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Review Walt Disney Video / Phil of the Future: Gadgets & Gizmos (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Tim O'Donnell
  • Sean McNamara
  • Neal Israel
Release date: 2005-08-16
Run time: 89 min.
Creator: Tom Burkhard
Price: £8.79

Review Phil of the Future: Gadgets & Gizmos (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Belle's Magical World / Beauty And The Beast [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeff Bennett
  • Dale Kase
  • Bob Kline
  • Burt Medall
  • Jim Cummings
  • Cullen Blaine
  • Robby Benson
  • Paige O'Hara
  • Barbara Dourmashkin
  • Gregory Grudt
Release date: 2003-06-02
Run time: 149 min.
Creator: Alice Brown
RRP: £19.99
Price: £144.99

Review Belle's Magical World / Beauty And The Beast [1997] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Belle's Magical World is a straight-to-video animated story set in the Beast's castle, which, as viewers know from the original Beauty and the Beast film, is under a spell until the Beast can learn to love. Starting with this familiar premise, it plummets into three disjointed episodes surrounding Belle's life as a captive in the castle. In "The Perfect World" a misunderstanding of words erupts between Belle and the Beast, made worse by a feigned apology. Fifi and Lumiere take the spotlight in "Fifi's Folly" when a romantic evening together becomes a chilling adventure inside a runaway sleigh. In "The Broken Wing" Belle entreats the Beast to act kindly toward a tiny songbird. Each tale offers a diluted moral message, yet the entire effort feels contrived and confusing. -Lynn Gibson 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.

Review Walt Disney Video / The Hunchback of Notre Dame II [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bradley Raymond
  • Tom Hulce
  • Paul Kandel
  • Jennifer Love Hewitt
  • Jason Alexander
  • Charles Kimbrough
Release date: 2002-03-19
Run time: 68 min.
Creator: Jule Selbo
Price: £4.25

Review The Hunchback of Notre Dame II [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Warner Home Video / X-Men Evolution: Mutants Rising (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Scott McNeil
  • Meghan Black
  • Christopher Judge
Release date: 2003-04-22
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: John Byrne
Price: £4.15

Review X-Men Evolution: Mutants Rising (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kathleen York
  • Steve Miner
  • Cliff Robertson
  • Gabrielle Anwar
  • Dylan Kussman
  • Michael Schoeffling
Release date: 2006-01-17
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Robin S. Clark
Price: £8.11

Review Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Emperor's New Groove [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Wendie Malick
  • Mark Dindal
  • Eartha Kitt
  • Patrick Warburton
  • John Goodman
  • David Spade
Release date: 2001-05-01
Run time: 78 min.
Creator: Roger Allers
Price: £21.35

Review The Emperor's New Groove [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

The Emperor's New Groove was originally developed as an epic called Kingdom of the Sun and lost scale and most of Sting's song score (some of which can be heard on the soundtrack) on its way to the screen. The end result is the lightest Disney film in many a moon, a joyous romp akin to Aladdin in its quotient of laughs for children and adults. The original story centres on the spoiled teenage emperor Kuzco (David Spade), who enjoys getting the best of his Aztecan subjects. When he fires Yzma (Eartha Kitt), his evil sorceress, she seeks revenge and turns Kuzco into a llama with the help of Kronk, her hunk of the month (Patrick Warburton). Alone in the jungle, the talking llama is befriended by Pacha (John Goodman), who has just been told to vacate his pastoral home by the human Kuzco. What's an ego to do? That's pretty much the story and the characters-simple, direct, fun-a Disney film on a diet. For any fan of the acidic humour of Spade, this is essential viewing. As narrator of his tale, Kuzco uses a sarcastic tone to keep the story jumping with plenty of fun asides (he even "stops" the film at one point to make sure you know the story is about him). Even better is character actor Warburton (Elaine's stuck-up boyfriend on Seinfeld), who steals every scene as the dim-witted, but oh-so-likable Kronk. There's even a delicious Tom Jones number that starts the film off with a bang. [+]
-Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Samurai's Journey
Actors & Directors
  • Charlie Haskell
  • Sally Martin
  • Glenn McMillan
Release date: 2004-12-27
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.05

Review Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Samurai's Journey / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Walt Disney Video / While You Were Sleeping [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Warden
  • Sandra Bullock
  • Peter Boyle
  • Peter Gallagher
  • Bill Pullman
  • Jon Turteltaub
Release date: 1998-02-04
Run time: 103 min.
Creator: Joe Roth
Price: £3.72

