Actors & Directors
- Richard Haydn
- Clyde Geronimi
- Ed Wynn
- Sterling Holloway
- Jerry Colonna
- Hamilton Luske
- Kathryn Beaumont
- Wilfred Jackson
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.92
Review Alice In Wonderland (1951) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:Imaginatively rendered but slightly chilly, this 1951 Disney adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic is also appropriately surreal. Alice (voiced by Kathryn Beaumont) has all the anticipated experiences: shrinking and growing, meeting the White Rabbit, having tea with the Mad Hatter, and so on. The characterisation is very strong, illustrating how hard the Disney team worked to bring screen personality to Carroll's eccentric creations. For a Disney film, however, it seems more the self-satisfied sum of its inventiveness than a truly engaging experience. -Tom Keogh.
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Actors & Directors
- Eve Gordon
- Dean Cundey
- Stuart Pankin
- Rick Moranis
- Robin Bartlett
- Bug Hall
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.58
Review Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves [1997] / Walt Disney Home Video:
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Actors & Directors
- Verna Felton
- Barbara Luddy
- Mary Costa
- Clyde Geronimi
- Bill Shirley
- Eleanor Audley
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £49.99
Review Sleeping Beauty : Deluxe Collector's Edition [1959] / Walt Disney Home Video:Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist. It's not really all that much about the title character-how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Malificent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. -David Kronke, Amazon. com.
Release date: 2005-08-15
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.00
Review Bear In The Big Blue House - Party Time With Bear / Bear in the Big Blue House:
Release date: 2005-04-04
RRP: £21.99
Price: £10.98
Review Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey In Living Colour 2 / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:
Release date: 2005-03-14
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.13
Review Tots TV / ITV DVD:
Release date: 2007-03-19
Run time: 74 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £5.99
Review Barbie Fairytopia - Magic Of The Rainbow / Universal Pictures UK:Believing in oneself can be difficult, even with the support of friends. The formerly wingless fairy Elina has saved Fairytopia more than once, proving herself against Fungus Maximus and turning the evil Laverna into a frog in Barbie Fairytopia and Barbie Fairytopia-Mermaidia, but she still questions her own abilities when Guardian Azura selects her to become her apprentice and learn the all-important flight of spring-a ritual which ensures another year of vitality in Fairytopia. The taunts and snobby attitudes of her fellow apprentices serve to further undercut Elina's self-esteem, but she vows to do her best to master the flight of spring and soon proves worthy of her appointment. When the trickery of Laverna threatens to stop the flight of spring and destroy Fairytopia forever, it falls to the new apprentices to save Fairytopia. Of course, Elina will play a pivotal role in the group's eventual success or failure. Prepubescent attitudes and shallowness reign among most of the apprentices, but most eventually see the error of their ways and the clear message is the importance of believing in oneself. (Ages 3 to 9) -Tami Horiuchi.
Release date: 2005-10-17
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.11
Review Tots TV - Snowy Adventure / ITV DVD:
Release date: 2003-04-28
RRP: £11.99
Price: £9.93
Review Baby Einstein - Language Nursery / Baby Einstein:Baby Einstein: Language Nursery is from the award-winning infant-developmental media company of the same name, whose goal and philosophy is the satisfaction of a child's curiosity through sight and sound. In the main "Theatre" section of this disc you'll find lots of simple shapes, primary colours and favourite toys passing across the screen. Everything is accompanied by soothing and tinkling nursery-rhyme tunes. Every so often, a narrating female voice will move from English into another language-all of which is designed to expose your child to the wider world of languages. A video tutorial explains things just in case the parent is scratching their head as to what they're meant to do. It really is as simple as plonking junior down for half an hour to be colourfully distracted in a manner designed to educate as well as entertain. This is the simplest of the company's releases, making for an ideal introduction to what they're about. Others in the series focus on musical or artistic themes to expand upon all the ideas contained here. -Paul Tonks.
Actors & Directors
- Bernard Cribbins
- The Wombles
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.25
Review The Wombles - Orinoco And The Big Black Umbrella / Abbey Home Media:
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 154 min.
RRP: £20.99
Price: £26.99
Review Cinderella/The Little Mermaid / Cinderella/the Little Mermaid:
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.57
Review Carry Me - Thomas the Tank Engine - Truckloads Of Fun / Thomas and Friends:
Actors & Directors
- Sebastian Cabot
- Ginny Tyler
- Junius Matthews
- Wolfgang Reitherman
- Rickie Sorensen
- Karl Swenson
Run time: 76 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.97
Review The Sword In The Stone (1963) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:As far as Disney is concerned, The Sword in the Stone was a portent of things to come, with slapstick upstaging storytelling, and cultural in-jokes substituting for wonder. Based on TH White's beloved novel The Once and Future King, this Disney version chronicles King Arthur's boyish adventures. There's much to enjoy here as coach Merlin the magician shows the young Arthur, nicknamed Wart, the skills that will help him become the future ruler of the Britons. The transformation sequences, where the boy is turned into a fish, a bird and a squirrel are vintage Disney. The oft-repeated scene of Merlin battling it out with mean old Madame Mim still is worth a few chuckles, but it underlines the problem with most of the film-most of its scenes are only played for laughs. References by Merlin to television and other items of modern life also mar the generally innocuous landscape. Younger children will like it, while older kids will find it slower compared with recent Disney films. -Keith Simanton, Amazon. com.
