5 comments about The Wind in the Willows.

1. This has to be my all time favorite DVD far better than other productions of this I have viewed. Absolutely delightful to watch for people of all ages - it's a keeper that you can watch over and again!



2. This is a delightful book, readable well into adulthood. Mr. Toad is particularly entertaining, but so are the wise and tolerant Badger and the adventure loving Mole and Rat. A fully realized world that even makes reference to the classics. Good prevails in the final battle, and the animals are restored to their peaceable kingdom. A wonderful book to read and reread.



3. While Grahame's The Wind in the Willows may have been written for children, it mimics and speaks to adults, as well. The characters in his "low fantasy" story, though animal in name, physical description, and dwelling habitats, portray many of the same foibles and flaws as those represented by human beings.
   Mr. Toad, for example, is not only wealthy and pretentious, but spoiled, haughty, self-serving, and thoughtless. He takes his truest friends for granted, and things nothing of thievery or dealing underhandedly to accomplish his selfish wants. For toad, Mr. Toad, like some people we encounter, has no real material needs, but has wants that seldom satisfy him for more than a moment.
   Mr. Toad's friends, Old Badger, Water Rat, and Mole also have personalities that mirror that of adult humans. Perhaps Grahame intended to reach children at an age when they are teachable and impress upon them manners and sensibilities that will guide their interpersonal relationships as they grow.
   Though the poetically beautiful settings of the story are present in the "real world," the magical occurrences of motorcar-driving frogs, gondola-sailing rats, and suit-wearing badgers, make this fantastical story entertaining, particular for children, who possess a vivid imagination that is oftentimes stifled by everyday pressures in the world of grown-ups.
   Both children and adults can identify with the personalities of Grahame's imaginary characters, and there are age-old lessons taught in this story that are often present in mythology and even Biblical teachings. There is even a God-like character in the book, called The Piper, who brings the seasons and protects the animals.
   The morals taught in the story are satisfying, in that, in the end, Mr. Toad is a changed man, er, frog, in that he has learned to appreciate the value of true friendship accept his good fortune with humility. Through his animal characters, Grahame represents the bad in human nature made good, while entertaining us with comedic situations that--if they didn't involve such fantastical creatures--could be considered realistic.



4. Before you order, note that the Signet Classics paperback version is quite small (about 4" x 6.5") with small font and small drawings. Nice for traveling light, I suppose, but I wish that, instead, I'd purchased a more attractive and easier to read-aloud version to share with my kids.



5. We actually chose this book for our summer book club. It is really different reading it as an adult and for yourself. It was great fun!
   It is amazing how you can see yourself in most of the characters. Do you know people who you see in the different animals?
   We had a wonderful discussion.

5 comments about Fire in the Sky (1993).

1. I am old enough to remember when this incident happen in the mid 70's. It made the national news during the 74-75 UFO flap across america. The film captures the mid 70's time period well. The end of the movie with the spaceship scenes, while entertaining, I take with a grain of salt.



2. snd it may well be. The acting was ok, but too many flared nostrils. James Garner looks good for his age, but, all the suspects seemed to do was take lie detector tests, it was boring. The director should have done more with what Travis saw on the space ship. That was a lot more interesting, as a matter of fact it didn't look all that sanitary for a operating room. The whole ship looked pretty dirty, the aliens may be advanced but they sure are slobs. Enjoy!



3. First i would like to say that parts of this film were made here locally in oregon.
   
   This film was of it's time a great sci-fi. DB sweeney plays a great roll as the abducty. if you haven't seen this film it's great. I have been looking for this all over and finally found here.



4. I saw a trailer for fire in the sky when I was young, can't remember how old but between ten and thirteen. I've always had a fear of the "Grey" style of aliens, mostly because I've always believed that these particular kinds of aliens exist. Maybe it's just me, maybe I've watched too many discovery channel and Learning channel specials on alien abductions. But the trailer alone gave me nightmares as a kid, and I've been wanting to see it ever since.
   
