Release date: 1995-07-10
Run time: 43 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £7.98
Review Little Mermaid, The - Ariel's Early Adventures - Vol. 2 - Stormy, The Wild Seahorse / Walt Disney Home Video:
Release date: 1995-09-18
Run time: 25 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £5.00
Review The Tailor Of Gloucester / ITV DVD:
Release date: 1995-07-10
Run time: 45 min.
Price: £9.99
Review The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Early Adventures - Vol. 1 - A Whale Of A Tale / Walt Disney Home Video:
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Release date: 1996-02-12
Run time: 68 min.
Price: £5.99
Review Taz Mania - Vol. 3 [1994] / Warner Home Video:
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Actors & Directors
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Masahiko Nishimura
- Kaoru Kobayashi
- Yuriko Ishida
- Yûko Tanaka
- Yôji Matsuda
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £14.99
Review Princess Mononoke [2001] / Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm:Princess Mononoke has already made history as the top-grossing domestic feature ever released in Japan, where its combination of mythic themes, mystical forces, and ravishing visuals tapped deeply into cultural identity and contemporary, ecological anxieties. For international animation and anime fans, this epic, animated 1997 fantasy, represents an auspicious next step for its revered creator, Hayao Miyazaki (My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service), an acknowledged anime pioneer, whose painterly style, vivid character design, and stylised approach to storytelling take ambitious, evolutionary steps here. Set in medieval Japan, Miyazaki's original story envisions a struggle between nature and man. The march of technology, embodied in the dark iron forges of the ambitious Tatara clan, threatens the natural forces explicit in the benevolent Great God of the Forest and the wide-eyed, spectral spirits he protects. When Ashitaka, a young warrior from a remote, and endangered, village clan, kills a ravenous, boar-like monster, he discovers the beast is in fact an infectious "demon god", transformed by human anger. Ashitaka's quest to solve the beast's fatal curse brings him into the midst of human political intrigues as well as the more crucial battle between man and nature. Miyazaki's convoluted fable is clearly not the stuff of kiddie matinees, nor is the often graphic violence depicted during the battles that ensue. If some younger viewers (or less attentive older ones) will wish for a diagram to sort out the players, Miyazaki's atmospheric world and its lush visual design are reasons enough to watch. For the English-language version, Miramax assembled an impressive vocal cast including Gillian Anderson, Billy Crudup (as Ashitaka), Claire Danes (as San), Minnie Driver (as Lady Eboshi), Billy Bob Thornton, and Jada Pinkett Smith. They bring added nuance to a very different kind of magic kingdom. [+]- Sam Sutherland, Amazon. com On the DVD: with an impressive widescreen aspect of 2. 35:1 and a pleasant 5. 1 Dolby digital sound, you cannot fault the transfer of this animation in any way. However, the special features leave a lot to be desired on what is a classic piece of modern anime. The "Behind the Scenes" feature holds no information on the making of Princess Mononoke in its original form-with no input from animator Hayao Miyazaki-and the trailer is taken from the American release of the movie (even though it calls itself an "original" theatrical trailer), complete with the annoyingly hyped-up voiceover that comes with US film trailers. The redeeming feature of this DVD is the ability to watch the anime in its original language with subtitles, a much more passionate and beautiful form-so much of the feeling and lyricism of the movie is lost with the transfer to English language and misplaced casting. After watching the original Japanese version of Princess Mononoke and reading the book you begin to wonder why the West has become such a solitary child of Disney. -Nikki Disney.
Actors & Directors
- Terry Lennon
- Randi Rosenholtz
- Paul Kuhn (IV)
- Mel Blanc
- Roy Firestone
- Greg Ford
Run time: 23 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £9.95
Review Bugs Bunny's Wild World Of Sports / Warner Home Video:
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Actors & Directors
- Kunihiko Yuyama
- Kunohiko Yuyama
- Michael Haigney
- Veronica Taylor
- Rachael Lillis
- Eric Stuart
Run time: 74 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £0.28
Review Pokemon - The First Movie [2000] / Warner Home Video:The world domination of Pokémon begets their first theatrical movie. This adventure is a little more complex and dark than the popular TV series, but kids who live for the show will gobble up this film and ask for seconds. Those baffled by the show's popularity, however, will see nothing better here. Mewtwo, a new type of Pokémon designed by scientists to be the ultimate fighter, decides he wants to rule the world and challenges all the great Pokémasters to battle. Of course, our intrepid heroes Ash, Misty and Brock are there to tangle with Mewtwo and spoil his devilish schemes. The film is a tad more emotional than the show (that is, there is some emotion), with Ash sacrificing himself to defend his beloved Pikachu (but don't you worry, Ash will be just fine). Would you really expect the makers of this worldwide phenomenon to radically change its winning formula? The feature is only 55 minutes long, but there's also a 20-minute short, "Pikachu's Vacation". For the Pokémon novice, this escapade will truly baffle: the narrated tale has virtually no dialogue except Pokémon speaking their names (Bulbasaur, for instance, will only express emotion by using variations of his name: "Bulba, Bulba-SAUR!"). It's a real curio. -Doug Thomas.
