TaleSpin, Volume 2

TaleSpin, Volume 2 Review

I've waited for this collection for a while, and I was finally able to get it. Volume 2 has some of the best episodes of the show, including "Jolly Molly Christmas", a very touching episode that kids and parents will love. Unfortunately, the DVD is still lacking in any special features, commentaries, or interviews. I was hoping they would have that by now, but I guess this is just something Disney does on the side while they devote their energy to making second-hand movie sequels. But, if you bought volume I, you should definitely get this. It'll be money well-spent.

TaleSpin, Volume 2 Overview

Everyone’s favorite furry cargo pilot returns for more high-altitude hilarity in TaleSpin: Volume 2! Beloved Jungle Book star Baloo the bear and his navigator Kit Cloudkicker take to the skies as couriers for their friend and boss, the always resourceful businesswoman Rebecca Cunningham. With Rebecca’s adventurous daughter, Molly, and ace mechanic Wildcat rounding out the crew, the Higher For Hire crew is joined by the most memorable cast of colorful characters and scheming villains yet.Join our heroes as they face off against familiar foes like the evil Colonel Spigot – as well as a whole new batch of rogues. Baloo and Kit battle air pirates, ancient curses, mummies and their most hair-raising challenge ever… finishing high school! With three discs packed with full-throttle thrills and first class excitement, TaleSpin: Volume 2 is a boxed set that really delivers!

TaleSpin, Volume 2 Specifications

High adventure in the skies and on the ground are a daily occurrence for Jungle Book's Baloo in this second volume of 27 Disney Talespin episodes. Baloo, his sidekick Kit Cloudkicker, boss Rebecca Cunningham, and mechanic Wildcat operate a fledgling airplane charter service "Higher for Hire" that's continually on the brink of bankruptcy and is seemingly destined to land one complicated job after another. From archeological digs sabotaged by evil villains to treasure hunts-gone-wrong, half-baked money-making business schemes, Baloo's return to school, and some crazy schemes to preserve the idealism of childhood for Kit and Rebecca's young daughter Molly, Baloo and the gang can consistently be counted upon to become entangled in one sticky situation after another. Friend Louie the swinging nightclub operator is an integral part of several episodes as is the evil Don Carnage and the formidable Shere Khan. A host of new characters include old-time flyer Joe McGee, woman archeologist Katie Dodd, the dastardly Thaddeus Klang, and the Queen of Walla Walla Bing Bang. Baloo's comical bumbling and uncompromising resolve to stand up for his friends make this is a fun adventure series with a nice message about friendship. (Ages 3 - 10) --Tami Horiuchi

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Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa (Full Screen)

Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa (Full Screen) Review

I wasn't a big fan of the first Madagascar, so I wasn't in a hurry to watch the sequel. I finally rented it last night, and was really pleasantly surprised to find that it's funnier than the first one by a long shot. The writers recognized that the side characters (penguins, monkeys, lemurs) were more fun than the main four and gave them more screen time to great effect. They also didn't OVERDO that, which is what often happens. The result is some very funny scenes with King Julien, Skipper, Africa Phil and Mort that don't wear out those characters' welcome, and which serve as nice breaks from the main "heartful" story line of big four -- which isn't all that bad. My sons and I laughed out loud several times during this movie, which I don't remember happening at all during Madagascar 1. New side characters like Moto Moto (voiced perfectly by Will i Am of the Blackeyed Peas) now add to the fun. Definitely worth a look, and I'm actually buying now that I've seen it.

Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa (Full Screen) Overview

Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 02/06/2009 Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg

Madagascar - Escape 2 Africa (Full Screen) Specifications

The sequel to the animated movie Madagascar gives more of everything audiences loved in the first movie: More of the penguins; more of Julian, king of the lemurs; more musical bits of classic rock; and many, many more lions, zebras, hippos, and giraffes. In the first film, a quartet of coddled zoo animals found themselves shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar in a misguided effort to return them to the wild. InMadagascar: Escape 2 Africa, a failed attempt to fly back to New York maroons Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), and Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) in an animal preserve on the African continent, accompanied by the four deranged penguins and the lunatic lemur king (deliriously voiced by Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat). By wild coincidence, this is where Alex was born--and where his father is still the alpha lion, and where his malevolent uncle seeks to take over (let's call this an homage to The Lion King). The other beasts have their own story arcs, but really it's all an excuse for daffy comic bits. Though the result is disposable, it's also entirely entertaining. The action sequences pop with dizzying spectacle; though some jokes are mainstream fodder, more often they're surprisingly quirky and engagingly oddball. This is the best kind of cotton candy filmmaking--it dissolves into nothing, but it's oh-so-sweet to the taste. --Bret Fetzer