   At least once a year I go looking for the movie in stores and at local movie rental places like Blockbuster, to no avail. not on DVD VHS or any other media. So this year I said to myself: "that's it! I'm just going to find it online." One amazon purchase later and I'm watching a movie that's been on my mind for several years for the first time. and it won't be the last.
   
   Fire In The Sky is a movie about a man who was once abducted by aliens. He was absolutely traumatized by the event, and had amnesia about it as well, but through a series of flashbacks he gets his memory of the event back. As he gets his memories of the event about rhe spacecraft back it's depicted to the viewer.
   
   It's quite a good movie with stellar performances, and engaging characters. I highly recommend it. Especially to anyone that's a fan of alien movies.



5. Remember this movie? Pretty damn cool, isn't it? Whether or not you believe the story being told, it still made for an entertaining movie. And admittedly, having the "Based On A True Story" line attached does tend to add a bit more creepiness to an often told Hollywood tale.
   I remember this being marketed more as a science fiction film, but other than the premise and the sequence near the end of the film that shows Walton's experience aboard the ship, this is really more of a mystery/drama.
   The film tells the tale of Travis Walton and his logger buddies who witness a UFO in the mountains one night in 1975 while driving back to town. Travis leaves the truck, is shot by a light from the ship and disappears. His buddies return to town to tell the story, but soon find themselves suspects in Walton's disappearance. But no matter how hard they try to convince friends, family and law officials of what they saw, they find the town turning against them and the whole thing turning into a media circus that nearly ruins their lives. When Travis is found alive five days later, it opens a whole new can of worms. Now no one is suspected of murder, but are now accused of trying to pull a huge hoax(ya just can't win when you get abducted, can ya?).
   It's a fascinating movie that could have come off as corny, but ends up being rather effective. Good performances all around by a cast of mostly character and lesser known actors including Peter Berg(writer/director of Very Bad Things and star of Wes Craven's Shocker), Craig Sheffer(Nightbreed), Henry Thomas(E.T of course!!), D.B. Sweeney(The Cutting Edge and Spawn) and Robert Patrick(everyone's favorite liquid metal robot assassin). Sweeney may be the figure which the film revolves around, but a good chunk of the film belongs to Robert Patrick, who does a damn good job in a dramatic role. Sweeney does a fantastic job of showing sheer terror in the spacecraft scenes, as well as his post-traumatic state. I've always felt that both Sweeney and Patrick are horribly underused actors. The star power here is James Garner as the detective working on the case. He doesn't believe a damn word of their story-even when a polygraph test shows they are all telling the truth-and is hellbent on discrediting and exposing them as fakes.
   The alien sequence at the end of the film is very effective and creepy. This sequence could have sunk the movie if handled wrong, but thankfully it works damn well. Granted it's been Hollywood-ized and differs from Walton's actual account of what happened to him, but movies have to be sensationalized, right?
   If you didn't catch this one the first time around(I don't remember it making a huge splash at the box office), I'd highly suggest seeing it. Hell, I'd highly suggest seeing it even if you have seen it before. It just might make a believer out of ya.

1 comments about Challenge for Robin Hood (Ws).

1. Frankly, I may be overestimating this video, but it was my first Robin Hood movie and it is the one that has stuck with me the best. It has an excellent pie fight and it's fairly kid-friendly from what I remember.

4 comments about Exosquad: Abandoned & Brood.

