natural world the composer had loved from childhood in its true colours: miraculous, beautiful, mysterious but also cruel. The inspiration came from a series of illustrated stories published in a Czech newspaper. The Vixen of the title is captured by a forester and taken home as a plaything for his children. She is soon thrown out of the house and has to make her own way in the world, encountering lust, stupidity, pride, love and ultimately death. This 1995 performance was taken from the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. Visually, Nicholas Hytner's production is a triumph, the animals wonderfully wittily wrought (the mosquito with its syringe for a nose, the mangey old dog, distasteful in baggy Y-fronts, the hideous, goggle-eyed frog). And it's also brilliantly cast: Eva Jenis's Vixen is funny, sexy, endearing and youthful enough in voice and figure to convince. Thomas Allen is a veteran of the role of the Forester, a huge presence and singing in impeccable Czech. In fact, there's not a weak performance here, and that goes for the dancers and instrumentalists as well as the singers. And at the helm, who better than Sir Charles Mackerras, arguably the greatest living interpreter of Janacek's music? This is in essence a grown-up fairy tale, ravishingly done and extremely highly recommended. On the DVD: The Cunning Little Vixen is presented on disc in vividly remastered PCM stereo, with 16:9 picture format that does full justice to the alluringly colourful designs. The disc is encoded for regions 2 and 5, and the menu and subtitle languages are English, German, French and Spanish. The useful booklet gives coherent background information and synopsis as well as full casting details. There's also a substantial (23-minute) trailer of other offerings from Arthaus Musik. --Harriet Smith
natural world the composer had loved from childhood in its true colours: miraculous, beautiful, mysterious but also cruel. The inspiration came from a series of illustrated stories published in a Czech newspaper. The Vixen of the title is captured by a forester and taken home as a plaything for his children. She is soon thrown out of the house and has to make her own way in the world, encountering lust, stupidity, pride, love and ultimately death. This 1995 performance was taken from the Chatelet Theatre in Paris. Visually, Nicholas Hytner's production is a triumph, the animals wonderfully wittily wrought (the mosquito with its syringe for a nose, the mangey old dog, distasteful in baggy Y-fronts, the hideous, goggle-eyed frog). And it's also brilliantly cast: Eva Jenis's Vixen is funny, sexy, endearing and youthful enough in voice and figure to convince. Thomas Allen is a veteran of the role of the Forester, a huge presence and singing in impeccable Czech. In fact, there's not a weak performance here, and that goes for the dancers and instrumentalists as well as the singers. And at the helm, who better than Sir Charles Mackerras, arguably the greatest living interpreter of Janacek's music? This is in essence a grown-up fairy tale, ravishingly done and extremely highly recommended. On the DVD: The Cunning Little Vixen is presented on disc in vividly remastered PCM stereo, with 16:9 picture format that does full justice to the alluringly colourful designs. The disc is encoded for regions 2 and 5, and the menu and subtitle languages are English, German, French and Spanish. The useful booklet gives coherent background information and synopsis as well as full casting details. There's also a substantial (23-minute) trailer of other offerings from Arthaus Musik. --Harriet Smith
Advantages: Good storylines that are combined Disadvantages: Not as good as the original
...Dr. Dolittle is back inside the house and he's even bigger and better! Dr. Dolittle was the original film from 1998, it was great, everyone I know loved it so I went back to the cinema to see whether the follow up is just as good.......
The film begins with Dr Dolittle, (Eddie Murphy) who has the powers to speak to members of the animal kingdom. His job is to help the little creatures and whilst doing this Dr. Dolittle's eldest daughter Charisse, (Raven-Symone) is about to turn 16 and she feels neglected by her father. So when Dr Dolittle realises this a trip to Europe seems an ideal solution to help bribe his daughter.
But with such an important job, Dr. Dolittle manages to get caught up in helping some animals in a campaign to save a forest near his San Francisco home. By talking to the animals of the forest, Dr Dolittle comes up...
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Advantages: Family entertainment for all ages Disadvantages: Cats are not evil!
...Cat lovers beware - this film could seriously alter your view of that cute kitty you think of as a pet! Dogs = goodies and Cats = baddies? some people may disagree, but for the purpose of this film, it makes for entertaining viewing. The idea of a kitten deliberately getting a puppy in trouble with its owners seems quite true... Ever thought your cat seems too cunning? Then maybe the cats really are trying to enslave the human population again..? An interesting view on the long drawn out battle between cats and dogs, with many entertaining scenes, both with cute animals and Jeff Goldblums excellent acting ability. Definately a good family film - one for the kids more, but most adults should enjoy this too....
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Advantages: It'll stay in your mind and on your lips Disadvantages: Does'nt stick to your hips
...a looma, a wamp bam boo!"
A 17 year old Sandy arrives in Rydell high after recieving some "Summer loving" from Danny, unaware that also attends Rydell, she's befriended by Pink Lady Frenchy (no prizes for guessing how she got her name!). She's quickly introduced to the rest of the gang and Danny.
The film follows the attempts of Danny to woo Sandy whilst still looking cool infront of his mates, and sandy's transformation from gooddie goodie "Sandradie" into a skintight hotpants clad vixen, telling the newly graduated school that Danny's "the one that she wants".
I think the acting, for the time, is very good although I dont think they'd necesarily get away with it with Scorsese or Mendes today. But saying this,Grease wouldnt be Grease if it were any other way. The casting is perfect and the few visual effects brilliant.
You'll hear some...
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