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Review Cinderella/the Little Mermaid / Cinderella/The Little Mermaid
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 154 min.
RRP: £18.99
Price: £26.95

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Review Walt Disney Pictures / The Shaggy Dog [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Robert Ellis
  • Janine Edwards
  • Brian Robbins
  • Tim Allen
  • Spencer Breslin
  • Robert Downey Jr
Release date: 2006-07-24
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.67

Review The Shaggy Dog [2006] / Walt Disney Pictures:

Tim Allen barks, growls, and slobbers his way through the latest remake of the classic Disney suburban fable The Shaggy Dog. A mystical long-lived dog is kidnapped from Tibet by a nefarious corporation; when it escapes, it bites aspiring District Attorney Dave Douglas (Allen, The Santa Clause, Toy Story), who finds himself regressing into a dog in the courtroom. There's more to the plot-something to do with creating a youth serum from the dog's blood-but let's face it, that's not what anyone's going to see the movie for, and the "bad dad remembers how to love his family" theme is equally perfunctory. This is all about Allen running around like a dog and a cute sheepdog running around trying to do human things, and the movie does a competent job of playing with that scenario. Allen throws himself into doggieness with amusing abandon. Also featuring Kristin Davis (Sex and the City), Spencer Breslin (The Cat in the Hat), Jane Curtin (3rd Rock from the Sun), Danny Glover (Lethal Weapon), and Robert Downey Jr. (Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Wonder Boys), who seems to be enjoying himself as a nefarious scientist at the nefarious corporation. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Walt Disney Pictures / Lady And The Tramp 2 - Scamp's Adventure [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Kath Soucie
  • Debi Derryberry
  • Bill Fagerbakke
  • Scott Wolf
  • Cathy Moriarty
  • Darrell Rooney
Release date: 2006-03-06
Run time: 66 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.89

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Review Bob the Builder / Bob The Builder - Onsite - Roads And Bridges Special
Release date: 2008-02-25
Run time: 61 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.49

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Review Walt Disney Video / Aladdin [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • John Musker
  • Linda Larkin
  • Jonathan Freeman
  • Robin Williams
  • Scott Weinger
  • Ron Clements
  • Frank Welker
Release date: 2004-10-05
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £14.55

Review Aladdin [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Disney's 1992 animated feature Aladdin is a triumph of wit and skill. The high-tech artwork and graphics look great, the characters are strong, the familiar story is nicely augmented with an interesting villain (Jafar, voiced by Jonathan Freeman), and there's an incredible hook atop the whole thing: Robin Williams's frantically hilarious vocal performance as Aladdin's genie. Even if one isn't particularly moved by the love story between the title character (Scott Weinger) and his girlfriend Jasmine (Linda Larkin), you can easily get lost in Williams's improvisational energy and the equally entertaining performances of Freeman and Gilbert Gottfried (as Jafar's parrot). -Tom Keogh.

Review The Wombles / Wombles Complete - Deluxe Set
Release date: 2008-10-27
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98

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Review Hit Entertainment / Bob The Builder - When Bob Became A Builder
Actors & Directors
  • Bob The Builder
  • Neil Morrissey
  • Rupert Degas
  • Kate Harbour
  • Rob Rackstraw
  • Sarah Ball
Release date: 2005-11-14
Run time: 74 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.00

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / Herbie Rides Again [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Ken Berry
  • Robert Stevenson
  • Stefanie Powers
  • Keenan Wynn
  • Helen Hayes
  • John McIntire
Release date: 2004-01-12
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.75

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Christmas Star [1986]
Actors & Directors
  • Rene Auberjonois
  • Jim Metzler
  • Edward Asner
  • Susan Tyrrell
  • Karen Landry
  • Alan Shapiro
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.98

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Lion King Special Edition [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Roger Allers
  • Moira Kelly
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Rob Minkoff
  • Jonathan Taylor Thomas
  • Jeremy Irons
  • James Earl Jones
Release date: 2003-10-31
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.49

Review The Lion King Special Edition [1994] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Disney's 1994 animated feature, The Lion King, was a huge smash in cinemas and continues to enjoy life in an acclaimed stage production. The story finds a lion cub, son of a king, sent into exile after his father is deposed by a jealous uncle. The little hero finds his way into the "circle of life" with some new friends and eventually comes back to reclaim his proper place. Characters are very strong, vocal performances by the likes of Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane and Whoopi Goldberg are terrific, the jokes are aimed as much (if not more) at adults than kids, the animation is sometimes breathtaking and the songs from Tim Rice and Elton John, accompanied by a colourful score, are more palatable than in many recent Disney features. -Tom Keogh.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / 101 Dalmatians Platinum Edition - Deluxe Book Pack [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Ben Wright
  • Cate Bauer
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
  • Lisa Daniels
  • Rod Taylor
  • Betty Lou Gerson
  • Clyde Geronimi
Release date: 2008-03-03
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £28.99
Price: £17.83

