Shrek (Two-Disc Special Edition
Shrek The Third ~ Shrek The Third
Simpsons The Movie ~ Simpsons The Movie
Disney's 1959 animated effort was the studio's most ambitious to date, a widescreen spectacle boasting a gorgeous waltz-filled score adapting 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 16th …
Disney figured out that it's not necessarily how many extras a DVD offers, it's how effortlessly the fan can view them. In two "guided tours," a viewer can see a selection of the excellent extras on the history and creation of Walt Disney's crown jewel. Disc 1 has an informative 40-minute documentary, plus karaoke songs, a neat trivia game, and Barbra Streisand's new version of "Some Day My …
South Park: Bigger
Exciting and heartfelt animated sagebrush saga detailing the adventures of Spirit (narration voiced by Matt Damon), a courageous mustang. After being captured by a U.S. cavalry colonel (James Cromwell) who wants to domesticate him, Spirit is befriended by Little Creek (Daniel Studi), a Lakota Indian, and is attracted to a mare named Rain while on a danger-filled journey to find freedom. Feature…
Spirited Away
This live-action version of E.B. White's novel doesn't have quite the magic of, say, Toy Story. Instead of entertainment the whole family can be enthralled with, Stuart Little is squarely aimed, and successfully so, at the 4- to 10-year-old watcher. Does this make it a bad family film? Not in the slightest. The gee-whiz visual effects (created by original Star Wars wizard John Dykstra) and the …