Review While You Were Sleeping [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

If you don't mind a heavy dose of schmaltz and sentiment, this romantic comedy has a gentle way of seducing you with its charms. While You Were Sleeping was the first starring role for Sandra Bullock after her blockbuster success in Speed. In a role that nicely emphasises her easygoing appeal, Bullock is the reason the movie works at all. She plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a Chicago Transit tollbooth clerk who's hopelessly smitten with a daily commuter, Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher). She saves the object of her affection from certain death after he's mugged and falls onto the train tracks. While Peter is in a coma, she lets his family believe that she is his fiancée, and surprisingly finds herself drawn to his brother (Bill Pullman), for whom the attraction is definitely mutual. How Lucy gets out of this amorous predicament is what makes this pleasant movie less predictable than its familiar ingredients would initially indicate. It's feel-good fluff, with characters and performances that keep you smiling through the drippy plot mechanics. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Fun And Fancy Free (Disney) [1948]
Actors & Directors
  • Luana Patten
  • Mortimer Snerd
  • William Morgan
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Dinah Shore
  • Edgar Bergen
  • Charlie McCarthy
  • Bill Roberts
  • Jack Kinney
Release date: 2000-07-03
Run time: 70 min.
Creator: Lance Nolley
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.99

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


Run time: 33 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £5.70

Review Winnie The Pooh: Up, Up, And Away [1988] / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Jasmine - Jasmine's Wish (Disney)
Actors & Directors
  • Linda Malo
  • Jean-Claude Lord
  • Yvan Ponton
  • Julien Poulin
  • JiCi Lauzon
  • Isabel Richer
Release date: 1996-06-10
Run time: 43 min.
Price: £9.99

Review Jasmine - Jasmine's Wish (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / Tuck Everlasting [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Sissy Spacek
  • Jonathan Jackson
  • William Hurt
  • Alexis Bledel
  • Scott Bairstow
  • Jay Russell
Release date: 2003-02-25
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £4.73

Review Tuck Everlasting [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

With the makings of a classic, Disney's Tuck Everlasting is loosely but respectfully adapted from Natalie Babbitt's beloved children's book. This appealing fable focuses on the timeless Tuck family, blessed-and cursed-with immortality after drinking from a magical spring. Hiding their secret over passing decades, they are discovered in 1914 by Winnie (Alexis Bledel)-the only daughter of stern, upper-crust socialites-who encounters the life-affirming Jesse Tuck (Jonathan Jackson) and grows enchanted with his family (Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Scott Bairstow) while her parents fear she's been kidnapped. The film's teenage romance is invented (Winnie is younger in Babbitt's book), but it's charmingly appropriate, and Ben Kingsley is perfect as a menacing man of mystery. Scoring a solid follow-up to his equally enjoyable My Dog Skip, director Jay Russell turns Tuck Everlasting into a magical plea for living life to its fullest. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Walt Disney Video / The Ref [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Spacey
  • Denis Leary
  • Judy Davis
  • Robert J. Steinmiller Jr.
  • Ted Demme
  • Glynis Johns
Release date: 2003-03-04
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Richard LaGravenese
Price: £3.69

Review The Ref [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

Caustic wit gets a full-body workout in this 1994 comedy (known as The Ref in the US), in which a cat burglar (Denis Leary) gets trapped in an affluent Connecticut neighbourhood and is forced to hold a bickering couple hostage on Christmas Eve, only to discover that their Yuletide spirit is anything but cheerful. Caroline (Judy Davis) and her husband, Lloyd (Kevin Spacey), have been at each other's throats for so long that they've developed domestic arguments into an art form, and the would-be kidnapper turns into a reluctant mediator, even after he's got the battling couple wound up in bungee cords. The situation grows even more complicated when the couple's smart-aleck son comes home from military school, but it's not the plot here that's a top priority. Instead it's the sheer pleasure of witnessing a three-way verbal jousting match, written with razor-sharp skill and delivered by actors who are perfect for their roles. The movie's got a dark edge, but it never gets too dark-you know that it's not going to slide into more seriously damaging territory, so you can sit back and enjoy the volleys of scathing insults and sarcasm the way you would a Bill Hicks performance. If that sounds like your idea of entertainment, Hostile Hostages will serve it up with style. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Walt Disney Video / The Barefoot Executive [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Harry Morgan
  • Wally Cox
  • Joe Flynn
  • Heather North
  • Robert Butler
  • Kurt Russell
Release date: 2004-04-12
Run time: 96 min.
Creator: Joseph L. McEveety
Price: £8.60

