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Actors & Directors
  • Hamilton Luske
  • Barbara Luddy
  • Peggy Lee
  • Bill Baucom
  • Wilfred Jackson
  • Bill Thompson
  • Clyde Geronimi
  • Larry Roberts
Release date: 1998-08-17
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Ralph Wright
RRP: £17.99
Price: £3.99

Review Lady And The Tramp [1955] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Disney's first animated feature in CinemaScope is now available in widescreen presentations on video, and it is definitely good to get the whole picture. One of the studio's most original and charming movies, the 1955 film tells the story of a rakish, street-smart dog named Tramp, who helps an aristocratic pooch named Lady out of some trouble and then commences a romance with her. Sweet, funny scenes abound, and the combination of innocence and sophistication would have done well in a live-action picture. Peggy Lee co-wrote the songs and provides the voice of the Siamese cats in one of the film's best-known musical sequences. This newly restored version spruces up both sonics and visuals, and a letterbox version is available. - Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Power Rangers - Dino Thunder: Collision Course
Actors & Directors
  • Jason David Frank
  • Kevin Duhaney
  • Emma Lahana
  • Jeffrey Parazzo
  • James Napier
Release date: 2005-07-18
Run time: 110 min.
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.63

Review Power Rangers - Dino Thunder: Collision Course / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / A Knight In Camelot [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Paloma Baeza
  • Michael York
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Simon Fenton
  • Roger Young
  • James Coombes
Release date: 2004-04-19
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.49

Review A Knight In Camelot [2002] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Network / The Man Who Saved Christmas [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Alexander
  • Kelly Rowan
  • Sturla Gunnarsson
Release date: 2008-11-10
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.99

Review The Man Who Saved Christmas [2002] / Network:


Review Dr. Dolittle / Doctor Dolittle Quadrilogy [1998]
Release date: 2008-12-01
Run time: 340 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £17.44

Review Doctor Dolittle Quadrilogy [1998] / Dr. Dolittle:


Review Artist Not Provided / Pokemon: The Rise of Darkrai [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2008-05-27
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £8.72

Review Pokemon: The Rise of Darkrai [2008] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Artist Not Provided:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Hey Arnold(The Movie) Dvd [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Cullen Blaine
  • Spencer Klein
  • Olivia Hack
  • Craig Bartlett
  • Francesca Smith
  • Toran Caudell
  • Phillip Van Dyke
Release date: 2003-07-07
Run time: 75 min.
Creator: Jonathan Rosenthal
RRP: £15.99
Price: £2.38

Review Hey Arnold(The Movie) Dvd [1996] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

Adapted from the popular Nickelodeon show, Hey Arnold! continues the adventures of the blithely cheerful, football-headed Arnold (voice by Spencer Klein) on the big screen. When corrupt developer Schek (Paul Sorvino) threatens to buy the run-down urban neighbourhood where Arnold lives, he and his best friend Gerald (Jamil Smith) rally the neighbours to keep their homes from being turned into a mega-mall. After their peaceful efforts fail, they turn to espionage in a spoof of Men in Black and other action films. Hey Arnold! suffers from the same difficulty as many theatrical features spawned from TV cartoons: the characters have to solve a problem that's too big. The James Bond-style gadgetry and car chases don't fit into the slightly skewed vision of fourth-grade life that made the series popular. The limited animation and awkward designs will work better in the video release. -Charles Solomon.

Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Rugrats : The Movie [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Norton Virgien
  • Kath Soucie
  • Christine Cavanaugh
  • Igor Kovalyov
  • David Spade
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Elizabeth Daily
Release date: 2000-04-17
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Peter Chung
RRP: £12.99
Price: £0.99

Review Rugrats : The Movie [1999] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

