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Review Walt Disney Home Video / Beauty And The Beast (Special Edition) [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard White
  • David Ogden Stiers
  • Kirk Wise
  • Gary Trousdale
  • Paige O'Hara
  • Robby Benson
  • Jerry Orbach
Release date: 2002-11-02
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £49.99

Review Beauty And The Beast (Special Edition) [1992] / Walt Disney Home Video:

The film that officially signalled Disney's animation renaissance and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's gloomy mansion. Naturally, Belle teaches the Beast to love. What makes this such a dazzler, besides the amazingly accomplished animation and the winning coterie of supporting characters (the Beast's mansion is overrun by quipping, dancing household items) is the array of beautiful and hilarious songs by composer Alan Menken and the late, lamented lyricist Howard Ashman, (winning the 1991 Oscar for Best Song and Menken's score won a trophy as well). The downright funniest song is "Gaston", a lout's paean to himself (including the immortal line, "I use antlers in all of my de-co-ra-ting"). "Be Our Guest" is transformed into an inspired Busby Berkeley homage. Since Ashman's passing, animated musicals haven't quite reached the same exhilarating level of wit, sophistication and pure joy. -David Kronke, Amazon. comOn the DVD: Beauty and the Beast's regular DVD release still offers some special features, but doesn't hold a candle to the Collector's Edition. The "making-of" featurette is informative charting the production from Walt Disney's original idea to the final musical version. [+]
"The Story Behind the Story" shows the origins of many of Disney's adapted fairy tales. The two games are fun, if a little slow to load. Celine Dion's original video is slightly on the dull side, but Jump 5's remixed version of "Tale as Old as Time" is just ridiculous. As always the sing-along track is great fun for all budding Belles or Beasts in the house. The transfer is as pristine as could be expected from a 1991 release. On the DVD: Beauty and the Beast's two-disc Collector's Edition really is the stuff of fairy tales. Disc 1 has three versions of the movie, the best being the "Work in Progress" edition which offers the unfinished film, sketch lines and all. The theatrical cut has a pristine transfer and the sound is immaculate. The director's commentary relies on a lot on name-dropping and you'll find more interesting insight in the "making-of" feature on the second disc. The sing-a-long track (as with all Disney releases) is fantastic, particularly for such a well-loved score. Disc 2 is packed full of information, fun and games. The best of the informative features is "Animation Magic", an intelligent look into the production of Disney cartoons. In the games section you'll need to head straight for the West Wing to continue an adventure with Chip (Tip: finish the game "Maurice's Workshop" first), but get your fingers warmed up as it needs a little remote control action. This disc only really falls down on the slowness of some of its games and the appalling remix video of "Tale as Old as Time". -Nikki Disney.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Popeye [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Ray Walston
  • Shelley Duvall
  • Paul Dooley
  • Robert Altman
  • Robin Williams
  • Linda Hunt
Release date: 2006-08-07
Run time: 113 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.22

Review Popeye [1980] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Nothing interests filmmaker Robert Altman more than a contained culture that mixes bare humanity with local eccentricity (think of his M*A*S*H and Nashville). So Altman's Popeye (1980), based on the old comic strip, works best as a portrait of a busy, cluttered, cartoonish town called Sweethaven. But it is much less successful as a comprehensible story about the famous sailor with massive forearms and a relationship with Olive Oyl (Shelley Duvall). Robin Williams plays Popeye with his usual brilliance for mimicry, Paul Dooley makes a credible Wimpy, and Paul L. Smith makes an impression as the oversized bully, Bluto. But this strange, disastrous film never becomes more than an expensive workshop airing out Altmanesque themes. - Tom Keogh.

