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List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £4.97
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton
Director:
Clyde Geronimi
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 Maleficent'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
 sleeping beauty, 2010-03-08
I am very happy with the dvd, my grandchild has done nothing but watched it
List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £4.47
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Jodie Foster, John Cassini, Scott Baio
Director:
Alan Parker
Remember that scene in Jerry Maguire where the title character suddenly realises the foolhardiness of his impulsively written manifesto? That's how director Alan Parker (The Commitments, Fame) ought to feel every day of his life since making this dopey, 1976 musical featuring an all-kid cast playing Prohibition-era gangsters and molls. What was Parker thinking? The cuteness of the concept never did hold up for more than 10 minutes, but the film extends it impossibly into a feature. Jodie Foster is on hand, lip-synching a Paul Williams song (Williams wrote the score), but even she can't detract from the film's overall silliness. It's a toss-up as to whether children will enjoy watching it, since the characters and the milieu are based on adult situations. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
Bluray DVD, 2010-02-18
Service was great easy to see what it cost & sent in a timely fashion.DVd was new in orignal box and played on my Bluray player
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £3.44
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries, Gert Fröbe, Anna Quayle
Director:
Ken Hughes
This remastered, pan-and-scan 30th-anniversary edition of that kiddie-car caper is flawed, but nevertheless a solid family fare. It retains a quaint charm while some of the songs--including the title tune--are quite hummable. A huge plus is Dick Van Dyke, who is extremely appealing as an eccentric inventor around the turn of the century. With nimble fingers and a unique way of looking at the world, he invents for his children a magic car that floats and flies. Or does he? The special effects are tame by today's standards and the film is about 20 minutes too long--but its enthusiasm is charming. The script was cowritten by Roald Dahl and based on the novel by Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond adventures. --Rochelle O'Gorman
Fantastic Family Floght of Fancy!, 2010-02-21
This film is what "Willie Wonka" should have looked like - beautiful, sumptuous colour - and is coupled with elements of "Allo Allo!" and the Chuckle Brothers. Well Roald Dahl did co-write the script.
It is mainly remembered for the "Vulgarian" scenes in a Balkan country ruled by a comedy Gert (Goldfinger) Fröbe and the sinister Childcatcher (Robert Helpman) but these are only in the final quarter of the film - for the parents there is actually a better version of Mamma Mia (if that is hard!) before that, and a mad inventor. Why Dick van Dyke (Caractacus Potts) became the archetypal Cockney, I don't know, but what could be more Cockney than setting up your own fairground booth? your customers then simply *have* to be Arthur Mullard and Barbara Windsor! and chirpy Cockney dance routines don't come much better than "The Old Bamboo"...done better than the best of one of these modern dance videos...
Benny Hill also turns up on Vulgaria as a toymaker in a country where children are banned! Is this his most serious ever role before Professor Peach in "The Italian Job"?
Lionel Jeffries is great as Caractacus's father, although he was IIRC actually younger than Dick Van Dyke. Only a real trouper could sing a jaunty song in a lavatory suspended from a Zeppelin and partly immersed in the sea !
Wherever you look, great actors in minor roles. Richard Wattis (Mr. Scrumptious's flunkey), James Robertson Justice (Mr. Scrumptious), Max Wall (imprisoned inventor), Stanley Unwin (Gert Fröbe's advisor). It all makes for true family entertainment which never suspends its belief in what is happening!
I doubt the maker of James Bond could make such a great film nowadays. No clear product placement, money in shillings, cars with the steering wheel on the right ;-) side, and none of the Americanisms that clutter the Harry Potter films and spoil them. Just great family fun!
This film is *very* long (two and a quarter hours) but is worth it! starring two children, so something for the kids throughout.
I also note that there are two versions to choose from here on Amazon, this is just the film, there is another version with a bonus CD, so check which one you want.
Oh, did I say "recommended"? ;-)
List Price: £15.99
Our Price: £3.91
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Anna Lee, Richard Haydn
Director:
Robert Wise
The most widely seen movie produced by a Hollywood studio, The Sound of Music grows fresher with each viewing. Though it was planned meticulously in pre-production (save for the scene where Maria and the children take a dipping in an Austrian lake that nearly cost a life), on each viewing one is struck anew by the spontaneous almost improvisatory air of the acting, notably of Julie Andrews under Robert Wise's direction. There are also the little human touches he brings to, for instance, the scene where Maria leads the children to the hills, over bridges and along tow paths where the smallest boy trips up and momentarily gets left behind: it creates a feeling that most of us have encountered. From the opening pre-credit sequence of muted excitement as the camera roves over the Austrian Alps (photographed in magnificent colour), where little phrases from the wind instruments on the soundtrack are flung as if on the breeze, foreshadowing the title song to follow, the production never puts a foot wrong.
One of a kind, 2010-01-20
Last year my husband and I visited Salzburg and went on the Sound of Music tour. We were told of the 40th anniversary so I was eager to obtain the collector's edition. It contains many little titbits associated with the production and it is absolutely wonderful. I will treasure it and look forward to watching it with my granddaughter.
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £3.97
Rated: Suitable for 12 years and over
Staring:
Patrick Swayze, Garry Goodrow, Neal Jones, Lonny Price, Jennifer Grey
Director:
Emile Ardolino
Dirty Dancing was a cultural phenomenon that now plays more like camp. That very campness, though, is part of its biggest charm. And if the dancing in the movie doesn't seem particularly "dirty" by today's standards--or 1987's--it does take place in an era (the early 60s) when it would have. Dirty Dancing spawned two successful soundtracks, a short-lived TV series and a stage musical. It may be predictable, but Grey and Swayze have chemistry, charisma and all the right moves. --Kathy Fennessy, Amazon.comFirst and foremost Cocktail is a star vehicle for Tom Cruise, then a paper-thin Horatio Alger story of a young bartender with dreams of get-rich-quick. Success is notable only for Cruise's immense likeability in contrast to a creaky plot and thinly drawn characters. Despite its shortcomings, this is worthwhile viewing for Tom Cruise fans. --Robert Lane, Amazon.com
Dirty Dancing, 2010-01-13
This is amazing value. My daughter loved it. She wears the tee shirt all the time
and I was surprised at the quality considering the cost of the whole set.