Review The Barefoot Executive [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Rescuers Down Under [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Newhart
  • Mike Gabriel
  • Adam Ryen
  • John Candy
  • Tristan Rogers
  • Hendel Butoy
  • Eva Gabor
Release date: 2000-08-01
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Jim Cox
Price: £8.12

Review The Rescuers Down Under [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

The Rescuers Down Under isn't a quickie, direct-to-video sequel, cashing in on the success of the original 1977 animated hit about adventurous mice, but a full-blown theatrical effort. This time around, Bernard (voice of Bob Newhart) is trying to pop the question to Bianca (Eva Gabor) when they're summoned to Australia, where a young boy has been kidnapped by a pallid, grey-faced poacher (who looks like and is voiced by George C. Scott). Wilbur, a chatterbox of an albatross (John Candy, replacing the late Jim Jordan's character Orville), and Jake (Tristan Rogers), a kangaroo mouse-Bernard is jealous of the dashing rodent-assist the Rescuers in saving the day and imparting a mild environmental message. The film opens with an absolutely breathtaking aerial sequence-this was made near the beginning of Disney's animation renaissance-so impressive it would seem the story, literally, has nowhere else to go but down. However, some smart gags, excellent animation and rollicking adventures ensue. So why isn't it better known? It had the bad luck to open, in 1990, opposite another kids' film-Home Alone. -David Kronke.

Review Walt Disney Video / Herbie: Fully Loaded [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Lindsay Lohan
  • Angela Robinson
  • Cheryl Hines
  • Michael Keaton
  • Matt Dillon
  • Breckin Meyer
Release date: 2005-10-25
Run time: 101 min.
Creator: Mark Perez
Price: £4.66

Review Herbie: Fully Loaded [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / A Bug's Life [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Julia Louis-Dreyfus
  • John Lasseter
  • Jan Pinkava
  • Hayden Panettiere
  • Andrew Stanton
  • Phyllis Diller
  • Kevin Spacey
  • Dave Foley
Release date: 2003-05-27
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: Geefwee Boedoe
Price: £14.04

Review A Bug's Life [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

There was a rare magic on the big screen in 1995, when the people at Pixar came up with the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story, and their second feature film, A Bug's Life, may miss the bull's-eye but Pixar's target is so lofty that it's hard to find the film anything less than irresistible. Brighter and more colourful than the other animated insect movie of 1998 (Antz), A Bug's Life is the sweetly told story of Flik (voiced by David Foley), an ant searching for better ways to be a bug. His colony unfortunately revolves around feeding and fearing the local grasshoppers (lead by Hopper, voiced with gleeful menace by Kevin Spacey). When Flik accidentally destroys the seasonal food supply for the grasshoppers he decides to look for help ("We need bigger bugs!"). The ants, led by Princess Atta (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), are eager to dispose of the troublesome Flik. Yet he finds help-a hearty bunch of bug warriors-and brings them back to the colony. Unfortunately they are just travelling performers, afraid of conflict. As with Toy Story, the ensemble of creatures and voices is remarkable and often inspired. Highlights include wiseacre comedian Denis Leary as an un-ladylike ladybird, Joe Ranft as the German-accented caterpillar, David Hyde Pierce as a stick insect and Michael McShane as a pair of unintelligible woodlice. The scene-stealer is Atta's squeaky-voiced sister, baby Dot (Hayden Panettiere), who has a big soft spot for Flik. [+]
More gentle and kid-friendly than Antz, A Bug Life's still has some good suspense and a wonderful demise in store for the villain. However, the film-a worldwide hit-will be remembered for its most creative touch: "outtakes" over the end credits à la many live-action comedy films. These dozen or so scenes (both "editions" of outtakes are contained here) are brilliant and deserve a special place in film history right along with 1998's other most talked-about sequence: the opening Normandy invasion in Saving Private Ryan. -Doug Thomas.

