Monster Mania

Advantages: Looks gorgeous
Disadvantages: Reliability

...sweep upwards either side of the bike and the golden finish on the forks. The brake callipers and the centre of the front brake disc also have the golden finish and the bike is equipped with Brembo brakes. I truly believe that Ducati make beautiful bikes. From the moment we first bought the Monster and I got on it to ride it home, I noticed the attention it got. I was waiting for Shaun before I rode it home for the first time and was surrounded by an admiring group of children. When my Yamaha broke down and I had to take the Ducati to work, I would nervously keep checking it because people would keep coming up to have a look. Then when they found out that I was the one riding it, they seemed to get even more interested. I did rather enjoy the attention! **Vital statistics** There are three engine sizes available in the Monster. We...

Ankes-un-amun 27.09.2002 · Read review
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Review of Ducati Monster

Best of the breed

Advantages: look, feeling,handling
Disadvantages: noise, vibrations...if you can call it disadvantages

...My first monster was a M900Dark , all black ,dated 1998.It was replaced almost one year ago with the new (for the time) model S4R .I won't bother you will all technichal details ( 117BHP,front Showa upside-down 43mm,2x230 mm disks in front, 1x245 mm disk in the back, 180/55 tyre in the back, 120/70 in the front, tubular frame.. enough said.)I will try to explain how it handles and why, when you see/own one, there are only 2 option for you: You hate it, or you love it.As probably you guessed already, i love it. **Introduction** i am a lightweight person ( 69kg dressed), 174 tall. I ride this bike all year around collecting around 3000 miles per year. I ride this bike on track around 2ice per year, In Misano Adriatico and Mugello usually. ***looking at the bike***** The bike, in my opinion look gorgeous. The huge-looking tank fits...

starmanx 17.07.2006 · Read review
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Monsters

Advantages: Everything
Disadvantages: None

...Monsters inc was a film produced by Pixar animation studios on February 8, 2002. The film was a massive hit and the fourth film Pixar had created. The film is a computer generated film and is about a place called Monstropolis. This is a place that only monsters live and they generate their power by scaring children and using their screams a source of power. The monsters use doors in a factory that enter children's bedrooms and the monsters then scare the children, make them scream and they then collect the screams in a container to use for power. The monsters believe that children themselves are toxic, and go to great lengths to prevent contact; should a monster be touched by a child or their belongings they need to decontaminated. The company (monsters inc) holds a top scare award and employee Sulley holds this record. He is...

seeit42 02.01.2009 · Read review
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Review of Monsters, Inc. (DVD)

Me and My Monsters

Advantages: Fabulous CGI
Disadvantages: None

...Anybody that knows me by now knows that I watch a lot of children?s movies. I have explained before but I get forced you know? One minute I can be watching the footie, the next I?m invaded by the rest of the family who abruptly turn the TV onto the DVD channel, shove a bowl of popcorn in the middle of the room and bind and gag me for the following 90 minutes or so. This happened only recently with the millionth re-run of Monsters. Inc. In fact, it took me back to the time we saw it originally back in 2001?? Can you believe it? There I am standing in the queue for my seat tickets at my local UCG and there are a couple of strange looking fellas in front of me. One of 'ems a large, furry guy with broad shoulders and blue fur. The other is a small, green round chap with one large eye. They're both carrying plastic tubes in their hands...

Marandina 14.03.2004 (18.03.2004) · Read review
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Review of Monsters, Inc. (DVD)

An unloved monster

Advantages: Powerful acting, thought-provoking subject
Disadvantages: Violent, disturbing, inaccurate and flat script at places

...the atmosphere in which two desperate and lost souls trying to grab at their diminishing choices while only one is them is actually aware of it. There isn't much happening in terms of character or plot development, the events cascade rather rapidly and bring blow after blow to the hasty ending. It's certainly not for the faint hearted to watch, some of the more violent and graphic ones made me cringe with dismay. I did cry at the end, while the most emotionally charged moments of the movie were played out. Conclusion I do not feel that having prior knowledge of the plot would make watching the movie any less intense. The reason for that is the events are portrayed with a bias, namely from Aileen's point of view and not e.g from the victims' family or the press who obviously did their best to portray her as a monster. Fair enough, I do...

lillamarta 04.11.2008 · Read review
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Review of Monster (DVD)

MONSTER OR VICTIM?

