Grandparents Day Movie Reviews

This film has been censored just like Fantasia and Saludos Amigos and Make Mine Music. I really hate when someone tries to tell me what I can and cannot see. I don't see the reason why Disney can't release 2 versions. The same way Dragonball is released edited & uncut version.

Like Fantasia, this movie features many short animated clips, but set to "modern" music -- if you consider the 40's to be modern. A number of interesting clips - the wintertime one, the bumblebee one and johnny appleseed stand out. There are unfortunately an equal number of segments that seem to drag or are incredibly dated: the trees and the samba segments come to mind.

However, the worst thing about this particular DVD is that the Pecos Bill segment has been obviously edited from the original to remove a cigarette from Pecos Bill. This seems the height of hypocrisy - plenty of new Disney films have no such resistance to cigarettes appearing onscreen. This version of the film stands as a bad example of spineless political correctness for no reason that benefits the end product.

Great classic cartoons, fun for the whole family! Gotta love the old Disney stuff! Cute stories, great animation, and great music.

I LOVED Candyman 1, I LIKED Candyman 2, but Candyman 3 just didn't grab me. The series here goes direct-to-video and it really hurts the film. It just feels and looks cheaper than the first two. The story also isn't all that special. There just isn't anything new to do with Candyman. Tony Todd does a good job as the title role, by Donna De'errico leaves a bad taste in the mouth and makes the film seem really [inferior]. Whenever a baywatch beauty is featured in movie, it just makes the movie seem poor. Candyman fanatics may find some mild interest int he film, but it is passable. I really hope they end the series here. Part 3 is almost too much and a part 4 would push the series over the edge. But since the franchise is now owned by artisian home entertainenment, they will probably fork out another direct-to-video entry within the next five years. They did it with the Wishmaster series!

exiting sequel in the gripping candyman series this time a girls whos a great ancester of candyman is having nightmares about him when she goes to a painting gallery one of her friends exposes some mythical fiction about the candyman and is outraged soon the horror begins when the pinter and his girlfriend are ripped AND MURDERD AND SHES HAUNTED BY THE REAL CANDYMAN BUT IN MEXICO THERES A SPECIAL DAY OF THE DEAD DAY AND BELIEVERS OF THE CANDYMAN ACT VIOLINTLY AND ARE SOON RIPPED APART BY THE MAN HIMSELF GOOD SEQUEL A-. RATED R FOR STRONG BLOOY HORROR VIOLINCE/GORE BRIE SEXUALITY BRIEF NUDITY STRONG LANGUAGE

why the bad reviews this is a great creepy movie with plenty of gore great ending to the series with twists and turns and we finaly get to see the flashbacks of candyman when hes murderd great movie tony todds still very creepy even though this is a great ending to the series i hope theres another there about four yearsa apart maybe will get part four next year

Blanka looks like a Tauntaun on Paxil...only worse.

When Ryu uses the Hadou-Ken, you see him do the stance for it, then it just cuts to a flash of light. You never see an actual fire ball.

Guile has an accent...for an all-American Air Force pilot.

Blanka dies.

Blanka is a chicken-wuss in the movie.

Seeing Blanka represented by Clay Aiken painted green makes me want to kill myself.

Seeing this movie when it was in theaters, made me stop playing the series.

Even an algebra special on Public Access is cooler than this. At least with that, there's a plot.

Have anybody encounter any problem with this DVD ? All the new generation DVD PLAYER including THE HIGH END MODEL , can't play this title .

My old PIONEER PLAYER can only play this title . I recently bought a new copy but the problem still the same .

STREET FIGHTER suppose to be a big hit for VAN DAMME but end up being the biggest flop movie . Director STEVEN E.DESOUZA seem have lost his direction . Even the anime is much better than the live action . Why can't they shoot this movie with a serious script , minus the comedy part & made the action scene more reliastic . IS A LIVE ACTION MOVIE , NOT AN ANIME MOVIE .

