![Review Walt Disney Home Video / Beauty And The Beast [Disney 1992]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/512TMK6P5DL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Gary Trousdale
- Kirk Wise
- Paige O'Hara
- David Ogden Stiers
- Robby Benson
- Jerry Orbach
- Richard White
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £6.49
Review Beauty And The Beast [Disney 1992] / Walt Disney Home Video: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: 2000-11-27
Run time: 71 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £9.99
Review Fantasia 2000 / Walt Disney Home Video:More ambitious in scope than any of its other animated films (before or to come), Disney's 1940 Fantasia was a dizzying, magical and highly enjoyable marriage of classical music and animated images. Fantasia 2000, originally made for the IMAX large-screen format, features some breathtaking animation and storytelling, and in a few spots soars to wonderful high points, but it still more often than not has the feel of walking in its predecessor's footsteps as opposed to creating its own path. A family of whales swimming and soaring to Respighi's The Pines of Rome is magical to watch, but ends all too soon; a forest sprite's dance of life, death and rebirth to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring too clearly echoes the original Fantasia's Night on Bald Mountain/Ave Maria sequence. But when it's on target, Fantasia 2000 is glorious enough to make you giddy. Hans Christian Andersen's "The Steadfast Tin Soldier" is a perfect narrative set to Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 2, and Donald Duck's guest appearance as the assistant to Noah (of the Ark fame) set to Elgar's Pomp and Circumstance marches is a welcome companion piece (though not an equal) to The Sorcerer's Apprentice, the one original Fantasia piece included here. The high point of Fantasia 2000, though, is a fantastic day-in-the-life sequence of 1930s New York City set to Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and animated in the style of cartoonist Al Hirschfeld; it's a perfect melding of music, story and animation style. Let's hope future Fantasias (reportedly in the works) take a cue from the best of this compilation. The music is provided by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Levine, interspersed with negligible intros by Steve Martin, Bette Midler, Itzhak Perlman, James Earl Jones and others. -Mark Englehart.
Actors & Directors
- James MacDonald (II)
- Marion Darlington
- David Hand
- Roy Atwell
- Billy Gilbert
- Otis Harlan
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.18
Review Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs [1938] / Walt Disney Home Video:Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was nicknamed "Disney's Folly" by contemporary observers; they doubted that the short cartoons shown before the main film could ever successfully make the transition from filler to feature presentation. Surely, no one would sit still for over an hour to watch an animated film, their eyes smarting from the bright colours on screen? Fortunately, Walt Disney and his army of artists persisted and the world's first full-length animated feature was finally released in 1937 to widespread acclaim. Adapted from the Grimm fairytale, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is chillingly dark in places, reflecting its roots in European folklore, but the deft Disney touch ensures that the overall tone remains light and the story develops apace, swept along on the perfect musical score. Any lingering gloom is quickly dispelled by the superbly characterised dwarfs and by the humorous antics of the various irresistible fauna that threaten to steal the show in several scenes. The pioneering animation is breathtaking and songs such as "Heigh Ho, Heigh Ho" and "Whistle While You Work", now firmly embedded in popular culture, are seamlessly interwoven with the action. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs happens to be an interesting technological milestone in cinema history-it is also an enduring masterpiece of family entertainment. To the millions who have fallen under its spell over the years, this magical fairy tale remains one of Disney's most enchanting and best-loved films. Only Grumpy could resist. -Helen BakerVHS DescriptionVHS Special Features:All-new recording of "Some Day my Prince Will Come" performed by Barbra Streisand The making of Snow White featuretteDeleted scene: "Music in Your Soup""Heigh-Ho" Sing-A-Long.
![Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Jungle Book (Disney) (1967) [1968]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515K5ZN2YJL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Sebastian Cabot
- Wolfgang Reitherman
- George Sanders
- Louis Prima
- Sterling Holloway
- Phil Harris
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £1.17
Review The Jungle Book (Disney) (1967) [1968] / Walt Disney Home Video:Disney's 1967 animated feature seems even more entertaining now than it did upon first release, with a hall-of-fame vocal performance by Phil Harris as Baloo, the genial bear friend of feral child Mowgli. Based on fiction by Rudyard Kipling, the film goes its own way as Disney animation will, but the strong characters and smart casting (Louis Prima as "King Louie" of the Apes; George Sanders as the villainous tiger, Shere Khan) make it one of the studio's stronger feature-length cartoons. Songs include "The Bare Necessities" and "Trust in Me". -Tom Keogh.