1. It's a shame it never acquired a greater audience. Although Exo-Squad only made it through 3 seasons, it still managed to tell some surprisingly mature science fiction storytelling. The series revolves around the adventures of a troop of Exo-suit pilots fighting to liberate humanity from an advanced race of genetically engineered humans called the Neosapiens. Created to help terraform Venus and Mars, the Neosapiens were freed from slavery but only after their rebellion was brutally repressed sowing a bitter seed in the Neosapien race. The Neosapiens were granted autonomy on Mars, and now, their leader Phaeton has secretly built a massive military and is sanguinely waiting for the right time to launch a sneak attack on the inner planets. The only thing that stands between humanity and extinction is the Exo-Fleet and its legions of Exo-suits, powerful robotic chassis that carry an awesome array of weapons. Thus begins the first phase of a long and devastating war that blazes accross the solar system. Such plots involving interplanetary war are common throughout science fiction, but Exo-Squad's treatment give this story a unique and satisfying flavor. Although Exo-Squad doesn't achieve the sublime visual level of Japanese style anime, it offers a mature story with intriguing characters and an intricate plot that still affords the viewer some rewarding moments that compensate for its shortcomings. The characters aren't the gum chewing, buxom teenage renegade stereotypes of anime but are given a fleshed out, dignified treatment. If you get these videos, get ready to be surprised. In Exo-Squad, all the main characters are equally complicated, nothing is completely good or evil, and the protagonists don't always win the most important battles.



2. I started watching this show when it was on TV and I was impressed by the depth of the characters and the complexity of the story which includes such present-day problems such as racism, war, loss,and cloning. There is no good or bad in this show-there are just sides. If you don't like to have your opinions questioned or are adverse to a little soul-searching, don't try it. But if you would like to see a real depiction of war and the impact it has on people's lives, these are videos you should try.



3. Exosquad was maybe the best action cartoon ever, with a plot that adults will enjoy as much or maybe more than kids. It really shows the cost of war. Trust me on this one; it's a solid buy.



4. Though Abandoned and The Brood are just one of many excellent episodes in the EXO-SQUAD saga. I selected The Brood as being the greatest, not for how well the story was told but for what it ingrained in every sensor I had in my body, filling it with ...Inspiration, and hope. This is a Cartoon to some, but it has the strength of any great NOVEL and I encourage you to just take a chance... watch, and listen. Be inspired.

5 comments about Good Boy (Std Slip).

1. 
   This movie is so COOL! About this Border Terrier named Hubble and 4 earth dogs named Shep a Bernese Mountain dog, Nelly, Willson a Boxer, and a poodle. And the dogs talk! And theres also a black or gray (Can't tell which) Great Dane.
   It's SOOOO Cute and funny!
   DO buy it!



2. I possibly watched hundreds of movies, and this one is surely one of the most delighful movies I have ever seen. I watched it with my dog Sultan, and he loved it as much as I did. The story is interesting and amuzing, the characters simply adorable. It touches your Heart, pleases your senses, and relaxes your mind. Could you ask for more? I would recommend this movie to everyone of all ages. You could see it again and again and it won't tire on you because there is Real Joy at its core. It aims to share this Joy with you, and it couldn't do a better job. Bravo!!!



3. I loved this movie!It was great!My favorite part was when Owen and his family were picking out the dog at the pound.Hubble(the dog)was so cute and adorable.he looked like Rasheen.



4. As a long time dog owner (and ownee) I really enjoyed this movie. It is family oriented, very warm and has a wonderful ending. In between I loved how the personalities of the various dogs were portrayed. I happen to be partial to poodles but I liked the boxer best. Would definitely recommend for light viewing.



5. I struggle to find movies that will entertain both of my daughters (ages 2 and 8) This one fits the bill. My kids are animal lovers so anything with talking animals is a big hit. They watch this movie in our van over and over! It's not a blockbuster but it's great for kids.

5 comments about All I Want for Christmas.

1. Sweet, a girls movie. Not for watching with your step children!!
   
   Two kids scheme to get their parents back together. Clothing, hair all 1980's



2. This movie is great for all! We have made it a family tradition to watch
   it every holiday season.



3. This is not the same movie described in the Editorial Review. The actors are totally different from the ones mentioned there.



4. I agree with the first review. The actors on the cover of the DVD did not play in this movie as described by the Editorial Reviews. They were in a TV Christmas movie December 2007.