The first theatrical film from the popular Nickelodeon TV series became the surprise hit of the 1998 holiday box-office crunch, trouncing the highly competitive kids market. The key ingredient to Rugrats' success is the writing. Venturing into their first theatrical movie, the pals-including the intrepid diaper-wearing Tommy Pickles, the nervous Chuckie, the twins Lil and Phil, and the wonderfully prissy Angelica-garble English into funny prose ("I want those fugitives back in custard-y!") and use movie references in their fantasy life. The opening here is a dead-on spoof of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The big news for the movie is that Tommy gets a new baby brother, named Dylan (or Dil for short). The rest of the film has no real plot but is a series of adventures as the clan gets lost in the forest riding an inventive Reptar wagon that is the 90s equivalent of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Parents search for the kids, the kids learn new lessons, everyone goes home happy. The Rugrats Movie is not as wildly appealing as A Bug's Life but is far goofier and wackier with its animation. There's also a tremendous sense of joy that is often missing from cartoons these days, and the songs used in the film-from such diverse musicians as Busta Rhymes, Iggy Pop, Lisa Loeb, Lou Rawls, Beck, and Devo-add to the fun. It's an acquired taste, but the creators' first efforts to take the 10-minute TV sketches into an 80-minute feature pay off. [+]
-Doug Thomas The first theatrical film from the popular television series became the surprise hit of the 1998 holiday box-office crunch, trouncing the highly competitive kids market. The key ingredient to the Rugrats' success is the writing. Venturing into their first theatrical movie, the pals-including the intrepid nappie-wearing Tommy Pickles, the nervous Chuckie, the twins Lil and Phil, and the wonderfully prissy Angelica-garble English into funny prose ("I want those fugitives back in custard-y!") and use movie references in their fantasy life. The opening here is a dead-on spoof of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The big news for the movie is that Tommy gets a new baby brother, named Dylan (or Dil for short). The rest of the film has no real plot but is a series of adventures, as the clan gets lost in the forest riding an inventive Reptar wagon that is the 1990s equivalent of the car in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Parents search for the kids, the kids learn new lessons and everyone goes home happy. The Rugrats Movie is not as wildly appealing as A Bug's Life but is far goofier and wackier with its animation. There's also a tremendous sense of joy that is often missing from cartoons these days and the songs used in the film-from such diverse musicians as Busta Rhymes, Iggy Pop, Lisa Loeb, Lou Rawls, Beck and Devo-add to the fun. It's an acquired taste, but the creators' first efforts to take the 10-minute TV sketches into an 80-minute feature pay off. -Doug Thomas.

Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Doctor Dolittle 4 - Tail To The Chief [2008]
Actors & Directors
  • Craig Shapiro
  • Kyla Pratt
  • Peter Coyote
Release date: 2008-12-01
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.95

Review Doctor Dolittle 4 - Tail To The Chief [2008] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Jungle Book [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Scott Lee
  • John Cleese
  • Lena Headey
  • Stephen Sommers
  • Sam Neill
  • Cary Elwes
Release date: 2006-08-07
Run time: 108 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £11.50

Review The Jungle Book [1994] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Dreamworks Home Entertainment / Shrek 2: Ltd Edition 2 Disc [2004]
Actors & Directors
  • Eddie Murphy
  • Mike Myers
  • Conrad Vernon
  • Kelly Asbury
  • Andrew Adamson
  • John Cleese
  • Cameron Diaz
  • Conrad Vernon
Release date: 2004-11-01
Run time: 89 min.
RRP: £27.99
Price: £1.90

Review Shrek 2: Ltd Edition 2 Disc [2004] / Dreamworks Home Entertainment:

The lovably ugly green ogre returns with his green bride and furry, hooved friend in Shrek 2. The newlywed Shrek and Princess Fiona are invited to Fiona's former kingdom, Far Far Away, to have the marriage blessed by Fiona's parents-which Shrek thinks is a bad, bad idea, and he's proved right: the parents are horrified by their daughter's transformation into an ogress, a fairy godmother wants her son Prince Charming to win Fiona, and a feline assassin is hired to get Shrek out of the way. The computer animation is more detailed than ever, but it's the acting that make the comedy work-in addition to the return of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, and Cameron Diaz, Shrek 2 features the flexible voices of Julie Andrews, John Cleese and Antonio Banderas, plus Jennifer Saunders as the gleefully wicked fairy godmother. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Universal Pictures UK / Noddy - Catch A Falling Star [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Lauren Collins
  • Shadia Simmons
  • Gina Sorell
  • Daniel Magder
  • Michelle Melanson
Release date: 2003-10-13
Run time: 60 min.
Creator: Rick Siggelkow
RRP: £16.99
Price: £6.24

Review Noddy - Catch A Falling Star [2003] / Universal Pictures UK:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Elephant Walk [1954]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Finch
  • Dana Andrews
  • Abner Biberman
  • Abraham Sofaer
  • William Dieterle
  • Elizabeth Taylor
Release date: 2005-09-12
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £4.74

Review Elephant Walk [1954] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / That's Entertainment! The Complete Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mickey Rooney
  • David Engel
  • Debbie Reynolds
  • Fred Astaire
  • Jack Haley Jr.
  • Bud Friedgen
  • Gene Kelly
  • Ann Miller
  • Gene Kelly
  • Michael J. Shapiro
Release date: 2004-10-12
Run time: 374 min.
Creator: D.W. Gilbert
Price: £27.79

Review That's Entertainment! The Complete Collection (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Monterey Video / Spanish Made Easy for Children: Hola Amigos, Vol. 1 [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Daniel Restuccio
Release date: 2004-08-10
Run time: 55 min.
Creator: Jeff Marsh
Price: £8.72

