Release date: 2008-11-10 Run time: 154 min. RRP: £12.99 Price: £7.98
Review The Incredible Hulk - Season One Part Two (Marvel Originals Series - 90s) [1996] / The Incredible Hulk:
Release date: 2009-03-30 RRP: £12.99 Price: £8.98
Review Chuggington - Let's Ride The Rails / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 2007-05-21 Run time: 96 min. RRP: £13.99 Price: £4.97
Review The Cheetah Girls 2 [2006] / Raven Symone:The hot girl rock group The Cheetah Girls is about to discover just how important dreams and true friendship are as they head to Barcelona for an exciting summer vacation. When Chanel's (Adrienne Bailon) mother announces a trip to Barcelona to meet her current boyfriend's family, Chanel is distraught at being separated from the Cheetah Girls for the summer and worries that her mother may decide to move to Barcelona permanently. Galleria (Raven-Symoné) soon cooks up a plan that lands all of the Cheetah girls in Barcelona for a music festival, but once there, the girls' individual interests in music, dance, fashion design and even romance sweep them in so many different directions that there's little time for rehearsing together. Add in some very real competition from Barcelona's favorite upcoming singer Marisol (Belinda Peregrin), her conniving mother and a lack of familiarity with the music festival rules, and the Cheetah Girls chances of winning the contest begin to fade. Galleria soon realizes that she must let each of her friends go in the direction their dreams take them, even if it means the end of the Cheetah Girls. In the end, all the girls learn a vital lesson about the importance of tolerance, friendship, and dreams. This production is bursting with tight music and awesome dance segments choreographed by High School Musical's choreographer Kenny Ortega. -Tami Horiuchi.
Actors & Directors
- Victor Cook
- Grey DeLisle
- Olivia d'Abo
- Steve Loter
- Jeff Bennett
- Jim Cummings
- Rene Auberjonois
- Don MacKinnon
Release date: 2002-07-22 Run time: 72 min. Creator: John Behnke RRP: £19.99 Price: £4.00
Review Tarzan And Jane [2002] / Walt Disney Home Video:As Tarzan and Jane's first anniversary of wedded jungle bliss approaches, Jane ponders what gift would be appropriate-necessitating three flashbacks from the Disney television series explaining why various celebrations are out of the question. First Jane remembers when her old British school chums came to rescue her from the bush and whisk her back to civilization. Then Terk and Tantor help her recall the time diamond miners hired Tarzan only to double-cross him. The final remembrance features Jane's old neighbour Robert who flies to Africa to recover a music box he gave her-and to betray England. Michael T. Weiss and Olivia D'Abo do the honours as the voices of Tarzan and Jane and Mandy Moore and Phil Collins provide the vocals for two new songs. Like many of Disney's straight-to-video "sequels", the animation and story aren't up to par with the original; but the kids won't care. Ages 3 and up. -Kimberly Heinrichs, Amazon. com.
Actors & Directors
- Phil Collins
- Kevin Bacon
- Bridget Fonda
- Bob Hoskins
Release date: 2002-05-20 Run time: 177 min. RRP: £9.99 Price: £5.58
Review Balto [1995] / Universal Pictures UK:Buried like a bone in a snowdrift, Balto never achieved the theatrical success it should have, but it's worth digging up. The film is structured on the true tale of a lead sled dog, Balto, that brought a diphtheria antitoxin to the small town of Nome, Alaska. The film balances comedy, villainy and drama very well and the voice work is above average. This is safe family viewing, as even the villain's comeuppance manages a civilised resolution. -Keith Simanton, Amazon. com.
Actors & Directors
- Jason Isaacs
- Brendan Gleeson
- Alan Rickman
- Rupert Grint
- David Yates
- Helena Bonham-Carter
Release date: 2008-01-07 Run time: 133 min. RRP: £5.99 Price: £4.98
Review Harry Potter And The Order of the Phoenix [UMD Mini for PSP] [2007] / Boulevard Entertainment:
Release date: 2006-10-02 Run time: 37 min. RRP: £11.99 Price: £9.52
Review Baby Einstein - Baby Noah / Walt Disney Home Video:The baby-to-toddler set gets an expedition through a variety of animal habitats across the planet in this installment of the Baby Einstein series. Despite the title, there is no real biblical connection to the material other than Noah's Ark toys and a few paintings (minus Noah and family). The subtitle "Animal Expedition" is far more accurate, as the 38-minute program takes the youngsters through the African savannah, rainforest, ocean, Australian Outback, and polar regions. As with its predecessors in the series, this one focuses on a few animals in each segment with repetition through toys, puppets and nature footage. Spoken words are minimal, but percussion and classical music (Beethoven, Bizet and Mozart) are maximized. (Ages 1 to 2) -Kimberly Heinrichs.
