![Review Walt Disney Home Video / Stitch - The Movie [2003]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518A3TPWPZL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Tony Craig (II)
- Robert Gannaway
- Tia Carrere
- Daveigh Chase
- David Ogden Stiers
- Chris Sanders (III)
- Kevin McDonald
Run time: 58 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.38
Review Stitch - The Movie [2003] / Walt Disney Home Video:Disney sets a record for bringing out a direct-to-video sequel after the initial film. Stitch: The Movie arrives only a year after the enjoyable Lilo & Stitch and reunites the title character (otherwise known as Experiment 626) with his earth-bound family in the warm Hawaiian sun. The story has a nice set-up: since Stitch is Experiment 626, where are the first 625 invented by Dr Jumba Jookiba? Odds are the island paradise will soon be spaceport central for many more aliens. As with other made-for-video Disney titles, the animation is not as complex or rich. This hurts this sequel even more since the original film had such a unique, pastel beauty. Unfortunately, the other elements of the film are just as flat. Even though most of the original voice cast returns, the entire production lacks the same spirit and charm, and the story's theme is recycled (get ready for more "Ohana means family"). On the plus side, the film starts with an Elvis Presley song ("Slicin' Sand") and is only 64 minutes long. The movie sets up the Disney TV series The Adventures of Lilo & Stitch. -Doug Thomas.
![Review / The Three Caballeros [1944]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/516WFQZ3XDL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2002-08-12
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.96
Review The Three Caballeros [1944]:As a Disney oddity, they don't get much odder than Three Caballeros. Donald Duck receives a birthday package from South America, and the film proceeds to unravel like some peyote-induced hallucination. It starts out reminiscent of other Disney films, where shorts are cobbled together, such as "Make Mine Music" or "Fun and Fancy Free". The film has vignettes such as "The Cold-blooded Penguin" and "The Flying Guachito". After them it careens into part-travelogue, part-stream-of-consciousness animation. Not helping out much are Donald's "friends": Joe Carioca (a parrot) and Panchito (a rooster). They spend most of the rest of the film watching Donald chase skirt. That's right, Donald Duck is a wolf in this movie, and he chases every live-action señorita who bustles across the screen. Although some will say otherwise, Caballeros is for die-hard Disney, Donald or psychedelia fans only. -Keith Simanton, Amazon. [+]com.
Release date: 2007-10-22
Run time: 92 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.97
Review Jakers! - Sheep On The Loose / Jakers!:
Release date: 2006-03-20
Run time: 55 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.51
Review Spot - Spot Goes To The Farm / Spot:
![Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Pixar Short Films Collection [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51M47uqMMwL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2008-06-30
Run time: 52 min.
RRP: £23.99
Price: £17.75
Review The Pixar Short Films Collection [Blu-ray] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:Pixar's unprecedented string of hit animated features was built on the short films in this collection. John Lasseter and Ed Catmull used these cartoons the way Walt Disney used the "Silly Symphonies" during the 1930s: as a training ground for artists and a way to explore the potential of a new medium. Although it's only 90 seconds long, "Luxo, Jr. " (1986) ranks as the "Steamboat Willie" of computer animation: For the first time, audiences believed CG characters could think and feel. (It was also the first CG film to make audiences laugh. ) When the artists began work on Toy Story, they had learned so much from the shorts, they were ready to undertake that landmark creation. In the later shorts, the viewer can see the artists continuing to experiment: with a more realistic human figure in "Geri's Game" and with new ways of suggesting atmospheric effects in "Boundin'. " Some of the more recent shorts continue the adventures of the characters from the features. "Jack-Jack Attack" reveals what happened to the hapless baby-sitter while The Incredibles were off fighting Syndrome, while "Mater and the Ghost Light" shows that life goes on for the inhabitants of Radiator Springs. When Sully from Monsters, Inc. [+]tries to adjust his seat in "Mike's New Car," the animators prolong the moment to wring every drop of humor from the situation-just as an earlier generation of animators milked Wile E. Coyote's antics for all they were worth. The long-unseen films for Sesame Street are an unexpected bonus. A delightful collection of entertaining shorts, and a significant chronicle of the growth of computer animation. -Charles Solomon.