Review 101 Dalmatians Platinum Edition - Deluxe Book Pack [1961] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Back in 1961, Walt Disney got a little hip with 101 Dalmatians, making use of that flat Saturday morning cartoon style that had become so popular. The result is a kitschy change in animation and story. Pongo and Perdita are two lonely Dalmatians who meet in a London park and arrange for their pet humans to marry so they can live together and raise a family. They become proud parents of 15 pups, who are stolen by the dastardly Cruella De Vil, who wants to make a fur coat out of them. Cruella has become the most popular villain in all of Disney-she is flamboyantly nasty and lots of fun. But it is the Dalmatians who shine in this endearing classic, particularly those precocious pups. Telling the story from the dogs' point of view is a clever conceit, a fundamental flaw of Disney's 1996 live-action remake. -Bill Desowitz Disney may throw around the word 'classic' with a little too much abandon when it comes to some of its animated releases, but its take on 101 Dalmatians is very much the real deal. With lively songs, a terrifically-realised story and one of its very best villains, it remains a towering achievement, over four decades since it first appeared. The story of 101 Dalmatians starts with the two heroes of the tale, Pongo and Perdita. [+]
But when their litter of dalamatian puppies is dognapped by the evil Cruella De Vil's cronies, the pair must spring into action to save their offspring before Cruella gets herself the new coat that she desires. But while Pongo and Perdita may be the pair you end up rooting for, the undoubted star of 101 Dalmatians is Cruella De Vil. A wonderfully twisted, genuinely nasty villainess, she's an astounding creation and adds a real menace to the film. That said, it's not a downbeat or scary tale: toe-tapping musical numbers, plenty of imagination and a good few chuckles make up the rest of the ingredients, and rarely have they all come together quite so well as they do here. Retold by Disney in live action form in 1996, it's nonetheless its animated take on 101 Dalmatians that remains the definitive filmed version. And now packed into a special collectors' DVD set, there's never been a better reason to treat your family to a copy. Unmissable, and a reminder of why Disney's reputation in this field is quite so towering. -Simon Brew.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (Disney)
Actors & Directors
  • Paige O'Hara
  • Andrew Knight (IV)
  • David Ogden Stiers
  • Jerry Orbach
  • Bernadette Peters
  • Robby Benson
Release date: 2003-11-17
Run time: 68 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.69

Review Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:

Obviously the Disney suits gave more than two figs about the legacy from the first Beast film, as they reassembled the former cast and spent some cash on production and tune-smithing for this straight-to-video effort. The events unfold between the time in the first film where Belle bartered herself to the Beast and her later return to the village to save her father. So the Beast's heart still hasn't been melted yet and he's susceptible to the inky persuasions of Forte (Tim Curry), a malevolent pipe organ (and former music teacher to the prince). Belle is still trying to win over the Beast and decides that bringing Christmas to the castle will be the way to do it. Please control that gag reflex for this does work remarkably well and though entirely unnecessary and certainly not a complement to the original, it doesn't tarnish its good name. -Keith Simanton.

Review Tots TV / Tots TV - Naughty Puppies
Release date: 2007-02-12
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £3.00

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / Pocahontas (1995) (Disney)
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Goldberg
  • Irene Bedard
  • Mel Gibson
  • John Kassir
  • David Ogden Stiers
  • Mike Gabriel
  • Judy Kuhn
Release date: 2000-03-13
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.89

Review Pocahontas (1995) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:

The lowest point in Disney's opportunistic revisionism of source stories for its animated features in the 1990s, Pocahontas presents the title character (voiced by Irene Bedard) as a voluptuous Indian babe who falls for the British plunderer Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson). Half-baked if trendy paganism abounds in the film's depiction of nature as possessing consciousness (though talking trees certainly aren't new to cartoons). But the dubious legitimacy of the film's premise and characterisations calls everything into question. The songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz-while Oscar-winning-fall short of the standard Menken achieved in superior Disney predecessors including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. -Tom Keogh.

Review Walt Disney Treasures / Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies [1929]
Release date: 2004-05-03
Run time: 340 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.26

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Review Hit Entertainment / Bob The Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Harbour
  • Brian Little
  • Neil Morrissey
  • Liz Whitaker
  • Rob Rackstraw
  • Sarah Ball
  • Rupert Degas
  • Greg Proops
Release date: 2004-11-08
Run time: 67 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.49

Review Bob The Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games [1999] / Hit Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (DVD And Glasses) [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Rodriguez
  • Antonio Banderas|Carla Gugino|Alexa Vega|Daryl Sabara
Release date: 2004-03-15
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £19.99

Review Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (DVD And Glasses) [2003] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

