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Advantages: super family entertainment
Disadvantages: nothing really wrong

Journey to the centre of the Earth, is yet another classic oldie, based on a novel by Jules Verne. The effects are certainly not to the standards of today's technology, but for a film made in the late 1950's they still stand, their own ground. The film itself, Professor Oliver Lindenbrook, (James Mason) a scientist hoping to find the World's core. Leads a mixed group of people with, the assistance of an Icelandic caver, down through an Islands ...
...City of Atlantis, The journey is not only fraught with danger, but there is also a scheming plot by another explore who steals, there map, and tries to sabotage their trip. The end to the film is superbly done, and it is worth watching the film just for this, Other Stars are the Singing Pat Boone, the gorgeous Arhlene Dahl, and not forgetting Gertrude (The Goose). A good winters evening Family entertaining film, a few songs thrown in for good ... Read review

Advantages: A fun and engaging story
Disadvantages: May be scary for younger children

FILM REVIEW ONLY Jumanji is a great family film with a very entertaining performance from funny-man Robin Williams, as well as some spectacular (if a little scary for young children) special effects. Jumanji is based on the children's book by Chris Van Allsburg, and keeps the spirit of the novel alive with some great set pieces and good solid acting, particularly from the young child actors, including the then little known Kirsten Dunst. It's Robin ...
...Many parents were angry when Jumanji was released because of the fact that some of the scenes are quite scary, but in all honesty they're not that bad, although the scene in which Sarah is chased by bats at the start of the film may be a little scary for some. Jumanji is also rare in that it can be enjoyed by both children and adults, making it a great all-round movie for the family to enjoy. The story is familiar to Peter Pan in some ways, with ... Read review

Advantages: Fun, entertaining, full of charisma, you don't get bored
Disadvantages: Predictable ending

~-~-~-~-~-Nitty gritties~-~-~-~-~- Cast: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt, David Alan Grier, Jonathan Hyde Certificate: 12A Length: 100 minutes Year of release: 1996 ~-~-~-~-~The Plot~-~-~-~-~ The story begins with 12 year old Alan Parrish - a boy who's parent's are rich and on the snobby side! After one day after leaving his father's shoe factory he faintly hears drumming noises coming from a nearby building site. Curiosty gets the ...
...Looking around to see if anybody notices him (or if anyone notices the noise for that matter) he makes his way and digs through the rubble towards the noise. He sharply pulls out an old chest and the noise gets louder and loouder and suddenly stops! He opens the chest with some ease and pulls out an ancient-looking board game titled "Jumanji". When somebody notices Alan on the building site he quickly grabs the game and runs home with it under his ... Read review

Advantages: magical family film
Disadvantages: a little too magical

...special effects have been made. JUMANJI would be one of those movies. It's light on plot, character development and heavy on adventure and computer generated special effects. There are definitely better movies out there, but it does move along quickly despite the fact it will make you roll your eyes every now and again. Robin Williams is one heck of a talented actor and comedian. I enjoy him in most of his films but here he turns out one of his more ...
...him a wealthy man the past couple of decades. Everyone else does their job. I think I would've liked this movie a lot more if I were in my pre-teen years. Of course, these days, CGI is in virtually every PG movie and I'm not so sure this movie or these effects would past the test today. It's hard to say whether or not this is a good or bad movie because it's one of those you forget about right after you see it. However, the younger audience should ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant film, few but solid extras, well packaged
Disadvantages: Not one

I saw this film first whilst in college and frankly it's been a very tough time finding a better film since. The film is basically a tale of three youths from one of Paris' run down outskirt estates who find a policemans weapon and contemplate reaping revenge for their friend who was shot during a riot. The film protrays the main three characters very well and despite their being novices when the film was made the actors (Vincent Cassel, Hubert Kounde, ...
...the film is wonderful. The black and white works extremely well in augmenting the bleak and brutal world in which the protaganists live. The camerawork is fantastic as well with some remarkable shots and editing. On top of this the music in the film is very fitting and really helps the atmosphere of the film. With strong social and political messages in the film you would think it would be a tad peachy. However, the film is wonderfully balanced and ... Read review