Street Fighter is one of my favorite movies but is sooo short it makes me wish there was more to it. The plot is sort of wacky and cartoonish, too. Major Bison (Raul Julia) has created a new force of evil called Bison troopers and has captured a number of soldiers and nurses from the Allied Nations. The goofy part is that he is holding them ransom for $20,000,000,000 and they have three days to live. If you're gonna do that, ya might as well kill them or ask for world domination! You'll never get that much! At the same time, he has taken Colonel Guile's-AN soldier-(Jean-Claude Van Damme) friend and attempted to turn him into a killing monster. Guile, angrily and vengefully, goes to recover the hostages and kick son of a bi***'s Bison's a** so hard the next Bison wannabe will feel it (quote Colonel Guile). There are so many other turns in the plot that makes it fun to watch. Its also got lots of comedy and action/adventure to rock the genre. Rent it first since it is a movie that only certain people have taste for.

This horrible version of perhaps the best Holmes tale is almost unfathomably bad. The short version of this review is: Avoid at all cost! THEN go see the Jeremy Brett version, which is THE definitive Hound!

The only favorable quality of this version is that the cinematography isn't too bad and there are some nice atmospheric shots. But the casting/acting/story... hideous. Holmes and Watson are mis-cast to begin with. Neither Hart or Roxburgh can pull off Watson/Holmes to save their lives. It's obvious that not only did neither of them study Conan Doyle's work carefully, they are completely incapable of delivering a line and not having it be DOA.

The acting is just BAD BAD BAD! (the directing too) Dialog falls completely flat almost always. Especially in scenes where there should be something there! For instance... the discovery of Holmes' hideout on the moor... Hart/Roxburgh stand there and delivery their lines like they're high school drama students reading the script for the first time! They're perfectly still, have no sense of timing, and have nothing behind the lines at all, and Watson barely acts surprised when Holmes shows up. It's almost unwatchable! This seems to be the dominant mode for the entire film. Furthermore... Roxburgh reads his lines in such a bland way he's almost parroting them. We're supposed to be convinced this guy is thinking??

I'm not completely against another version on Hound being made... but this supposed 'update' is pointless. Beyond the terrible acting the butchering of the script and the stupid (and oft discussed by other reviewers) use of cocaine during a case is pathetic. (For a GOOD story about Holmes' drug use see Brett in the disturbing "Devil's Foot".)

Bottom line again: See the Brett version, the best. Or really, any other version besides this one.

The actors are first rate and the choice of location is very good, however, this version of the "Hound of the Baskervilles" portrays our hero and his companion in a way that was not originally intended. We see Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson coming out of the bathroom together with a towel wrapped around each waist. Watsons' facial expression seems to imply some sort of guilty pleasure had just taken place. Later we see Sherlock Holmes injecting himself with some sort of drug. His drug usage is sharply out of context with the original story. There is another Sherlock Holmes story known as the "Seven percent solution" which in fact involved drug usage, but this story is not suppose to be that way. To cross over from one story, and put it into another story, causes some damage to the original story. When Sherlock Holmes walks into a room, he is suppose to have a presence, unfortunately, this actor was made up to look very plain. It is hard to distinguish between the key actors and the rest of the cast. Doctor Watson and Lestrade seem to be very much watered down from their original bigger than life characters, by the way they are dressed, the way they carry themselves, and the way others react to there presence. The Hound was replaced with an animation of a dog, and this really looks bad, very much like a cartoon. There is no mention of what makes this dog so scary. In the original story we are told how the dog had been treated in order to make it wild, and also how the animal was made to take on some sort of mystical quality as a result of a luminous mixture that was applied to it making it glow in the dark. A lot of important details were left out of this film.

While choosing to reinvent, as opposed to reiterate, elements of previous "Hound" adaptations and the novel upon which they are based, this spritely television version of the familiar story maintains the essence of Conan Doyle's works while giving them a badly needed boost of cool. Here, Holmes is less the twitchy, sunken-eyed manic-depressive of the Jeremy Brett era, but more the confident Victorian adventurer (though not as suave or wonderfully controlled as in the Rathbone era). And while Richard Roxburgh may ruffle a few feathers as Holmes--he is a bit too fair-haired and frat boy for the part--he also brings a sense of joy to Holmes that hasn't been seen in a while. The plot is loosely based on the novel, in that a ghostly hound appears to be the engine to fulfill a deadly curse on the Baskerville family. Several liberties, though, are taken with the general story, including making Watson, as played by Ian Hart, a harder-edged character than we've seen before and presenting Holmes' infamous drug use as a bourgoise form of recreation rather than a tonic for intellectual stagnation. Still, David Attwood's fluid direction and a nice musical score push this production above the standard humdrum television fare--especially the tepid stuff generally produced in the U.S.