The adventures of pint-sized secret agents Juni and Carmen Cortes (Daryl Sabara and Alexa Vega) continue. As Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over opens, Juni has left the spy agency and launches a career as a private detective-but when he learns that his sister Carmen has disappeared into a nefarious multi-user computer game, he agrees to go in after her, with the assistance of his grandfather (Ricardo Montalban). Three-dimensional special effects launch us into a topsy-turvy world of battling robots, souped-up motorcycle races, frogs on pogo-sticks, surfing on hot lava, and much, much more. The story is even more incoherent than an actual computer game-but the movie storms along, driven by writer/director/editor/everything-else Robert Rodriguez's sheer visual enthusiasm. It features Sylvester Stallone, Antonio Banderas, Carla Gugino, and everyone else who appeared in the first two Spy Kids movies. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Get A Clue [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Dan Lett
  • Ian Gomez
  • Lindsay Lohan
  • Bug Hall
  • Brenda Song
  • Maggie Greenwald
Release date: 2006-04-03
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.50

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / Mickey's House Of Villains [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Anselmo
  • Tress MacNeille
  • Jamie Mitchell
  • Bill Farmer
  • Wayne Allwine
  • Russi Taylor
Release date: 2002-10-07
Run time: 65 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.95

Review Mickey's House Of Villains [2002] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Mickey's House of Mouse Villains seeks to do for Halloween what Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House of Mouse (2001) did for Yuletide. It's an anthology set on Halloween in the titular house, a nightclub where characters-including Donald Duck, Goofy, Jafar, Cruella de Vil, and Captain Hook-gather to watch Disney cartoons. There's a perfunctory framing plot with the villains taking over the House, but the 65 minutes is almost entirely filled by eight short cartoons. Five are very recent, with clinically clean computer animation, and three are vintage gems glowing with the warm detailed look of Golden Age Disney. These are Trick or Treat (1952), Donald Duck and the Gorilla (1944), and Lonesome Ghosts (1937), in which Mickey, Donald and Goofy star in what was surely the inspiration for Ghostbusters. The best of the new adventures is Mickey's Mechanical House, in which the mouse moves into a futuristic house which goes disastrously wrong. It's made all the more entertaining by a poetic rhyming narration delivered by John Cleese. Young children will love it all, while older fans may prefer a compilation of vintage Disney shorts. On the DVD: Mickey's House of Mouse Villains DVD contains a well-designed animated quiz game, "Wheel of Misfortune", that should entertain young fans for a while. Otherwise, the extras consist of three trailers and a "Fright Reel": a three-minute compilation of Disney clips with two Dolby Digital 5. [+]
1 soundtracks. The choice amounts to the same sound effects with or without music. The sound is good, except for the three vintage animations, which are in mono. The picture is 4:3 and is generally very sharp, though varies a little with the source material. -Gary S Dalkin.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Finding Neverland [Blu-ray] [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Kate Winslet
  • Marc Forster
  • Johnny Depp
  • Julie Christie
Release date: 2007-07-23
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £26.99
Price: £16.56

Review Finding Neverland [Blu-ray] [2004] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Sweetness that doesn't turn saccharine is hard to find these days; Finding Neverland hits the mark. Much credit is due to the actors: Johnny Depp applies his genius for sly whimsy in his portrayal of playwright J. M. Barrie, who finds inspiration for his greatest creation from four lively boys, the sons of widow Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet, who miraculously fuses romantic yearning with common sense). Though the friendship threatens his already dwindling marriage, Barrie spends endless hours with the boys, pretending to be pirates or Indians-and gradually the elements of Peter Pan take shape in his mind. The relationship between Barrie and the Llewelyn Davies family sparks both an imagined world and a quiet rebellion against the stuffy forces of respectability, given physical form by Barrie's resentful wife (Radha Mitchell, High Art) and Sylvia's mother (Julie Christie, McCabe and Mrs. Miller). This gentle silliness could have turned to treacle, but Depp and Winslet-along with newcomer Freddie Highmore as one of the boys-keep their feet on the earth while their eyes gaze into their dreams. Also featuring a comically crusty turn from Dustin Hoffman (who appeared in another Peter Pan-themed movie, Hook) as a long-suffering theatre producer. -Bret Fetzer.

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Cinderella/The Little Mermaid, The Shaggy Dog [2006], Lady And The Tramp 2 - Scamp's Adventure [2000], Bob The Builder - Onsite - Roads And Bridges Special, Aladdin [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wombles Complete - Deluxe Set, Bob The Builder - When Bob Became A Builder, Herbie Rides Again [1974], The Christmas Star [1986], The Lion King Special Edition [1994], 101 Dalmatians Platinum Edition - Deluxe Book Pack [1961], Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (Disney), Tots TV - Naughty Puppies, Pocahontas (1995) (Disney), Walt Disney Treasures - Silly Symphonies [1929], Bob The Builder: Snowed Under - The Bobblesberg Winter Games [1999], Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (DVD And Glasses) [2003], Get A Clue [2003], Mickey's House Of Villains [2002], Finding Neverland [Blu-ray] [2004]

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