Showaddywaddy - Rock And Roll Music (DVD)

I wasn't rocking out too much to this

Advantages: cool outfits, the actual band were in the film
Disadvantages: cheesy, ott, only really for Ramones fans

I got given this dvd for Christmas around 6 years ago. I recently found it in my dvd collection so I thought I would watch it again. Rock?n?Roll High School is a comedy/musical and is set in 1980 in a school in America. The main story is based around one of the pupils, Riff Randell. She is a very big rock?n?roll fan, especially music by The Ramones. Riff tries to bring music to the school and pupils by taking over the schools speaker system and playing Ramones music through it, and also by changing the music tapes in her gym class. The new head teacher of the school is convinced that rock?n?roll music is bad for the pupils and that it rots their brains. She has conducted her own experiments on a mouse which we see exploding due to the ?rockability? of The Ramones music. I found the performance of the head teacher really annoying, she ...

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Jim Henson's Fraggle Rock Let Music Play Vol1 DVD

Advantages: great music, acting and storyline
Disadvantages: only two episodes on this one dvd, and they cut the tune!

Isn't it wonderful when those child hood memories come back to you, and whats even better is when they are in snazzy updated (graphics and sound wise anyway) version, such as this dvd. Fraggle rock, as most can remember was another genius creation from Jim Henson. For those out of the loop, or are lucky enough to be too young to remember, he's the same man who is responsible for the existence of the muppets, sesame street and of course - the fraggles! COST: £4.99 PLACE OF PURCHASE: eBaY CERTIFICATE: U NUMBER OF DISCS: 1 REGION: 2 This DVD contains 2 episodes which are run back to back which cuts on time and makes the whole running only 48 minutes in length. What they've done with the orginal format is quite displeasing actually, although this version is less fuzzy than the vhs one they've cut down the episodes so that theres ...

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Rock and roll for the masses

Advantages: Great actors and characters, enjoyable, great music
Disadvantages: It loses its way sometimes, a bit long

really isn't too graphic. Like most films, The Boat That Rocked does have its flaws. It is incredibly long, for a start, at 135 minutes. Watching it on DVD, that didn't bother me too much, but I think it could have definitely have been edited down a fair bit. I also felt that the film didn't really have an identity. There is so much going on and so many characters involved that it lost its way at times. The basic plot is that the government want to shut the radio station down, but at times, it was possible to forget about all that, because it really did seem to be in the background. And it was perhaps a mistake to have so many leading characters - it was hard to concentrate on any one person and their story because there were so many other stories going on at the same time. It is probably a film that will improve with watching, because ...

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