A stinkfest from start to finish...if it was priced at two dollars I d recommend it for kicks, but otherwise AVOID it!

This is obviously a small budget British horror film. There's only mild tension when the young beauties are being fed to the flesh eating plant, and it doesn't rate the 5 Stars of say "X-The Unknown" or "The Quatermass Experiment". But you could do worse, for instance, say with the majority of American made films made with the same low budget. The British cast in this is talented, and the story is character driven instead of monster driven, so somehow works in a way that's like reading a short story from a black and white pulp science-fiction magazine in the fifties.

The "slightly" mad scientist is played by George Couloris, a veteran stage and film actor. You can also see him in a bit part that's a "bit" more colorful in Hammer's "Blood from the Mummy's Tomb". He does a good job here of giving at least a little meat to a stock mad doctor role. The real eye candy is not the man eating plant, but the gorgeous actress Vera Day, who plays Sally, a young girl who looses her job swinging her hips in a traveling fair dance show and hooks a job from the good doctor via a local car mechanic who meets her and falls in love in apparently ten seconds or less. But who can blame him. Vera Day was undoubtably a gorgeous blonde bombshell.

The monster plant is cheesy enough to give the film that comforting Saturday Matinee feel. And Image Studios has released this DVD in widescreen, though it doesn't appear to be anamorphic. The packaging says the sound is Dolby Stereo, but I had to turn the sound up, as it seemed a little low and fuzzy at time. I have to say all-in-all, if you like black and white monster movies that take place mostly in old English manors, complete with dank cellar laboratory and volumptuous girl victims, you can't pass on this one, not for this low price.

I'm a little embarrassed to admit it, but I love this movie. Lurid title and all. It's a b&w low budget British pot boiler about a crazed scientist who brings a big cheesy looking "tree" back from the Brazilian Amazon that eats women---but only pretty ones. Mumbo jumbo about tribal rituals have intoxicated the doctor (George Coulouris) into believing the serum derived from the tree can restore the dead to life. But AFTER it's eaten a pretty woman. So, he lures young women home---drugging one (Joy Webster from "Burn Witch Burn") with a "funny cigarette"---to his laboratory/dungeon. There, his whacked out "Brazilian native" assistant Tanga (Jimmy Vaughan) dresses them in a sexy outfit complete with bracelets and puts them in a trance by wildly beating bongos. Tanga gets VERY turned on (and sweaty) and pushes the girls into the writhing lobster claw arms of the tree. Will the doc's blonde and pretty new "housekeeper" (Vera Day) be the tree's next meal? And will the nosy OLD "housekeeper" wind up a zombie? Turn your brain off and watch this 70 min. wonder and just enjoy. Nice DVD print from Image makes this rainy day flick a keeper for lovers of old b&w cheesy horror movies like myself. Oh, and that's beautiful Marpessa Dawn (from the Oscar winning "Black Orpheus"---also 1959) at the beginning as the jungle sacrifice to the tree. Interesting career leap. Thanks Image.

The movie had poor quality as far as color was concerned. The movie was good but who ever put the movie on DVD did not get the picture right it had a glare all the way through the movie.
They could have had better coloring,better tint and contrast.

The plot: ozone deplition causes every animal in the world that lacks the ability to reason to go rabid and band together against humans-everything from rats and house pets like dogs to snakes and bears. This is especially bad for a group of hikers that have gone for a trek up in the hills, who happen to be out in the wilderness miles from civilization when the s--- hits the fan. First a woman is attacked and injured by a vicious leapord, and she and her lover split off from the main group to head back to town for medical attention. (This is before they've figured out all animals in the world are on the rampage.) Then we get two parrallel stories about what happens to the man and woman and what happens to the rest of the group. There is also a third story about what happens in town, as soldiers come in to evacuate the town in responce to the animal revolt. Meanwhile, the man and the injured woman are attacked by berserk birds, (can you say, "Hichcock"?) and the woman is killed. The man escapes and later finds a little girl who seems to be the only survivor of her camping group. So then the rest of the film is about what happens to the main hicking group, what happens in town, and what happens to the man and the little girl as they desperatly search for help. I thought the latter story was particularly suspenceful, as I really cared about what happened to those two. Also, kudos to the film makers for including a charecter who is native american, but not steriotypical. Also I liked Leslie Neilson as a guy who starts out as a standard thorn in the side, but as the situation gets worse, begins to snap and become something of a menace himself.

