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| Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh [FS & 25th Anniversary Edition] (REGION 1) (NTSC) |
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Great first effort at adapting A.A. Milnes stories
In 1966 Walt Disney decided to make a movie based on A.A. Milnes classic stories because his daughters had loved the stories so much.Walt soon found out the Americans were not so familiar with the Winnie The Pooh characters so Walt decided to break the film up into 3 short movies so Pooh could be more popular if he could build up an American following.Later the 3 films were combined to make this film masterpiece.Walt did perfect casting.Sterling Holloway IS Winnie The Pooh.Paul Winchell IS Tigger.John Fiedler IS Piglet.Junius Matthews IS Rabbit.All these actors did their characters perfectly.Sterling Holloway (Kaa in The Jungle Book) used his timeless amusing talent on Pooh.Paul Winchell (Dick Dastardly in Wacky Races) does brilliantly as Tigger.Character actor John Fiedler did Piglet wondrously and ageing voice actor Junius Matthews retired with a bang as Rabbit.You should check out the film even if you havent got any children because it is a masterpiece.The film is also filled with charm and delight.Not a laugh-your-head-off-type film but smiling,charming comedy in places.Buy it,stick it in your VCR and you will see one of Disneys best movies.
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A reminder of what childhood is all about.
The film is narrated throughout as though it were still on the pages of the book, which is a humourous and novel way to portray the characters. My 2yr old was truly transfixed by this video, when he saw all his nursery characters come to life. It is an all time favourite with children and adults alike. A chance to forget your problems and remember what it was like not to have any, when life was a mystery waiting to happen...
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Too many ads for a kids video!
My daughter loves Pooh, and enjoys the video. However, her patience runs thin when we have to fast forward through more than 20 minutes of ads and "making of" at the beginning before we get to the story. While we are used to using the fast forward button on most movies, on a kids video which you watch again, again, and again, it is tiring. The teletubbies and Thomas videos have figured this out - they start immediately.
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Rainbow - 30th Anniversary Special Edition
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I have to say that this is one of the best Rainbow videos i have ever seen. I grew up watching Rainbow and this brought back loads of memories...
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Raymond Briggs The Snowman : 20th Anniversary Collectors Edition
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Well I was a bit sceptical of buying a new improved version of The Snowman as the original is such a classic. However I found a lot of the extras interesting, it gave me a good insight of how animation used to be created. I also found that because it was in widescreen I didnt have the annoying black..
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Slap Shot: 25th Anniversary Special Edition [WS] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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Paul Newman and his Butch Cassidy director, George Roy Hill, made a very original comedy in this 1977 story of an over-the-hill player/coach (Newman) for a lousy hockey team who gets results when he teaches his players to get dirty. One of the most hilariously profane movies ever to come out of Hollywood, this is the kind of film that makes its own rules as it goes along. Newman is very good, and while Hill goes for the gusto in terms of capturing the violence of this world, his instinct ..
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A Christmas Carol (50th Anniversary Edition) (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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This 1951 adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, is hailed by many as the best adaptation of Charles Dickens timeless Christmas story. Certainly, it is a very good movie more than capable of bringing a tear to your eye as you witness Scrooges rebirth as a man who..
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Roots: 25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (REGION 1) (NTSC)
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When I saw the original Roots series many years ago I was shocked and appalled as the story unfolded. This is not a story as we know it but true life. It bought me closer to understanding what horrors African/American/Carribean people went through and in some cases still going through, it stirred em..
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