Robin Williams...as a woman

Advantages: genuine comical elements
Disadvantages: somehow sad at the same time

...I must say that I was impressed by the way that the producers of this movie managed to produce such a genuinely heart-warming and humorous comedy against a rather dark backdrop with divorce as the major thematic feature. Robin Williams, as usual, excelled in his comical acting and I was in total admiration in front of the acting of Sally Field and the children. I have been watching this movie ever since I was a child and I still watch it all over again. This is because it is the sort of movie which will really tug at your heart-strings and make you cry both with laughter and sadness at times. I must however admit that Robbie Williams was so, so, so marvellous in his role that he out shadowed the whole cast- including the appearance of Pierce Brosnan. The plot opens with the typical dysfunctional family: Both parents are extremely...

diamond_sparkles 04.09.2009 · Read review
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Review of Mrs Doubtfire (DVD)

ROBIN HOOD'S BAY

Advantages: Beautifully preserved and evocative
Disadvantages: STEEP

...I've always wondered why Robin Hood's Bay was in North Yorkshire and not in Nottinghamshire. One explanation might be that Nottinghamshire, being landlocked, is not over-endowed with bays. Another is the sheer logistics of moving it from one county to another. Robin Hood's Bay is around 5 miles south of Whitby, and some 15 miles north of Scarborough on the North Sea coast of North Yorks. I've researched a little, and I can find no explanation of why this place has such an interesting name - it doesn't matter anyway. There are records dating back from 1536, apparently, of a small settlement of around 50 houses and 20 fishing boats but nothing about its namesake. Besides, the locals prefer to call it Bay Town. There may be some tenuous connection to the 'Prince of Thieves' though. Fishing has always been the mainstay of this...

proxam 19.11.2009 (22.11.2009) · Read review
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Review of Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire

Splitting Sides with Mr Williams

Advantages: Laughter Laughter and more laughter
Disadvantages: It can get quite hard to breath between the laughter

...Here's a DVD that you can watch a hundred times and still miss something. Mr Williams is quick quirky and fast to shoot from the mental hip. Robin Wiliams was, is and always will be a comedian. He cannot do an interview for longer than five seconds without getting a comedic word in edgewise. In this DVD he does not disappoint. Take the ten best comedians you know and squeeze them onto a single DVD, and you have Robin Williams Live. He tells more jokes than most, he tells them faster and with more enthusiasm than a barrelful of monkiers. What surprises me the most is that not many people are completely aware of his comedic genius, after watching Dead Poets Society and the Fisher King. He is, by no exaggeration, a genius and proves it with skit after skit. Expect him to cross the line though, he is not a safe individual...

gmhavvas 19.01.2006 · Read review
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Review of Robin Williams - Live On Broadway (DVD)

Robin Hood, Robin Hood Riding through the glen..............

Advantages: Great acting,excellent storyline and effects
Disadvantages: None from me

...~~FILM ONLY REVIEW~~ Robin is being held prisoner by the Turks but his friend Azeem helps him to escape. The pair team up and make their way back to England where Robin is faced with his land being taken over by the Sheriff of Nottingham, who is trying to overthrown the King. Robins search leads him to find his father murdered and their butler without eyes. Robin soon discovers that all this happened because his Father refused to stand with the Sheriff and give him his land. Robin soon sets off to find his childhood friend Maid Marian with the hope that she can help him get his land back and finally take down the Sheriff but he soon learns that Marian cannot help him. Robin now decides that he will go to Sherwood Forest and start his campaign. It is here where he meets Little John and befriends him and soon he is introduced to...

sewbizzie 19.11.2009 · Read review
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Review of Robin Hood - Prince Of Thieves (DVD)

Plodding Robin Williams Vehicle

Advantages: Some neat monologues
Disadvantages: Ridiculous story

...How much is Good Morning Vietnam merely a tour de force performance by Robin Williams or how much is it a well rounded complete anti-war film. Sadly my view it is too much just a vehicle for Williams style of delivery and frankly the remainder is very average stuff. Williams plays Adrian Cronauer who s a Radio DJ for the US Armed Forces who is sent to Vietnam in 1965 at the height of the conflict. This is not to say that the set-piece monologues delivered by Williams are not funny, clever, biting, satirical and poignant. They are but we also have frankly absurd arguments with superiors and when the character has a relationship with a local Vietnamese girl and befriends her brother then the film descends to parody. Cronauer is seen as an irreverent loose cannon by his superiors who inevitably ask him to refrain from the critical...

polydeuces 26.09.2001 · Read review
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Review of Good Morning, Vietnam (DVD)

RV ....RUNAWAY VACATION... ROBIN WILLIAMS MOVIE ,FAMILY COMEDY!!!

