Release date: 2007-04-02
Run time: 164 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.50
Review Best Of New Scooby-Doo Movies - Vol.1 / Best of New Scooby Doo Movies:
Actors & Directors
- Kathleen Herles
- Dora The Explorer
- Sandra Toro
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.71
Review Dora The Explorer - City Of Lost Toys / Paramount Home Entertainment:
Release date: 2006-02-20
RRP: £6.99
Price: £1.36
Review Barney - Sing That Song / Hit Entertainment:
Release date: 2006-11-13
Run time: 300 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £15.11
Review Charlie And Lola : The Absolutely Complete Series 1 (4 DVD Set In Tin Lunchbox Gift Set) / Charlie and Lola:
![Review Walt Disney Pictures / Pinocchio (2 Disc Platinum Edition) [1940]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MaSJdQzBL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ben Sharpsteen
- Evelyn Venable
- Cliff Edwards
- Mel Blanc
- Christian Rub
- Hamilton Luske
- Dickie Jones
Run time: 84 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £14.99
Review Pinocchio (2 Disc Platinum Edition) [1940] / Walt Disney Pictures:
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Actors & Directors
- Kirk Wise
- David Ogden Stiers
- Gary Trousdale
- Richard White
- Paige O'Hara
- Jerry Orbach
- Robby Benson
Run time: 84 min.
Creator: Burny Mattinson
Price: £30.95
Review Beauty and the Beast [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video N/A:The film that officially signalled Disney's animation renaissance and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's gloomy mansion. Naturally, Belle teaches the Beast to love. What makes this such a dazzler, besides the amazingly accomplished animation and the winning coterie of supporting characters (the Beast's mansion is overrun by quipping, dancing household items) is the array of beautiful and hilarious songs by composer Alan Menken and the late, lamented lyricist Howard Ashman, (winning the 1991 Oscar for Best Song and Menken's score won a trophy as well). The downright funniest song is "Gaston", a lout's paean to himself (including the immortal line, "I use antlers in all of my de-co-ra-ting"). "Be Our Guest" is transformed into an inspired Busby Berkeley homage. Since Ashman's passing, animated musicals haven't quite reached the same exhilarating level of wit, sophistication and pure joy. -David Kronke, Amazon. comOn the DVD: Beauty and the Beast's regular DVD release still offers some special features, but doesn't hold a candle to the Collector's Edition. The "making-of" featurette is informative charting the production from Walt Disney's original idea to the final musical version. [+]"The Story Behind the Story" shows the origins of many of Disney's adapted fairy tales. The two games are fun, if a little slow to load. Celine Dion's original video is slightly on the dull side, but Jump 5's remixed version of "Tale as Old as Time" is just ridiculous. As always the sing-along track is great fun for all budding Belles or Beasts in the house. The transfer is as pristine as could be expected from a 1991 release. On the DVD: Beauty and the Beast's two-disc Collector's Edition really is the stuff of fairy tales. Disc 1 has three versions of the movie, the best being the "Work in Progress" edition which offers the unfinished film, sketch lines and all. The theatrical cut has a pristine transfer and the sound is immaculate. The director's commentary relies on a lot on name-dropping and you'll find more interesting insight in the "making-of" feature on the second disc. The sing-a-long track (as with all Disney releases) is fantastic, particularly for such a well-loved score. Disc 2 is packed full of information, fun and games. The best of the informative features is "Animation Magic", an intelligent look into the production of Disney cartoons. In the games section you'll need to head straight for the West Wing to continue an adventure with Chip (Tip: finish the game "Maurice's Workshop" first), but get your fingers warmed up as it needs a little remote control action. This disc only really falls down on the slowness of some of its games and the appalling remix video of "Tale as Old as Time". -Nikki Disney.
Release date: 2004-10-18
Run time: 413 min.