5. True this is not the movie described above. But it is a cute christmas movie that was on the Hallmark channel last year.
   
   Its about a boy who hears about a contest that would grant 1 child's christmas wish. So he asks for a husband for his mom and wins. Making it a very interesting holiday season.

5 comments about Doctor Who - Delta and the Bannermen.

1. After seeing this, I've officially seen all of Sylvester McCoy's Dr. Who stories. This one, while having some serious elements in the plot, veers into light-hearted moments, in particular the 1950's rock-and-roll sounds and moments at a holiday resort in Wales. The Bannermen, a band of cold-hearted mercenaries led by the evil Gavrok commits mass genocide on the Chimeron planet, leaving only Delta, the queen. Then there are a pair of Mutt-and-Jeff U.S. government agents assigned to track an American satellite.

   The Doctor and Mel become the ten billionth customer to stop at G715 toll port and win a Fabulous 50's tour to Disneyland in the year 1959. Mel decides to go aboard a spaceship, disguised as a tour bus, which also has Navarinos onboard. The pieces come together early in the story: Delta manages to land her ship at the toll port, fleeing aboard the Navarino tour bus. A bounty hunter with Elvis-like sideburns reports Delta's position to Gavrok, bringing the Bannermen to Earth. However, en route to Earth, the American satellite collides with the Navarino craft, deflecting it to a Welsh holiday resort run by the affable Burton. The American agents, the grumpy Hawke and laid back Weismuller, are searching for the missing satellite.

   Billy, Burton's mechanic, falls in love with Delta, much to the chagrin of the heartbroken Ray (short for Rachel), who has been carrying a torch for him. Rachel even got interested into motorcycles just so he'd notice him, but no dice--what a jerk!

   Some bits of dialogue are funny. Agent Weismuller calls from a genuine police box: "I'm speaking from Wales, in England." Uh, actually,...never mind. And the Doctor philosophically states "Love is not known for its rationality." The Doctor also launches into verbal fury against Gavrok, who agrees to spare his life in exchange for Delta. "What do you know about life? You deal in lies, treachery, and death. Life? You promise life but in the end it will be life that defeats you."

   One element of the story involves Goronwy, a very accommodating and open-minded old man who raises bees. The fact that he takes Delta's green-skinned daughter without batting an eye might mean he's an alien. Speaking of Delta's daughter, she has a lovely party piece good for shattering champagne glasses.

   Don Henderson plays Gavrok so seriously he walks a bit on the vile side. If he looks familiar, it's because he played General Tagge in the original Star Wars and a Simulant in the Red Dwarf episode Beyond A Joke before his death, so he's been in all three of my favorite sci-fi series.

   The 1950's songs, such as "Rock Around The Clock," "Why Do Fools Fall In Love," and "That'll Be The Day," along with the poodle skirts and ponytails worn by the Navarinos, and hoola hoops, add to the atmosphere. Remember, rock and roll's all about decibels, as Billy says. Keff McCullough's synthesizer music also includes classic silent film chase music to add to the light excitement.

   It would have been interesting if Sara Griffith had been picked to succeed Bonnie Langford instead of Sophie Aldred. That cute Welsh accent had some marketing potential there. I think this story will settle well with me in time.




2. This episode was cheesier than Cheddar, England, but I loved it!
   The Doctor and Mel win a trip to Disneyland in the 1950's, and, of course, as always happens whenever the Doctor tries to take a holiday, everything goes wrong!

   They have to save an alien queen and her baby, and prevent the destruction of an entire race! But first they have to fix the bus.

   That is what I most love about this story, it isn't all gloom, doom, and machiavellian machinations. It takes place in a simple 1950's holiday camp, complete with hula-hoops and bouffant hairdos.

   And we learn some interesting things about the Doctor, such as: he doesn't like to pay a toll any more than the next person, he's always willing to lend a shoulder to cry on, and there's a standing bounty on his head. And he can dance, if he's surprised into it.

