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Review Walt Disney Video / Peter Pan [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Thompson
  • Wilfred Jackson
  • Hans Conried
  • Clyde Geronimi
  • Kathryn Beaumont
  • Heather Angel
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Bobby Driscoll
Release date: 2007-03-06
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Erdman Penner
Price: £14.03

Review Peter Pan [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Peter Pan has a special place in the realm of classic animated Disney films: it instils an element of child-like wonder. The 1953 version of James M Barrie's story is colourfully told and keeps on the straight and narrow of the book. Barrie's wondrous focus on child's play is the key to its longevity: children who don't grow up, shadows that run away from their owners, pirates, a fairy, and the magic ability to fly. In short, you can't help wishing the adventure would happen to you. Fuelled by a few memorable songs (the stunner being "You Can Fly") and the strong impression of the pixie fairy Tinkerbell and the goofy Captain Hook, Disney's version of this story neither supplants nor lessens the Broadway version with Mary Martin that was produced for television the same decade. Unlike some classics, Peter Pan never ages along the way. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Video / Underdog [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Amy Adams
  • Frederik Du Chau
  • Patrick Warburton
  • Jason Lee
  • James Belushi
  • Peter Dinklage
Release date: 2007-12-18
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: W. Watts Biggers
Price: £14.55

Review Underdog [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import] / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Summer Magic/Moon Spinner
Release date: 2006-10-02
RRP: £17.99
Price: £15.29

Review Summer Magic/Moon Spinner / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Beatrix Potter / The Complete Beatrix Potter Collection, Vol. 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2004-02-24
Run time: 104 min.
Price: £12.95

Review The Complete Beatrix Potter Collection, Vol. 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Beatrix Potter:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Princess Diaries/The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Garry Marshall
  • Heather Matarazzo
  • John Rhys-Davies
  • Julie Andrews
Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 220 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £14.41

Review The Princess Diaries/The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement [2001] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Inspector Gadget 2 [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Martin
  • Caitlin Wachs
  • French Stewart
  • Elaine Hendrix
  • Mark Mitchell
  • Alex Zamm
Release date: 2003-05-12
Run time: 85 min.
Creator: William Robertson
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.99

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.

Review Walt Disney Video / Walt Disney's It's a Small World of Fun, Vol. 1 [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Kinney
  • Pinto Colvig
  • Charles A. Nichols
  • Bill Justice
  • Sterling Holloway
  • Kevin Corcoran
  • James MacDonald
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
Release date: 2006-05-16
Run time: 55 min.
Creator: Roy Williams
Price: £4.66

Review Walt Disney's It's a Small World of Fun, Vol. 1 [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Fantasia 2000 [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Martin
  • Gaëtan Brizzi
  • Don Hahn
  • Charles A. Nichols
  • Francis Glebas
  • Leopold Stokowski
  • Eric Goldberg
  • Kathleen Battle
  • James Levine
  • Ralph Grierson
Release date: 2000-11-14
Run time: 74 min.
Price: £35.95

Review Fantasia 2000 [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

More ambitious in scope than any of its other animated films (before or to come), Disney's 1940 Fantasia was a dizzying, magical and highly enjoyable marriage of classical music and animated images. Fantasia 2000, originally made for the IMAX large-screen format, features some breathtaking animation and storytelling, and in a few spots soars to wonderful high points, but it still more often than not has the feel of walking in its predecessor's footsteps as opposed to creating its own path. A family of whales swimming and soaring to Respighi's The Pines of Rome is magical to watch, but ends all too soon; a forest sprite's dance of life, death and rebirth to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring too clearly echoes the original Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria sequence. But when it's on target, Fantasia 2000 is glorious enough to make you giddy. Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a perfect narrative set to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Donald Duck's guest appearance as the assistant to Noah (of the Ark fame) set to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches is a welcome companion piece (though not an equal) to The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the one original Fantasia piece included here. The high point of Fantasia 2000, though, is a fantastic day-in-the-life sequence of 1930s New York City set to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and animated in the style of cartoonist Al Hirschfeld; it's a perfect melding of music, story and animation style. Let's hope future Fantasias (reportedly in the works) take a cue from the best of this compilation. The music is provided by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Levine, interspersed with negligible intros by Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Itzhak Perlman, James Earl Jones and others. -Mark Englehart.