Review Disney / The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Blu-ray]
Actors & Directors
  • Anna Popplewell
  • Georgie Henley
  • Ben Barnes
  • Andrew Adamson
  • William Moseley
  • Skandar Keynes
Release date: 2008-11-17
RRP: £26.99
Price: £16.98

Review The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Blu-ray] / Disney:

More exciting than The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian continues the movie franchise based on C. S. Lewis' classic fantasy books. The movie picks up where the first left off. sort of. It's been a year since the Pevensie children-Peter (William Moseley), Susan (Anna Popplewell), Edmund (Skandar Keynes), and Lucy (Georgie Henley)-returned to England from Narnia, and they've just about resigned themselves to living their ordinary lives. But just like that, they're once again transported to a fantastical land, but one with a long-abandoned castle. It turns out that they are in Narnia again-and they themselves lived in that castle, but hundreds of years ago in Narnia time. [+]
They've been summoned back to help Prince Caspian (Stardust's Ben Barnes, res! embling a young, cultured Keanu Reeves), the rightful heir to the throne who's become the target of his power-hungry uncle, King Miraz (Sergio Castellitto). And he's not the only one threatened: Miraz's people, the Telmarines, have pushed all the Narnians-the talking animals, the centaurs and other beasts, the walking trees-to the brink of extinction. Despite some alpha-male bickering, Peter and Caspian agree to fight Miraz alongside the remaining Narnians, including the dwarf Trumpkin (Peter Dinklage) and the swashbuckling mouse Reepicheep (voiced by Eddie Izzard). (Also appearing is Warwick Davis, who was in Willow and the 1989 BBC version of Prince Caspian. ) But of course they most of all miss the noble lion, Aslan, who would have never let this happen to Narnia if he hadn't disappeared. Prince Caspian is epic, evoking memories of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. (Some of the battle elements may seem too familiar, but they were in Lewis's book. ) And it's appropriate for kids (Reepicheep could have come out of a Shrek movie), though the tone is dark and there is a lot of death, albeit bloodless. After two successful films, Disney and Walden Media's franchise has proved successful enough that many of the characters are scheduled to return in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader. -David Horiuchi, Amazon. com.

Review Pokémon Chronicles / Pokemon Chronicles - Vol. 4 (Bumper Special)
Release date: 2008-03-31
Run time: 147 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.39

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Power Rangers - The Ultimate Rangers [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Oliver
  • Armand Garabidian
  • Vickie Bronaugh
  • Ronnie Paer
  • Robert V. Barron
  • Kurt Strauss
  • Ron Milbauer
  • Paul Schrier
  • Strathford Hamilton
  • Isaac Florentine
Release date: 2003-06-02
Run time: 160 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.44

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 Walt Disney Home Video / Peter Pan - Return To Neverland [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Budd
  • Harriet Owen|Kath Soucie|Corey Burton|Jeff Bennett
Release date: 2002-08-19
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.69

Review Peter Pan - Return To Neverland [2002] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Peter Pan soars back onto the screen in Disney's all-new animated feature, Return to Never Land. This sequel to the 1953 classic Peter Pan has a reassuringly old-fashioned feel, with computer-generated images and more-traditional artwork cleverly blended to recall the original. Wendy, now married with children, is living in a London ravaged by the blitz. Every night she enchants her small son with tales of pirates and Pan to distract him from the bombings but her serious young daughter Jane finds the stories of magic and fairies unconvincing in the face of a war-torn reality. After a fairly slow beginning establishing the bleak backdrop and the various characters-Jane's smug conscientiousness grates at times-the scene is set for the adventure to begin; and once the nefarious Hook and crew loom into sight, things really take off-literally. In Never Land nothing much has changed: the dastardly Captain Hook, now tormented by a clicking octopus rather than a ticking crocodile, just wants to be hated; his crew remain bloodthirsty but bumbling; and feisty fairy Tinker Bell shimmers around in a jealous strop when another female appears on the scene. Unfortunately, the story line hasn't changed much either, being a thin re-working of the original, although there is an interesting mirroring between mother and daughter-one who was afraid to grow-up and the other distrustful of childhood, with its emphasis on fun and lack of responsibility. It was never going to be easy to follow the original Peter Pan but Return to Never Land is an engaging sequel and the uplifting "So To Be One of Us" is Disney music at its best. (Ages 3 to 9)-Helen Baker.