![Review 2 Entertain Video / The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 2 - From Copse To Quarry [1993]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/711HYSYPEYL._SL160_.gif)
Release date: 1993-10-04
Run time: 86 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.89
Review The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 2 - From Copse To Quarry [1993] / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 1994-10-31
Run time: 87 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £54.99
Review The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 6 - New Beginnings / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review Uca Catalogue / The Famous Five - Five Get Into Trouble / Five Go Adventuring Again [1978]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HV4HS12DL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2003-07-21
Run time: 64 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £16.89
Review The Famous Five - Five Get Into Trouble / Five Go Adventuring Again [1978] / Uca Catalogue:
Actors & Directors
- Tony Goldwyn
- Minnie Driver
- Chris Buck (II)
- Brian Blessed
- Kevin Lima
- Glenn Close
- Nigel Hawthorne
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.19
Review Tarzan (1999) Disney / Walt Disney Home 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.
Actors & Directors
- Debby Cumming
- Richard Cadell
- David Coyle (II)
- Vicki Lee Taylor
- Richard Coombs
- Francis Wright
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £8.75
Review Sooty - Learn With Sooty A-Z Of Animals [2001] / Thames Video:
Actors & Directors
- Judy Kuhn
- Irene Bedard
- David Ogden Stiers
- John Kassir
- Mel Gibson
- Mike Gabriel
- Eric Goldberg
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.17
Review Pocahontas (1995) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:The lowest point in Disney's opportunistic revisionism of source stories for its animated features in the 1990s, Pocahontas presents the title character (voiced by Irene Bedard) as a voluptuous Indian babe who falls for the British plunderer Captain John Smith (Mel Gibson). Half-baked if trendy paganism abounds in the film's depiction of nature as possessing consciousness (though talking trees certainly aren't new to cartoons). But the dubious legitimacy of the film's premise and characterisations calls everything into question. The songs by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz-while Oscar-winning-fall short of the standard Menken achieved in superior Disney predecessors including The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin. -Tom Keogh.
![Review Warner Home Video / Looney Tunes - Wile E Coyote And Road Runner [1988]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EZNNTQRZL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Wile E. Coyote
- Road Runner
Run time: 65 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £19.75
Review Looney Tunes - Wile E Coyote And Road Runner [1988] / Warner Home Video:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 3 - On To White Deer Park [1992]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71VMHJM8V1L._SL160_.gif)
Release date: 1993-11-01
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.21
Review The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 3 - On To White Deer Park [1992] / 2 Entertain Video:
Actors & Directors
- Matthew Broderick
- Moira Kelly
- Michelle Horn
- Neve Campbell
- Liz Callaway
- Rob LaDuca
- Darrell Rooney
Run time: 78 min.
RRP: £16.99
Price: £1.80
Review Lion King II, The: Simba's Pride / Walt Disney Home Video:The Lion King II: Simba's Pride is another made-for-video sequel to a Disney masterpiece. As with the Beauty and the Beast and Pocahontas sequels, most of the recognisable vocal talents return, creating a worthwhile successor to the highest-grossing animated film ever. We pick up the story as the lion king, Simba (voiced by Matthew Broderick) and Nala (Moira Kelly) have a new baby cub, a girl named Kiara (Neve Campbell). Like her father before, she seeks adventure and ends up outside the Pridelands, where lions loyal to the evil Scar (who died in the original) have lived with revenge in their hearts. The leader, Zira (a spunky turn from Suzanne Pleshette), schemes to use her son Kovu (Jason Marsden) to destroy Simba. As luck with have it, Kiara has bumped into Kovu and fallen in love. This all sounds familiar since all of Disney's straight-to-video sequels have played it very safe, nearly repeating the originals' story, tone, and pace. Perhaps there were too many cooks for this production. Besides the two screenplay credits, there are eight other writers credited for additional written material. The look of the film has none of the surprise of the original but is far superior to other animated videos. [+]In fact, the film played in European cinemas. For children, the sequel will be a favourite. The comic antics of Timon (Nathan Lane) and Pumba (Ernie Sabella) are enjoyable, as is Andy Dick as Nuka, the mixed-up older son of Zira. And there's plenty of action. The best element is the music. Relying on more African-influenced music, the five songs featured are far superior to those in Disney's other sequels. Zira's song of revenge, "My Lullaby," was cowritten by Buffy the Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon. The oustanding opening number, "He Lives in You", was created for the Lion King Broadway smash and now finds a whole new audience. -Doug Thomas.