List Price: £17.99
Our Price: £14.81
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley
Director:
Robert Stevens
There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an Oscar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ("practically perfect in every way," and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney sweep. The songs are also terrific, ranging from bright and cheery ("A Spoonful of Sugar") to dark and cheery (the Oscar-winning "Chim-Chim Cheree") to touchingly melancholy ("Feed the Birds"). Many consider Mary Poppins to be the crowning achievement of Walt Disney's career--and it was the only one of his features to be nominated for a best picture Academy Award until Beauty and the Beast in 1991. --Jim Emerson
dvd, 2010-01-31
A fairly long film but the children seem to really enjoy each part of it, they still think they will be able to fly to school on a windy day too thanks to mary poppins!!
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £1.27
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Mark Lester, Ron Moody, Shani Wallis, Oliver Reed, Harry Secombe
Director:
Carol Reed
Film buffs and critics can argue until their faces turn blue about whether this lavish Dickensian musical deserved the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1968, but the movie speaks for itself on grandly entertaining terms. Adapted from Dickens's classic novel, it's one of the most dramatically involving and artistically impressive musicals of the 1960s, directed by Carol Reed with a delightful enthusiasm that would surely have impressed Dickens himself. Mark Lester plays the waifish orphan Oliver Twist, who is befriended by the pickpocketing Artful Dodger (Jack Wild) and recruited into the gang of boy thieves led by Fagin (played to perfection by Ron Moody). The villainous Bill Sikes (Oliver Reed) casts his long shadow over Oliver and his friends, but the young orphan is still able to find loving care in the most desperate of circumstances. Full of memorable melodies and splendid lyrics, Oliver! is a timeless film, prompting even hard-to-please critic Pauline Kael to call it "a superb demonstration of intelligent craftsmanship", and to further observe that "it's as if the movie set out to be a tribute to Dickens and his melodramatic art as well as to tell the story of Oliver ...
My review, 2010-02-03
It is a classic 1 of my fav, also great 2 see at the thearter!
List Price: £12.99
Our Price: £4.00
Rated: Universal, suitable for all
Staring:
Audrey Hepburn, Isobel Elsom, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde White, Gladys Cooper
Director:
George Cukor
Hollywood's legendary "woman's director," George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into a social experiment that works almost too well. The letterbox edition of this film on video certainly pays tribute to the pageantry of Cukor's set, but it also underscores a certain visual stiffness that can slow viewer enthusiasm just a tad. But it's really star wattage that keeps this film exciting, that and such great songs as "On the Street Where You Live" and "I Could Have Danced All Night." Actor Jeremy Brett, who gained a huge following later in life portraying Sherlock Holmes, is quite electric as Eliza's determined suitor. --Tom Keogh
fantastic, 2010-02-11
my opinion of My Fair Lady is that it is just wonderful, considering that it was made long ago, and the way it was digitally fixed is just out of this world. The technology today is unbelievably wonderful. So, again, it is fantastic!!! Any one who loved it when it first came out, will have the same enjoyment as then. Enjoy!!
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £6.98
Rated: Exempt
Staring:
Michael Ball, Colm Wilkinson, Philip Quast, Ruthie Henshall, Jenny Galloway
Director:
Gavin Taylor
LES MIS, 2010-03-07
I went to see the show at the Millenium Centre, Cardiff before Christmas 2009.
The show was stunning, breathtaking in fact.
This dvd with the original cast brings all those emotions flooding back and you
just need to sit and admire the talent on show!
A MUST for all music lovers, a MUST for all musical lovers.
Thank you for this dvd; the entertainment value against the small cost of the item
is unbelievable,
Regards,
KEVIN ROGERS
List Price: £19.99
Our Price: £1.56
Rated: Parental Guidance
Staring:
John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Stockard Channing, Jeff Conaway, Barry Pearl
Director:
Randal Kleiser
Grease was a phenomenal hit with its target teenage audience when it was released in 1977. The songs dominated the pop charts and brought heady success for its lead actors, John Travolta (Danny) and Olivia Newton-John (Sandy) despite the fact that--as with their energetic co-stars--their own teenage years were some way behind them. As they seize the chance to relive their schooldays, their verve and enthusiasm explodes from the screen. The real class, though, comes from Stockard Channing as feisty Rizzo and, in a couple of cameos, wisecracking silver screen actresses from yesteryear Eve Arden and Joan Blondel. Based on the 1972 stage show and adding several new numbers, Grease is at heart a rites-of-passage movie with plenty of feel-good moments and a euphoric buzz. "You're the One That I Want", "Hopelessly Devoted to You" and "Summer Nights" became the soundtrack for a generation of high-school students on the cusp of adulthood. Today, it looks like a pastiche of those 1950s Connie Francis rock & roll beach films. But the steady stream of double entendres and knowing body language render it more accessible to the less innocent late 1970s. It's overwhelming nostal...
Wow, 2010-03-03
This was bought as a present for my girlfriend and she loved it, the outstanding quality even made it bearable for me.
If you are thinking of getting Grease and have a blu-ray player, buy this! The quality of this transfer is amazing, it really looks like it was filmed yesterday. I watched the theatrical trailer that is included as an extra but not cleaned up to HD quality after the film and I could not believe the difference.
This is Blu-ray at its very best.
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