Review Disney / Power Rangers: SPD (Complete Series) [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Brandon Jay McLaren
  • Matt Austin
  • Chris Violette
  • Monica May
  • Alycia Purrott
Release date: 2008-07-07
Run time: 800 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £16.98

Review Power Rangers: SPD (Complete Series) [2005] / Disney:


Review Mickey Mouse Clubhouse / Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - Mickey's Treat
Release date: 2008-09-22
Run time: 69 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £8.99

Review Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - Mickey's Treat / Mickey Mouse Clubhouse:

Mickey Mouse and his pals Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Pluto, Goofy, and Pete invite toddlers and preschoolers to join them in Mickey's clubhouse for some playtime fun and adventure that emphasises teamwork and aids in the development of logic and maths skills. In "Mickey's Treat", Mickey and his pals are dressing up in costumes to attend Big Pete's Halloween party-the only catch is they have to make their way along a candy corn path and through the foggy woods to get to the tower before the moon is full. Only by working together and using the appropriate "mousketools" can the group make it to Pete's party on time. "Goofy the Great" finds magician Goofy desperately in need of some practice before a big magic show. Luckily, he can count on Mickey and his friends for lots of encouragement and some counting and patterning help. In "Doctor Daisy, M. D. " Daisy works toward earning her pretend doctor sticker by seeing an office full of willing patients and curing their ills with a little help from her friends and some handy mousketools. -Tami Horiuchi.

Review Warner Music Vision / Madonna - Drowned World Tour Live [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Donna DeLory
  • Ruth Taveras
  • Niki Harris
  • Madonna
  • Hamish Hamilton
  • Christian Vincent (II)
Release date: 2001-11-19
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.00

Review Madonna - Drowned World Tour Live [2001] / Warner Music Vision:

The Queen of Pop has done it again and offered her fans and music impresarios alike a musical performance to be remembered. Madonna: Drowned World Tour-filmed in her home town of Detroit on August 26, 2001-is an amazing pop concert and a visually stunning modern-dance and multi-media piece encompassing all the recent incarnations of this chameleon-like performer. Never one to shy away from championing new styles, both in clothes and music, Madonna is still as raunchy as she was on her Erotica tour, but the Drowned World Tour also offers a much more effeminate and intelligent side to her performance. This time we see a Geisha/Japanese performance during "Frozen" and a jokey southern-belle line-dancing romp during "Don't Tell Me". The monarch of performance has also discovered the best way to undergo an elaborate costume change without keeping your audience waiting-simply ply them with stunningly directed music videos on a multitude of screens and hang two solitary male dancers upside down to perform feats of dance perfection. This truly impressive show holds as much for Madonna fans as it does for anyone who is interested in studying modern performance and dance routines-and Madonna is certainly well versed enough to teach in this field with almost 20 successful years in the business. The Drowned World Tour-rumoured to be her last live show-goes to prove that Madonna still reigns supreme. On the DVD: Although the special features are hardly a ray of light-simply an impressive photo gallery and some Web links-the picture and sound on this DVD are excellent. As a champion of all things new Madonna's DVD uses a picture perfect format of 4:3, and superb sound quality: with a choice of Dolby Digital 2. 0, 5. [+]
1 and DTS 5. 1 you'll feel like you're at the concert in a prime seat. Another impressive feature is the ability to view the song lyrics, allowing you to strut around your living room like a prima donna with this glamorous version of Karaoke! -Nikki Disney.

Review Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Pokemon 4Ever
Actors & Directors
  • Rachael Lillis
  • Madeleine Blaustein
  • Ikue Ootani
  • Veronica Taylor
  • Jim Malone
  • Eric Stuart (III)
  • Kunihiko Yuyama
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.22

Review Pokemon 4Ever / Buena Vista Home Entertainment:

The fourth Pokémon feature follows the pattern set by the previous three-and falls into the same traps. The TV series depicts the modest adventures of Pokémon trainer Ash Ketcham and his friends Brock and Misty as they roam an imaginary world, fighting matches and making friends. The features add elaborate CG effects that don't mesh with the flat, drawn characters, and over-scaled threats that feel beyond Ash's abilities to resolve. Forty years ago, Sam, a young trainer, meets the 251st Pokémon, Celebi (it looks like Tinkerbell with a goldfish for a head). To escape a mean hunter, Celebi brings Sam to the present day, where they meet Ash & Company. They also meet the evil Iron Mask Marauder who's supposed to be a member of Team Rocket, but who's much nastier than the comically inept Jessie, James, and Meowth. The Marauder corrupts Celebi with a "dark ball" and forces it to create a monster out of trees, branches, etc. , that is blatantly copied from the Night Walkerin Princess Mononoke. Ash and his friends eventually save the day, the Pokémon, and the forest-but it all feels like we've been there/done that. -Charles Solomon.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Lindsay Lohan
  • Alison Pill
  • Eli Marienthal
  • Glenne Headly
  • Adam Garcia
  • Sara Sugarman
Release date: 2004-10-25
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.49