Review Walt Disney Video / 102 Dalmatians [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Alice Evans
  • Ioan Gruffudd
  • Kevin Lima
  • Tim McInnerny
  • Glenn Close
  • Gérard Depardieu
Release date: 2001-04-03
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Noni White
Price: £29.95

Review 102 Dalmatians [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

It is rare to find a sequel which outdoes the original concept, particularly in the world of Disney movies, but 102 Dalmatians is an exception to the rule. The high jinks and action is back, with an additional puppy-the lovable Oddball, who has no spots-and of course the cruellest of villains, Cruella DeVil. After two years of rehabilitation Cruella is released into London's community once more-but this time insists on being called Ella, "Cruella just sounds so cruel"-but has the evil one really changed her ways to become not only a pillar of society, but also a dog-loving activist? Her probation officer Chloe is not convinced and added to that her dalmatians have just had puppies. Glenn Close is back in fine form as Cruella-this may be the defining role of her career-and with a great range of costumes and hair-dos she adds fantastic menace to the character. Added to this is the joy of having two British actors in the role of dog-loving humans (Ioan Gruffudd as Kevin and Alice Evans as Chloe)-instead of having to listen to the cod Dick Van Dyke English accent that Disney seems to love. The film also offers an extrovert turn by Gerard Depardieu as the flamboyant French Fashion designer Monsieur Le Pelt. Through Le Pelt this film does make some important references to the fur trade and the "No Logo-esque" fashion production methods-adding political humour for adults. However as always the true stars of the films are the animal actors themselves, with the talking parrot Waddlesworth who thinks he is a rottweiler (voiced by Eric Idle) and of course the true star Oddball-the cutest puppy since the promotion of a certain toilet roll! -Nikki Disney.

Review Sony Wonder / Sesame Street: All-Star Alphabet (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Colbert
  • Melissa Etheridge
  • Sheryl Crow
  • Nicole Sullivan
  • Eddy Matalon
  • Larry King
Release date: 2005-09-06
Run time: 48 min.
Price: £5.34

Review Sesame Street: All-Star Alphabet (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sony Wonder:


Review Walt Disney Video / Santa Clause 2 [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Michael Dorn
  • Wendy Crewson
  • Kevin Pollak
  • Michael Lembeck
  • David Krumholtz
  • Art La Fleur
Release date: 2003-11-18
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: George S. Clinton
Price: £8.13

Review Santa Clause 2 [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Considering how lame this sequel could have been, The Santa Clause 2 makes for a pleasant seasonal diversion. It's got the familiar smell of Disney marketeering, and more than a few parents will object to this further embellishment of the St Nick legend, but Tim Allen's amiable presence provides ample compensation. As a divorced dad who inherited the jolly man's job in The Santa Clause, Allen now faces another Yuletide challenge. According to the "Missus Clause" in his North Pole contract, he can't continue to be the real Santa until he gets married. As luck and five credited screenwriters would have it, Allen falls for the Scroogey principal (Elizabeth Mitchell) of his son's school, while a phoney, power-hungry duplicate Santa wreaks havoc on the North Pole's overworked elves. It's all as sweet as spiced eggnog, with that warmed-over feel of a mandated sequel, but the Christmas spirit does prevail with the sound of sleigh bells and Allen's rosy-cheeked "Ho, ho, ho!". -Jeff Shannon.

Review Walt Disney Video / The Hand That Rocks the Cradle [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julianne Moore
  • Ernie Hudson
  • Rebecca De Mornay
  • Matt McCoy
  • Annabella Sciorra
  • Curtis Hanson
Release date: 1998-12-08
Run time: 110 min.
Creator: Rick Jaffa
Price: £4.69

Review The Hand That Rocks the Cradle [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

