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This could have been done much better

Advantages: Good fun for G&S fans
Disadvantages: Won't always play on my DVD player; not a huge choice of songs

...am a little obsessed with Gilbert and Sullivan, to say the least, and I received this for my last birthday, from an aunt. It is a standard karaoke DVD with selections from the Gilbert and Sullivan operas. The first problem I had with this DVD was that it refused to play on my DVD player. It plays the copyright warning very, very slowly, then refuses to go to the menu where you choose songs, and stops playing instead. I don't think that there's ...
...I put in works fine. However, this DVD does work on my laptop, so that's how I've been playing it (and I am told by a friend that it works fine on his DVD player, so I'm not sure if it's a fault with my disc). So, when I finally was able to get the DVD working, I was less than happy with the song choice available. There were several songs from The Mikado, as could be expected, but only one or two from HMS Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance, Iolanthe, ...

scaphio 15.11.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Gilbert And Sullivan Karaoke (DVD)

Keshgrover

Advantages: Nice and sweet
Disadvantages: Bit louder at some places

Its a nicely presented DVD. As cover looks colourfull it is quite colourfull inside as well. Not a money waste product. Sound effects are great. and you get extra features as well. If you have a home theatre at home you will enjoy it at best. But looks good on normal players too. if any one else has different view please do let me know why? Trust me any one who will buy it they will enjoy it. So, sit on sofa have popcorns and a coke and enjoy it. ...

keshgrover 03.08.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Karaoke At The Movies (DVD)

Like you've never seen him before

Advantages: Inside look at would have been the greatest concert ever
Disadvantages: Would have been amazing to see it all pulled together in one final rehersal.

...a life long fan of Michael Jackson, there was never any question as to whether I would see this film or not, more a case of when I would see it. Me, my cousin and my little sister decided to go see this on Sunday, and thoroughly enjoyed every moment of this film (even if my 14 year old sister asked me what it was about when we sat down - I had to alugh, bless her!), which was only ever meant for Michael Jackson's archives for personal viewing. So ...
...of Jackson's video's and then Michael Jackson would emerge from the suit to perform 'Wanna Be Starting Somethin'. There is a small snippet of footage showing the dancers rehearsing a "toaster" mechanism whereby they would literally jump out of the floor. The next song would have been 'Jam', followed by 'Bad' and then 'They Don't Really Care About Us', where a film was made to be played on the big screen behind them where literally thousands of dancers ...

carlz2001 14.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Michael Jackson - This Is It (DVD)

A Brilliant Film About The Legend Who Is Prince.

Advantages: Outstanding Film And Soundtrack.
Disadvantages: Absolutely None

...of course the fantastic song Purple Rain. You could not wish for a bigger quantity of consistently fabulous music wrapped into one film. It makes me wish that Prince and other 80s singers would stay the way they were because music from that decade was the best it has ever been and in my opinion there is very few singers "now," regardless of how good they are. Who have that same ability to take a song and make it magical like the ones in the 80s did. ...
...like those I heard in Purple Rain. But, I was sadly disappointed! I wonder how it happens that musicians as good as Prince lose their effect? The only reason I can find is that they are conforming and trying to blend in with the music you hear now and because of that they lose the "essence" that made thier music so special and different in the first place. Its a shame! If his music was still anything like his earlier stuff and like it was in Purple ...

danielleg1989 14.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Purple Rain (DVD)

Feed me, Krelborn, FEED ME NOW!

Advantages: Music, plot, acting, everything
Disadvantages: None

...film version of it. Little Shop Of Horrors was directed by Frank Oz, and features the arrival of a strange and interesting new plant in the failing Skid Row flower shop owned and run by Mushnik. His two employees are the geeky and friendless Seymour and the blonde bimbo Audrey. Other characters emerge as the film progresses, but the main protagonist to these two is the plant, named Audrey II by Seymour. The plant's arrival, just when it seemed ...
...the shop. Initially a tiny little thing, Seymour nurtures it until one day he finds that in order for the plant to grow, there is one thing it needs to be feed more than anything else: blood! What makes this film work is the timing of the music. It is a musical comedy, and as such the musicality must be an attractive prospect. The plot itself is brilliant, and does a lot of the storytelling, but the music fills in the time gaps with ease. The upbeat ...

pmcds 09.12.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Little Shop Of Horrors (DVD)