Advantages: Funny ,has Robin Williams in it-can watch it with the kids -though I'd have watched it on my own
Disadvantages: dry kind of humour(which I like) BUT-some people don't get it

...Having just read three other reviews on ciao for this movie I feel as they are all pretty negative and this is one of my sons and my favourite family movies I will try to put across why this movie is actually worth watching and not just once maybe even two or three times. I was browsing in the supermarket when I thought I'd pick up a movie to watch over the weekend with my son who was 7 at the time of buying it. Luckily my son and I have very similar tastes in movies only difference being he is obsessed with star wars and indiana jones movies! Not saying they are bad movies ,because they are great movies, but to watch them day in and day out over and over.... !!! Anyway back to this film 'RV' I spotted the movie and seeing it was on the bargain shelf at around £3.00 and seeing that it had Robin Williams (who i'm a fan of...

bobbetta 02.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of RV (DVD)

A very creepy Robin Williams film

Advantages: Very scary performance from Williams
Disadvantages: The chills may be a little subtle for some

...Robin Williams is best known for his funny guises in hits such as Mrs Doubtfire, Jumanji and The Birdcage, but in One Hour Photo he gives his best and most notable performance as a sinister and lonely man looking for affection. This is a really creepy thriller which director Mark Romanek builds up slowly but cleverly, without the need for blood and murder as a way of moving the story forward. Williams plays Sy Parrish, an extremely lonely and rather warped individual, one of the nameless few who has been pushed out of society and is lacking the one vital ingredient everyone needs, love. Once the film starts you realise this is not your everday Williams movie. Sy works as a photo assistant in a large department store, a job which is vital to his existence and which he has been doing for over two decades. He is a very isolated figure...

bigmike33 30.10.2006 · Read review
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Review of One Hour Photo (DVD)

My New Addiction - Robin Hood?

Advantages: Dramatic, Good Acting, Fantastic Soundtrack, Brilliant Plot!
Disadvantages: Would have loved more Special Features :(

...is actually exceptionally caring and loyal to Robin and the outlaws. I really enjoy Troughton playing him, you may recognise him from 'Vera Drake' and 'Alien Vs Predator'. William Beck - Plays Little John's 'apprentice' who is learning the trade of being an outlaw. I was able to recognise him straight away from the film 'Snatch' in which he played Neil. Really enjoyed watching him in Robin Hood and is a well experienced actor who I expect we will be seeing in bigger projects in the near future. Episode List Will You Tolerate This? The first ever episode of Robin Hood, it takes you into a dramtic situation straight away. Alan (one of the Merry men) is caught poaching and is captured by guards, however claims he has a family to feed. In response to this he about to get his hand cut off but who should come along to save...

scotlandizdabest 29.04.2009 (30.04.2009) · Read review
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Review of Robin Hood - Series 1 Vol.1 (DVD)

FREE DVDs

Advantages: Free trial, large choice, post included,new realeases
Disadvantages: see review

...I like movies and I like freebies, so when you get offered both in one swoop you?re bound to accept! I used my two week free trial with this company and remained with them for a couple of monthsbefore moving on to try many other companies free trials (and winning a new DVD player on Tesco DVD rental site on their free trial offer). I then had an email from DVDs 365 asking me to go back, and offering me a free DVD if I did so. I had just left Tesco (with my new DVD player) so I chose to go back with them. ∆◊◊ THE SERVICE THEY OFFER ∆◊◊ Basically it?s like going to a video shop and hiring films on DVD, except you don?t pay for each film you chose ? rather a monthly fee for which you can watch as many movies as you can fit in, for us this is usually around 8 a month (2 a week usually weekends...

dabmim 15.11.2004 · Read review
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Robin Hood mixes comedy, romance and action

Advantages: Great stuff
Disadvantages: A few errors, but nothing major

...Robin Hood Prince of Thieves is the 1991 take on the legend of Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. This film was hailed as one of the biggest films of the 1990s, especially by women (!) and features an all star cast and a soundtrack including Bryan Adams' 'Everything I do' which spent about a million weeks at number 1 in the charts. Director Kevin Reynolds gives us a rollicking feature length display of sword fighting, comedy, action and romance, and the cast do as is required and give us a damn good film. Robin of Locksley (Kevin Costner) has been away fighting in the Crusades. Escaping with a Moor named Azeem (Morgan Freeman) he heads back to his native England after many years to see his father and live out the rest of his life in peace. Not so much luck! In the King's absence, his evil brother John has taken...

pmcds 04.11.2008 (05.11.2008) · Read review
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Review of Robin Hood - Prince Of Thieves (DVD)