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Review Sesame Street / Sesame Street: Kids' Guide to Life - Big Bird Gets Lost [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2003-06-03
Run time: 30 min.
Price: £6.54

Review Sesame Street: Kids' Guide to Life - Big Bird Gets Lost [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Sesame Street:


Review Abbey Home Media / Action Man - Explosive Situation [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Joely Collins
  • Rolf Leenders
  • Gary Chalk
  • Mark Griffin
  • Dale Wilson
Release date: 2002-11-11
Run time: 63 min.
Creator: Phil Harnage
RRP: £8.99
Price: £0.01

Review Action Man - Explosive Situation [1995] / Abbey Home Media:


Review Columbia TriStar / John Denver and the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Muppets
  • John Denver
Release date: 2003-08-26
Run time: 47 min.

Review John Denver and the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Columbia TriStar:


Review Warner Home Video / Looney Tunes - Bugs Bunny [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Bugs Bunny
Release date: 1990-09-10
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £1.60

Review Looney Tunes - Bugs Bunny [1988] / Warner Home Video:


Review Universal Pictures UK / Maisy and Panda [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Neil Morrissey
  • Maisy
Release date: 2002-02-04
Run time: 53 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.99

Review Maisy and Panda [2001] / Universal Pictures UK:

Maisy, the epony-mouse from Lucy Cousins' hugely popular books, returns to the small screen in Maisy and Panda. The episodes-"Panda", "Torch", "Library", "Wheel", "Puppets", "Cleaning", "Doctor", "Wheelbarrow", "Snail" and "Goodnight"-mirror the special friendship every child has with a favourite toy. The animation reproduces the bright, block colours of the books, but adds a new dimension of playful characterisation and sound effects. The characters' voices are very much in the Teletubbies and Pingu mode, offering few discernible words but perfectly evoking the individual characters and appealing to very young children. Neil Morrissey's voice-over offers a gentle, questioning cue for Maisy and her friends' activities and further brings out the stories' educational emphasis. The Maisy videos combine simple presentation with charming characterisation to great effect and each tale is constructed with an underlying intelligence and humour that repays repeat viewings. For those in occasional need of a Teletubby-free zone, these are the perfect videos for pre-school children. -Steve Napleton Running time: 52 minutes approximately.

Review Lyons Group / Kipper: Cuddly Critters (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Stuart
  • Chris Lang
  • Martin Clunes
Release date: 2003-09-30
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Mick Inkpen
Price: £4.26

Review Kipper: Cuddly Critters (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Lyons Group:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / The Rugrats Movie [1999]
Actors & Directors
  • Whoopi Goldberg
  • Igor Kovalyov
  • Elizabeth Daily
  • David Spade
  • Kath Soucie
  • Christine Cavanaugh
  • Norton Virgien
Release date: 1999-10-04
Run time: 77 min.
Creator: Peter Chung
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.00

Review The Rugrats 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 Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Samurai's Journey
Actors & Directors
  • Glenn McMillan
  • Sally Martin
  • Charlie Haskell
Release date: 2004-12-27
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £3.88

Review Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Samurai's Journey / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:


Review Warner Home Video / Baby Looney Tunes, Vol. 1: Playday Pals (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Ian James Corlett
  • Sam Vincent
  • Terry Klassen
  • Britt McKillip
  • Jeffrey Gatrall
  • June Foray
  • Michael Hack
  • Scott Heming
Release date: 2006-03-07
Run time: 30 min.
Creator: Roger Eschbacher
Price: £6.09

Review Baby Looney Tunes, Vol. 1: Playday Pals (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review 4 Front Video / The Wombles - A Game Of Golf And Other Stories
Actors & Directors
  • Bernard Cribbins
  • The Wombles
Release date: 2003-04-21
Run time: 47 min.
Price: £5.99

Review The Wombles - A Game Of Golf And Other Stories / 4 Front Video:


Review Channel 5 / Sooty's Amazing Adventures - Things That Go McSqueak In The Night [1996]
Actors & Directors
  • Sooty
Release date: 1999-03-22
Run time: 46 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £2.49

Review Sooty's Amazing Adventures - Things That Go McSqueak In The Night [1996] / Channel 5:


Review Warner Home Video / Batman Beyond: School Dayz/Spellbound (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Yvette Lowenthal
  • Rachael Leigh Cook
Release date: 2004-03-02
Run time: 124 min.
Creator: Neal Adams
Price: £3.15

Review Batman Beyond: School Dayz/Spellbound (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Warner Home Video:


Review Walt Disney Home Video / Magical World Of Winnie The Pooh - Vol. 2 - Little Things Mean A Lot
Actors & Directors
  • Winnie The Pooh
Release date: 2003-03-31
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.98