   All in all this wasn't one of the deep, thought provoking stories. But it had it's surprises. After all, this was the first time I'd ever seen someone boobytrap the TARDIS! Which, really, you would think someone would have done before!




3. I watched a new tape of this episode just a couple of nights ago, and like some other reviewers have said, this episode is just plain silly. Episodes like this one and Paradise Towers almost seem to be just a parody of Dr. Who. There are very few people who are bigger Doctor Who fans than I am, and it's hard for me to give any Dr. Who episode just 2 stars, as I'll usually give them at least 3 stars just for being Dr. Who. But, this episode is just terrible, not to mention it's just a 3 part episode, which I guess is a blessing in disguise, as at least you don't have to sit through it for very long. I don't know if Sylvester McCoy was a good doctor or not, judging by the 3 episodes I've seen him in (Time & the Rani, Paradise Towers, and this one), but he really didn't have a lot to work with in these three episodes, as they are definitely not similar in quality to previous doctors' episodes. It's not a wonder that the show didn't last too much longer, if this is the best they had to offer. I don't think I'll be buying any more Sylvester McCoy episodes, if most are like this one. So, bottom line, my recommendation is to stay away from this one. Get one of the great Doctor Who episodes from the third, fourth, or fifth doctors like "Genesis of the Daleks" or "The Talons of Weng Chiang" instead.



4. The Doctor and Mel get mixed up in an Interplanetary Vacation Tour to 1950s Earth, only to get involved with invading Bannermen looking for the Chimeron Queen and Princess and eventually exterminate them. Delta and the Bannermen is part of the maligned and much critized 24th Season of Who. Some might say it's one of the worst and just part of Doctor Who's slide into cancellation. I have to admit that I didn't like it that much when I first viewed it. But, it's really not that bad. The problem with it is it doesn't know if it wants to be out-right silly or serious. There is some terrible dialogue, bad OTT acting and the 3 part format doesn't help. But there is some fun to be had. The 50s setting and score is nice, as with the entire location setting. There are a few decent effects and all the actors involved look like they're having fun(except for some viewers). This may not be every Who fans cup of tea, but there is some enjoyment when watching this silly outing. Plus, I believe McCoy's strengths are when the script has some sillieness involved with his character(Time and the Rani)rather than his mysterious portrayal in some later serials. And Bonnie langford, the most cardboard companion of the Doctor, isn't that bad either...



5. Hiding in plain sight in the middle of "Delta and the Bannermen" is a dotty old Welshman named Goronwy. He's a beekeeper, a collector of honey, and a student of human nature. Script writer Malcolm Kohll clearly had something different in mind for this character. Everything Goronwy says reflects directly on the story unfolding around him. He's a living, breathing, Basil Exposition. It's he who tells us that, just as an ugly pupa becomes a beautiful butterfly, so will Delta's hideous green baby become the new Chimeron queen. It's he who tells Billy -- and us -- that a newborn bee can become queen just by the right diet.

   On the other hand, Kohll also sees fit to include a pair of bumbling CIA agents named Hawk and Weismuller. Contrary to Goronwy, absolutely nothing they say advances the story at all. In fact, "Delta and the Bannermen" stops dead whenever they're on screen. And that's "Delta and the Bannermen" for you. The sublime and the ridiculous, all aggressively sewn up in the same package.

   This most small-scale of "Doctor Who" stories -- twelve evil black-clad soldiers menace a Welsh vacation resort in 1959 -- is also the most hyper and frenetic the show ever got. The whole thing is a gigantic car chase. I mean, here we have more spaceships and motorcycles and buses and cars and other vehicles all in one place for the first time since "Planet of the Spiders". If you thought all those Season 11 chase scenes were too much to handle, try this 75-minute caper on for size!

