Lassie - The Painted Hills (DVD)

Advantages: Good clean fun .
Disadvantages: No blood , guts and gore .

...of England to be reunited with him. The other Lassie films all share similar story lines but don’t be deterred by this if you can find one to hire or see one advertised make sure you either tape it or hire it and it will become a family favourite filled with all the drama, humour, romance and emotion you could wish for. The loyalty and companionship shared between Lassie and her owners is truly humbling. If only life was like films Eh. Lassie Come Home, 1943 Son of Lassie, 1944 Courage of Lassie, 1946 Hills of Home (Master of Lassie), 1948 The Sun Comes Up, 1948. Challenge to Lassie, 1949 The Painted Hills, 1951 Lassie's Great Adventure, 1963 Lassie: A New Beginning, 1973 The Magic of Lassie, 1978 Lassie, 1994... Read review

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Advantages: Lovely performances, a nice sense of scale and good, clean family fun
Disadvantages: Some swear-words and continuity errors creep in

...When the local pit in a Yorkshire mining village closes, Lassie's owners have no choice but to sell their dog to the local landowner. Then the Duke takes her away to his Scottish estate. But Lassie will go to any lengths to be reunited with her beloved boy, even if it means walking all the way from Scotland, running into obstacles at every turn. Whenever I think of Lassie I am reminded of the TV show I saw as a child, so I always assumed the character was American. However, the original book was written by British ex-pat Eric Knight while pining for the wilds of Yorkshire in sunny California. So this new version is bringing Lassie home for real. Well, sort of seeing as the majority was shot in the Isle of Man and Ireland. Writer-director Charles Sturridge has breathed new life into an old favourite but without deviating from... Read review

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Advantages: Plot , Characters , Script!
Disadvantages: None!

...Despite it?s huge success , the film Notting Hill had never appealed to me . I don?t know if was because of the fact that I was only about ten or eleven when the film came out , and so because of the ?cover? of the DVD , as a child , I instantly thought ?that looks boring? , and so I had always had that opinion of the film , despite the saying ? Never Judge A Book (or in this case , a film) by it?s cover). However , many years later , I am sat in a media studies lesson in college, when the teacher tells the class that we are going to be watching clips from movies and then analysing the setting , speech , lighting , etc. The first film to come on was Notting Hill. Most people had seen it and some were saying ?oh this next bit is funny? whilst we were watching the clip. Whereas I hadn?t seen it. I found the clip that we watch to be... Read review

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