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Review Universal Music / Girls Aloud- What Will The Neighbours Say? Live in Concert [2005] [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Girls Aloud
Release date: 2005-11-07
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.38

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Lizzie McGuire Movie [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Hilary Duff
  • Hallie Todd
  • Robert Carradine
  • Adam Lamberg
  • Jake Thomas
  • Jim Fall
Release date: 2004-02-02
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.50

Review The Lizzie McGuire Movie [2003] / Walt Disney Home Video:

The Lizzie McGuire Movie spins around the axis of Disney Channel starlet Hilary Duff, whose glossy good looks and rather mature figure are balanced by a sweetly bashful persona and an endearing klutziness. On a school trip to Rome, Lizzie is discovered to be the virtual twin of an Italian pop star named Isabella-and her dreamy former partner wants Lizzie to take Isabella's place at an award show to avoid a lawsuit. Only Lizzie's loyal best friend Gordo (Adam Lamberg) suspects that Paolo may not be all that he seems. The Lizzie McGuire Movie is competent fluff, with the most fun to be had coming from Lizzie's pesky little brother (Jake Thomas) and his Machiavellian friend Melina (Carly Schroeder), who plot to humiliate Lizzie for fun and personal gain. It also features Alex Borstein as Lizzie's tyrannical principal and chaperone. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Power Rangers - The Ultimate Rangers [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Schrier
  • Jason Narvy
  • Richard Steven Horvitz
  • Amy Jo Johnson
  • David Yost
Release date: 2003-06-02
Run time: 160 min.
Creator: Jack Olesker
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.70

Review Power Rangers - The Ultimate Rangers [2002] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Chosen by fans, the five Power Rangers episodes on this disc are a cross-section of major events from the long-running series. "White Light Parts 1 & 2," from season two, finds Lord Zedd unleashing the very strange Scarlet Sentinel, and the Rangers in nervous anticipation of their new leader, the unidentified White Ranger. "Countdown to Destruction Parts 1 & 2" would probably impress Roger Corman with its budget-conscious but slick mix of stock footage, computer effects, and rapid cutting in the story of the Rangers' near-defeat battling an invasion of Earth. Another nostalgic favorite, "Wild Force: Forever Red," involves an exciting reunion of past and present Red Rangers. Wild, crazy, engrossing stuff, though special features would have been nice. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review EMI / Robbie Williams - What We Did Last Summer - Robbie Williams Live At Knebworth [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Robbie Williams
Release date: 2003-11-24
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £8.99

Review Robbie Williams - What We Did Last Summer - Robbie Williams Live At Knebworth [2003] / EMI:

What We Did Last Summer records the three August days in 2003 in which (it seemed) most of the Home Counties converged on rural Hertfordshire for Robbie Williams's record-breaking Knebworth gigs. For the 375,000 fans (or pilgrims) who endured the massive traffic jams and the sweltering heat to attend the concerts, Williams is their pop messiah-an image the star seems content to cultivate throughout the two-hour set. Opening the concert in the style of another who wowed the masses, the stage curtains fall to reveal Robbie hanging upside down like Houdini in an escapologist costume; and like that master showman, Williams manages to keep his audience spellbound too. Despite the tens of thousands at the gig, Robbie does his best to interact with the audience, utilising his charm in an almost impossible attempt to persuade the masses that he's performing individually to each and every one of them. Various items of Robbie's attire are thrown into the audience, and one good-looking female fan is pulled from the front row, an event that Mr Williams uses to his own benefit by consensually sticking his tongue down her throat. He also takes advantage of the size of the audience and the fading light, by requesting that those with cameras use them at the exact same moment. Like a galaxy of pulsating stars, the camera flashes look spectacular, an effect that could only have been witnessed at the time by those lucky enough to be on stage. Consisting mainly of greatest hits and tracks from Escapology, the show connects the familiar with the lesser-known songs. Nonetheless, despite this mix of old and new, there's a slight air of weariness about the gig. Maybe it's the plethora of other Robbie DVDs available, his sheer over-familiarity, or perhaps, as the star himself suggests, now that he's reached the pinnacle of his career he has nowhere else to go. [+]
Only time will tell whether the fans stay loyal, but this concert provides an excellent memento of Robbie on top. On the DVD: What We Did Last Summer has the two-hour gig on the first disc, presented with a choice of spectacular sound options: DTS 5. 1, Dolby Digital 5. 1 or Stereo. The second disc, frankly, has a paltry amount of bonus material that takes up a fraction of the potential space available. The DVD-ROM extras should also come with a health warning, particularly the PC sound effects/clips, which have the potential to test the patience of a saint. Luckily there are a number of hidden extras including Robbie's legendary live performance of "Back for Good" with former Take That bandmate Mark Owen. -John Galilee.

