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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Peter Pan - Return To Neverland [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Harriet Owen|Kath Soucie|Corey Burton|Jeff Bennett
  • Robin Budd
Release date: 2007-05-28
Run time: 70 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.39

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

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 Universal Pictures UK / Postman Pat - The Great Dinosaur Hunt
Actors & Directors
  • Postman Pat
Release date: 2005-09-26
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £4.94

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Lizzie McGuire Movie [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Hilary Duff
  • Jim Fall
  • Adam Lamberg
  • Robert Carradine
  • Jake Thomas
  • Hallie Todd
Release date: 2004-02-02
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.65

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 Hit Entertainment / The Wiggles - Wiggly Safari
Actors & Directors
  • The Wiggles
Release date: 2006-08-07
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.96

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / Aladdin (Special Edition) [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Williams
  • John Musker
  • Linda Larkin
  • Scott Weinger
  • Frank Welker
  • Ron Clements
  • Jonathan Freeman
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £21.99
Price: £14.82

Review Aladdin (Special Edition) [1993] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Disney's 1992 animated feature Aladdin is a triumph of wit and skill. The high-tech artwork and graphics look great, the characters are strong, the familiar story is nicely augmented with an interesting villain (Jafar, voiced by Jonathan Freeman), and there's an incredible hook atop the whole thing: Robin Williams's frantically hilarious vocal performance as Aladdin's genie. Even if one isn't particularly moved by the love story between the title character (Scott Weinger) and his girlfriend Jasmine (Linda Larkin), you can easily get lost in Williams's improvisational energy and the equally entertaining performances of Freeman and Gilbert Gottfried (as Jafar's parrot). -Tom Keogh.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Song Of The South [1946]
Actors & Directors
  • Lucile Watson
  • Luana Patten
  • James Baskett
  • Harve Foster
  • Ruth Warrick
  • Bobby Driscoll
  • Wilfred Jackson
Release date: 2000-07-03
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £17.95

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Carry Me - Brum - Runaway Statue
Release date: 2007-06-11
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.55

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Review The Wiggles / The Wiggles - Wiggle Dancing
Release date: 2007-05-07
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.87

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Sword In The Stone [1963]
Actors & Directors
  • Wolfgang Reitherman
  • Karl Swenson
  • Sebastian Cabot
  • Junius Matthews
  • Rickie Sorensen
  • Ginny Tyler
Release date: 2002-06-03
Run time: 76 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £7.86

Review The Sword In The Stone [1963] / Walt Disney Home Video:

As far as Disney is concerned, The Sword in the Stone was a portent of things to come, with slapstick upstaging storytelling, and cultural in-jokes substituting for wonder. Based on TH White's beloved novel The Once and Future King, this Disney version chronicles King Arthur's boyish adventures. There's much to enjoy here as coach Merlin the magician shows the young Arthur, nicknamed Wart, the skills that will help him become the future ruler of the Britons. The transformation sequences, where the boy is turned into a fish, a bird and a squirrel are vintage Disney. The oft-repeated scene of Merlin battling it out with mean old Madame Mim still is worth a few chuckles, but it underlines the problem with most of the film-most of its scenes are only played for laughs. References by Merlin to television and other items of modern life also mar the generally innocuous landscape. Younger children will like it, while older kids will find it slower compared with recent Disney films. -Keith Simanton, Amazon. com.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Fun Song Factory - Farm / Favourite Songs
Release date: 2005-08-29
Run time: 121 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.72

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Review Abbey Home Media / The Wheels On The Bus - Nursery Rhymes And Songs
Release date: 2006-04-24
Run time: 30 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £2.99

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Chip N Dale - Rescue Rangers - First Collection - 3 Disc Set [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Bob Zamboni
Release date: 2007-02-12
RRP: £11.99
Price: £4.27

Review Chip N Dale - Rescue Rangers - First Collection - 3 Disc Set [1989] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers (1989) was the Disney Studio's second weekday afternoon syndicated-cartoon show. Like its predecessor, Ducktales (1987), the series began with a two-hour movie. Chip 'n' Dale Rescue Rangers to the Rescue was recut into the first episodes, which are not included in this set. Chip and Dale were originally pantomime characters who bedeviled Donald Duck and Pluto in two dozen short cartoons. Rescue Rangers recasts them as adventurers who solve mysteries and right wrongs. In addition to a voice, Chip gets a leather jacket and Indiana Jones-style fedora; Dale talks and sports a Hawaiian shirt. They're joined in their escapades by Monterey Jack, a large mouse with a prognathous jaw and a bad Crocodile Dundee accent; Gadget Hackwrench, the inevitable spunky girl/mouse; and Zipper, a housefly. The Rangers' adventures play like a mixture of Disney's The Rescuers and The Great Mouse Detective, with elements of Hanna-Barbera's Scooby-Doo, Where Are You? stirred in. Chip, Dale, and the other Rangers outwit criminal cats, mad scientists, and crooked mice. All of the far-fetched stories seem to feature the same slapstick chases, Rube Goldberg contraptions, and villains getting their rear ends chomped. [+]
Disney purists objected to turning the classic characters of Chip 'n' Dale into something they'd never been, but Gen-Y kids liked Rescue Rangers, which ran for 65 episodes. -Charles Solomon.