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Release date: 2003-09-29
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.74
Review Bionicle : The Mask Of Light - The Movie [2003] / Walt Disney Home Video:
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Actors & Directors
- Gary Files
- David Lane
- Sylvia Anderson
- Peter Dyneley
- John Carson
- Keith Alexander
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.20
Review Thunderbird 6: The Movie [1968] / MGM Entertainment:Thunderbird 6 was the second feature spin-off from the hit Gerry Anderson puppet-animation TV series Thunderbirds, and revolved around a new addition to the line-up of International Rescue's five emergency craft. The plot sees Lady Penelope, Alan, Tin-Tin and Parker as the only passengers on the maiden, round-the-world flight of a futuristic airship, which is hijacked in a bid to capture Thunderbirds 1 and 2. From the moment Alan arrives on a Bond-style jetpack, the film veers away from the TV show into espionage adventure territory, and while the only people International Rescue rescue are their own members, they kill a fair number of baddies. The global tour means there are more locations than ever, and though the story takes a long time developing, the Die Hard-on-an-airship finale delivers the most explosive set piece of Gerry Anderson's career. As for Thunderbird 6, opinion remains divided as to whether it's an ingenious twist or a disappointing gimmick, but the movie's blend of model and live-action footage results in two superbly staged stunt sequences. Predecessor Thunderbirds Are Go (1968) is also available, and the Andersons would make one further feature film, Journey to the Far Side of the Sun (1969). On the DVD: The anamorphically enhanced 2. 35:1 ratio image is sharp, full of detail and boasting well-saturated colours, only the briefest moments of damage and some graininess revealing the age of the print. The film was shot in ultra-wide Techniscope, and there are moments were it is very obvious that parts of the original 2. 74:1 picture have been cropped at the sides. [+]The mono sound is powerful with no hint of distortion. Extras are the original trailer, galleries of behind the scenes photos and promotional artwork, though the highlight is the highly informative commentary by Sylvia Anderson and director David Lane where they note how they made this film and worked on Captain Scarlet simultaneously. -Gary S Dalkin.
Release date: 2007-03-19
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.12
Review Postman Pat's Go-Kart Race / Postman Pat:
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Actors & Directors
- Haley Joel Osment
- Mae Whitman
- John Goodman
- Jim Cummings
- Steven Trenbirth
- Tony Jay
Run time: 69 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.00
Review The Jungle Book 2 (Special Edition) [2003] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:After a delightful opening, in which jungle boy Mowgli (voiced by Haley Joel Osment) recaps much of the original Jungle Book in a sprightly shadow puppet show, The Jungle Book 2 swiftly turns into a carbon copy of the splendidly swinging previous movie. After his old pal Baloo the bear (voiced by John Goodman) draws Mowgli away from the man-village, with all its work and rules, and back into the glorious indolence of the jungle, the movie repeats-in a less energetic form-an encounter with Kaa the snake, the cockney vultures, a musical number at the monkey's palace, the menace of Shere Khan the tiger, and even the song "The Bare Necessities. " The only difference is that there's a girl named Shanti along for the ride; sadly, her character is so bland that it doesn't do much to justify the movie's existence. -Bret Fetzer.
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Actors & Directors
- Alex Zamm
- French Stewart
- Mark Mitchell
- Caitlin Wachs
- Elaine Hendrix
- Tony Martin (II)
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.90
Review Inspector Gadget 2 [2003] / Walt Disney Home Video:Inspector Gadget 2 sees the unlikely detective with higher-tech gadgets and more special effects. French Stewart (from TV's Third Rock from the Sun) replaces Matthew Broderick as the bumbling detective in a plot that revolves around the glitch-ridden Gadget being replaced by a completely robotised female. Parent Trap's Elaine Hendrix does what little she can with the one-dimensional role of "G2". Still, Gadget falls for his rival and the pair team up with his smart-as-a-whip niece Penny and her brainy beagle for a showdown with Claw. Where Broderick struggled to humanise the caricature of an inept detective in the 1999 original, Stewart doesn't even try. Instead he plays Gadget as a cartoon with endless over-the-top theatrics. The enhanced special effects may placate young viewers, but without the comedy of the original, that's small comfort. -Kimberly Heinrichs.
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Actors & Directors
- Jodi Benson
- Wilfred Jackson
- Scott Wolf
- Hamilton Luske
- Darrell Rooney
- Debi Derryberry
- Kath Soucie
- Clyde Geronimi
- Alyssa Milano
Run time: 139 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £34.99
Review Lady and the Tramp 1 & 2 Double Pack [1955] / Walt Disney Pictures:
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Actors & Directors
- Roy Kinnear
- Don Knotts
- Julie Sommars
- Dean Jones
- Vincent McEveety
- Jacques Marin
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.72
Review Herbie Goes To Monte Carlo [1977] / Walt Disney Home Video:
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