Peter The Great - Gretry (DVD)

With friends like Peter's . . .

Advantages: Easy watching, some good acting and great vocal performances
Disadvantages: Acting from some of the cast is a bit over-the-top

This is one of those films that nobody else seems to have heard of and - up until a few years ago - neither had I. Indeed, I have my passion for 1980s pop music to thank for my knowledge that this film even exists. For reasons I don't even remember, I came across a website listing the lyrics to Tears For Fears' mid-eighties hit Everybody Wants To Rule The World and whichever page I viewed mentioned a variety of films, TV programmes and albums that the song featured in. One of these was Peter's Friends . . . so I admit it, I first watched this film because one of my favourite songs was part of the soundtrack! (I can sometimes be a bit more shallow than other people believe . . . actually there are quite a few 1970s/1980s songs in here, which I think suits the mood of the film.) In a way, I find it surprising that Peter's Friends seems to ...

KateHurst 12.08.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Peter's Friends (DVD)

Peter Kay Comedy DVD

Advantages: It makes you laugh a lot
Disadvantages: none

I first saw Peter Kay on Jonathan Ross. One bit that amused me was that he was in the same green room as a pretentious pop-star who had brought ?imaginary? Japanese people with her who just posed. Peter Kay pulled some great ?they?re nuts!? faces and his rapid wit contrasted delightfully with their posturing silence. This DVD was an opportunity to see the effect he had on a live audience. Despite the introduction and ending in which he did a rather unnecessary, I thought, sketch involving a taxi-driver, the actual performance itself was electrifying. Kay?s humour is based on observation of working class family behaviour with much of his material being derived from the foibles of his own mother and grandmother who ? in this DVD ? are in the audience, and whose faces reveal the accuracy of his send up. The camera flicks onto his ...

FlameDruid 09.01.2005 · Read full review
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PETER PAN FOR THE 21ST CENTURY

Advantages: Great story, wonderful fx, heart warming
Disadvantages: Minor complaints re some fx

of a character determined never to grow up. Rachel Hurd Wood was also new to me and her full lips and cherubic face are destined to set a few hearts a flutter when she grows older. She appeared suitably vunerable as the eventual heroine of the piece complimenting the main male parts with a feminine sense of adventure. Special mention must go to Richard Briers as Smee who got most of the laughs with some lovely one-liners that made myself and the audience smile. It was great to hear a super score that accompanied the movie. Credit to James Howard Newton for some wonderful work whilst Coldplay get a feature with the irony induced ?Clocks? (think crocodiles) The quality of the work in Peter Pan is undeniable. Superlative shots of the rooftops of London (a combination of models and CGI by the looks) was remarkably offset by the inclusion ...

Marandina 05.01.2004 (06.01.2004) · Read full review
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