Nicholas Nickleby DVD

Advantages: A beautifully fresh presentation
Disadvantages: Some poor "English" accents

...A brief plot outline Nicholas Nickleby is dead. (This seems to be a theme of how Dickens starts his novels!) But we are not concrned with that Nicholas Nickleby, it is his son ... young Nicholas Nickleby who is the hero of our tale. After his father's suden death leaving his family with little money the young Nicholas goes to his uncle in town for advice. As you can imagine the uncle is loaded but does not help the Nickelby's at all. He manages ...
...Hall. Now Nicholas is warned that this school is not pleasant by an old friend of his fathers but he goes none the less. When he arrives at Dotheboys he is greated by malnourished, down trodden young boys who seem closer to death than receiving a good education. In particular the young boy Smike is the Headmaster's servant boy and often beaten. As you can imagine Nicholas is there to become the boy's saviour and helps Smike to escape. He then beats ... Read review

Advantages: Fine version
Disadvantages: Very little

...At last, a film review where theediscerning doesn't have to spend many paragraphs on the plot. (Instead he has to apologise for his title...) For we've all read Nick Nick, haven't we? We all know all about the characters, plot contrivances and coincidences etc...? We don't? Well this Hollywood version is (shock horror) a really good place to either play sunday afternoon tele self-indulgence, or to catch up. The senior Nicholas, from his Devonshire house, is losing all his hard-earned money. So he decides to speculate in investing, just as his rich brother has done in the big smoke of london. However, this only means he loses more ~ everything, no less, including his life. This leaves his widow, the titular hero and pretty daughter, who can't even sell the hovel they live in. And so they descend on the city to gain aid from said brother... Read review

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