RRP: £39.99
Price: £9.99
Review Looney Tunes Golden Collection / Looney Tunes:
Release date: 2007-05-28
Run time: 61 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.96
Review Peppa Pig - Bubbles / Contender Entertainment Group:
![Review Abbey / Horrid Henry's Underpants [2007]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XOzJv-TTL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2007-11-19
Run time: 66 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £4.43
Review Horrid Henry's Underpants [2007] / Abbey:
Release date: 2004-04-05
Run time: 35 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £2.86
Review 100 Favourite Nursery Rhymes And Songs / Contender Entertainment Group:
Release date: 2005-05-23
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £22.99
Price: £6.87
Review Postman Pat's Bumper Collection / Postman Pat:
![Review Warner Home Video / Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41PVN5DBGTL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Warwick Davis
- Julie Christie
- Alfonso Cuaron
- Tom Felton
- Daniel Radcliffe
- David Bradley
Run time: 136 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.50
Review Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban [2004] / Warner Home Video:Adapted from JK Rowling's third novel, this installment of the family fantasy adventure story finds trainee wizard Harry Potter (played by Daniel Radcliffe) and his best friends Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint), facing the dangerous convict Sirius Black (played by Gary Oldman). Black has escaped from Azkaban Prison and is on his way to Hogwarts, so the school calls in supernatural assistance in the form of Dementors - but will they turn out to be a great help or a further threat? The first of the Harry Potter films to be directed by acclaimed Mexican film director Alfonso Cuarón, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban is generally regarded as the most stylised and darkest entry in the series thus far. It stars the actors from the preceding films in the series, except for the role of Albus Dumbledore, which sees Michael Gambon take over from the late Richard Harris. Much of the original crew also returned, including screenwriter Steve Kloves. The film broke several opening records around the world upon its release, including the top opening film in UK film history, and made approximately £20m in its first three days, totaling £90. 3m in ten days.
Release date: 2008-11-24
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £8.80
Review Mister Maker - Let's Make It / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 2007-08-27
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.48
Review Peppa Pig Triple (Piggy in the Middle, My Birthday Party, Bubbles) / Contender:
![Review Warner Home Video / A Cinderella Story/Another Cinderella Story [2004]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517pcEi1i1L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Damon Santostefano
- Mark Rosman
- Hilary Duff
- Chad Michael Murray
Run time: 179 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £8.60
Review A Cinderella Story/Another Cinderella Story [2004] / Warner Home Video:
![Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / The Nightmare Before Christmas (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51cagojUPFL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Glenn Shadix
- William Hickey
- Tim Burton
- Danny Elfman
- Catherine O'Hara
- Chris Sarandon
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £17.99
Price: £9.57
Review The Nightmare Before Christmas (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [1993] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:
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Actors & Directors
- Takashi Naitô
- Mari Natsuki
- Rumi Hîragi
- Yasuko Sawaguchi
- Kirk Wise
- Miyu Irino
- Hayao Miyazaki
Run time: 116 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.99
Review Spirited Away [2003] / Optimum:The highest grossing film in Japanese box-office history, Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro Kamikakushi) is a dazzling film that reasserts the power of drawn animation to create fantasy worlds. Like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and Lewis Carroll's Alice, Chihiro plunges into an alternate reality. On the way to their new home, the petulant adolescent and her parents find what they think is a deserted amusement park. Her parents stuff themselves until they turn into pigs, and Chihiro discovers they're trapped in a resort for traditional Japanese gods and spirits. An oddly familiar boy named Haku instructs Chihiro to request a job from Yubaba, the greedy witch who rules the spa. As she works, Chihiro's untapped qualities keep her from being corrupted by the greed that pervades Yubaba's mini-empire. In a series of fantastic adventures, she purges a river god suffering from human pollution, rescues the mysterious No-Face, and befriends Yubaba's kindly twin, Zeniba. The resolve, bravery and love Chihiro discovers within herself enable her to aid Haku and save her parents. The result is a moving and magical journey, told with consummate skill by one of the masters of contemporary animation. -Charles Solomon.