Review Walt Disney Video / Stella [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Collins
  • John Goodman
  • Marsha Mason
  • John Erman
  • Trini Alvarado
  • Bette Midler
Release date: 2003-04-08
Run time: 109 min.
Price: £3.35

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Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Muppets - Muppets From Space [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Brian Henson
  • Dave Goelz
  • Bill Barretta
  • Tim Hill (III)
  • Steve Whitmire
  • Jerry Nelson
Release date: 2000-06-26
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.92

Review Muppets - Muppets From Space [1999] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

Muppets from Space is the film that answers the immortal question: what species is Gonzo? Kermit the Frog's curly nosed friend feels alone in the world. When his breakfast cereal starts spelling out questions and he hears disembodied voices, Gonzo is convinced he must be from outer space, and his alien brothers are coming to earth. Of course, there are evil scientists (led by The Larry Saunders Show's Jeffrey Tambor) who kidnap Gonzo to learn his secrets ("What do you do with a nose like that?"). The usual brand of merriment from the gang is in good order, especially in the opening scene when the Muppets, who all live together in one house, begin their morning routine, bafflingly set to the lyrically inappropriate "Brick House" by The Commodores. It's not as memorable as earlier Muppet films, but nevertheless the joy and sly humour will warm most souls age 5 and up. Human cameos include Ray Liotta, Andie MacDowell, David Arquette, and F. Murray Abraham (as Noah, no less). -Doug ThomasDVD Special Features: Commentary with Kermit the Frog, Gonzo, Rizzo and director Tim Hill Theatrical trailer; Teaser trailer; 19 deleted scenes;Filmographies Music Video: "Shining Star" by The Dust Brothers; 1:85:1 widescreen anamorphic ;Dolby Digital 5. 1.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Pirates Of The Caribbean - The Lost Disc Edition (3 Discs)
Actors & Directors
  • Geoffrey Rush
  • Gore Verbinski
  • Orlando Bloom
  • Keira Knightley
  • Johnny Depp
Release date: 2005-04-25
Run time: 143 min.
RRP: £20.99
Price: £6.90

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Review Postman Pat / Postman Pat's Summer Spectacular
Release date: 2007-08-06
Run time: 61 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.34

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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: £4.38

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Review Hit Entertainment / Barney - Land Of Make Believe
Actors & Directors
  • Barney The Dinosaur
Release date: 2005-10-31
Run time: 54 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.52

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Review ITV DVD / Captain Scarlet - Complete Series Box Set [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Lian-Shin
  • David Healy
  • Sylvia Anderson
  • Neil McCallum
  • Janna Hill
Release date: 2001-09-17
Run time: 860 min.
RRP: £75.99
Price: £31.97

Review Captain Scarlet - Complete Series Box Set [1967] / ITV DVD:

First broadcast in 1967, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons was the most grown-up of all Gerry Anderson's SuperMarionation adventures. There are gadgets and toy-friendly machines galore, of course-like the Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle, the Angel Aircraft and Cloudbase itself-but, unlike the colourful fantasies of Stingray and Thunderbirds, this series' concern with an implacable, vengeful enemy, conspiracies and double-agents drew its inspiration from James Bond and the Cold War spy dramas of the 1960s. Special effects whiz Derek Meddings imbues the action sequences with a truly Bondian grandeur and, like the sinister Spectre of the Bond films, the Martian Mysterons seem all the more hostile for their unseen presence, their agents infiltrating every organisation dedicated to their destruction just as it seemed the Soviets were doing at the time. The indestructible Captain Scarlet is killed then resurrected every week (though not like South Park's Kenny), and more often than not the unstoppable Mysterons emerge triumphant, and always undefeated. The varied cast of Spectrum agents and their voice characterisations also aim at verisimilitude (Captain Scarlet, voiced by Francis Matt hews, sounds like a grim Cary Grant), while the puppetry is more realistic than ever. This box set contains all 32 episodes, with newly remastered picture and Dolby 5. 1 surround sound. The DVD box also includes extra features on each disc, plus a sixth documentary disc, "Captain Scarlet: S. I. G. [+]
". In its new digital incarnation, Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons still looks and sounds like the epitome of 60s cool. -Mark Walker.

Review Warner Home Video / Scooby Doo And The Witch's Ghost [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Scooby Doo
Release date: 2004-03-29
Run time: 67 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.76

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Peter Pan - Return To Neverland [2002], Postman Pat - The Great Dinosaur Hunt, The Lizzie McGuire Movie [2003], The Wiggles - Wiggly Safari, Aladdin (Special Edition) [1993], Song Of The South [1946], Carry Me - Brum - Runaway Statue, The Wiggles - Wiggle Dancing, The Sword In The Stone [1963], Fun Song Factory - Farm / Favourite Songs, The Wheels On The Bus - Nursery Rhymes And Songs, Chip N Dale - Rescue Rangers - First Collection - 3 Disc Set [1989], Stella [1989] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Muppets - Muppets From Space [1999], Pirates Of The Caribbean - The Lost Disc Edition (3 Discs), Postman Pat's Summer Spectacular, Walt Disney Treasures - Mickey In Living Colour [1935], Barney - Land Of Make Believe, Captain Scarlet - Complete Series Box Set [1967], Scooby Doo And The Witch's Ghost [1999]

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