Review Bear in the Big Blue House / Bear In The Big Blue House - Dance Party
Release date: 2005-06-13
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.13

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Review Avid Entertainment / The Greatest Karaoke DVD...Ever! [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Various Artists
Release date: 2000-10-09
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.75

Review The Greatest Karaoke DVD...Ever! [2000] / Avid Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Black Hole [1979]
Actors & Directors
  • Yvette Mimieux
  • Anthony Perkins
  • Joseph Bottoms
  • Maximilian Schell
  • Gary Nelson
  • Robert Forster
Release date: 2006-02-06
Run time: 91 min.
Creator: Richard H. Landau
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.23

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Review Bear in the Big Blue House / Bear In The Big Blue House - Potty Time
Release date: 2005-04-04
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.13

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Pocahontas 2 -Journey To A New World [1998]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Cummings
  • Donal Gibson
  • Irene Bedard
  • Linda Hunt
  • Tom Ellery
  • Finola Hughes
  • Bradley Raymond
Release date: 2001-02-05
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Flip Kobler
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.14

Review Pocahontas 2 -Journey To A New World [1998] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Disney's direct-to-video sequel to their 1995 hit places the Native American princess Pocahontas in harm's way in London, where she is almost tossed into jail and has some other mishaps. She's not alone, however: a cute racoon named Meeko does a nice job as the obligatory funny animal. The songs are about as memorable as those in the first film, but the art and animation maintain far higher standards than most animated sequels dumped onto tape. If you don't drive yourself nuts thinking about the appalling historical revisionism at work here, this is passable family entertainment. -Tom Keogh Disney's direct-to-video sequel to their 1995 hit places Pocahontas in harm's way in London, where she is almost tossed into jail and has some other mishaps. She's not alone, however: a cute racoon named Meeko does a nice job as the obligatory funny animal. The songs are about as memorable as those in the first film, but the art and animation in Pocahontas 2 maintain far higher standards than most animated sequels dumped onto tape. If you don't drive yourself to distraction thinking about the appalling historical revisionism at work here, this is passable family entertainment. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Bear in the Big Blue House / Bear In The Big Blue House - Shapes, Sounds And Colours
Release date: 2005-04-04
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £2.65

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Tarzan (2 Disc Special Edition)
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Goldwyn
  • Kevin Lima
  • Nigel Hawthorne
  • Brian Blessed
  • Chris Buck
  • Minnie Driver
  • Glenn Close
Release date: 2005-05-09
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.09

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey In Living Colour [1935]
Actors & Directors
  • Mickey Mouse
Release date: 2004-05-03
Run time: 259 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.20

Review Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey In Living Colour [1935] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review The Pokémon Chronicles / The Pokemon Chronicles - Vols. 2 And 3
Release date: 2007-05-28
Run time: 205 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.38

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Review Buena Vista Home Entertainment / The Muppets' Wizard of Oz [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Quentin Tarantino
  • David Alan Grier
  • Edward Hibbert
  • Queen Latifah
  • Kirk R. Thatcher
  • The Muppets
Release date: 2006-04-03
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.70

Review The Muppets' Wizard of Oz [2005] / Buena Vista Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Pacifier [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Faith Ford
  • Lauren Graham
  • Brittany Snow
  • Adam Shankman
  • Max Thieriot
  • Vin Diesel
Release date: 2005-09-12
Run time: 91 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £2.50

