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Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World Special Edition

December 10, 2011 By 9 Comments

By Summer

I love watching Disney shows. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World is just that; there are 4 mini-movies or episodes on this one disc – “The Perfect Word”, “Fifi’s Folly”, “Mrs. Pott’s Party”, and “Broken Wing”. These shows were intended by Disney to be used in the TV series the “Princess Power Hour”. Thought this didn’t happen these cartoons offer some fun Beauty and the Beast entertainment as these shows fill in the months Belle spent in the castle with her enchanted friends.

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The stories, SPOILER ALERT:

The Perfect Word – In this addition to Beauty and the Beast you meet Webster, the castle’s dictionary. The short feature is about emotions and explains many of the emotions using synonyms. Belle and the Beast are in a fight as are Lumiere and a new character, Chandeliera; their differences are solved with understanding and apologies. This short also includes a new song.

Fifi’s Folly – This cartoon is about jealousy. Many children face jealousy over toys, friends, and sibling-parent relationships. In this episode Belle is helping Lumiere prepare an anniversary celebration for Fifi; however, Fifi over hears and thinks Belle and Lumiere are pairing up. In the end it all gets straightened out, as usual, and all is well in the castle again!

Mrs. Potts’ Party – The beloved character, Mrs. Potts, suffers from SAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder – and the castle just can’t get it together enough to cheer her up as all the friends are fighting instead of working together to throw Mrs. Potts a “cheer up” party. Everyone is being mean and bitter which continues to bring Mrs. Potts down. In the end all friends work together AND the sun makes an appearance; all of this helps Mrs. Potts’ feel better. Belle caps off this episode with a cheerful song about friendship.

Broken Wing – Belle’s compassionate hearts again gets her into a pickle with the Beast when she rescues a bird with a broken wing. The wing is bandaged and on the mend, but the Beast tries to keep the bird for his own enjoyment. Belle turns her heart and eventually Beast releases the bird, but because of the kindness shown to the bird, it decides to stick around. This is a classic “If you love something so much then set it free to see if it returns” tale.

The animation is very close to the original. The colors are not as vivid as the original movie but they’re better than Beauty and the Beast: Enchanted Christmas. The talent of the shows is most of the original cast.

I really enjoyed these shows. The full disc is 92 minutes long. The length all in one stretch was too long for my straying kids. We had to take a snack break, but the best thing is you can select the stories you like best, and watch from there. You can’t however just choose the feature, you have to do a scene selection.

All and all we liked each! I do think Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World is worth owning on DVD.

My Mom Start Review Grade of Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World DVD: B+

Beauty and the Beast: Belle’s Magical World is now available, but only for a very limited time! Any Beauty and the Beast fan will love these little stories to have in their movie collection, though I do wish it was released in Blu-Ray or at least widescreen format.

 

We received samples.

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What Makes a Princess? Alice In Wonderland: 60th Anniversary Special Edition

January 27, 2011 By 6 Comments

birthdaygirlPrincess Zoe (my beautiful daughter) thinks all girls that wear dresses are princesses. She wears a dress or a skirt every day. She used to only wear dresses, but I had to convince her that some of her shirts were very pretty and she should not cover them up with a dress every day. (we layer here in the rainy state of Washington) So, she now wears skirts.

Well, we had this conversation; What Makes a Princess while she was watching the movie Alice in Wonderland: 60th Anniversary Special Edition. (As I was watching Alice in Wonderland I realized just how long it’s been since I’ve seen Disney’s animated version of Alice In Wonderland….YEARS). So we were watching Alice in Wonderland 60th Anniversary Special edition together as a family and as Alice is falling down the rabbit hole, Zoe gasps,

“Mommy!!! What is happening to the princess?”

I laughed and said, “Alice is not a Princess!”

Yes she is Mommy!

Why do you think that Zoe?

“Because she is wearing a dress… All Princesses wear dresses”

I said, what about Jasmine in Aladdin?

She said, She’s a princess because Disney made her one!!

And what a smart little girl she is right?