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Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam - Extended Edition

Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam - Extended Edition Review

Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam - Extended Edition Overview

Get ready to ROCK with the biggest musical event of the year—now in an extended edition with exclusive scenes & songs! Join Mitchie (Demi Lovato), Shane, Nate, and Jason (Jonas Brothers), and some brand new campers across the lake for 2 times the music, 2 times the dance moves and 2 times the fun in Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam! Plus only this extended edition combo pack includes a behind-the-scenes introduction to the newest stars, music videos by camp rockers from around the world, “Rock-Along” where you take center stage and more!
Mitchie can’t wait to go back to Camp Rock and spend the summer making new music with her friends and superstar Shane Gray. But the slick new camp across the lake, Camp Star, has drummed up some serious competition—featuring newcomers Luke (Matthew “Mdot” Finley) and Dana (Chloe Bridges). In a sensational battle of the bands, with Camp Rock's future at stake, will Camp Star's flashy production and over-the-top antics win out, or will camp rockers prove that talent, teamwork, and spirit are what truly matter?

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Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957 Television Production)

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957 Television Production) Review

When I saw this DVD online while searching for family style DVD'S, I was thrilled. I am a true Julie Andrews fan and loved seeing her
this young. She is such a beautiful and gracious lady and watching the extra's on the movie was the icing on the cake.
Thank You for bringing this to us to view in all it's SPLENDOR... Well worth watching over and over again. Pamela D.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957 Television Production) Overview

In this enchanting musical delight from the legendary team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, beautiful young Cinderella (Julie Andrews) finds her life of drudgery at the hands of her stepmother and two wicked sisters changed forever in one evening, thanks to a fairy godmother and a handsome prince. Lost for years, this first television production of this enduring classic remains a rollicking, tune-filled delight for young and old alike! One of the most beloved entertainers of all time, Academy Award«-winner Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music) appeared in theaters this year in the smash hits Shrek 2 and The Princess Diaries 2. The much-revered musical team of Rodgers & Hammerstein produced such family favorites as The King and I, The Sound of Music, Carousel, South Pacific, State Fair and more! One of home video's most highly requested titles, Cinderella has been officially unavailable since its initial airing on March 31, 1957! This single performance spectacular was viewed by over 115 million people, a television milestone! Musical performances include beloved favorites "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible" and "Do I Love You (Because You're Beautiful)!" In 1957, Broadway's reigning songwriters and Broadway's brightest new star joined forces to create a new musical version of Cinderella; it's one-night-only broadcast on CBS-TV was viewed by more than 115 million people - the largest audience in the history of the planet! - and an instant legend was born. Julie Andrews, the toast of Broadway for her performance in My Fair Lady, played the title role, joined by a stellar cast of Broadway and television all-stars. Providing a new take on the timeless tale as well as a bounty of beautiful ballads, comedy numbers and waltzes, was the team of Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, already at the top of their game thanks to such musicals as Oklahoma, South Pacific and The King and I. Though Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella has gone through several TV remakes and hundreds of stage productions, the original, magical version vanished after its initial broadcast, never to be seen again. Until now.

Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella (1957 Television Production) Specifications

The DVD era has unearthed another treasure. For the first time ever, Julie Andrews's performance in the title role of the original 1957 television production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella is available to the public on home video. Cinderella was created as a Broadway-style television production with an original score from the creators of Oklahoma! and Carousel, featuring such songs as "In My Own Little Corner," "Impossible," "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful," and "Stepsisters' Lament." Cast in the title role was the 21-year-old Andrews, at the time starring on Broadway in My Fair Lady (another Cinderella story of sorts), and the cast was filled out by a talented bunch of stage veterans (including Kaye Ballard, Edie Adams, Dorothy Stickney, and Stickney's husband, writer Howard Lindsay). On March 31, 1957, a then-record 120 million homes saw the program as it was broadcast, live and in color, but it was preserved only in black-and-white kinescope, i.e., by aiming a camera at a monitor during the broadcast. While this version probably looks better than we have any right to expect, the picture is still fuzzy black-and-white, which makes it a tougher sell for kids than the later color versions, 1965 with Lesley Anne Warren and the 1997 Disneyized version. But give older kids (say, 8 or so) credit for being able to look past the black-and-white picture and primitive effects and enjoy the charming songs, the excellent performances, and the prospect of seeing one of their favorite actresses play one of their favorite princesses.