Advantages: Amazing performance by Theron, moving, gritty and well-directed film
Disadvantages: Gives us few answers about the real story.

...?Monster?, the film for which Charlize Theron recently won the Best Actress Oscar, is based on the true story of serial killer, Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002 for the murders of seven men in the state of Florida. Part road movie, part crime thriller and part biopic, the movie explores the events leading up to Aileen?s conviction and subsequent execution. In the film, Theron plays Aileen, a hitch-hiking prostitute. Aileen had a traumatic childhood, raped by a family friend at a very young age, a victim of incest at the hands of her brother and grandfather, and sleeping around with local boys. She became pregnant in her early teens, with no idea who the father of her baby was and gave the baby away for adoption. Disowned by her family, she turned to prostitution at the age of thirteen and since then has lived from one...

Pumpkin 27.05.2004 · Read review
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Review of Monster (DVD)

monsters inc

Advantages: great film
Disadvantages: no sequel

...Monsters Inc in my opinion is one of the best films that Disney and Pixar have made to date and they should not be dissappointed this animations is different to many other films and what more they have creat some of the all time favourite characters in disney history. My favourite has to be sully. Monters Inc is a film that is about monsters James P Sullivan better know as Sulley and Mike Wazowski. Mike and Sully work as scarers at the local factory to produce electricity, they go through childrens door at night whilst they are sleeping to scare children, which in turn produces power for the city. Until one day when Sully is at work scarying a little girl called Boo she escapes through the door and into the world of monsters, where Mike and Sully's lives are turned upside down trying to get boo back through her door without any...

jo_field26 15.05.2008 · Read review
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Review of Monsters, Inc. (DVD)

A MONSTER SUCCESS

Advantages: Great animation, good laugh and refreshing stroy
Disadvantages: Been done, not as good as Toy Story

...Ever got scared of things that go bump in the night, or that monster you are sure that lived under your bed on in the closet? Well don’t worry, Monsters Inc. is here to show you there is nothing to be afraid of as well as providing several laughs along the way. The basic plot involves a city called Monstropolis where all the monsters live together. They have got an ingenious way of producing their energy, it all comes from the screams of children’s. The monsters of Monsters Inc. all get paid for their work to make the children scared. Mike (Billy Crystal) and Sully (John Goodman) are the two heroes and workers at Monsters Inc. Mike is a large blue/purple furry and cuddly while Sully is green and has just one eye. There is competition inside Monster Inc. to reach the top of the charts, or become the scariest there, as...

Chris_Padden 12.02.2002 · Read review
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Review of Monsters, Inc. (DVD)

Monster Smash

Advantages: Funny, Cute and Great to Look at.
Disadvantages: nothing

...Remember when you were young, the days were full of fun and hope and sun. Life was good and nothing could convince you otherwise… Until bedtime at least, and then you knew all sorts of unspeakable and unseen horrors awaited. Would your mother believe you when you told her that the reason you were screaming your head off was because there was a huge monster with saucer eyes and giant fangs in the wardrobe or there was a slimy horror with 20 tentacles lurking under your bed, you knew it was there because you could here it whispering in the dark that it was going to grab your leg as soon as you got out of bed and she still wouldn’t believe you. Well we now have the proof, as if it was needed, that we were right all along in the shape of the brilliant new CGI animated feature from Disney and Pixar Studios, “Monsters...

daveking 04.02.2002 (07.02.2002) · Read review
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Review of Monsters, Inc. (DVD)

  The Monster Mash

Advantages: Superb animation | Quite funny at times | Good voice talent
Disadvantages: Not on par with other Pixar films | Ending a bit too mushy

...Pixar have, so far, never put a step wrong with each feature film and each short animation they create. They created the landmark Toy Story and even persuaded Disney to put Toy Story 2 to the big screen instead of straight to video as most of their sequels end up. Monsters Inc. is their new feature length film and, once again, is a mixture of laughs, drama and stunning animation. It?s fair to say Disney have been struggling more than a little bit with their recent wave of films. Atlantis flopped in a fairly big way last Summer and the only other things they have managed to do is sequel upon sequel and this is true with Return to Neverland ? the sequel to Peter Pan which has straight-to-video standards but brought to the big screen, ironically it looks set to do better than Atlantis but the quality just isn?t there. Pixar have...

3rdRockSatan 27.03.2002 · Read review
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