Gunslinger Girl - The Complete Collection (DVD)

Advantages: Interesting, serious, believable and unique
Disadvantages: slow at times

...bonding between friends, but it's quite a heavy sophisticated piece, with detailed, well thought out plot lines and dark undertones. It's very unpredictable, completely surprising and practically cinematic in it's editing. And strangely enough, it's thought provoking! It's anime for adults, WITHOUT the sex! The soundtrack also slips away from other animes, with it's classical Italian style. It's also used rather sparingly, instead of thrown about all the time like in most Western cartoons. The animation is also absolutely beautiful, and as I watched I really felt a lot of effort had been put into it. Gunslinger Girls tells the story of an Italian Government agency where girls are taken from their deathbed and "conditioned"- fitted with cybernetic implants and then trained to make them the perfect assassins. Each girl has her own handler... Read review

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Advantages: conveniantly packaged, good series, lots of laughs, very amusing
Disadvantages: quite short series

...I purchased the complete Blackadder collection for £35 at HMV and it was certainly money well spent. I think the acting and humour is top notch and it features 4 of televisions greatest actors of all time "Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson). very wry and witty this is a great box set to buy if you want some top quality BBC made entertainment. However, the entire 4 series only adds up to 14 hours,so i feel that the box set should be a little cheaper as you can buy the entire Jeeves and Wooster collection on the Play.com website for £25 and that amounts to around 18 hours and over 20 episodes. On the whole i was immensely pleased with the product. If you are a fan of the series then this is one boxset you will not want to miss out on. when regarding the actual product; the boxset that contains the 6 dvs's is... Read review

Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful

Advantages: All four movies for the first time on DVD
Disadvantages: cheesy but fun

...For the first time, all four Superman movies are available on DVD, starring Christopher Reeve as the man of steel. I am sure many of you are familiar with these movies. And just before the new Superman movie appears in our cinemas next year, they have decided to release this box set. A little about the four movies if you don't already know - Superman The Movie- Just before planet Krypton's doomed existence, Jor-El (Marlon Brando) has sent his one and only son to the planet earth. Being under a new sun he develops superhuman powers and becomes Superman. Arch enemy Lex Luthor (Gene Hackmen), attempts too put a quick end too Superman's reign with deadly Kryptonite, and threatens California with weapons of mass destruction. Cast: Christopher Reeve, Gene Hackman, Jackie Cooper and Margot Kidder Directed by: Richard Donner... Read review

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