Release date: 2004-07-26 Run time: 70 min. RRP: £11.99 Price: £4.97
Review Duck Tales The Movie: Treasure Of The Lost Lamp / Ducktales the Movie:
Actors & Directors
- John Cusack
- Don Bluth
- Meg Ryan
- Jodi Benson
- Gary Goldman
- Kelsey Grammer
- Hank Azaria
Release date: 2005-03-21 Run time: 173 min. RRP: £15.99 Price: £4.98
Review Anastasia / Thumbelina / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Release date: 2005-06-13 Run time: 72 min. RRP: £11.99 Price: £4.13
Review Bear In The Big Blue House - Sleepytime With Bear / Bear in the Big Blue House:
Release date: 2007-08-27 Run time: 192 min. RRP: £12.99 Price: £8.97
Review Yu Gi Oh GX Triple (Volumes 1-3) / Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx:
Release date: 2008-06-30 Run time: 52 min. RRP: £23.99 Price: £11.29
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.
Actors & Directors
- Frank Oz
- Jim Henson
- Stephen Garlick
- Lisa Maxwell
Release date: 1999-12-06 Run time: 89 min. RRP: £12.99 Price: £4.97
Review Dark Crystal [1982] / Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:Jim Henson's fantasy epic The Dark Crystal doesn't take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but like Star Wars it takes the audience to a place that exists only in the imagination and, for an hour and a half, on the screen. Recalling the worlds of JRR. Tolkien, Henson tells the story of a race of grotesque birdlike lizards called the Skeksis, gnomish dragons who rule their fantastic planet with an iron claw. A prophecy tells of a Gelfling (a small elfin being) who will topple their empire, so in their reign of terror they have exterminated the race, or so they think. The orphan Jen, raised in solitude by a race of peace-loving wizards called the Mystics, embarks on a quest to find the missing shard of the Dark Crystal (which gives the Skeksis their power) and restore the balance of the universe. Henson and codirector Frank Oz have pushed puppetry into a new direction: traditional puppets, marionettes, giant bodysuits, and mechanical constructions are mixed seamlessly in a fantasy world of towering castles, simple huts, dank caves, a giant clockwork observatory, and a magnificent landscape that seem to have leaped off the pages of a storybook. Muppet fans will recognise many of the voice actors-a few characters sound awfully close to familiar comic creations-but otherwise The Dark Crystal is a completely alien world made familiar by a mythic quest that resonates through stories over the ages. -Sean Axmaker.
Release date: 2007-11-19 Run time: 78 min. RRP: £7.99 Price: £3.85
Review Pink Panther - A Pink Christmas [1989] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Release date: 2007-01-01 RRP: £26.99 Price: £11.77
Review Wacky Races - Complete Collection / Wacky Races:
Release date: 2006-11-27 Run time: 69 min. RRP: £12.99 Price: £1.84
Review The Wiggles - Santa's Rockin' / The Wiggles:
Release date: 2005-05-16 Run time: 63 min. RRP: £12.99 Price: £8.74
Review The Happiest Baby On The Block [2005] / delta home entertainment:
Release date: 2005-04-11 RRP: £5.99 Price: £2.37
Review You Can Be A Ballet Dancer / Contender Entertainment Group:
Actors & Directors
- Kristen Stewart
- Sam Robards
- Max Thieriot
- Corbin Bleu
- Jennifer Beals
- Bart Freundlich
Release date: 2004-10-18 Run time: 87 min. RRP: £15.99 Price: £0.99
Review Mission Without Permission / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:
Release date: 2006-11-20 Run time: 164 min. RRP: £9.99 Price: £6.40
Review Pingu Box Set / Hit Entertainment HIT 41507:Pingu Region 2 DVD boxset containing 3 separate DVDs: Bouncy Fun; Sledge Academy; Stinky Pingu. Running time 164 minutes.
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