![Review Walt Disney Home Video / Sleeping Beauty [Disney 1959]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RC9F90M6L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Bill Shirley
- Verna Felton
- Barbara Luddy
- Clyde Geronimi
- Eleanor Audley
- Mary Costa
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £2.72
Review Sleeping Beauty [Disney 1959] / Walt Disney Home Video:Disney's 1959 Sleeping Beauty was the studio's most ambitious effort to date, a lavish spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapted from the music of Tchaikovsky. In the 14th century, the malevolent Maleficent (not dissimilar to the wicked queen in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs) taunts a king that his infant Aurora will fatally prick her finger on a spinning wheel before sundown on her sixteenth birthday. This, of course, would deny her a happily-ever-after with her true love. Fortunately, some bubbly, bumbling fairies named Flora, Fauna and Merryweather are on hand to assist. It's not really all that much about the title character-how interesting can someone in the middle of a long nap be, anyway? Instead, those fairies carry the day, as well as, of course, good Prince Phillip, whose battle with the malevolent Maleficent in the guise of a dragon has been co-opted by any number of animated films since. See it in its original glory here, alongside Malificent's castle, which, filled with warthogs and demonic imps in a macabre dance celebrating their evil ways, manages a certain creepy grandeur. -David Kronke, Amazon. com.
![Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Aristocats [1970]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5178S6BCWML._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Wolfgang Reitherman
- Gary Dubin
- Liz English
- Dean Clark (II)
- Eva Gabor
- Phil Harris
Run time: 76 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.98
Review The Aristocats [1970] / Walt Disney Home Video:Duchess and her three kittens are enjoying the high life with their devoted human mistress until the wicked butler Edgar, with his eyes on a big inheritance, decides to dope them and get them out of the picture. How can these fragile creatures cope in the unfamiliar countryside and the meaner streets of Paris? Only by meeting the irrepressible alley cat O'Malley, a rough diamond with romance in his heart. After they get a taste of the wide dangerous world, he guides them home, and Edgar gets his just desserts at the wrong end of a horse. As always, it's really the voices rather than the animation that are the heart of the Disney magic: Phil Harris is brilliant as O'Malley, Eva Gabor as Duchess is. well. Eva Gabor; but perhaps the most memorable turns are by Pat Buttram and George Lindsay, who turn the old hounds Napoleon and Lafayette into a couple of bumbling Southern-fried rednecks. [+]Their scenes with Edgar, and the musical numbers with Scat Cat and his cool-dude band, are classic. Most striking about seeing The Aristocats now is how deeply Disney's style of animation has changed since this was at the cutting edge in 1970. Perhaps the nostalgic, dated feel are just a result of being plonked down in Belle Epoque Paris, but the illustrations are fussier (a pity) and the animation and overall pace much less frenetic (sometimes a relief) than in more recent efforts such as Aladdin. -Richard Farr.
Actors & Directors
- Clyde Geronimi
- Sterling Holloway
- Wilfred Jackson
- Hamilton Luske
- Ed Wynn
- Jerry Colonna
- Richard Haydn
- Kathryn Beaumont
Run time: 72 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £3.25
Review Alice In Wonderland (1951) (Disney) / Walt Disney Home Video:Imaginatively rendered but slightly chilly, this 1951 Disney adaptation of the Lewis Carroll classic is also appropriately surreal. Alice (voiced by Kathryn Beaumont) has all the anticipated experiences: shrinking and growing, meeting the White Rabbit, having tea with the Mad Hatter, and so on. The characterisation is very strong, illustrating how hard the Disney team worked to bring screen personality to Carroll's eccentric creations. For a Disney film, however, it seems more the self-satisfied sum of its inventiveness than a truly engaging experience. -Tom Keogh.
