![Review 2 Entertain Video / Pingu's Long Journey [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T5E15P6KL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1997-04-07
Run time: 42 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.44
Review Pingu's Long Journey [1997] / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 2002-01-21
RRP: £4.99
Price: £7.99
Review Thomas and Toby Adventures / Thomas the Tank Engine:
![Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / Batman (The Movie) [1966]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41DAPKENP0L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Cesar Romero
- Leslie H. Martinson
- Burt Ward
- Lee Meriwether
- Adam West
- Burgess Meredith
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.93
Review Batman (The Movie) [1966] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:Holy camp site, Batman! After a fabulously successful season on TV, the campy comic book adventure hit the big screen, complete with painful puns, outrageous supervillains, and fights punctuated with word balloons sporting such onomatopoeic syllables as "Pow!", "Thud!", and "Blammo!" Adam West's wooden Batman is the cowled vigilante alter ego of straight-arrow millionaire Bruce Wayne and Bruce Ward's Robin (aka Dick Grayson, Bruce's young collegiate protégé) his overeager sidekick in hot pants. Together they battle an unholy alliance of Gotham City's greatest criminals: the Joker (Cesar Romero, whooping up a storm); the Riddler (giggling Frank Gorshin); the Penguin (cackling Burgess Meredith); and the purr-fectly sexy Catwoman (Lee Meriwether slinking in a skin-tight black bodysuit). The criminals are, naturally, out to conquer the world, but with a little help from their unending supply of utility belt devices (bat shark repellent, anyone?), our dynamic duo thwarts their nefarious plans at every turn. Since the TV show ran under 30 minutes an episode (with commercials), the 105-minute film runs a little thin-a little camp goes a long way-but fans of the small-screen show will enjoy the spoofing tone throughout. Leslie H. Martinson directs Lorenzo Semple's screenplay like a big-budget TV episode minus the cliffhanger endings. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.
Release date: 1998-08-17
Run time: 27 min.
Price: £8.99
Review Stories From East Of The Moon / Grasshopper Enterprises Ltd.:
Actors & Directors
- Burt Ward
- Burgess Meredith
- Leslie H. Martinson
- Cesar Romero
- Lee Meriwether
- Adam West
Run time: 105 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £3.93
Review Batman (The Movie) [1966] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:Holy camp site, Batman! After a fabulously successful season on TV, the campy comic book adventure hit the big screen, complete with painful puns, outrageous supervillains, and fights punctuated with word balloons sporting such onomatopoeic syllables as "Pow!", "Thud!", and "Blammo!" Adam West's wooden Batman is the cowled vigilante alter ego of straight-arrow millionaire Bruce Wayne and Bruce Ward's Robin (aka Dick Grayson, Bruce's young collegiate protégé) his overeager sidekick in hot pants. Together they battle an unholy alliance of Gotham City's greatest criminals: the Joker (Cesar Romero, whooping up a storm); the Riddler (giggling Frank Gorshin); the Penguin (cackling Burgess Meredith); and the purr-fectly sexy Catwoman (Lee Meriwether slinking in a skin-tight black bodysuit). The criminals are, naturally, out to conquer the world, but with a little help from their unending supply of utility belt devices (bat shark repellent, anyone?), our dynamic duo thwarts their nefarious plans at every turn. Since the TV show ran under 30 minutes an episode (with commercials), the 105-minute film runs a little thin-a little camp goes a long way-but fans of the small-screen show will enjoy the spoofing tone throughout. Leslie H. Martinson directs Lorenzo Semple's screenplay like a big-budget TV episode minus the cliffhanger endings. -Sean Axmaker, Amazon. com.
![Review Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm / Princess Mononoke [2001]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41C04NP696L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Yôji Matsuda
- Kaoru Kobayashi
- Yûko Tanaka
- Masahiko Nishimura
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Yuriko Ishida
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.
![Review Sony Bmg / Take That - Greatest Hits [1996]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518J1379KTL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 1996-03-25
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.99
Review Take That - Greatest Hits [1996] / Sony Bmg:
![Review Uca Catalogue / The Famous Five - Five On Kirrin Island Again / Five On Finniston Farm [1978]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZA37YKSZL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2003-07-21
Run time: 64 min.
Price: £5.99
Review The Famous Five - Five On Kirrin Island Again / Five On Finniston Farm [1978] / Uca Catalogue:
![Review Cinema Club / Further Tales Of The Riverbank - The Picnic And Other Stories [1992]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/515HBMTQFBL._SL160_.jpg)
Release date: 2002-07-22
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £2.99
Price: £9.99
Review Further Tales Of The Riverbank - The Picnic And Other Stories [1992] / Cinema Club:
![Review Warner Home Video / Batman - The Animated Series - Vol. 1 - Cat And The Claw - Parts 1 And 2 [1995]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/511E12VVP7L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Dick Sebast
- Kevin Altieri
- Batman
RRP: £6.99
Price: £0.90
Review Batman - The Animated Series - Vol. 1 - Cat And The Claw - Parts 1 And 2 [1995] / Warner Home Video:
![Review 4 Front Video / Mousehunt / The Borrowers [1998]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41QR7WAV9SL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Ruby Wax
- Hugh Laurie
- Lee Evans
- Peter Hewitt
- Maury Chaykin
- Nathan Lane
- Gore Verbinski
Run time: 181 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.71
Review Mousehunt / The Borrowers [1998] / 4 Front Video:
Release date: 1995-09-18
Run time: 25 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £5.00
Review The Tailor Of Gloucester / ITV DVD:
![Review Virgin Records Ltd. / The Spice Girls - Girl Power! Live In Istanbul - Girl Talk! The Story So Far [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RPQPKSA4L._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Victoria Beckham
- Melanie Brown
- Melanie Chisholm
- Geri Halliwell
- David Barnard
- Emma Bunton
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £6.99
Review The Spice Girls - Girl Power! Live In Istanbul - Girl Talk! The Story So Far [1997] / Virgin Records Ltd.:
Actors & Directors
- Victoria Beckham
- Melanie Brown
- Geri Halliwell
- David Barnard
- Emma Bunton
- Melanie Chisholm
Run time: 90 min.
Price: £6.99
Review The Spice Girls - Girl Power! Live In Istanbul - Girl Talk! The Story So Far [1997] / Virgin Records Ltd.:
![Review 2 Entertain Video / Teletubbies - Animals Big And Small [1997]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/518RNH02PYL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Penelope Keith
- Alex Pascall
- Sandra Dickinson
- David Hiller
- Rolf Saxon
- Rudolph Walker
Run time: 50 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £6.93
Review Teletubbies - Animals Big And Small [1997] / 2 Entertain Video:
Release date: 1996-03-25
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £5.99
Review Take That - Greatest Hits [1996] / Sony Bmg:
Release date: 1998-08-17
Run time: 27 min.
Price: £8.99
Review Stories From East Of The Moon / Grasshopper Enterprises Ltd.:
Actors & Directors
- Martin Clunes
- Mike Stuart (II)
- Chris Lang
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £9.99
Review Kipper - Crazy Golf And Other Stories / Hit Entertainment:
Release date: 1995-09-18
Run time: 25 min.
RRP: £6.99
Price: £5.00
Review The Tailor Of Gloucester / ITV DVD:
![Review Walt Disney Home Video / Dinosaur [2000]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51SZYPSB7XL._SL160_.jpg)
Actors & Directors
- Max Casella
- Ossie Davis
- D.B. Sweeney
- Eric Leighton
- Ralph Zondag
- Alfre Woodard
- Hayden Panettiere
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.
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