   The guest cast is variable. Let's go back to Hawk and Weismuller for a minute. Weismuller is played by Stubby Kaye, the New York-born Broadway star ("Guys and Dolls") who somehow wound up living in England, trapped in the middle of Season 24. Not only is he wearing a New York Yankees jacket, but he's wearing a Yankees cap, too, just in case we missed the point. In 1959, the Yankees only finished in third place, and Kaye looks tired and over the hill, just like Casey Stengel. But he's charming in the role and it's nice to add him to the "Who" legacy. His partner Hawk, on the other hand, has the worst American accent this side of "The Chase", and is played by someone named Morgan Deare who, if the Internet Movie Database is anything to go by, was most certainly not from New York.

   The rest of "Delta" can be boiled down to vignettes that are interesting, and vignettes that are not. Resort director Burton gives a totally pointless speech to his staff before he evacuates them. You'd have thought, to hear that speech, that the entire staff was about to get blown up by Bannermen! A few minutes before that, Burton's assistant clears his throat directly into the camera and sings "When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin' Along". Yes, this is 1959, we get it. Mel wears four different outfits, and that's just in the first thirty-five minutes.

   Much better is the rock-and-roll themed incidental music, and would-be companion Ray, who's such a cute breath of fresh air. I love how she keeps explaining to everyone that Keillor, the ill-fated bounty hunter in blue suede shoes, was "ionized". Sylvester McCoy is also terrific in this. You can tell they still weren't sure where to go with his Doctor yet -- witness all those misquotes ("A stitch in time fills up space!" that were never again a staple of his character). And yet, he's gentle with Ray, avuncular with Billy ("For a primitive piece of technology, it certainly delivers the decibels!"), and devastating to Gavrok. His Part Two confrontation with the Bannermen leader, cleverly staged on a rickety staircase, features great line after great line. A few minutes later, he's back to discussing honey with Goronwy.

   The story wraps up about five minutes before the end, leaving time for an extended denouement where all the (surviving) characters get something amusing to do. Even that much free time wasn't enough for Kohll, who added five or six scenes on top of that for his novelization. It ends with Goronwy telling us that, in the end, the new queen bee creates "a new hive, and a new life", and then he winks at the disappearing TARDIS.

   There is almost something profound in the middle of all this silliness, but it all went by so fast that maybe I didn't have time to realize that it was a lot more silly than it was profound. Or vice versa.

4 comments about Robot Holocaust.

1. The only redeeming quality of this video is that MST3K featured it on their show. The plot seems thrown together and the acting isn't all that great. Better to watch it being lampooned than to watch it straight.



2. Theres nothing like a post-apocalyptic movie starring New Yorks centrtal park as the "desolate wastelands".



3. This movie is a horrid amalgam of every film in sci-fi. It is part 'Battlestar Galactica', part 'Mad Max', part 'Squirm', part 'Star Wars', part 'Petticoat Planet', with just a sprinkling of 'Chickboxer' (only without the good production values) thrown in for good measure. It stars no one, to tell the truth, but ostensibly stars Norris Culf as 'Neo', and the busty Angelika Jager as 'Valeria'.

   The plot, as much of it as can be discerned anyway, concerns a bunch of refugees from the civilization of "New Terra" after the horrible "robot rebellion of '33" laid waste to everything but the last city, which is clearly New York thanks to the hard to mistake, and now sorely missed, World Trade Center towers. The area outside the city is inhabited by 'air slaves' controlled by the Dark One, a big old computer with an attached glowing orb. Neo and his friends team up with a bunch of man-hating female warrior types, and go through a lot of challenges (like a bad Dungeons and Dragons set) to get to the 'Power Station' which is clearly a bad painting on cardboard. They have many challenges including very stupid robots and 'sewer worms', which are clearly hand puppets, to deal with, in addition to a single furry arm of a large spider which is very high in amusement value.

