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Advantages: If you've watched these films as a child you'll love them
Disadvantages: for first time viewers not exactly compelling stuff

...child I've grown up thinking Star Wars is the greatest story ever told from Luke Skywalker's X-Wing blowing up the death star to the biggest revaltion of movie history that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's 'Father'. But when I watched the entire trilogy recently I couldn't help but think if I hadn't loved star wars as a child would I really still believe its the greatest series of movies and as much as it pains me to say this but the answer is no. ...
...the prequels but when you compare the fight scenes you realise exactly how badly made the oiginal fight scenes were. I still love Star Wars but the fact of the matter is there are better trilogies out there and this by no means is the greatest story ever told. ... Read review

Advantages: all three original films in a nice tin box
Disadvantages: You probaly have them already

...or are a real hardcore star wars fan who have to own anything star wars. The films themselves are brilliant quality taken from the remastered trilogy. the extra disc is crammed with backstage pictures never seen before features and a feature documentry about the making of the films. I would recommend this to people who havnt already got the original trilogy on DVD or those die hard star wars nutter YOU KNOW WHO ARE!!! ... Read review

Advantages: What a way to end this disc......
Disadvantages: The first two-parter is a little bit of a let-down both on aliens and plot...

Volume Two of Doctor Who's first re-imagined season opens up with The Doctor and Rose returning to earth after a supposed 12 hours have passed only for Rose to then discover that in actual fact 12 months have passed. Her mum thought something bad must have happened to her and Rose's boyfriend, Mickey, was allegedly taken into custody on suspicion of bumping her off!!! So begins the first two-parter of the series, entitled ALIENS OF LONDON, with Rose ...
...for this show, only The Doctor can save the day but this time around, he may need a little help from an unexpected source...... This episode and it's follow-up, WORLD WAR THREE, although not weak, are far from the strongest of stories this season. The Slitheen too are hardly scary and, with their comedic fart noises that they make when disguised as human, seem almost to be played just for laughs. They wouldn't look out of place in a kids show and ... Read review

Advantages: Three of the best episodes so far on one disc can't be bad
Disadvantages: A bit of a weak story to start them all off

...new, all singing and dancing Doctor Who and is probably the best of the collections so far in terms of episode content. Picking up where we left off with Adam Mitchell now invited onboard The Tardis, (they picked him up from Van Statten's doomed museum of space oddities-remember?) Rose and The Doctor travel far forward in the future in THE LONG GAME, easily the weakest episode on the disc, and arrive on Sattelite 5 where the media is all-consuming ...
...often proved tricky for The Doctor back in the past and now is no exception as Adam feels slightly jealous of Rose's affections for The Doctor and almost left out of the little in-jokes that they share between them. He also suffers from culture-shock from being flung into a strange situation and it is good to see an episode where it is made abundantly clear that travelling through time and space really isn't to everyone's tastes!! Adam goes off on ... Read review

Advantages: A very gripping and emotional end to a brilliantly imagined series....
Disadvantages: Did we REALLY need another episode with the Slitheen?

...0ne of the new, re-imagined DOCTOR WHO (and what a money-spinning idea that was- releasing the first season over seperate discs) comes to the dedicated fan not with a whimper but a big, explosive bang!! Finally the BAD WOLF storyline draws to a close (for now...) with the return of an old foe, one of the first mentions of something called TORCHWOOD (hmm....) and what some have come to regard as the worst episode of season one as an opener..... BOOM ...
...small talk, Captain Jack, The Doctor and Rose are taking some all-too needed time-out when The Doctor sees a familiar face in the local paper; that of a member of the Slitheen family who managed to teleport herself away just before Downing Street was destroyed. Magaret Blaine, as she calls herself, has become mayoress of Cardiff and intends to use a nucleur meltdown at local power station, Blaidd Drwg (Bad Wolf in welsh), to escape the planet following ... Read review