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Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 2 - The Secret Of The Bell [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Alexander
  • Charles Kimbrough
  • Kevin Kline
  • Tom Hulce
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt
Release date: 2002-05-20
Run time: 63 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.88

Review The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 2 - The Secret Of The Bell [2001] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Most of the original characters-plus a few new ones-return in Hunchback Of Notre Dame II. Esmeralda (Demi Moore) and Phoebus (Kevin Kline) now have a son named Zephyr (Haley Joel Osment), with whom Quasi (Tom Hulce) has become friends. When the circus comes to town, the hunchback becomes enchanted by magician's assistant, Madellaine (Jennifer Love Hewitt), but the vain Sarousch (Michael McKean) is also a thief with an eye for the cathedral's jewelled bell. He forces Madellaine to woo Quasi while he carries out the theft. Will he get away with it? Will Madellaine learn to see the inner Quasi? And will Quasi be able to trust again when he learns of her deception? Songs and humorous hijinks from the gargoyles, such as Jason Alexander's Hugo, illustrate the lesson that-as in the first feature-you can't judge a book by its cover. This sequel is squarely aimed at a younger audience than the original, ages 5-10 should be very entertained. -Kathleen C. Fennessy, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Video / Walt Disney Treasures: Walt's Tomorrowland - Disney in Space and Beyond (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2004-05-18
Run time: 240 min.
Price: £14.26

Review Walt Disney Treasures: Walt's Tomorrowland - Disney in Space and Beyond (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Disney's Ducktales, Vol. 2 [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Anselmo
  • Brian Cummings
  • Corey Burton
  • Miriam Flynn
  • Steve Clark (VIII)
  • Hamilton Camp
  • Fred Wolf
Release date: 2006-11-14
Run time: 667 min.
Price: £13.99

Review Disney's Ducktales, Vol. 2 [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Anne Christianson
  • Don Alder
  • Ted D'Arms
  • Duwayne Dunham
  • Kevin Chevalia
  • Ed Bernard
Release date: 2000-12-12
Run time: 84 min.
Price: £3.79

Review Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Walt Disney studios had previously adapted Sheila Burnford's classic animal-adventure novel The Incredible Journey in 1963, and the story proves just as durable in this popular 1993 version, Homeward Bound, in which the heroic trio of animals are given voices provided by Don Ameche, Michael J Fox, and Sally Field. They don't actually speak (like the clever critters in Babe), but we hear their "voices" as the lost household pets-Shadow the golden retriever, Chance the bulldog, and Sassy the cat-survive a harrowing series of adventures as they struggle to find their way home. Perfect entertainment for kids, this frequently clever movie offers an abundance of wildlife and beautiful location scenery, and the vocal performances by Ameche, Fox and Field are surprisingly effective. A hit with parents and children alike, the film was followed by a sequel in 1996. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Walt Disney Video / Sing Along Songs: Lion King - Circle of Life [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Corey Burton
  • Jodi Benson
  • Jason Weaver
  • Mary Kay Bergman
  • Rowan Atkinson
Release date: 2003-04-01
Run time: 40 min.
Price: £5.10

Review Sing Along Songs: Lion King - Circle of Life [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Princess Mononoke [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Hayao Miyazaki
  • Kaoru Kobayashi
  • Yûko Tanaka
  • Yôji Matsuda
  • Yuriko Ishida
  • Masahiko Nishimura
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 130 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £20.99

