Advantages: Beautifully animated, entertaining and amusing in places Disadvantages: Slightly too long - perhaps not to everyone's taste
at children. Whilst it's easy to considered and dismiss them purely as 'cartoons', they often have great depth and appeal that goes beyond age and as such can be enjoyed by whole family's, children, or even just adults who enjoy "good drawings".
'My Neighbours The Yamadas' is a stylistic move away from the animation usually associated with Studio Ghibli. According to the blurb on the back of the DVD, writer-director Isao Takahata used "?digital production to create the feel of a moving watercolour sketch."
The movie is about the lives of the Yamada family, which consists of the mother and father Matsuko and Takashi, their young son and daughter, as well as Matsuko's live-in mother.
In some ways, the movie is also a move away from the typical Studio Ghibli style of story telling. Rather than being one long plot, the movie is more a series ...
Advantages: Brilliant Comedy Disadvantages: Some people may take Offence
2DTV Is a Series of Sketches which takes the mick out of Famous People. It Mainly Contains Blair, Bush, Beckhams, Rooney, Royal Family etc.
2DTV used to air on ITV but you can now own all the Sketchs on DVDs all together there are 4 DVDs to collect. (The best of 2DTV, 2DTV Complete series 3, The very best of 2DTV Series 4 and The Complete Series 5 of 2DTV)
about some of the People featured in 2DTV (all DVDs)
When it comes to Bush they make him look very stupid. and i mean stupid. He talks and laughs to a Sock Called Professor Lembdstrom and gets his advise from a sock. in a cow boy Show he rides a Bike and Fulls off on this bottom and he says "My Elbow" and starts to cry. He Thinks Micky Mouse is real. So relli they make it look like a stupid man. (which most of the time he is)
When it Comes to Blair they make he look like ...
Advantages: It plays EVERYTHING Disadvantages: Cheap construction
My Christmas present to myself this year was the ?Yamada-DVX-6700? ? which looks like a DVD player, works rather like a DVD player but offers a special something extra - this unit not only plays DVDs but many other digital formats too.
The device cost me ~£55 ? to make it price comparable with other DVD players? It replaces a CyberHome ?CH DVD 400? which only plays bone-fide DVDs ? and cost the same 18 months ago. The build quality of the Yamada is best described as ?cheap? ? but? don?t get me wrong ? it looks OK next to the TV ? only if you look closely is it obvious that every component has been made to the tightest of budgets ? everything from the flimsy eject-tray to the front-panel plastic buttons and cheesy digital display which might have looked modern in the 1980s. To criticise the unit on aesthetics, however, is to ...
bristol_steve 16.02.2005
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