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Squirrel! Point!

Advantages: Fantastic all round effort
Disadvantages: Nothing

...minutes or so is given up to showing Carl and Ellie as their relationship progresses from childhood through to adulthood and finally old age before Ellie succumbs to age and passes away. Their goal as kids was to travel to South America, following their adventure hero Charles Muntz, to set up home in Paradise Falls. Now sad and alone, Carl is refusing to move out of his house, despite everything around him havign been demolished for a building development. ...
...in Carl making a snap decision: to honour his and Ellie's childhood dream. Attaching helium filled balloons to his house, he sets off in search of adventure..... All this, and still only 15 minutes of the film had passed. Really, this served to be a bit of an introduction to the adventurous and comic nature of the film. I was a bit unsure at first as to how this was going to work, but it sets the scene perfectly for what follows. The various characters ...

pmcds 08.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Up

Underdog!

Advantages: Easy and sweet to watch
Disadvantages: None

Underdog is a Disney live action film released in February 2008. Being a cold and lazy Sunday afternoon yesterday, the other half and myself snuggled up to watch this film as I have been wanting to sit down and watch it for a while. I'm a fan of all things Disney and cute. I was pleasantly surprised by it. Story ------- Shoeshine is an ex police sniffer dog, a beagle, who is retired after his nose lets him down one too many times. Out on the street ...
...bad guy name!?) and his sidekick Cad, who are running an evil lab to try and create super dogs to sell to the city police. When it gets to underdogs turn to play lab rat, he manages to escape, not without first getting covered in lots of the evil pairs many potions and serums. Ex policeman Dan Unger finds the lost beagle and kindly takes him home for his son Jack (after naming him the well thought out "shoeshine") When Shoeshine discovers he has ...

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Review of Underdog (DVD)

Good, Clean Family Fun

Advantages: Funny, Great Story, Great Characters, Enjoyable for Everyone
Disadvantages: Russel Is Annoying At Points, Over Too Quickly

Up surely is one of the best family movies ever made and is a contender for best movie of 2009. Up is a comedy-adventure film directed Pete Docter and stars Edward Asner, Christopher Plummer and Jordan Nagai. The story starts in a flashback of a young boy named Carl Fredrickson who meets hid future wife Ellie and shows there lives over a series of flashbacks. They show how they fell in love, couldn’t have a baby, started saving for a holiday and ...
...development companies who have torn up the neighbourhood around him. It shows how his life is dull and lonely, and how grumpy he has become since Ellies death as he constantly moans to people. He meets Russel (Nagai), a young Asian boy who is a wilderness explorer. Russel is trying to get his final explorer badge, which to get he must help the elderly. Carl sends the boy away by telling him to hunt for a snipe (which Carl just made up). Carl is then ...

Moscardino 30.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Up (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 ...

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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (DVD)

"I thought you guys were extinct?"

Advantages: amazing picture quality, good fun for all the family!
Disadvantages: Cant think of any.

I bought my wife Ice Age 3 for Christmas. She asked for it. Can't say its my type of film, but being a loving husband I sat down and watched it with her anyway. The first thing that struck me, being a blu ray, is the amazing quality. Animated films and comic-esque outings (like the Simpsons) always take full advantage of the High Definition nature of blu ray and make a movie a pleasure for the eye to behold. Ice Age 3 is quite possibly the best example ...
...were apparently living below the ice and meeting a swash buckling weasel who helps save the day. All the while, we get to watch the fun adventures of the little chap chasing his acorn, that have been present in the past films. This time, there's a love interest!! Its quite a good watch and plenty of fun for all the family. The usual deleted scenes and such are present, I can't say I watched them though, sorry, but its not my cup-of-tea, as I said. ...

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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (Blu-ray)