Review Mickey Mouse Club / The Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse Club, Week One: October 3-7, 1955 (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2004-12-07
Run time: 312 min.
Price: £15.31

Review The Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse Club, Week One: October 3-7, 1955 (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Mickey Mouse Club:


Review Walt Disney Video / I'll Be Home for Christmas [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Eve Gordon
  • Adam LaVorgna
  • Jessica Biel
  • Arlene Sanford
  • Jonathan Taylor Thomas
  • Gary Cole
Release date: 2002-10-08
Run time: 86 min.
Creator: Tom Nursall
Price: £4.63

Review I'll Be Home for Christmas [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:


Review Walt Disney Video / The Fox and the Hound [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Albertson
  • Mickey Rooney
  • Sandy Duncan
  • Ted Berman
  • Kurt Russell
  • Pearl Bailey
  • Art Stevens
  • Richard Rich
Release date: 2006-10-10
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Earl Kress
Price: £13.18

Review The Fox and the Hound [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

One of Disney's less popular animated movies, for absolutely no good reason at all, because it's an excellent story, simply and expertly told. The box blurb rather confusingly compares it to Bambi, but this is a story which has rather more to do with how social conventions can divide friendships than the coming-of-age subtext which underlies the latter. The story is perhaps predictable-a fox cub and a puppy play together as friends, not realising that their places in the scheme of things dictate that they will grow up to become hunter and hunted. Of course, eventually they see the light and it all ends happily, but even so the story promotes the importance of tolerance. The master-stroke, however, is the gradually evolving realisation that the aggressive prejudices which we all stand to inherit from society are nothing more that the products of stupidity and manipulation, and should be treated with the contempt they deserve. Good stuff for kids and adults alike. Trivia buffs might like to know that this is one of the films Tim Burton worked on at Disney, his first job after graduating from college. -Roger Thomas This special 25th Anniversary edition includes the classic 1981 The Fox and the Hound movie in its entirety and an abundance of special features including a Backstage Disney featurette, two interactive hide-and-seek games, sing-along, read-along, art gallery, and two Disney shorts. The fascinating six-and-a-half minute Backstage Disney segment "Passing the Baton" emphasizes the The Fox and the Hound's place as a historical turning point in Disney animation; chronicling the process by which legendary animators Woolie Reitherman, Frank Thomas, and Ollie Johnston, three of "Disney's Nine Old Men" whose names were synonymous with Disney Animation from the Snow White era, began work on The Fox and the Hound characters and their relationships and then encouraged a whole new generation of young Disney animators including Glen Keane, Randy Cartwright, Ron Clements, and John Musker to build upon that foundation, completing the movie's animation and effectively initiating a whole new chapter in Disney animation that would later culminate in movies like Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and Aladdin. The "Passing the Baton" segment also touches upon The Fox and the Hound's underlying messages about friendship, racial prejudice, stereotyping, and bigotry. [+]
The "Art Gallery" features a large selection of original art from the movie and includes concept art rendered in both pastels and storyboard pencil sketches, live action footage shot with co-director Art Stevens acting as Amos Slade, footage of voice and musical talent, as well as merchandising and publicity art. Two captivating, eight-minute bonus shorts are also included. The 1951 Lambert the Sheepish Lion tells the story of a young lion cub mistakenly delivered to a mother sheep by a confused stork and promotes acceptance and tolerance of diversity. And the 1941 Lend A Paw is a Mickey Mouse short in which Pluto rescues a drowning kitten and learns important lessons about kindness and acceptance. -Tami Horiuchi.

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Phil of the Future: Gadgets & Gizmos (REGION 1) (NTSC), Belle's Magical World / Beauty And The Beast [1997], The Hunchback of Notre Dame II [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), X-Men Evolution: Mutants Rising (REGION 1) (NTSC), Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Emperor's New Groove [2001] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Samurai's Journey, While You Were Sleeping [1995] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Fun And Fancy Free (Disney) [1948], Winnie The Pooh: Up, Up, And Away [1988], Jasmine - Jasmine's Wish (Disney), Tuck Everlasting [2002] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Ref [1994] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Barefoot Executive [1971] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Rescuers Down Under [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Herbie: Fully Loaded [2005] (REGION 1) (NTSC), A Bug's Life [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Walt Disney Treasures: Mickey Mouse Club, Week One: October 3-7, 1955 (REGION 1) (NTSC), I'll Be Home for Christmas [1998] (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Fox and the Hound [1981] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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