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Actors & Directors
- Maria Warburg
- Elphin Lloyd-Jones
Run time: 82 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review The Animals Of Farthing Wood - Part 1 - The Journey Begins [1993] / 2 Entertain Video:
![Review Walt Disney Home Video / Mary Poppins (1964) (Disney) [1965]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZCT5RM2TL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Glynis Johns
- Robert Stevenson
- Hermione Baddeley
- Julie Andrews
- Dick Van Dyke
- David Tomlinson
Run time: 134 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.75
Review Mary Poppins (1964) (Disney) [1965] / Walt Disney Home Video:A pioneering film within Animation, Musicals and Fantasy, Walt Disney's Mary Poppins is possibly one of the warmest and dearest films ever made. Based on a story by PL Travers we find Julie Andrews on fine form in her debut lead role (for which she would win the "Best Actress" Oscar). She is practically perfectly teamed with Dick Van Dyke as the lovable chimney sweep Burt, whose cockney accent is endearingly inaccurate. Along with a fine supporting cast, where even the child actors hold their own without appearing like stage school wannabes, Poppins and her crew take you on a magical ride through chalk pictures, the roof tops of London and show you that laughter is not always the best medicine (even with a spoon full of sugar) when you can't get down. In total Mary Poppins clocked up five Academy Awards including Best Song and Best Visual Effects and has made it into the staple diet of family viewing across the world. On the DVD: Mary Poppins has certainly cleaned up a treat, restoring her to 1. 85:1 widescreen glory and 5. 1 Dolby digital sound-which is guaranteed to be music to your ears. The special features are "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" with the "Sing Along with the Movie" subtitles for all your favourite songs when they appear in the movie and the "I Love to Laugh" game offering Uncle Albert flying high in his parlour once more. "The Movie Magic of Mary Poppins" lets you look behind the scenes at how the magic was done and is fun, informative and easily understandable-pity the same cannot be said about the narrator. [+]"Hollywood goes to a World Premiere" is a warm and amusing reminder about how premieres and stars used to be in 1964. The only disappointment is the lack of commentary-Dick Van Dyke would surely have offered a gem of a cockney voice-over! -Nikki Disney.
![Review Walt Disney Home Video / Peter Pan [1953]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/514BYZ707QL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Heather Angel
- Hans Conried
- Wilfred Jackson
- Hamilton Luske
- Bobby Driscoll
- Bill Thompson
- Clyde Geronimi
- Kathryn Beaumont
Run time: 73 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £1.44
Review Peter Pan [1953] / Walt Disney Home Video:Peter Pan has a special place in the realm of classic animated Disney films: it instils an element of child-like wonder. The 1953 version of James M Barrie's story is colourfully told and keeps on the straight and narrow of the book. Barrie's wondrous focus on child's play is the key to its longevity: children who don't grow up, shadows that run away from their owners, pirates, a fairy, and the magic ability to fly. In short, you can't help wishing the adventure would happen to you. Fuelled by a few memorable songs (the stunner being "You Can Fly") and the strong impression of the pixie fairy Tinkerbell and the goofy Captain Hook, Disney's version of this story neither supplants nor lessens the Broadway version with Mary Martin that was produced for television the same decade. Unlike some classics, Peter Pan never ages along the way. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. com.
![Review Walt Disney Home Video / Dumbo (1941) (Disney) [1942]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41X8W628ZZL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ben Sharpsteen
- Edward Brophy
- Herman Bing
- Cliff Edwards
- Verna Felton
- Sterling Holloway
Run time: 64 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £1.17
Review Dumbo (1941) (Disney) [1942] / Walt Disney Home Video:A Disney "classic" that actually is a classic, Dumbo should be part of your video collection whether or not you have children. The storytelling was never as lean as in Dumbo, the songs rarely as haunting (or just plain weird), the characters rarely so well defined. The film pits the "cold, cruel, heartless" world that can't accept abnormality against a plucky, and mute, hero. Jumbo Jr. (Dumbo is a mean-spirited nickname) is ostracized from the circus pack shortly after his delivery by the stork because of his big ears. His mother sticks up for him and is shackled. He's jeered by children (an insightful scene has one boy poking fun at Dumbo's ears, even though the youngster's ears are also ungainly), used by the circus folk, and demoted to appearing with the clowns. Only the decent Timothy Q. Mouse looks out for the little guy. Concerns about the un-PC "Jim Crow" crows, who mock Dumbo with the wonderful "When I See an Elephant Fly," should be moderated by remembering that the crows are the only social group in the film who act kindly to the little outcast. [+]If you don't mist up during the "Baby Mine" scene, you may be legally pronounced dead. -Keith Simanton.
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