Review Princess Mononoke [2001] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Princess Mononoke has already made history as the top-grossing domestic feature ever released in Japan, where its combination of mythic themes, mystical forces, and ravishing visuals tapped deeply into cultural identity and contemporary, ecological anxieties. For international animation and anime fans, this epic, animated 1997 fantasy, represents an auspicious next step for its revered creator, Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service), an acknowledged anime pioneer, whose painterly style, vivid character design, and stylised approach to storytelling take ambitious, evolutionary steps here. Set in medieval Japan, Miyazaki's original story envisions a struggle between nature and man. The march of technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara clan, threatens the natural forces explicit in the benevolent Great God of the Forest and the wide-eyed, spectral spirits he protects. When Ashitaka, a young warrior from a remote, and endangered, village clan, kills a ravenous, boar-like monster, he discovers the beast is in fact an infectious "demon god", transformed by human anger. Ashitaka's quest to solve the beast's fatal curse brings him into the midst of human political intrigues as well as the more crucial battle between man and nature. Miyazaki's convoluted fable is clearly not the stuff of kiddie matinees, nor is the often graphic violence depicted during the battles that ensue. If some younger viewers (or less attentive older ones) will wish for a diagram to sort out the players, Miyazaki's atmospheric world and its lush visual design are reasons enough to watch. For the English-language version, Miramax assembled an impressive vocal cast including Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup (as Ashitaka), Claire Danes (as San), Minnie Driver (as Lady Eboshi), Billy Bob Thornton, and Jada Pinkett Smith. They bring added nuance to a very different kind of magic kingdom. [+]
- Sam Sutherland, Amazon. com On the DVD: with an impressive widescreen aspect of 2. 35:1 and a pleasant 5. 1 Dolby digital sound, you cannot fault the transfer of this animation in any way. However, the special features leave a lot to be desired on what is a classic piece of modern anime. The "Behind the Scenes" feature holds no information on the making of Princess Mononoke in its original form-with no input from animator Hayao Miyazaki-and the trailer is taken from the American release of the movie (even though it calls itself an "original" theatrical trailer), complete with the annoyingly hyped-up voiceover that comes with US film trailers. The redeeming feature of this DVD is the ability to watch the anime in its original language with subtitles, a much more passionate and beautiful form-so much of the feeling and lyricism of the movie is lost with the transfer to English language and misplaced casting. After watching the original Japanese version of Princess Mononoke and reading the book you begin to wonder why the West has become such a solitary child of Disney. -Nikki Disney.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Magical World Of Winnie The Pooh - Vol. 4 - A Great Day Of Discovery
Actors & Directors
  • Winnie The Pooh
Release date: 2003-09-29
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.70

Review Magical World Of Winnie The Pooh - Vol. 4 - A Great Day Of Discovery / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Beverly Hills Family Robinson [1998] [1977]
Actors & Directors
  • Dyan Cannon
  • Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • Martin Mull
  • Ryan O'Donohue
  • Josh Picker
  • Troy Miller
Release date: 2006-08-07
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.84

Review Beverly Hills Family Robinson [1998] [1977] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Fun And Fancy Free (Disney) [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Cliff Edwards
  • Edgar Bergen
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Jack Kinney
  • William Morgan
  • Clarence Nash
  • Luana Patten
  • Walt Disney
Release date: 2000-07-03
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £4.75

Review Fun And Fancy Free (Disney) [1948] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe [UMD Mini for PSP] [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Skandar Keynes
  • Tilda Swinton
  • Anna Popplewell
  • William Moseley
  • Georgie Henley
  • Andrew Adamson
Release date: 2006-04-04
Run time: 135 min.
Price: £6.93

Review The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe [UMD Mini for PSP] [2005] / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Lion King 1 1/2 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jerry Stiller
  • Nathan Lane
  • Bradley Raymond
  • Matthew Broderick
  • Julie Kavner
  • Ernie Sabella
Release date: 2004-02-10
Run time: 77 min.
Price: £32.95

Review The Lion King 1 1/2 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

The Lion King 3: Hakuna Matata is an ingenious sequel that retells the original film's story from the perspective of best pals Timon the meerkat (voiced by Nathan Lane) and Pumbaa the warthog (Ernie Sabella). Anyone who has wondered how this odd couple met will find out here, beginning with Timon's flight from home following disgrace and his chance encounter with the sweet but lonely Pumbaa. With the arrival of young Simba (Shaun Flemming), The Lion King's familiar tale is reborn via a fresh angle, fleshed out by returning characters Rafiki the wise monkey (Robert Guillaume), Shenzi (Whoopi Goldberg), and Simba's love interest, Nala (Moira Kelly). While the retooled narrative proves a novel experience, The Lion King 3 is really a vehicle for voice actors Lane and Sabella, whose comic performances are shamelessly, broadly funny. Matthew Broderick, Julie Kavner, and Jerry Stiller are also in the vocal cast. The film was released in the US with the title The Lion King 1½-Tom Keogh.

