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Review Icon Home Entertainment / Thomas And The Magic Railroad [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Britt Allcroft
  • Alec Baldwin
  • Peter Fonda
  • Russell Means
  • Mara Wilson
  • Didi Conn
Release date: 2007-07-16
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.06

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Review Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK / Zathura [2005]
Actors & Directors
  • Josh Hutcherson
  • Jonah Bobo
  • Dax Shepard
  • Tim Robbins
  • Kristen Stewart
  • Jon Favreau
Release date: 2006-06-26
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £1.27

Review Zathura [2005] / Sony Pictures Home Ent. UK:

Zathura, a smart and stylish kid's adventure, launches into action when Danny (Jonah Bobo) twists the key of a dusty science fiction game-a game that unleashes a localized meteor shower and wrenches Danny's house into orbit around a distant ringed planet, bringing Danny's brother Walter (Josh Hutcherson, Kicking and Screaming) and sister Lisa (Kristen Stewart, Panic Room) along. Soon a defective robot, a rangy astronaut (Dax Shepard, Without a Paddle), and an alien spaceship enter the picture. Only by completing the game can the kids return their house to its proper space-time coordinates, but the game board falls into the hands of some nasty, carnivorous lizards. Zathura has some obligatory emotional conflict and resolution between the two brothers, but that's pretty much beside the point; what makes Zathura a delight is the wonderful design, the skillful escalation of disasters, and the adroit direction of Jon Favreau (Elf), who is quickly becoming the go-to guy for mass-market movies with wit and timing. Some situations may be too intense for younger kids; Favreau ratchets up the suspense at a few points. Based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg (Jumanji). Also featuring Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption). -Bret Fetzer.

Review Robotech / Robotech - The Shadow Chronicles (2006)
Actors & Directors
  • Mark Hamill
  • Eddie Frierson
  • Tommy Yune
  • Melanie MacQueen
  • Richard Epcar
  • Dong-Wook Lee
  • Yuri Lowenthal
Release date: 2007-07-23
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: Ford Riley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.44

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Review Entertainment in Video / The Last Mimzy [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Robert Shaye
  • Timothy Hutton
  • Patrick Gilmore
  • Chris O'Neill
  • Rainn Wilson
  • Joely Richardson
Release date: 2007-08-20
Run time: 96 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.86

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Y Plan - Before And After Pregnancy
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Babbage
  • Adam Cohen
Release date: 2005-12-26
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £1.49

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Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Ugly Dachshund [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Norman Tokar
  • Parley Baer
  • Suzanne Pleshette
  • Dean Jones
  • 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 Warner Home Video / Pokemon 3: The Movie [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Eric Stuart (III)
  • Kunihiko Yuyama
  • Veronica Taylor
  • Michael Haigney
  • Ikue Ootani
  • Madeleine Blaustein
  • Rachael Lillis
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £13.99
Price: £5.98

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 Walt Disney Home Video / Aladdin (Special Edition) [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Robin Williams
  • John Musker
  • Jonathan Freeman
  • Ron Clements
  • Linda Larkin
  • Scott Weinger
  • Frank Welker
Release date: 2004-10-04
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £21.99
Price: £14.69

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 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Fern Gully - The Last Rainforest [1992]
Actors & Directors
  • Crysta
  • Bill Kroyer
  • Pips
Release date: 2006-03-20
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.34

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Review Sullivan Entertainment Europe Ltd / Anne Of Green Gables
Release date: 2005-09-01
RRP: £49.99
Price: £36.00

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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: £22.96

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


Review Warner Home Video / The Reef [2006]
Actors & Directors
  • John Fox
  • Howard E. Baker
Release date: 2007-06-25
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.49

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Review Iron Man / Iron Man - the Complete Series (1990's)
Release date: 2007-10-08
RRP: £14.99
Price: £7.92

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Shaun the Sheep - Shape Up With Shaun [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Nick Park
Release date: 2007-09-17
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.20

Review Shaun the Sheep - Shape Up With Shaun [2007] / 2 Entertain Video:

One of the reigning genuine delights of children's television, eight of the adventures of Shaun The Sheep are brought together on this compelling and vital DVD. The creation and work of Nick Park and his team at Aardman Animations (whose other delightful creations include, of course, Wallace & Gromit and the more recent Flushed Away), Shaun The Sheep follows its title character, who it's fair to say isn't one to go with the flock. And, with a strong backing collection of characters, including the memorable sheepdog Bitzer, the result is a collection of charming and very funny escapades with real, honest family appeal. As you'd expect from Aardman, Shaun The Sheep is an exquisitely animated piece of work, painstakingly detailed and clearly a real labour of love. But it's the writing too that underpins these eight instalments, and while you can't help wondering if a few more of the episodes could be squeezed onto the disc, there's little arguing with the rewatch value on offer here. Not least because of Shaun's likely near-magnetic hold on the younger end of its broad audience. A firm and refreshing riposte to those who claim children's television is nowhere near as good as it used to be, Shaun The Sheep is simply terrific, wholesome entertainment. And it'll happily give the vast majority of supposed-kids' TV shows a run for their money… -Jon Foster.