A great cast of familiar faces make this above average viewing. It is great to see the talented Paul Mantee in one his best screen roles since the 1964 classic Robinson Crusoe On Mars. Likewise Michael Ansara, Richard Jaeckel and Ruth Roman.
For those used to seeing Leslie Nielsen the comedian, beware.
Also good are Christopher George and Lynda Day George.

I bought this because I'd watch Natasha Henstridge in anything but this is just awful, wooden acting, shoddily scripted, twists that you can see a mile off, and even the obligatory [love making] scene with Natashas top off, (thrown in for no purpose) is done so badly you just wonder why anyone bothered. Anyone who sees Natasha Henstridge wonders why she hasnt become a star, look no further than this, your only as good as your last movie and this [stinks]!!! There is only one way to enjoy this film...never see it!

If you are willing to watch Natasha Henstrich in virtually anything, then this movie is a good bet for you. It's a watchable if fairly predictable thriller, in which the main plus is that Natasha does indeed graciously show us her fabulous naked breasts. If that's reason enough to check it out, then I can recommend that you rent or buy this flic. If on the other hand, you are looking for an action-packed movie with a charismatic bad guy and an eye opening climactic conclusion, I'm afraid you will be sadly disappointed by this film.

If you like movies, this one is for you! Filled with everyhting to keep you watching, you wont be dissapointed! I guarantee it. Beautifully scripted, and well executed "Caracara" will be a movie you want for your video/dvd library.

If I could give this movie a -1 star rating I would emphatically do so.

With a poorly written script, mediocre acting (not the least of which is James Caan doggedly referring to sailors as "soldiers"), inacurate uniform details and an amazingly incompetent misportrayal of both Clayton Hartwig and Kendall Truitt this is easily the worst movie I have ever seen.

I have often watched "real life dramas" made into movies and wondered how much is true and how much is "Hollywood". Well - I can say with absolute certainty and first hand experience that this movie is 99% Hollywood and 1% Truth.

If you really want to know about what happened aboard the USS Iowa and why it may have happened you are much better off reading the book, "A Glimpse of Hell" (which still has its faults and problems, of course) and forgetting about this farce of a movie.

Who am I? I am GMG3 Kendall Truitt's ex-wife and I lived this movie. Take my word for it - this movie stinks!

Told from the point of view of a young ensign on the ship, it attempts to show that the Iowa was a dilapidated ship whose command structure was ignorant of anything except self-promotion. Fearing that newer high-tech gadgets would make its own guns obsolete, the gunners take increasing risks in an effort to come up with more spectacular results. Possibly they took one risk to many or possibly there was a mechanical failure but something went tragically wrong and killed 47 people. To this day there are many unanswered questions about the incident.

I did not find this movie to have any spirit, nor did it succeed in showing any new plausible theory about how the accident happened or why the Navy would think that a cover-up would be in its best interests.

There were no special features on the DVD of note.

A very good movie overall. An outstanding view of men standing up for what they believe in the face of those that would oppose them and ruin their careers.

James Caan turns in a fine performance as the Captain of the USS Iowa and Robert Sean Leonard another fine performance as the ensign that sometimes opposes the Captain and questions the Navy, even though his father is a Navy legend. These two strong personalities clash over the explosion on the Iowa and its causes.

The men of the Iowa have their own ideas of how to impress the Captain, who is on a career upswing, possibly the next Admiral and they hope to ride his coat tails. The mixture of their ideas and the Captains seeming aloofsness to his men make for a disaster when while trying to stretch the limit of the machinery a gun turret explodes. Many men die but the Navy seems content to brush it under the rug.

But the question remains, was it a horrible accident or a dereliction of duty. The facts presented here weigh in on both sides of the argument. What is the final choice? What happens when the brass get involved? Will they find a scapegoat? Will they hold someone accountable? Or will they use the faulty machinery excuse? Was there a cover-up? A whitewash? Or does the Navy tell you the truth?

Watch this excellent movie to find out.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Italian movie industry made a number of World War II films. They ranged from trash to average to occasionally excellent. THE FIFTH DAY OF PEACE represents the best of the genre. Chances are you wouldn't be looking at the DVD if you didn't already know what the film was about.

