and convoluted at times

The Simpsons series are brilliant. Witty, cleverly written satire that sometimes cuts very deep. The Simpsons movie tries to travel the same route but gets a little derailed. The idea (global environmental armaggeddon) is clever and ripe for plucking but somehow it falls a little bit flat. Strangely, the animation is almost too good for me - it's just not as two dimensional and YELLOW as I like my Simpsons. Parts of the plot are almost Southpark ...

Waikato_fc 23.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Simpsons Movie (DVD)

'you've seen meteor showers, but you've never seen meatier shower

Advantages: A witty and colourul film for al the family
Disadvantages: There are none

...showers’ CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS FILM ONLY REVIEW This film is so VERY funny and I would really recommend it. If you haven’t got kids, just grab one to give you the excuse to watch it!!! And DO try to watch it in 3D!! The Sony Pictures Animation film is an adaption of the fantastic 1978 children's book by Judi and Ron Barrett of the same name. It is the third computer animated production from Sony after “Open Season” and “Surf’s ...
...I would certainly recommend watching it in 3D. Phil Lord and Chris Miller, are both the script writers and directors of this 3D animated comedy, that is a spoof disaster movie. THE STORY The film features inventor and scientist Flint Lockwood. The film opens as Flint presents his latest invention - spray-on rubber shoes, to his classmates during a show-and-tell. Fine until he realizes that they are stuck on and irremovable! As he grows he ...

s_e_owen 22.11.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

The funniest movie ever!!!

Advantages: Buck will crack you up. PS its Simon Clegg!
Disadvantages: Its over really quick,

The first 2 were good, but this one is great. Mostly due to the weasel 'Buck'. Some of the one liners he comes out with are the kind of classic lines that you might end repeating in the pub and all your 'grown up' friends looking at you like you are a loon. I love the fact that makers of some of the great kids movies do some things for us oldies too that the little ones would not understand for a second, yet i am wetting myself. If you have seen ...
...very close to the characters, especially if your kids wath them as much as mine does. Well the good news is they are all still there, with the addition of some newbies along the way. Sid is very funny, Manny is still moody(ps i still cant stop thinking of everybody loves raymond) and the rest have their moments. There really are some key hilarious bits in the movie, of which of course wont say a word. Go see it, you wont regret it, i think you will ...

hendo777 22.11.2009 · Read full review
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