Review Magical World Of Winnie The Pooh - Vol. 2 - Little Things Mean A Lot / Walt Disney Home Video:


Review Elmo's World / Sesame Street: Elmo's World - Babies, Dogs & More [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2002-05-14
Run time: 50 min.
Price: £6.03

Review Sesame Street: Elmo's World - Babies, Dogs & More [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Elmo's World:


Review Bob the Builder / Bob the Builder: Muck's Favorite Adventures (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Release date: 2004-12-14
Run time: 35 min.
Price: £3.99

Review Bob the Builder: Muck's Favorite Adventures (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Bob the Builder:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Rugrats - Space Kiddets [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Broni Likomanov
  • Elizabeth Daily
  • Craig Bartlett
  • Barry Vodos
  • Nancy Cartwright
  • Christine Cavanaugh
  • Michael Bell
  • Melanie Chartoff
  • Chris Hermans
  • Celia Kendrick
Release date: 2001-09-03
Run time: 58 min.
Price: £8.99

Review Rugrats - Space Kiddets [2001] / Paramount Home Entertainment:


Review Pingu / Pingu - Stinky Pingu
Release date: 2005-04-11
Run time: 40 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £1.00

Review Pingu - Stinky Pingu / Pingu:


Actors & Directors
  • Matthew Corbett
  • Sooty
Release date: 1991-08-19
Run time: 57 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £15.99

Review Sooty-Down on the Farm / Thames Video:


Review Hit Entertainment / Kipper - Treasure Hunt And Other Stories
Actors & Directors
  • Mike Stuart
  • Martin Clunes
  • Chris Lang
Release date: 1999-03-29
Run time: 45 min.
Creator: Mick Inkpen
RRP: £9.99
Price: £8.90

Review Kipper - Treasure Hunt And Other Stories / Hit Entertainment:


Review Walt Disney Video / Tarzan [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Actors & Directors
  • Kevin Lima
  • Brian Blessed
  • Glenn Close
  • Chris Buck
  • Nigel Hawthorne
  • Tony Goldwyn
  • Minnie Driver
Release date: 2000-04-18
Run time: 88 min.
Creator: David Reynolds
Price: £35.95

Review Tarzan [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC) / Walt Disney Video:

After watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote to Walt Disney about adapting his novel of an ape-man into a feature animated cartoon. Some 60 years later, the tale is finally told with brilliant design work that looks unlike any previous animated film. The story is a natural for Disney since the themes of misunderstood central figures have been at the heart of its recent hits. Disney's Tarzan doesn't wander far from the familiar story of a shipwrecked baby who is brought up by apes in Africa. What gives the film its zing is its clever use of music (the songs are sung by Phil Collins himself rather than onscreen characters) and the remarkable animation. Deep Canvas, a 3-D technology, was developed for the film, creating a jungle that comes alive as Tarzan swings through the trees, often looking like a modern skateboarder racing down giant tree limbs. The usual foray of sidekicks, including a rambunctious ape voiced by Rosie O'Donnell, should keep the little ones aptly entertained. The two lead voices, Tony Goldwyn as Tarzan and Minnie Driver as Jane, are inspired choices. Their chemistry helps the story through the weakest points (the last third) and makes Tarzan's initial connection with all things human (including Jane) delicious entertainment. Disney still is not taking risks in its animated films, but as cookie-cutter entertainment, Tarzan makes a pretty good treat. [+]
-Doug Thomas.

Models & Brands:
Sesame Street: Kids' Guide to Life - Big Bird Gets Lost [2003] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Action Man - Explosive Situation [1995], John Denver and the Muppets: Rocky Mountain Holiday [1983] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Looney Tunes - Bugs Bunny [1988], Maisy and Panda [2001], Kipper: Cuddly Critters (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Rugrats Movie [1999], Power Rangers Ninja Storm - Samurai's Journey, Baby Looney Tunes, Vol. 1: Playday Pals (REGION 1) (NTSC), The Wombles - A Game Of Golf And Other Stories, Sooty's Amazing Adventures - Things That Go McSqueak In The Night [1996], Batman Beyond: School Dayz/Spellbound (REGION 1) (NTSC), Magical World Of Winnie The Pooh - Vol. 2 - Little Things Mean A Lot, Sesame Street: Elmo's World - Babies, Dogs & More [2000] (REGION 1) (NTSC), Bob the Builder: Muck's Favorite Adventures (REGION 1) (NTSC), Rugrats - Space Kiddets [2001], Pingu - Stinky Pingu, Sooty-Down on the Farm, Kipper - Treasure Hunt And Other Stories, Tarzan [1999] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

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