Review Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen [2004] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Ugly Dachshund [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Parley Baer
  • Dean Jones
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Norman Tokar
  • Kelly Thordsen
  • Charles Ruggles
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.72

Review The Ugly Dachshund [1966] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

When a Great Dane puppy is raised with a litter of Dachshunds, it naturally thinks it's a Dachshund too-even when it grows to 10 times the size. Dean Jones and Suzanne Pleshette star as the hapless couple who took in the galumphing dog, which wreaks havoc on their house and home. The Ugly Dachshund is mostly a series of spectacular disasters (the doggy demolition of Jones's art studio will delight kids and reduce adults to nervous wrecks), but it's held together by the convincing domestic banter of Jones and Pleshette (who was quite a dish in 1965); the pair went on to star in a couple of other Disney live-action flicks, Bluebeard's Ghost and The Shaggy D. A. Despite some racial and gender stereotypes, it's a good-natured and amusing movie in the Disney mold. Also featuring classic character actor Charlie Ruggles (Bringing Up Baby, The Parent Trap). -Bret Fetzer.

Review Walt Disney Home Video /
Actors & Directors
  • Steve Martin
  • Mel Brooks
  • Edgar Bergen
  • The Muppets
  • Milton Berle
Release date: 2006-07-03
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.00

Review "Muppet Movie, The (50th Anniversary Special Edition) (DVD) " [1979] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review The Chronicles of Narnia / The Chronicles Of Narnia 4 DVD Box Set [1988]
Release date: 2005-11-14
Run time: 600 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £13.99

Review The Chronicles Of Narnia 4 DVD Box Set [1988] / The Chronicles of Narnia:


Review Spiderman and His Amazing Friends / Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends - Complete Season One (Marvel Originals Series - 80s) [1981]
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 286 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £11.98

Review Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends - Complete Season One (Marvel Originals Series - 80s) [1981] / Spiderman and His Amazing Friends:


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: £21.99
Price: £4.47

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


Review Tarzan/Hercules / Tarzan/Hercules
Release date: 2007-10-01
Run time: 174 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £10.93

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody (Vol 1.) - Taking Over The Tipton [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Richard Correll
  • Ashley Tisdale
  • Cole Sprouse
  • Dylan Sprouse
  • Phil Lewis
  • Brenda Song
Release date: 2008-04-21
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £20.99
Price: £8.98

Review The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody (Vol 1.) - Taking Over The Tipton [2005] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Sleeping Beauty [Blu-ray] [1958]
Actors & Directors
  • Eleanor Audley
  • Mary Costa
  • Bill Shirley
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
  • Bill Thompson
  • Les Clark
  • Verna Felton
  • Eric Larson
  • Clyde Geronimi
Release date: 2008-10-27
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £26.99
Price: £16.98

Review Sleeping Beauty [Blu-ray] [1958] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Ducktales the Movie / Duck Tales The Movie: Treasure Of The Lost Lamp
Release date: 2004-07-26
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.49

Review Duck Tales The Movie: Treasure Of The Lost Lamp / Ducktales the Movie:


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Beauty And The Beast (Special Edition) [1992], Popeye [1980], The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian [Blu-ray], Pokemon Chronicles - Vol. 4 (Bumper Special), Power Rangers - The Ultimate Rangers [2002], Peter Pan - Return To Neverland [2002], Power Rangers: SPD (Complete Series) [2005], Mickey Mouse Clubhouse - Mickey's Treat, Madonna - Drowned World Tour Live [2001], Pokemon 4Ever, Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen [2004], The Ugly Dachshund [1966], "Muppet Movie, The (50th Anniversary Special Edition) (DVD) " [1979], The Chronicles Of Narnia 4 DVD Box Set [1988], Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends - Complete Season One (Marvel Originals Series - 80s) [1981], Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey In Living Colour [1935], Tarzan/Hercules, The Suite Life Of Zack And Cody (Vol 1.) - Taking Over The Tipton [2005], Sleeping Beauty [Blu-ray] [1958], Duck Tales The Movie: Treasure Of The Lost Lamp

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