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Nim Can Keep Her Island!

Advantages: fun for children, animals were good
Disadvantages: no chemistry between actors, bad effects

Nim and her father Jack have sailed around the world twice and made a discovery which saw them setting up home on an undiscovered island. Nim has no mother as she was taken by a great white whale when Nim was a baby and so father Jack is always searching for the whale to be close to her Mom. Jack works as a scientist and is always on the lookout for new marine animals. As a result of his work he goes off for 2 nights leaving Nim on the Island with ...
...is not bother by being left on her own as she has her books for company, her favourite being the stories about adventurer Alex Rover. As Nim’s father leaves Nim gets an email from the Alex Rover who needs help with details of the volcano which is on their island. Nim is thrilled with this email and sets off to find the info Alex needs. Unbeknown to Nim Alex Rover is really Alexandra who is too scared to even leave her house. As Nim continues to ...

sewbizzie 07.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Nim's Island

Small but certainly Mighty!

Advantages: Good fun story, wonderful animation
Disadvantages: strange looking humans!

The Kingdom of Dor is famous for its soup and once a year the whole kingdom come together to try the new soup which the chef has carefully prepared for them. Things go wrong though when Roscuro the Rat arrives in town and cannot wait to get hold of and sample the soup. As a result of his eagerness he lands in the Queens soup and as a result she faints and then drowns in her bowl of soup. The King now so upset banishes all mice and rats from the Kingdom ...
...is all taking place in the Mouse words a little strange big eared mouse called Despereaux in being born. He is different from the other mice as he does not cower or get scared of cats. He is brave and adventurous. As a result of this he gets to see the Princess and tell her of a story he had just read in the library and she asks him to go on a quest to discover how it ends. When the Mice Kingdom learn of what Despereaux has done he gets banished ...

sewbizzie 15.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of The Tale Of Despereaux (DVD)

shark tale dvd

Advantages: kids just love it,very funny,brilliant special effects
Disadvantages: none

fount the dvd was very nice and a funny film my daughter loved it very much the special effects were just amazeing its a kinda film that you can watch again and again ther was no disadvantages of the dvd and the bonus extras with the dvd is great you get over 20 games and music from the film,how to dance like the fish from the movie and much more i say to anyone who would like to buy this movie its a thumbs up a must for all ages the film goes on ...

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Review of Shark Tale (Animated) (DVD)

Cheap Shot 3

Advantages: Fills 90 minutes if you have nothing else to do
Disadvantages: Boring, few jokes, predictable plot

...a film as bad as Slap Shot 3: The Junior League. I’m sure if I didn’t feel some kind of twisted obligation to watch it as part of the UK’s tiny ice hockey fan base I would have switched it off within the first fifteen minutes - if I’d have even bothered with it at all. It debuted at midnight on Sky Movies Premier, hardly a sought after time slot, and the “slap shot” in the title was my only reason for noticing it. That’s an ice hockey term, ya know. ...
...expected at least one official Slap Shot 3 thread for regular users to post in and a few new ones each week created by users who haven’t quite got to grips with internet forum etiquette yet. Alas, none of this occurred. Not even a whisper. That, it’s straight to DVD release, and it’s Sky Movies Premier time slot had me thinking this could be a bust, but love blinds us. I settled down to watch with undamped enthusiasm anyway. To state the obvious, ...

GJRendall 14.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Slap Shot 3 - The Junior League (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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Review of Ice Age 3 - Dawn Of The Dinosaurs (DVD)