Fortunately, the DVD has also received the attention it deserves, with a new introduction by Andrews, a 20-minute featurette about the production, including interviews with many of the principals; Rodgers and Hammerstein's appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show a week before the broadcast; and a gallery of color photos of the production as well as promotional material, which included paper dolls of Andrews. --David Horiuchi

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The Simpsons - The Complete Fifth Season

The Simpsons - The Complete Fifth Season Review

In my opinion, The Simpsons are our generation's Monty Python/Marx Brothers. They provided a wholly unique voice to the world of comedy, and arguably, season five was their voice at its most focused. Seriously, I've been watching the season here on my graveyard shift, I've seen each episode hundreds of times, and it's painfully clear that nothing has come anywhere near the brilliance of the writing, the acting, etc. The next time some ill-informed TV viewer tries to tell you different, point them in the direction of this page and enlighten their poor soul.

The Simpsons - The Complete Fifth Season Overview

The entire fifth season of the animated television show, The Simpsons.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 15-AUG-2006
Media Type: DVD

The Simpsons - The Complete Fifth Season Specifications

Sixteen seasons (and counting) of pop culture-rocking brilliance, the first four of which have already been gloriously archived on DVD. But in the words of Krusty the Clown: What has The Simpsons done for me lately? Well, how about all 22 episodes of season 5, each accompanied by commentary, deleted scenes, and other encyclopedic extras that hopelessly devoted Simpsons fans crave, no, demand? Season 5 is perhaps not as classics-packed as the third and fourth seasons, but no self-respecting Simpsons fan should be without the episodes "Homer's Barbershop Quartet," featuring George Harrison, "Cape Feare," one of Sideshow Bob's (and guest voice Kelsey Grammer's) finest half-hours, "Rosebud," "Springfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)," and "Bart Gets Famous," with the Springfield-sweeping catchphrase "I didn't do it." Plus, the star power this season is impressive: Michelle Pfeiffer as Homer's comely, donut-loving co-worker in "The Last Temptation of Homer," Albert Brooks as a self-help guru who unleashes "Bart's Inner Child," Kathleen Turner as the creator of Malibu Stacy in "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy," and, as themselves, the Ramones ("Rosebud"), James Woods ("Homer and Apu"), Buzz Aldrin ("Deep Space Homer"), and even Robert Goulet ("Springfield").

But it is the writers and the core ensemble cast who exhibit, to quote "Deep Space Homer," "the right... What's that stuff?" Series milestones include the first appearance of yokel Cletus in "Bart Gets an Elephant," and Maggie's infant nemesis, The Baby with One Eyebrow in "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Badasssss Song," which also happens to be The Simpsons' 100th episode. Add in a very good "Treehouse of Horror" episode, (which outs Ned Flanders as the Devil and Marge as the head vampire), and one Emmy-nominated musical extravaganza ("Who Needs the Quick-E-Mart" from "Homer and Apu"), and you have a Simpsons season that's not just great, it's DVD-box-set great. --Donald Liebenson

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Bewitched - The Complete Third Season

Bewitched - The Complete Third Season Review

I'm in my early fifties and I remembered watching this show with my mother. I was a very young girl, and I really enjoy watching them the first time around. A few months ago my Mother who was 88 at the time, quietly passed away in her sleep. I was at Wal-Mart a few days earlier when I saw the 3rd and 4th seasons of Bewitched packaged together,and for one low price, I flipped. I eaglerly snatched up the two season deal, and just now finished watching the 3rd season. Now, just started watching the 4th season. Elizabeth and Dick York are fantastic together, and I just wish that I could have showed these season to my Mom, she would have loved watching them again. So many wonderful episodes, and the characters, Endora, Serena, Uncle Arther, but to me Aunt Clara passed them all, her episodes with Elizabeth and Dick were great. I had no idea that in the middle of the fourth season that she had passed away, and the Dick in the fifth season, was going thru some real health and back pain at the time. In the sixth season when Dick York couldn't play Darrin anymore, I was very pessismistic about Dick Sargent, but I enjoyed him alot. True, he was no Dick York but he added a sort of flair to Darrin that I enjoyed. The last season of Bewitched was the weakest for me to enjoy. But I digress, Bewitched, was one the best shows of the sixties, and along with The Addams Family. These two shows were my favorite. Now, I have to decide if I want to buy Seasons one and two together in one deals. Watch these DVD'S they will bring back many happy memories and you will love the characters amd the funny situations that Samantha and Darrin, Tabitha and even Endora get themselves into.

