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Friday, February 18, 2011
'I Am Number Four' Review: 'Harry Potter' with a Dose of Octane
I Am Number Four is the movie D.J. Caruso should have made after Disturbia. Unlike his follow-up Eagle Eye, I Am Number Four remains a smart, exciting movie that never tries to dumb down the material for the audience. It also remains close to the source material, avoiding disappointing fans of the book.
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Monday, February 7, 2011
How to Train Your Dragon Blu-ray Review
"How to Train Your Dragon" received one of the three Oscar nominations in 2011 for Best Animated Feature Film. The movie was a departure for DreamWorks, providing a solid story without the normal pop culture references the animation studio is known for. The Blu-ray of the movie provides a number of fun, interactive features for fans, kids, and adults alike.Click here to read the entire Blu-ray Review at Yahoo!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
DVD Rack: Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies
Cast: Mel Blanc, June Foray
The Lowdown
Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies is a collection of classic Looney Toons cartoons framed in a new (for 1977) story. The Easter Bunny calls Granny and tells her he is sick and cannot make his Easter deliveries that year. Granny suggests Bugs Bunny replace him and heads to the studio to ask him. Unfortunately, Bugs Bunny is a busy movie star. He is filming too many short films to take off to help. All the other classic Warner Bros characters use short films from their filmography to prove to Granny that they are the perfect Bunny for the job.
The meat of the DVD is the vintage shorts, most of which I had seen as a child. We get Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester and Tweety Bird, Pepé Le Pew and Daffy Duck cartoons. The Daffy Duck cartoon is a classic “Robin Hood” sketch while the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon focuses on Egghead Jr. always making him a fool. The vintage cartoons are great and this is a nice little addition to your child’s video library, if for no other reason than to let him see what cartoons looked like when you were a kid.
I will always take a Looney Toons cartoon over most of what is passed off as kid’s cartoons today.
The Package
There are some interactive games. I could not figure out how to operate them. There is also an extra cartoon, His Hare-Raising Tale (1951). This is a great short cartoon where Bugs Bunny is filling his nephews head full of tall tales about his “hare-raising” past. Also includes is a Peanuts trailer.
The Lowdown
Bugs Bunny’s Easter Funnies is a collection of classic Looney Toons cartoons framed in a new (for 1977) story. The Easter Bunny calls Granny and tells her he is sick and cannot make his Easter deliveries that year. Granny suggests Bugs Bunny replace him and heads to the studio to ask him. Unfortunately, Bugs Bunny is a busy movie star. He is filming too many short films to take off to help. All the other classic Warner Bros characters use short films from their filmography to prove to Granny that they are the perfect Bunny for the job.
The meat of the DVD is the vintage shorts, most of which I had seen as a child. We get Foghorn Leghorn, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Sylvester and Tweety Bird, Pepé Le Pew and Daffy Duck cartoons. The Daffy Duck cartoon is a classic “Robin Hood” sketch while the Foghorn Leghorn cartoon focuses on Egghead Jr. always making him a fool. The vintage cartoons are great and this is a nice little addition to your child’s video library, if for no other reason than to let him see what cartoons looked like when you were a kid.
I will always take a Looney Toons cartoon over most of what is passed off as kid’s cartoons today.
The Package
There are some interactive games. I could not figure out how to operate them. There is also an extra cartoon, His Hare-Raising Tale (1951). This is a great short cartoon where Bugs Bunny is filling his nephews head full of tall tales about his “hare-raising” past. Also includes is a Peanuts trailer.
7.0 out of 10
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