Review The Pacifier [2005] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Vin Diesel is game to soften his tough-guy image in The Pacifier, in which he plays hot-shot Navy S. E. A. L. Shane Wolfe, whose latest mission goes awry when the scientist he's sent to rescue is popped off before he can tell Wolfe where he's hidden some Top Secret software something-or-other. Before you can say Kindergarten Cop, Wolfe is assigned guard duty at the scientist's family home, where he's left with some unruly kids when the widow (Faith Ford) takes off to Switzerland to claim her hubby's safety deposit box under the guidance of Wolfe's superior officer. The trouble with this paint-by-numbers fish-out-of-water kiddie comedy is that Diesel himself is a fish out of water in the movie-he's no comic and is far funnier when he's unintentionally spoofing macho heroics in The Chronicles of Riddick. The film limply throws everything it can at you, including the idea of Wolfe directing a community theater production of The Sound of Music, but is just biding its time until the predictable action climax and hugs-all-around denouement. Vin doesn't look embarrassed, but the supporting cast sure does, especially Everybody Loves Raymond's Brad Garrett as a bombastic vice principal and Gilmore Girls' Lauren Graham as Garrett's boss and Diesel's sudden love interest. -Steve Wiecking, Amazon. [+]
com.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Winnie The Pooh - Pooh's Heffalump Movie [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • John Fiedler
  • Jim Cummings
  • Frank Nissen
  • Nikita Hopkins
  • Peter Cullen
  • Brenda Blethyn
Release date: 2005-07-11
Run time: 65 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.21

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / Old Yeller [1957]
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Corcoran
  • Tommy Kirk
  • Fess Parker
  • Jeff York
  • Dorothy McGuire
  • Robert Stevenson
Release date: 2006-04-03
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.13

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Review Warner Home Video / Pokemon 3: The Movie [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Kunihiko Yuyama
  • Veronica Taylor
  • Rachael Lillis
  • Eric Stuart
  • Ikue Ootani
  • Michael Haigney
  • Madeleine Blaustein
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Takeshi Shudo
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.64

Review Pokemon 3: The Movie [2001] / Warner Home Video:

The most elaborate of the features to date, Pokémon 3: Spell of the Unown introduces new Pokémon that debuted in the fall of 2000 in the Gold and Silver-edition Game Boy games. En route to the Johto Tournament, Ash, Brock and Misty visit the mountain village of Greenfield, where they encounter an 8-year-old girl named Molly. Her father, Professor Spencer Hale, disappeared when he set off to study the Unown, a group of 26 Pokémon that resemble letters. The Unown build a baroque crystalline shell around Molly's palatial home, send the leonine Entei to watch over her and grant whatever she wishes-except the return of her father. What Molly really wants is a family: she refers to Entei as her father and has him kidnap Ash's mum to be her mother. Ash charges to the rescue with the help of Pikachu, Charizard and Cyndaquil. In the climactic battle, Ash is joined by Brock and Misty, as well as the usually villainous Team Rocket. ("We figure if we don't help you, we're outta showbiz," Meowth explains. ) Molly's father eventually reappears, but the viewer never sees the reunion with his daughter. Ash, Molly and the other two-dimensional characters simply don't fit into three-dimensional, computer-generated crystal settings, and large sections of Pokémon 3 look like two films unsuccessfully spliced together. [+]
-Charles Solomon, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Ratatouille/Pixar Shorts [Blu-ray]
Actors & Directors
  • Patton Oswalt
  • Brad Garrett
  • Brad Bird
  • Brian Dennehy
  • Jan Pinkava
  • Ian Holm
  • Lou Romano
Release date: 2008-02-11
Run time: 158 min.
Creator: Kathy Greenberg
RRP: £34.99
Price: £22.45