Release date: 1995-07-10
Run time: 43 min.
Price: £9.99
Review The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Early Adventures - Vol. 3 - Double Bubble / Walt Disney Home Video:
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.99
Review Tom & Jerry - The Movie:
Price: £2.99
Review Raggy Dolls 2:5 Episodes: The Flying Machine; The Pigeon Race; The Fun Fair; Too Many Cooks; The Terrible Twins.
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Actors & Directors
- Daniel Massey (II)
- Gerard McSorley
- Antony Sher
- Colin McFarlane
- Brian Cox
Run time: 25 min.
Price: £9.99
Review Shakespeare - The Animated Tales - Macbeth [1992] / S4c International:
Release date: 1998-03-02
Run time: 40 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £3.50
Review Percy The Park Keeper - The Secret Path / Hit Entertainment:
![Review Channel 4 CH40033 / Crapston Villas - City Of Slummington - The Complete Series 1 [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51bNBmG3QlL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Lesley Sharpe
- Claire Jennings
- Polly Kemp
- Alistair McGowan
- Sarah Ann Kennedy
- Jane Horrocks
Price: £7.99
Review Crapston Villas - City Of Slummington - The Complete Series 1 [1995] / Channel 4 CH40033:
Actors & Directors
- Phillip Hinton
- Paul Johnstone (III)
- Moya O'Sullivan
- Rich Trueblood
- Keith Scott
- Olivia Martin
RRP: £7.99
Price: £4.95
Review Alice In Wonderland [1988] / ITV DVD:
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Actors & Directors
- Kirk Wise
- Angela Lansbury
- Paige O'Hara
- Richard White
- Jerry Orbach
- Robby Benson
- Gary Trousdale
Run time: 149 min.
Price: £22.99
Review Beauty And The Beast / Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas [1991] / Walt Disney Home Video:
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Actors & Directors
- Eric Leighton
- Alfre Woodard
- Hayden Panettiere
- Max Casella
- D.B. Sweeney
- Ralph Zondag
- Ossie Davis
Run time: 79 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £0.99
Review Dinosaur [2000] / Walt Disney Home Video:Dinosaurs come alive like never before in this costly computer-animated film from Disney. After a breathtaking opening (a dino egg is kidnapped), the film changes style; realistic dinosaurs are given human characteristics and voices. The kidnapped egg grows into an iguanodon named Aladar (voiced by DB Sweeney), who is raised by lemurs (shades of Tarzan) on a lush island void of other dinosaurs. When a meteorite destroys their island home in a thrilling sequence, the lemur family and Aladar become part of a dinosaur troop roaming the mainland deserts looking for the lush nesting grounds (shades of the fourth instalment of the Land Before Time series and Fantasia). Disney's use of cheeky modern slang (one lemur calls himself "a love monkey") is present, as is its typical capital-punishment narrative logic: anyone against our forward-thinking hero (or even disagreeing with him) ends up dead. Curiously, the meanies, a pair of carnotaurs following the group, are nameless and voiceless. This more realistic approach might have been a bigger wow, as in the BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs, which looked extraordinary with only a fraction of the budget. The complexity and scope of Dinosaur's visual scale is impressive, and group shots and a point-of-view angle are stunning. The film should be a favourite for the 6 to 11-year-old set. -Doug Thomas, Amazon. [+]com.
Actors & Directors
- Pinto Colvig
- Bill Roberts
- Walt Disney
- Clarence Nash
- Sterling Holloway
- Hamilton Luske
- Billy Gilbert
Run time: 29 min.
RRP: £8.99
Price: £2.49
Review Mickey And The Beanstalk / Walt Disney Home Video:
Actors & Directors
- Andy Rannells
- Jim Hogget
- Lee Tockar
- D. Kevin Williams
- Matt Hill
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £5.99
Review Street Sharks - Vol. 1 - Jawsome / Sony Bmg:
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Actors & Directors
- Bob Dermer
- Marla Lukofsky
- Jim Simon
- Billie Mae Richards
- Susan Roman
- Pauline Rennie
Run time: 76 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.99
Review Care Bears - The Movie [1985] / MGM Entertainment:The Care Bears Movie was essentially a 75-minute commercial to introduce a new toy range, the Care Bear Cousins, disguised as a smarmy story about sharing feelings. The film ushered in a spate of cheap animated films created solely to sell merchandise to children. The plot interweaves the stories of Kim and Jason, two lonely orphans who have given up caring, and of Nicholas, a friendless magician's assistant who is seduced by an evil spirit. The Care Bears resolve everyone's problems, naturally. Years later, the Care Bears' popularity has waned and the film stands as a reminder of one of the less admirable uses of animation. The stars, hearts, rainbows and saccharine songs can't disguise the barefaced commercialism behind the threadbare story. -Charles Solomon.
Actors & Directors
- George Carlin
- Michael Brandon
- Alec Baldwin
Run time: 66 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £14.95
Review Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Your Favourite Story Collection / 2 Entertain Video:
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