The DVD quality is appalling. The print is muddy and smeary, mastered from a video tape. You know how when a VCR may start to eat a tape, it leaves those crinkles on the actual tape and you get the telltale "skips" on the TV screen when you watch the damaged part of the tape? Well, those same type skips show up during part of the credits. The colors look worn out as well. The sound is monophonic and a little muffled. There is a brief yet loud and annoying buzz about 40 minutes into the film as well. The sound is not always in synchronization with the picture, either. It's not because of the dubbing, though. I have compared with my video copy. There are plenty of digital artifacts off and on as well. The screen-shots for the 10 chapter scenes and those of Johnson and Nero look excellent, but do not compare well to the picture quality of the actual film.

The DVD is 1.33:1, cropped from the original letterbox print of 2.35:1. Portions of words are missing from both the sides of the screen and the bottom of the screen during parts of the credits.

It looks as though the folks at Simitar might have just recorded this from a TV screen with a video camera. An enterprising way to save money but also a great way to lose business.

For "special" features there are 10 chapter searches, movie factoids which provide no information not found on the case, and abridged biographies and filmographies for Richard Johnson and Franco Nero.

I piad [a small amount] for this and still thought it was a waste. My video from Congress Entertainment, while still lower quality, is better than this DVD.

If you want to impress your friends with your new DVD player then (...) don't show them this film. It's a straight forward copy from a video tape that will have you reaching for the tracking button (if only) and the sound is not in sync with the picture. The acting is wooden and the plot is dire. If you are fool enough to buy this, don't come crying to me when you realise I'm right!

World War II prisoner of war movies have been a recurring staple from "Bridge on the River Kwai" and "The Great Escape" to the recent "Hart's War." But "5th Day of Peace" presents you with an interesting twist because it actually takes place after the war has ended and the prisoners in question are Germans. Captain John Miller (Richard Johnson) of the Canadian Army is running the camp with its thousand German prisoners. While the war is over the prisoners remain dedicated to the German army and obey Colonel Von Bleicher (Helmuth Schneider), who exercises strict old school Prussian authority over the troops. Miller and his guards are impressed by the sense of order that is brought over the camp, but then a monkey wrench gets tossed into the proceedings. The moment of crisis comes when the German P.O.W.s court-martial a pair of their comrades for desertion. When the two are sentenced to death, Captain Miller has to decide if he will allow the prisoners to carry out the execution. Apparently based on a true incident in World War II, "5th Day of Peace" (also called "Crime of Defeat," which is an interesting title), features a soundtrack by Ennio Morricone. The acting leaves much to be desired, the cinematography has some weak moments, but you have to admit the film has an interesting hook. Is this 1969 film a warning that even after the defeat of Hitler and Nazi Germany that fascism still has enough appeal to be potent danger to western civilization? Or is possibly an allegory about America's growing involvement in Vietnam? Sorry, but those questions are way too deep for this particular film which is still worth a look at if you are one of those interested in this particular sub-genre of World War II films.

If you want to add "The Day of The Triffids" to your collection, this is not the release you want! A digitally mastered, widescreen release is available; I found it on eBay, from a "Cheezy" seller...check it out!

Two movies were made based on Wyndham's wonderful book. This is the pitiful one. This movie bears virtually no relationship to the book with a radically changed (and ruined) plot.

If you can find the OTHER version, buy it -- quite good.

Keywords for the bad version - made in 1963, Howard Keel, sailor and lighthouse.

A strange meteor shower blinds most of humanity, leaving them to stumble around while carnivorous plant monsters pick 'em off. A sailor (Howard Keel) wakes up after eye surgery to find that he is one of the few left who can see. The triffids rampage, devouring anyone they can get a hold of. Keel sets out to find others like himself. Along the way he comes across a little girl who can see. Together, they must flee the vege-beasts and locate any others who might be able to see. They take refuge in a house full of other survivors. It is full of blind girls who all happen to be beautiful. Well, along comes a truckload of machine-gun toting, escaped convicts and the party really begins! That is until the triffids arrive and eat everyone (except Howard Keel and company). Meanwhile, in a lighthouse, a couple are battling triffids of their own, while trying to find an effective way to kill them. Janet Scott is the wife of the drunken scientist who spends most of his time being a hateful turd. He rises above himself in order to save the world. I will not reveal the ending or the method that is found to exterminate the triffids. See it for yourself and be entertained...