A potboiler featuring a demented caretaker and a seemingly hapless suburban family, this is The Nanny of the 1990s. However, it is much more predictable than that 1965 Bette Davis psychodrama, and more graphic. It works only because Rebecca De Mornay makes us intensely uncomfortable as the disturbed au pair who wants to take care of much more than her employer's well-being. Annabella Sciorra plays the perfect mother of a flawless family. Her obstetrician, however, is less than wonderful, having enjoyed her examination much more than he should have. When she files sexual harassment charges against the repugnant doctor, he loses face-literally-after shooting himself in the head. Several months later, an ideal nanny shows up at her home. You guessed it-she's the doc's widow. The movie follows a tried and trusted formula, with the audience in on everything. However, the story does surprise us in intense and intimate ways. [+]
The visit to the obstetrician is one of the creepiest moments in the film. You definitely hear the voice of writer Amanda Silver in a plot concerned with the vulnerabilities of a family, a newborn, a marriage. Since we know so much up front, there is an overall lack of inventiveness in the plot machinations. It may not jolt us, but De Mornay does. It's unsettling to watch someone who appears so attractive and who behaves so kindly suddenly reveal hideous psychopathic tendencies. Restraining herself from going over the top, she instead oozes such malevolence you'll want to shudder. -Rochelle O'Gorman.

Review Walt Disney Video / The Jungle Book 2 [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Trenbirth
  • Tony Jay
  • Mae Whitman
  • Connor Funk
  • John Goodman
  • Haley Joel Osment
Release date: 2003-06-10
Run time: 72 min.
Creator: Tom Rogers
Price: £17.95

Review The Jungle Book 2 [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Bob the Builder / Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2008-10-14
Run time: 45 min.
Price: £5.88

Review Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Bob the Builder:


Review Walt Disney Video / Miracle of the White Stallions [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Curd Jürgens
  • Lilli Palmer
  • Robert Taylor
  • Eddie Albert
  • Arthur Hiller
  • James Franciscus
Release date: 2004-03-02
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Alois Podhajsky
Price: £5.18

Review Miracle of the White Stallions [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review ITV DVD / Thunderbirds: Collection Part 2 (Vols 5 - 8 ) [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • John Tate
Release date: 2004-07-19
Run time: 788 min.
Creator: Sylvia Anderson
RRP: £63.99
Price: £26.95

Review Thunderbirds: Collection Part 2 (Vols 5 - 8 ) [1965] / ITV DVD:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Operation Dumbo Drop [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Liotta
  • Doug E. Doug
  • Denis Leary
  • Corin Nemec
  • Danny Glover
  • Simon Wincer
Release date: 2001-02-12
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Jim Kouf
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.89

Review Operation Dumbo Drop [1995] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Actors & Directors
  • John Fiedler
  • Sterling Holloway
  • Sebastian Cabot
  • Hal Smith
  • Jon Walmsley
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
Release date: 1991-09-16
Run time: 24 min.
Creator: Vance Gerry
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.14

Review Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day [1968] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Hot Lead & Cold Feet [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Dale
  • Jack Elam
  • Robert Butler
  • Karen Valentine
  • Darren McGavin
  • Don Knotts
Release date: 2004-07-06
Run time: 90 min.
Creator: Rod Piffath
Price: £5.95

Review Hot Lead & Cold Feet [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Boys [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lukas Haas
  • Winona Ryder
  • Skeet Ulrich
  • Stacy Cochran
  • James LeGros
  • John C. Reilly
Release date: 2003-03-04
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: James Salter
Price: £3.84

Review Boys [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


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Peter Pan [1953] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Underdog [Blu-ray] [2007] [US Import], Summer Magic/Moon Spinner, The Complete Beatrix Potter Collection, Vol. 2 (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Princess Diaries/The Princess Diaries 2 - Royal Engagement [2001], Inspector Gadget 2 [2003], Walt Disney's It's a Small World of Fun, Vol. 1 [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fantasia 2000 [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 102 Dalmatians [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sesame Street: All-Star Alphabet (REGION 1) (NTSC), Santa Clause 2 [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Hand That Rocks the Cradle [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Jungle Book 2 [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bob the Builder: Bob's White Christmas (REGION 1) (NTSC), Miracle of the White Stallions [1962] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Thunderbirds: Collection Part 2 (Vols 5 - 8 ) [1965], Operation Dumbo Drop [1995], Winnie The Pooh And The Blustery Day [1968], Hot Lead & Cold Feet [1978] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Boys [1996] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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