Actors & Directors
- Paul Behn
- Donnie Dunagan
- Paula Winslowe
- Bobby Stewart
- David Hand
- Hardy Albright
Run time: 69 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £18.30
Review Bambi (2 Disc Special Edition) / Walt Disney Home Video:It always comes up when people are comparing their most traumatic movie experiences: "the death of Bambi's mother," a recollection that can bring a shudder to even the most jaded filmgoer. That primal separation (which is no less stunning for happening off-screen) is the centerpiece of Bambi, Walt Disney's 1942 animated classic, but it is by no means the only bold stroke in the film. In its swift but somehow leisurely 69 minutes, Bambi covers a year in the life of a young deer. But in a bigger way, it measures the life cycle itself, from birth to adulthood, from childhood's freedom to grown-up responsibility. All of this is rendered in cheeky, fleet-footed style-the movie doesn't lecture, or make you feel you're being fed something that's good for you. The animation is miraculous, a lush forest in which nature is a constantly unfolding miracle (even in a spectacular fire, or those dark moments when "man was in the forest"). There are probably easier animals to draw than a young deer, and the Disney animators set themselves a challenge with Bambi's wobbly glide across an ice-covered lake, his spindly legs akimbo; but the sequence is effortless and charming. If Bambi himself is just a bit dull-such is the fate of an Everydeer-his rabbit sidekick Thumper and a skunk named Flower more than make up for it. Many of the early Disney features have their share of lyrical moments and universal truths, but Bambi is so simple, so pure, it's almost transparent. You might borrow a phrase from Thumper and say it's downright twitterpated. [+]-Robert Horton.
![Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Rescuers Down Under [1991]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NWR660YSL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- John Candy
- Mike Gabriel
- Tristan Rogers
- Bob Newhart
- Eva Gabor
- Adam Ryen
- Hendel Butoy
Run time: 80 min.
Creator: Margery Sharp
RRP: £17.99
Price: £4.15
Review The Rescuers Down Under [1991] / Walt Disney Home Video:The Rescuers Down Under isn't a quickie, direct-to-video sequel, cashing in on the success of the original 1977 animated hit about adventurous mice, but a full-blown theatrical effort. This time around, Bernard (voice of Bob Newhart) is trying to pop the question to Bianca (Eva Gabor) when they're summoned to Australia, where a young boy has been kidnapped by a pallid, grey-faced poacher (who looks like and is voiced by George C. Scott). Wilbur, a chatterbox of an albatross (John Candy, replacing the late Jim Jordan's character Orville), and Jake (Tristan Rogers), a kangaroo mouse-Bernard is jealous of the dashing rodent-assist the Rescuers in saving the day and imparting a mild environmental message. The film opens with an absolutely breathtaking aerial sequence-this was made near the beginning of Disney's animation renaissance-so impressive it would seem the story, literally, has nowhere else to go but down. However, some smart gags, excellent animation and rollicking adventures ensue. So why isn't it better known? It had the bad luck to open, in 1990, opposite another kids' film-Home Alone. -David Kronke.
![Review Universal Pictures UK / Maisy's Farm [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ND79A5BFL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2001-10-22
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.53
Review Maisy's Farm [2001] / Universal Pictures UK:
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Best Of New Scooby-Doo Movies - Vol.1, Dora The Explorer - City Of Lost Toys, Barney - Sing That Song, Charlie And Lola : The Absolutely Complete Series 1 (4 DVD Set In Tin Lunchbox Gift Set), Pinocchio (2 Disc Platinum Edition) [1940], Beauty and the Beast [1991] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Peppa Pig - Bubbles, Horrid Henry's Underpants [2007], 100 Favourite Nursery Rhymes And Songs, Postman Pat's Bumper Collection, Harry Potter and The Prisoner of Azkaban [2004], Mister Maker - Let's Make It, Peppa Pig Triple (Piggy in the Middle, My Birthday Party, Bubbles), A Cinderella Story/Another Cinderella Story [2004], The Nightmare Before Christmas (2 Disc Collector's Edition) [1993], Spirited Away [2003], Bambi (2 Disc Special Edition), The Rescuers Down Under [1991], Maisy's Farm [2001] |