Review Walt Disney Video / What's Love Got to Do With It? [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Angela Bassett
  • Dororthy Thorton
  • Virginia Capers
  • Brian Gibson
  • Rae'Ven Larrymore Kelly
  • Laurence Fishburne
Release date: 1999-08-24
Run time: 118 min.
Price: £3.78

Review What's Love Got to Do With It? [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Tina Turner, that dynamic diva of pop/soul/R&B from the 1960s to the 90s, sings like a woman whose life story is every bit as rough and tough as her voice. And What's Love Got to Do With It, based on her autobiographical account (in I, Tina, written with Kurt Loder) of her years under the iron fist of her abusive husband and musical partner/Svengali Ike, is further proof of what we've always known about Tina: She's what you call a survivor. The movie is sort of the Disney version of Tina Turner's story-a glossy but thoroughly enjoyable, old-fashioned showbiz biopic with laughs, tears, great music, and outrageous (but faithful) period decor, costumes, makeup, and hairstyles. Our Heroine triumphs not only over the rigorous demands of her career in the music business, but finally manages to bust out of her troubled, violent marriage as well and become her own person. This is a movie that'll have you shouting at the top of your lungs: "You go, girl!" -Jim Emerson.

Review Action Man / Action Man
Release date: 2007-06-04
Run time: 107 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £0.01

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Review X-Men Evolution / X-Men Evolution - Mutants Rising [2000]
Release date: 2003-11-03
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £0.98

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Review Transformers / Transformers - Takara - Masterforce
Release date: 2006-05-15
Run time: 967 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £5.96

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Review Disney / Dumbo [1942]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Brophy
  • Herman Bing
  • Ben Sharpsteen
  • Verna Felton
  • Cliff Edwards
  • Sterling Holloway
Release date: 2001-10-15
RRP: £19.99
Price: £46.49

Review Dumbo [1942] / Disney:

A Disney "classic" that actually is a classic, Dumbo should be part of your video collection whether or not you have children. The storytelling was never as lean as here, the songs rarely as haunting (or just plain weird), the characters rarely so well-defined. The film pits the "cold, cruel, heartless" world that can't accept abnormality against a plucky, and mute, hero. Jumbo Jr (Dumbo is a mean-spirited nickname) is ostracised from the circus pack shortly after his delivery by the stork because of his big ears. His mother sticks up for him and is shackled. He's jeered by children (an insightful scene has one boy poking fun at Dumbo's ears, even though the youngster's ears are also ungainly), used by the circus folk and demoted to appearing with the clowns. Only the decent Timothy Q. Mouse looks out for the little guy. Concerns about the un-PC "Jim Crow" crows, who mock Dumbo with the wonderful "When I See an Elephant Fly", should be moderated by remembering that the crows are the only social group in the film who act kindly to the little outcast. If you don't mist up during the "Baby Mine" scene, you should be legally pronounced dead. [+]
-Keith Simanton, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Video / Green Card [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Gregg Edelman
  • Bebe Neuwirth
  • Andie MacDowell
  • Robert Prosky
  • Gérard Depardieu
  • Peter Weir
Release date: 2003-03-04
Run time: 107 min.
Price: £2.96