 

clip_image001In all honesty I don’t remember liking Alice in Wonderland, but I wanted Zoe to have the experience watching it, so I asked for the review when Disney offered it. It has become a family favorite as we’re often singing the songs from it together. Or, the kids are quoting lines from the movie.

We sing, “We’re painting the roses red!” and then we make up our own words to the song. Miles will say,

“We’re Painting the Abby Brown, We’re painting the Abbey Brown” (She’s our chocolate lab puppy)

The other day Miles came down the stairs and said…

“Who Painted my roses red?… Off with his head!”

And finally, Zoe has started saying,

“we’re late we’re late we’re late” And yes we usually are!

 

The new ALICE IN WONDERLAND 60th Anniversary Special Edition takes viewers on magical adventure like never before with a fantastically odd and fun-filled world of colorful characters in brilliant high-definition and crystal clear sound. Additionally, the disc comes specially-packed with never-before-seen footage hosted by Kathryn Beaumont, an all-new interactive game and more. Alice In Wonderland is now on Blu-ray and will be released in Special Edition on February 1st just in time for Valentine’s Day.

And just in case you’ve never gone down the rabbit hole with Alice before here is a full movie synopsis provided by Disney! Alice in Wonderland is a story about a young girl who grows bored listening to her older sister read aloud from a history book about William I of England. While dozing off, she dreams about falling down a rabbit hole (“Wonderland”) that is populated by a peculiar series of misadventures. The always sensible Alice whirls through a world of contradictions, imagination and surprises where she encounters amazing creatures – including a pocket watch-toting White Rabbit, the imperious Queen of Hearts and her army of playing cards, a Cheshire Cat with a lingering smile in an unforgettable fantasy, and the off-kilter Madhatter – and tests her sensibility and courage. In the end it’s all a dream, she is awakened by her sister’s voice, and as the two of them return home for teatime where she realizes that perhaps logic and reason exist for purpose. And in return, her sister realizes affectionately that Alice is still young, but will grow-up in time.

We received a copy of Alice in Wonderland from the PR Company representing Walt Disney Home Studios.

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Air Bud Golden Receiver Special Edition Review

February 4, 2010 By 4 Comments

clip_image001We received Air Bud Golden Receiver special edition to review on Mom Start. My entire family is a dog family. We love anything that involves dogs. But I was so confused by the package of this DVD because the air buddies are on it. Well, the air buddies are doing a commentary of how cool they think their dad is playing football. It’s not very long but I did find it kind of cute. They only talk about a few clips from the whole movie, I think they should have done the commentary on the whole movie. The Special Edition of Air Bud Golden Receiver was released on February 2.

This time out, Buddy, the hoop-shooting, hotshot canine, tackles a new sport—football. This special edition DVD features exclusive all-new bonus action: Sports Channel play-by-play quarterbacked by the Buddies!

 

 

Here is a cute clip of Buddy in the game.

 

 

It was cute clips like this that kept my kids watching. I’m not sure about the entire history of Buddy and his game playing. Did he start out as just playing basketball and then move over to football. He picked up the sport a lot more quickly than I would have for sure. I’m not so good with a football. When I tried it out, I fractured a finger and hyper extended a thumb, so football is not my sport, and I’m hoping my son will avoid it too.

Watching a movie like Airbud Golden Receiver is as close to football as I want both of my children to get. I was so worried that Buddy was going to get hurt too, watching  him play with his owner really just made me worry. But it was really cute. My husband said they must have gone through a ton of footballs making this movie.

So here is the synopsis.

Now you can kick off all-star family fun with the heartwarming Air Bud: Golden Receiver Special Edition, featuring exclusive all-new bonus  action: Sports Channel play-by-play quarterbacked by the Buddies! This time out, Buddy, the hoop-shooting, hotshot canine, tackles a new sport—football. When his teenage owner reluctantly becomes the school’s new quarterback, Buddy catches the spirit and joins the team. Soon, the two find themselves leading the Timberwolves to the state championship. But victory hopes are sidelined when two sinister Russian circus owners take a bite out of everyone’s plans and dognap Buddy for their star attraction. Give three cheers for Disney’s hilarious hit that goes the whole nine yards for outrageous fun and adventure.

 

I received this DVD from Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment for review.

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