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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Parent Trap/Pollyanna [1961]
Actors & Directors
  • Hayley Mills
Release date: 2005-09-26
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.98

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Review MGM Entertainment / Fluke [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Matthew Modine
  • Samuel L. Jackson
  • Max Pomeranc
  • Eric Stoltz
  • Carlo Carlei
  • Nancy Travis
Release date: 2003-04-07
Run time: 92 min.
Creator: James Herbert
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.93

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Review MGM Entertainment / Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [1968]
Actors & Directors
  • Gert Fröbe
  • Sally Ann Howes
  • Ken Hughes
  • Lionel Jeffries
  • Benny Hill
  • Dick Van Dyke
Release date: 2000-02-01
Run time: 136 min.
Creator: Roald Dahl
RRP: £19.99
Price: £4.20

Review Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [1968] / MGM Entertainment:

This re-mastered, pan-and-scan 30th-anniversary edition of that kiddie-car caper is flawed but solid family fare. It retains a quaint charm while some of the songs-including the title tune-are quite hummable. A huge plus is Dick Van Dyke, who is extremely appealing as an eccentric inventor around the turn of the century. With nimble fingers and a unique way of looking at the world, he invents for his children a magic car that floats and flies. Or does he? The special effects are tame by today's standards, and the film is about 20 minutes too long-but its enthusiasm charms. The script was cowritten by Roald Dahl and based on the novel by Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond adventures. -Rochelle O'Gorman Chitty Chitty Bang Bang entranced and thrilled children and their parents when it puttered into the cinema in 1968. More than three decades later, and despite the eventual arrival of a stage version that throws the full weight of blockbuster effects at the story, the original remains the real thing for fans of all ages. The flying car is the star and it's impossible not to feel a surge of thrilling relief as the wings kick in when she plunges over the cliff and soars off on her great adventure. The songs might not be the greatest in musical history, but they are delivered with great charm by Dick Van Dyke as Caractacus Potts (a toned-down version of his infamous Bert in Mary Poppins), Sally Ann Howes (Truly Scrumptious) and the children. [+]
And then there is Robert Helpmann's child catcher, a terrifyingly sinister figure who exudes a pungent whiff of undiluted evil unmatched by any character since Dorothy squared up to the witch in The Wizard of Oz. Cameos from British character actors abound: Benny Hill, Lionel Jeffries, Anna Quayle, James Robertson Justice and Max Wall all put in appearances that add some fibre to the overall sweetness of the story. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the ultimate nostalgic confection for family viewing. On the DVD: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Special Edition comes to DVD in widescreen format with a Dolby soundtrack to recreate the authentic cinematic experience for everyone who remembers it from the first time round. The picture quality is robust, revealing some rather homespun aspects to the special effects. Extras are dominated by Dick Van Dyke remembering his time on the film, plus a short item on the origins of the car itself and various trailers. -Piers Ford.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Miracle On 34th Street [1947]
Actors & Directors
  • Maureen O'Hara
  • Edmund Gwenn
  • Natalie Wood
  • John Payne
  • George Seaton
  • Gene Lockhart
Release date: 2005-11-07
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Valentine Davies
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.38

Review Miracle On 34th Street [1947] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:

The original 1947 version of this Valentine Davies story follows the misadventures of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) as he gets a job playing Santa Claus at Macy's department store in New York City. Natalie Wood is the little girl who tells him she doesn't believe in Santa, and Maureen O'Hara and John Payne are the couple who help Kris through a trial in which he must prove he's the jolly fellow from the North Pole. A sweet movie and perennial Christmas favourite, Miracle on 34th Street is one of those films that gets under your skin and must be revisited every so often. -Tom Keogh The original 1947 version of the Valentine Davies story Miracle on 34th Street follows the misadventures of Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn) as he gets a job playing Santa Claus at Macy's department store in New York City. Natalie Wood is the little girl who tells him she doesn't believe in Santa, and Maureen O'Hara and John Payne are the couple who help Kris through a trial in which he must prove he's the jolly fellow from the North Pole. A perennial Christmas favorite, this is one of those movies that gets under your skin and must be revisited every so often. -Tom Keogh.

Review Warner Home Video / Pokemon 3: The Movie [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Kunihiko Yuyama
  • Madeleine Blaustein
  • Ikue Ootani
  • Rachael Lillis
  • Eric Stuart
  • Veronica Taylor
  • Michael Haigney
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 93 min.
Creator: Takeshi Shudo
RRP: £13.99
Price: £2.75

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 Teletubbies / Teletubbies - Happy Birthday
Release date: 2007-03-26
Run time: 241 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £9.00

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Review Dora the Explorer / Dora The Explorer - Dora Saves the Mermaids
Release date: 2007-10-08
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.64

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Review delta home entertainment / Worzel Gummidge The Ultimate Collection - Volumes 1 & 2 [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Jon Pertwee;Una Stubbs;Geoffrey Bayldon
Release date: 2004-11-22
Run time: 1398 min.
RRP: £49.99
Price: £24.07

Review Worzel Gummidge The Ultimate Collection - Volumes 1 & 2 [2004] / delta home entertainment:


Review Uca / The Little Red Tractor - Let's Go
Actors & Directors
  • Little Red Tractor
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.98

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Home Alone 4 [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Beghe
  • Barbara Babcock
  • French Stewart
  • Rod Daniel
  • Clare Carey
  • Erick Avari
Release date: 2006-11-06
Run time: 83 min.
Creator: Steve L. Hayes
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.69

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment / Finding Nemo/Monsters, Inc. [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Docter
  • Lee Unkrich
  • David Silverman
  • Andrew Stanton
Release date: 2007-10-29
Run time: 185 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £13.91

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / The Complete Fingerbobs
Actors & Directors
  • Fingerbobs
Release date: 2007-09-24
Run time: 183 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £2.20

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Review delta home entertainment / Betty Boop Box Set [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Betty Boop
Release date: 2005-03-21
Run time: 158 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.54

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Dora The Explorer - Rhymes And Riddles
Actors & Directors
  • Dora The Explorer
Release date: 2005-07-04
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.11

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Review Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK / Monster House [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • Gil Kenan
Release date: 2006-12-11
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £1.61

Review Monster House [2006] / Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK:

The spooky shadows and eerie creaking of a rickety old house are brought to life via lush CGI in Monster House. A young boy named DJ has suspicions about the house across the street and the cranky old man (voiced by Steve Buscemi, Fargo) who lives there. When the old man has a heart attack and is carried away by an ambulance, DJ thinks the danger is over. Unfortunately, as he, his friend Chowder, and a candy-selling prep-school girl named Jenny discover, the house itself has plans-plans that include eating all the kids who'll be trick-or-treating that Halloween night. Monster House begins with some deliciously creepy scenes that will send chills down children's spines (and may be too intense for younger viewers); animated movies rarely make such effective use of what isn't being shown. The animation is vivid and detailed (though CGI still has a ways to go in capturing the full range of human facial expressions). But like most horror movies, the anticipation of horror is much more exciting than the horror itself; as the secrets of Monster House are revealed, the movie's thrills unravel. The noisy explosions at the end aren't half as much fun as the slow twitches of a few blades of grass in the movie's elegant beginning. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Winnie The Pooh - Pooh's Heffalump Movie [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Frank Nissen
  • Jim Cummings
  • Peter Cullen
  • John Fiedler
  • Brenda Blethyn
  • Nikita Hopkins
Release date: 2005-07-11
Run time: 65 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £5.69

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Review 4-Front / We're Back! - A Dinosaur's Story [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Simon Wells
  • Blaze Berdahl
  • Jay Leno
  • Rhea Perlman
  • Dick Zondag
  • Phil Nibbelink
  • Ralph Zondag
  • John Goodman
Release date: 2005-05-02
Run time: 67 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.42

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Review Lazytown / Lazytown - The Snow Monster And Other Stories
Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.83

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Review Cbeebies / Cbeebies - Get Set To Go
Release date: 2008-07-21
Run time: 156 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.56

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Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Arctic Tale [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Sarah Robertson
  • Adam Ravetch
  • Queen Latifah
Release date: 2008-09-08
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.86

Review Arctic Tale [2007] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

The frozen Arctic is home to polar bears and walruses, two very different types of animals whose struggle to survive against the elements is only being made more difficult by a changing climate. Directors Adam Ravetech and Sarah Robertson filmed walruses and polar bears in the Arctic for 15 years in order to create this amazing story about the lives of Nanu the baby polar bear and a newborn walrus dubbed Seelah. Striking footage from land and sea is combined with effective narration by Queen Latifah and pop music by Joby Talbot to chronicle these creatures' lives from the babies' first days of existence, through two years of training in hunting and fighting by their respective mothers and the changes in the icy world that are necessitating new adaptations by these animals, and a contemplation of the chances of both species' continued survival. Like March of the Penguins, the footage of the animals of the Arctic and the formation and breaking up of the ice is exquisite, but perhaps even more striking is the clear evidence of climate change in the delayed formation of the ice in the autumn and its progressively earlier thawing and breaking up each spring. The polar bears' and walruses' resilience and instinctual ability to adapt and change in the face of the negative effects of global warming in order to survive is stressed, and viewers are left pondering why man cannot similarly adapt and change his ways in order to positively affect the world. -Tami Horiuchi.

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Parent Trap/Pollyanna [1961], Fluke [1995], Chitty Chitty Bang Bang [1968], Miracle On 34th Street [1947], Pokemon 3: The Movie [2001], Teletubbies - Happy Birthday, Dora The Explorer - Dora Saves the Mermaids, Worzel Gummidge The Ultimate Collection - Volumes 1 & 2 [2004], The Little Red Tractor - Let's Go, Home Alone 4 [2002], Finding Nemo/Monsters, Inc. [2001], The Complete Fingerbobs, Betty Boop Box Set [2005], Dora The Explorer - Rhymes And Riddles, Monster House [2006], Winnie The Pooh - Pooh's Heffalump Movie [2005], We're Back! - A Dinosaur's Story [1993], Lazytown - The Snow Monster And Other Stories, Cbeebies - Get Set To Go, Arctic Tale [2007]

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