Review Green Card [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

In the delightful romantic comedy Green Card, Georges (Gérard Depardieu), a composer and one-time petty thief who grew up in poverty, attempts to escape his life in Paris and begin anew in America by illegally marrying Bronte (Andie MacDowell), a prim and repressed young lady from a privileged life in Connecticut. Bronte, who has agreed to the scheme for her own self-serving reasons, is exasperated when the Immigration & Naturalisation Service investigates their case, and she and Georges, whom she detests, must spend time together studying each other's lives to avoid disaster. The fallout is infinitely better handled than any run-of-the-mill Hollywood romantic comedy, and the very ending itself stops deliciously short of where Hollywood would feel compelled to drag the story. Fine performances are given by MacDowell, Depardieu-who is fiercely charming pounding the keyboard of a Steinway at an upper class Manhattan dinner party-and Bebe Neuwirth, who is perfect as an upper-class child turned artist who revels in her irresponsibility. -James McGrath, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Video / 3 Ninjas [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Rand Kingsley
  • Max Elliott Slade
  • Chad Power
  • Victor Wong (III)
  • Jon Turteltaub
  • Michael Treanor
Release date: 2003-06-03
Run time: 85 min.
Price: £2.99

Review 3 Ninjas [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

A slightly better movie than you might be expecting, 3 Ninjas is a variation on The Karate Kid that has three youngsters helping out their grandfather in his fight against evil ninja warriors. The real secret weapon is director Jon Turtletaub, paying some dues on this 1992 family feature. He subsequently went on to direct John Travolta in Phenomenon and Sandra Bullock in While You Were Sleeping. -Tom Keogh.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Oliver And Company (Disney) [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • George Scribner
  • Billy Joel
  • Cheech Marin
  • Richard Mulligan
  • Joseph Lawrence (II)
  • Roscoe Lee Browne
Release date: 1997-09-15
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.95

Review Oliver And Company (Disney) [1989] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Disney does Dickens in this animated version of Oliver Twist, in which a homeless New York City cat falls in with a bunch of mischievous dogs under the leadership of the appealing scoundrel Fagin. The roots of Disney's success with animation in the 1990s begins with this clever, energetic, atmospheric movie, which succeeds in capturing the grim world Dickens conjured. Lyricist Howard Ashman (The Little Mermaid) worked on the songs, the best of which is sung by Billy Joel, who provides the voice of (the Artful) Dodger. -Tom Keogh.

Review Metrodome / Transformers: The Movie [UMD Mini for PSP] [1986]
Release date: 2005-09-12
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £14.99

Review Transformers: The Movie [UMD Mini for PSP] [1986] / Metrodome:

During the 1980s, one cartoon series ruled the airwaves. Transformers. This paragon of consumerism was created with a dual purpose: to entertain and to galvanise children to buy the toys. Somewhere along the line, the show became a cult favourite, so in 1986 they fashioned an epic tale of good versus evil specifically for the big screen. The result looked vaguely like an animated remake of Star Wars. Who are the Transformers? The good guys are the Autobots: Optimus Prime, SoundWave, Jazz, Ultra Magnus, and many more. Their mortal enemies are the evil Decepticons, led by Megatron and StarScream. The Autobots must save their home planet from an evil entity known as Unicron (voiced by Orson Welles). [+]
At the same time, they must defend themselves from an all-out attack from the Decepticons. Along the way, lives are lost, battles are fought, and a new Autobot leader is born as another dies. The story and action never stop in a thrilling ride that often makes you forget that you're watching an 80s cartoon with inferior graphics. The violence will also come as a mild shock to those who haven't seen this film for a while-definitely a movie for the 8 and over audience. -Jeremy Storey.

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The Hunchback Of Notre Dame 2 - The Secret Of The Bell [2001], Walt Disney Treasures: Walt's Tomorrowland - Disney in Space and Beyond (REGION 1) (NTSC), Disney's Ducktales, Vol. 2 [2006] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Sing Along Songs: Lion King - Circle of Life [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Princess Mononoke [2001], Magical World Of Winnie The Pooh - Vol. 4 - A Great Day Of Discovery, Beverly Hills Family Robinson [1998] [1977], Fun And Fancy Free (Disney) [1948], The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe [UMD Mini for PSP] [2005], The Lion King 1 1/2 [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC), What's Love Got to Do With It? [1993] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Action Man, X-Men Evolution - Mutants Rising [2000], Transformers - Takara - Masterforce, Dumbo [1942], Green Card [1990] (REGION 1) (NTSC), 3 Ninjas [1992] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Oliver And Company (Disney) [1989], Transformers: The Movie [UMD Mini for PSP] [1986]

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