Bewitched - The Complete Third Season Overview

Welcome back to 1164 Morning Glory Circle for the third magical season of BEWITCHED! Join Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery), Darrin (Dick York) and Endora (Agnes Moorehead) as they celebrate three major television events in this spellbinding four-disc DVD collection: the first episodes filmed entirely in color, the delightful debut of baby Tabitha's "wishcraft" powers and the first-time Emmy® nominations for Montgomery and Moorehead. Featuring the hysterical return of mischievous Uncle Arthur (Paul Lynde) and the hilarious misadventures of bumbling Aunt Clara (Marion Lorne), BEWITCHED: THE COMPLETE THIRD SEASON is 33 enchanting episodes of comedy, fun and magic.

Bewitched - The Complete Third Season Specifications

The introduction of color takes a bit of the magic out of Bewitched, but adorable toddler Tabitha brings her own special enchantment to this third season, which earned Emmy nominations for Outstanding Comedy Series. Also nominated were Elizabeth Montgomery as sophisticated, albeit domesticated, witch Samantha, Agnes Morehead as her disapproving mother Endora, and Marion Lorne as addled Aunt Clara, whose mis-spellings wreak havoc in the Stephens household, as when she unwittingly conjures up Ben Franklin in "My Friend Ben." As the season begins, "typical average baby" Tabitha reveals her heretofore-dormant supernatural powers. In the next episode, "The Moment of Truth," Darrin (Dick York) is distressed to find out about his daughter. "Remember 'normal'?" he wails to his wife. "We were going to have a normal married life" Though one laments that Serena is missing in action, the return of Bernard Fox as Dr. Bombay (in "There's Gold in Them Thar Pills") and Paul Lynde's practical joker Uncle Arthur are always welcome, even if Arthur's feud with Endora in "Endora Moves in for a Spell" never reaches the comic heights of season 2's "The Joker Is a Card" (the Yagazuzie Zim episode).

Other venerable character actors cast their distinctive spells, including Estelle Winwood ("Hold Me, Touch Me" in the original The Producers) and Reta Shaw (Mary Poppins) as Endora's sisters in "Witches and Warlocks Are My Favorite Things; Marty Ingalls as a rival ad agency spy in "Dangerous Diaper Dan"; Norman "Mr. Roper" Fell as Sigmund Freud(!) in "I'd Rather Twitch Than Fight"; and, in a bizarre cameo, Willie Mays as one of Endora's Halloween party guests in "Twitch or Treat." ("You mean he's a...," Darrin stammers. "The way he hits home runs?" Samantha replies, "What else?"). Sandra Gould, replacing Alice Pearce, joins the cast as busybody neighbor Gladys Kravitz. One of the season's most enjoyable episodes is "A Most Unusual Wood Nymph," which allowed York to break out of his confounded husband character to portray the lusty Darrin the Bold, a cursed 14th-century ancestor. And with the sight of the ravishing Montgomery in a castle-maid costume, who needs extras in this otherwise charmed four-disc set? --Donald Liebenson

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Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Ninth Season

Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Ninth Season Review

As a whole, season #9 was probably the weakest of all the Raymond seasons but I found fantastic that, for once, we got see one of the all time TV greats leaving with a knock-out-punch-finale, with every character true to their nature in a hilarious way. The first two episodes in season 9 are also rather good but in pretty much the rest of them I felt like the show's writers were trying to extract laughs from the audience as if it was liposuction or something. Perhaps the saddest thing was seeing how fragile Peter Boyle looked at the end but it was great for him to stay until the last episode, I can't imagine how sad it would have been for ELR to have to deal with Frank's passing.
For me it's very simple: 70's: Taxi, 80's Cheers, 90's Raymond. 00's: no idea yet.

Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Ninth Season Overview

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
TV Special

Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Ninth Season Specifications

Everybody Loves Raymond's Emmy-winning final season makes it official: Debra Barone (Patricia Heaton) is hot! The scenes in which she scandalizes a PTA meeting in a "trampy" outfit ("P.T.& A") and attempts a lingerie-clad seduction of Raymond (Ray Romano) in "The Power of No" are the reason YouTube was invented. This season begins on a giddy, albeit bittersweet note as Frank (Peter Boyle) and Marie (Doris Roberts, honored with another Emmy) announce that they are moving to a New Jersey retirement home 85 minutes away. The surreptitious kitchen celebration between Raymond and Debra and put-upon Robert (Brad Garrett, also an Emmy-winner) and Amy (Monica Horan) is a play-it-again classic. Their joy is inevitably short-lived when Frank and Marie manage to offend and alienate all the other residents and are kicked out. This season produced a mere 16 episodes, but the majority of them are gems, including "Ally's F," in which a failing math grade leads to a tentative mother-daughter connection ("Are all boys stupid?" a lovelorn Ally asks her mother. "Yes," she assures her).

In the best Raymond episodes, you laugh until it hurts (in "Sister-in-Law," Raymond, ever the "selfish ass," resists extroverted Amy's attempts to get to know him better) and it hurts until you laugh (in "Boys' Therapy," Raymond, Robert and Frank, unwittingly make personal breakthroughs when they ditch group-therapy sessions for the track). At the heart of the final season is Marie's definition of family: "We stick together, we support each other." In the pitch-perfect finale (watched by a reported 32 million people), all resentments and bickering are forgotten when Raymond, undergoing minor surgery for adenoids, momentarily does not awaken following the operation. This set contains "The Last Laugh," an emotional series retrospective built around the filming of the finale (which had to be delayed when Heaton developed laryngitis), amusing deleted scenes, and rollicking, spontaneous commentaries on eight episodes. The brief blooper reel is hardly worth the trouble, but we do get to see Romano break up Boyle with a Young Frankenstein reference. --Donald Liebenson

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Charlotte's Web (Full Screen Edition)

Charlotte's Web (Full Screen Edition) Review

The product itself was in perfect condition but shipping took nearly 10 days. I chose this dealer bc they are located only 1 state away... I guessed it would 2 - 3 days max for arrival. It became evident that they are drop shipping from their vendors warehouse and do not have product at their facility.

Charlotte's Web (Full Screen Edition) Overview

The classic story of loyalty, trust, and sacrifice comes to life in this live-action adaptation. Fern (Dakota Fanning) is one of only two living beings who sees that Wilbur is a special animal as she raises him, the runt of the litter, into a terrific and radiant pig. As Wilbur moves into a new barn, he begins a second profound friendship with the most unlikely of creatures – a spider named Charlotte – and their bond inspires the animals around them to come together as a family. When the word gets out that Wilbur's days are numbered, it seems that only a miracle will save his life. A determined Charlotte – who sees miracles in the ordinary – spins words into her web in an effort to convince the farmer that Wilbur is "some pig" and worth saving.

Charlotte's Web (Full Screen Edition) Specifications

E.B. White's classic tale gets a Babe-like makeover in Charlotte's Web, a delightful and well-made film that is sure to become a family classic. Directed by Gary Winick (13 Going on 30), the new version eschews the musical numbers of the 1973 cartoon and mixes CGI with live-action animals. Dakota Fanning brings the right amount of chutzpah to Fern, the young farm girl who rescues a runt, Wilbur, from death and visits him every day at her Uncle Homer's farm. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider (voiced by Julia Roberts) that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" (a kid-friendly alternative term to the slaughterhouse), for Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction. The more tragic elements of the book are handled sensitively by Winick, working from a script by Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich), and Roberts' soothing, maternal voice (who knew it would work so well?) makes it all go down easy. It turns out to be just one of many perfect celebrity voice-casting choices, for the farm animals, voiced by an all-star cast including Oprah Winfrey (the goose), Robert Redford (the horse), Steve Buscemi (Templeton the rat), and John Cleese (the sheep), lend plenty of sharp humor. But it's two corn-hungry crows, voiced by Thomas Haden Church (Sideways) and OutKast's Andre "3000" Benjamin who steal the show. (Ages 4 and older) -- Ellen A. Kim

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