Review Spanish Made Easy for Children: Hola Amigos, Vol. 1 [1997] / Monterey Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Dinotopia [2002]
Actors & Directors
  • Tyron Leitso
  • Jim Carter
  • Wentworth Miller
  • David Thewlis
  • Katie Carr
  • Marco Brambilla
Release date: 2002-12-26
Run time: 249 min.
Creator: Simon Moore
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.18

Review Dinotopia [2002] / 2 Entertain Video:

Kids will love this sweeping story of two brothers whose plane crashes on a mysterious island called Dinotopia, where human beings live in harmony with dinosaurs-the herbivores, anyway. The carnivores present a problem, as the humans' defences against them-a mystical power source called sunstones-are losing strength. As they try to save the island, Carl and David (Tyron Leitso and Wentworth Miller) struggle not only with tyrannosaurs and prehistoric crocodiles, but also with repressive Dinotopian traditions and a scheming malcontent (David Thewlis) who stirs up all kinds of trouble. Meanwhile, they also wrestle with each other over the lovely daughter of the mayor of Waterfall City (Katie Carr). The pacifist ideals of Dinotopia are refreshing, but it's the special effects that will hook viewers: riding on the backs of brachiosaurs, flying atop pteranadons, arguing in court with triceratops and ankylosaurs. Anyone fascinated with dinosaurs (and who isn't?) will enjoy this whimsical fantasy. A host of British character actors also helps keep the human side of this four-hour mini-series lively; Alice Krige (also known as the Borg Queen in Star Trek: First Contact) gets a much more benevolent role here. -Bret Fetzer.

Actors & Directors
  • Lee Unkrich
  • Willem Dafoe
  • Brad Garrett
  • Ellen DeGeneres
  • Alexander Gould
  • Albert Brooks
  • Andrew Stanton
Release date: 2009-09-08
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: David Reynolds
RRP: £26.99
Price: £17.59

Review Finding Nemo [Blu-ray]:

A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar's animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba diver, a nervous clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast-and astonishingly detailed-ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who's both a help and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time. Faced with sharks, deep-sea anglers, fields of poisonous jellyfish, sea turtles, pelicans and much more, Marlin rises above his neuroses in this wonderfully funny and thrilling ride-rarely do more than 10 minutes pass without a sequence appearing that's destined to become a theme-park attraction. Pixar continues its run of impeccable artistic and economic successes (Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Monsters, Inc). Supporting voices here include Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush and Allison Janney. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Showbox Home Entertainment / Comedy Classics - John and Julie [1955]
Actors & Directors
  • William Fairchild
  • Noelle Middleton
  • Lesley Dudley
  • Moira Lister
  • Wilfrid Hyde-White
  • Colin Gibson
Release date: 2007-04-02
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.97

Review Comedy Classics - John and Julie [1955] / Showbox Home Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Dick Tracy [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Madonna
  • Charlie Korsmo
  • Michael Donovan O'Donnell
  • Warren Beatty
  • Warren Beatty
  • Al Pacino
Release date: 2006-06-15
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Jim Cash
RRP: £14.99
Price: £3.13

Review Dick Tracy [1990] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:

A flawed but stylish adaptation of the Chester Gould comic strip by director Warren Beatty, who also stars in the title role. The minimalist plot involves a battalion of baddies who confront the intrepid detective in a series of strung-together vignettes. Al Pacino is a comedic if overblown standout as Big Boy Caprice and Madonna simply smoulders as aggressive blonde bombshell Breathless Mahoney. It matters not that the plot is Spartan, as this dazzling eye candy is much enhanced by Stephen Sondheim's songs, including the Academy Award-winning ditty, "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)". Beatty took his cue from the source material and concentrated on the relationships between these people, whether strained, romantic or hateful. The performances are subtle and more amusing than you would expect from such a visually bold picture. Shot in bright, primary colours, this also won Oscars for Best Art/Set Direction and Makeup (for those inventively hideous criminals). Watch for well-known names, such as Dustin Hoffman and Dick Van Dyke, in cameo appearances and supporting roles. -Rochelle O'Gorman.

Review Walt Disney Home Video / Winter Wonderland
Actors & Directors
  • Bernard Vorhaus
  • Charles Drake
  • Elinor Donahue
  • Eric Blore
  • Lynne Roberts
  • Roman Bohnen
Release date: 2008-09-29
Run time: 47 min.
Creator: Peter Goldbaum
RRP: £11.99
Price: £1.59

Review Winter Wonderland / Walt Disney Home Video:


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