Release date: 2008-09-08
Run time: 160 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.98
Review Barbie Castle Collection - Barbie And The Diamond Castle/The Magic Of Pegasus / Universal Pictures UK:
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Home Alone [1990]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RAGR6H8EL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- John Heard
- Daniel Stern
- Macaulay Culkin
- Chris Columbus
- Roberts Blossom
- Joe Pesci
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £2.70
Review Home Alone [1990] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:Now and forever a favourite among kids, this 1990 comedy written by John Hughes (The Breakfast Club) and directed by Chris Columbus (Mrs. Doubtfire) ushered Macaulay Culkin onto the screen as a troubled 8-year-old who doesn't comfortably mesh with his large family. He's forced to grow a little after being accidentally left behind when his folks and siblings fly off to Paris. A good-looking boy, Culkin lights up the screen during several funny sequences, the most famous of which finds him screaming for joy when he realises he's unsupervised in his own house. A bit wooden with dialogue, the then-little star's voice could grate on the nerves (especially in long, wise-child passages of pure bromide), but he unquestionably carries Home Alone. Billie Bird and John Candy show up as two of the interesting strangers Culkin's character meets. Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern are entertainingly cartoonish as thieves, but the ensuing violence once the little hero decides to keep them out of his house is over-the-top. -Tom Keogh.
Release date: 2007-07-16
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.29
Review Numberjacks - Calling All Agents! / ITV DVD:
Actors & Directors
- Steve Gammond
- Clare Byam-Cook
Run time: 120 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.59
Review Breast Feeding Without Tears With Clare Byam-Cook / Green Umbrella Productions:
![Review Walt Disney Home Video / Tuck Everlasting [2002]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418AGCCB6SL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Scott Bairstow
- William Hurt
- Alexis Bledel
- Sissy Spacek
- Jay Russell
- Jonathan Jackson
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.56
Review Tuck Everlasting [2002] / Walt Disney Home 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 Revelation Films / The Shoe People [1987]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/510DVXFPZ7L._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2008-02-04
Run time: 150 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.26
Review The Shoe People [1987] / Revelation Films:
Release date: 2006-06-19
RRP: £12.99
Price: £6.42
Review Fimbles - The Best Of Fimbles / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 2007-09-24
Run time: 35 min.
RRP: £7.99
Price: £3.41
Review Where The Wild Things Are - And Other Maurice Sendak Stories / Where the Wild Things Are:
Actors & Directors
- Kathleen Herles
- Dora The Explorer
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.24
Review Dora The Explorer - Dora's Egg Hunt / Paramount Home Entertainment:
![Review Sony Pictures Home Entertainment / Jumanji [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51K2GSB2J2L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Robin Williams
- Joe Johnston
- Kirsten Dunst
- Jonathan Hyde
- Bradley Pierce
- Bonnie Hunt
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £3.76
Review Jumanji [1996] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:After the success of Jurassic Park in 1993, the floodgates opened for digital special effects, and Jumanji is nothing if not a showcase for computer-generated creepiness guaranteed to give young children a nightmare or two. Whether that was the filmmakers' intention is up for debate, since this is a PG-rated adventure revolving around a mysterious board game that unleashes a terrifying jungle world upon its players, including gigantic spiders, huge mosquitoes, a stampede of rhinos, elephants, and every other jungle beast you can imagine. Robin Williams plays a man-child who's been trapped in the world of "Jumanji" for 26 years until he's freed by two kids who've discovered the game and released its parade of dangerous horrors. A chaotic and misguided attempt at family entertainment, the movie does offer a few good laughs, and the effects are frequently impressive, if not entirely convincing to the eye. -Jeff Shannon.
Release date: 2006-10-09
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £3.99
Price: £1.53
Review Down On The Farm / Animal Farm:
![Review Cinema Club / The Secret Of Roan Inish [1994]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xLWE0-m9L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- John Sayles
- Richard Sheridan
- Jeni Courtney
- Eileen Colgan
- Mick Ially
- John Lynch
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.30
Review The Secret Of Roan Inish [1994] / Cinema Club:
Release date: 2005-03-14
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.09
Review Noddy - Noddy Builds A Rocket Ship / Noddy:
Release date: 2007-03-05
Run time: 780 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £8.08
Review Are You Afraid Of The Dark? - Series 1 And 2 - Complete / Are You Afraid of the Dark:
Actors & Directors
- Bob Hoskins
- Mark Gatiss
- Lee Ingleby
- Matt Lucas
Run time: 98 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £6.45
Review The Wind In The Willows / Warner Vision International:
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