Review Ratatouille/Pixar Shorts [Blu-ray] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Ratatouille As good a film as Pixar has ever put out, Ratatouille is a frantic, innovative movie, boasting some of the finest quality animation ever put on the screen. The film tells the story of wannabe-chef Remy The Rat, who becomes drawn into the mantra of legendary cook Gusteau, that anyone can cook. The deceased Gusteau's ghostly image appears to Remy and guides him to his restaurant, whose standards have been slipping since his death. Remy, through the manipulation of a lowly restaurant worker called Linguini, soon starts secretly cooking the food, and this unusual set-up proves to be a trove of treasures that Pixar carefully picks through. Ratatouille's trick is to tie its cutting edge animation techniques to old-school essentials. At times harking back to the frenetic style you'd expect of Chuck Jones, it threads an original narrative through its story, which itself is packed with memorable characters (none more so than Peter O'Toole's superbly-voiced restaurant critic). It perhaps runs a little too long, but it's so well-written and so lavishly entertaining that it's a churlish complaint to have. For in an era of cynically-produced family movies, Ratatouille is really something special. With an appeal that spreads across generations, and a quality that puts it right up there with Pixar's finest, it's an outstanding piece of cinema, and one set to be enjoyed for many, many years. Unmissable. [+]
-Simon Brew Pixar Shorts Pixar's unprecedented string of hit animated features was built on the short films in this collection. John Lasseter and Ed Catmull used these cartoons the way Walt Disney used the "Silly Symphonies" during the 1930s: as a training ground for artists and a way to explore the potential of a new medium. Although it's only 90 seconds long, "Luxo, Jr. " (1986) ranks as the "Steamboat Willie" of computer animation: For the first time, audiences believed CG characters could think and feel. (It was also the first CGI film to make audiences laugh. ) When the artists began work on Toy Story, they had learned so much from the shorts, they were ready to undertake that landmark creation. In the later shorts, the viewer can see the artists continuing to experiment: with a more realistic human figure in "Geri's Game" and with new ways of suggesting atmospheric effects in "Boundin'. " Some of the more recent shorts continue the adventures of the characters from the features. "Jack-Jack Attack" reveals what happened to the hapless baby-sitter while The Incredibles were off fighting Syndrome, while "Mater and the Ghost Light" shows that life goes on for the inhabitants of Radiator Springs. When Sully from Monsters, Inc. tries to adjust his seat in "Mike's New Car," the animators prolong the moment to wring every drop of humour from the situation-just as an earlier generation of animators milked Wile E. Coyote's antics for all they were worth. The long-unseen films for Sesame Street are an unexpected bonus. A delightful collection of entertaining shorts, and a significant chronicle of the growth of computer animation. -Charles Solomon.

Review Sony BMG / Will Young - Live In London
Actors & Directors
  • Will Young
Release date: 2005-03-21
RRP: £17.99
Price: £1.99

Review Will Young - Live In London / Sony BMG:

Will Young's latest 'in concert' DVD Live in London finds the former Exeter Uni politics graduate turned original Pop Idol champ and latterday Brit Award winner wooing - rather successfully - the largely female party faithful in the cavernous surroundings of Wembley Arena in December 2004. It's a grand stage for a chap who seems rather like a paragon of old-school British inhibition and no amount of hot 'n' loose sub-Cuban grooving ("Over You"), dance exertion or even an invitation to "Light My Fire" results in the breaking of much sweat from his brow. But you can't help warming to his reluctance. Celebrity for celebrity's sake is - quite possibly - some way down the list on Young's priorities and he's evidently working on his more-than-ample talent. And how refreshing that his musical and dancing entourage - far from being faceless supporting technocrats languishing in the shadows - are utterly and democratically integral to the Will Young live experience. Live in London is also loaded with juicy extras including the videos for "Your Game", "Leave Right Now" and "Friday's Child", interviews and fly-on-the-wall footage of rehearsals, choreography not to mention fooling around in clown's clothing. -Kevin Maidment.

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Girls Aloud- What Will The Neighbours Say? Live in Concert [2005] [2007], The Lizzie McGuire Movie [2003], Power Rangers - The Ultimate Rangers [2002], Robbie Williams - What We Did Last Summer - Robbie Williams Live At Knebworth [2003], Bear In The Big Blue House - Dance Party, The Greatest Karaoke DVD...Ever! [2000], The Black Hole [1979], Bear In The Big Blue House - Potty Time, Pocahontas 2 -Journey To A New World [1998], Bear In The Big Blue House - Shapes, Sounds And Colours, Tarzan (2 Disc Special Edition), Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey In Living Colour [1935], The Pokemon Chronicles - Vols. 2 And 3, The Muppets' Wizard of Oz [2005], The Pacifier [2005], Winnie The Pooh - Pooh's Heffalump Movie [2005], Old Yeller [1957], Pokemon 3: The Movie [2001], Ratatouille/Pixar Shorts [Blu-ray], Will Young - Live In London

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