Review The Wiggles / The Wiggles - Wiggle Dancing
Release date: 2007-05-07
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.76

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Review Universal Pictures UK / The Borrowers [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Hewitt
  • John Goodman
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Celia Imrie
  • Mark Williams
  • Flora Newbigin
Release date: 1998-10-16
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.85

Review The Borrowers [1997] / Universal Pictures UK:

The popular children's books by Mary Norton have been filmed before, but never with as much imagination and ingenuity as you'll find on display in this delightful fantasy film released to critical praise in 1998. The eponymous Borrowers are a family of tiny people who live in the walls and under the floorboards in the homes of "normal-sized" humans; they earn their by "borrowing" the household items (string, food crumbs, buttons, and so on) needed to furnish their tiny hiding places and provide their meals. The little Clock family lives happily undisturbed in the home of an aged aunt, but when the aunt dies and her will is stolen by an unscrupulous lawyer (John Goodman), the Clocks face eviction and the frightening hazards of the outside world. Under the ingenious direction of Peter Hewitt, this simple, straightforward movie mixes comedy, adventure, and suspense with some of the cleverest special effects you've ever seen, taking full advantage of effects technologies to immerse you in the world of the tiny people. A climactic chase scene in a milk-bottling plant is a visual tour de force, and the movie's smart and dazzling enough to entertain parents and children alike. After its modest success in cinemas, The Borrowers stands a good chance of becoming a home-video favourite. -Jeff Shannon.

Review Dreamworks Home Entertainment / The Road To El Dorado [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward James Olmos
  • Armand Assante
  • Kenneth Branagh
  • David Silverman
  • Kevin Kline
  • Don Paul
  • Bibo Bergeron
  • Rosie Perez
  • Jeffrey Katzenberg
  • Will Finn
Release date: 2001-05-07
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.96

Review The Road To El Dorado [2000] / Dreamworks Home Entertainment:

In its third foray into animated features, The Road to El Dorado, Dreamworks came up with something unfortunate: the routine animated picture. Plagued with production problems (it was originally conceived as a mould-breaking 12-rated adventure), the likable film is a Hope/Crosby-style road picture about two scallywags who stumble upon the Latin American paradise of El Dorado, the mythical city with riches of gold. Kenneth Branagh and Kevin Kline are quite fun as Miguel and Tuilo, two Spanish con artists who are shipwrecked in the New World with a scene-stealing horse. The pair follow a map to the secret city where their loyalty will be tested: do they return home rich men or continue to live in this paradise? Of course there are some obstacles: a high priest (Armand Assante) is locked in a power struggle with the benevolent chief (Edward James Olmos) and the perfunctory girlfriend (Rosie Perez) puts the two friends at odds. Like too many of the animated features of its time, The Road to El Dorado impresses only on a visual level (it's drenched in gorgeous greens and golds). The story and Elton John's songs are quite forgettable; only Branagh and Kline's playful banter keeps the film alive. Slick and light, it's a fine 83-minute entertainment for ages 5 and up, including the non-discriminating adult. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.

Review Pocoyo / Pocoyo - Bumper Fun!
Release date: 2007-10-15
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.00

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Review Bfi Video / Alice In Wonderland [1966]
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Bennett
  • Anne-Marie Mallik
  • Wilfrid Brambell
  • Jonathan Miller
  • Freda Dowie
  • Jo Maxwell Muller
Release date: 2003-04-28
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.85

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Lizzie McGuire Movie [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Jim Fall
  • Jake Thomas
  • Adam Lamberg
  • Hilary Duff
  • Robert Carradine
  • Hallie Todd
Release date: 2004-02-02
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.03

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.

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Thomas And The Magic Railroad [2000], Zathura [2005], Robotech - The Shadow Chronicles (2006), The Last Mimzy [2007], The Y Plan - Before And After Pregnancy, The Ugly Dachshund [1966], Pokemon 3: The Movie [2001], Aladdin (Special Edition) [1993], Fern Gully - The Last Rainforest [1992], Anne Of Green Gables, Worzel Gummidge The Ultimate Collection - Volumes 1 & 2 [2004], The Reef [2006], Iron Man - the Complete Series (1990's), Shaun the Sheep - Shape Up With Shaun [2007], The Wiggles - Wiggle Dancing, The Borrowers [1997], The Road To El Dorado [2000], Pocoyo - Bumper Fun!, Alice In Wonderland [1966], The Lizzie McGuire Movie [2003]

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