   Nobody in this mess can act, and most notably inept are the leads, Culf and Jager. Jager struts around the whole time in a bizarre feather headdress (it's fashionable after the apocalypse, remember) with a weird European (German? Hungarian? Slovenian?) accent talking to the Dark One (which when she pronounces it sounds like 'Dargon' or 'Dar Kwon') and torturing a scientist, who is also a very bad actor. There is a subplot about the air slaves rebelling by taking the Power Station sand (?) and the misadventures of an extremely annoying (obvious 'Star Wars' rip-off) robot who has a bevy of useful attachments.

   In a word: wretched.

   The film was one of the first season movies mocked by MST3K, and I have not seen that, but it would be a great improvement on this mess. All told this is a dreadfully made film and I have given it three stars with a caveat. The caveat is this: if you really want a good, high quality piece of sci-fi entertainment, it should be avoided at absolutely all costs; if you want a funny and campy, badly made movie to laugh at or to torture your friends with, it would be difficult to do better than 'Robot Holocaust'!




4. Robot Holocaust, is about a sinister and totally hot chick named Valaria who has a sexy, foreign accent. She works for someone named "Doc Juan" . She promises to take us to someplace called "the Womb of Questions" and introduce us to worlds of pain. She's often busy torturing people. "Weeleez his bawnds!" she demands as she repeatedly smacks a riding crop into her palm. She's on a mission to return to the Pleasure Machine, but everybody seems to be stopping her. I think there are also robots or holocausts or something... I don't know, I fast forward through those parts. Anyhow, I think Valeria's hair is really beautiful and that she should have more scenes in this movie.

5 comments about Doctor Who - The Time Monster.

1. While VHS is a dying format, those of us who have devoted most of our lives to collecting Doctor Who videos can't resist buying them.
   Since Dr. Who is no longer on TV in many places these days, it's been a long time since I have seen many of them, and "The Time Monster" did not disapoint.
   Unlike most 6-part Dr. Who adventures that start of strong through the first 3 episodes but end up dragging the story out; "The Time Monster" maintains a steady pace throught.
   There's some neat slow motion camera work throughout the story, and very few "wobbly sets" and other special effects gaffs that are not usually appreciated by the non-whovian.
   Best viewed on a rainy day with a nice hot cup of Earl Grey.



2. I really love Pertwee's Doctor. I like most of the Doctors, but I really love his and this is one of his best. Well thought out and not overly cheezy.



3. This is probably the weakest John Pertwee Dr. Who video I have
   ever seen. It starts out where Dr. Who has a dream about the time
   monster Kronus. Then it goes to where the Master is working on a college campus doing a time experiment with some helpers. The Master brings this time monster from Atlantis. It is just a guy in a bird outfit flying around. This is probably the worst monster I have ever seen in any Dr. Who video. Then it turns into a UNIT adventure with
   UNIT fighting soldiers from midevil times. This is typical Dr. Who
   when they build up character rolls like Captain Yates, then you
   never hear from them that rest of the show. The Doctor and Jo Grant
   follow the Master in their TARDISs, then end up in Atlantis. The
   Atlantis set is not too bad with some fairly good actors that get
   built up then are not used again the rest of the show. There is a
   few scenes of the Atlantis queen's cleavage, which is very unlike a
   John Pertwee Dr. Who episode. Even the Master has a half romantic
   scene with the queen. The Doctor and Joe do a TARDIS "time ram" with the Master, then return back to 20th century earth. If you are a huge John Pertwee Dr. Who fan this may be worth buying if it's the one you are missing from your collection. It sort of filled in the gaps for me. If you are starting your Dr. Who collection I would recommed other John Pertwee Dr. Who videos like Frontier in Space, Terror of the Autons, Planet of the Spiders, The Green Death, or Death to the Daleks. Again if you are not a huge John Pertwee Dr. Who fan I would not recommend this video.



4. Before "Battlefield", there was The time Monster. A mix of sci-fi and Atlantean mythlogy. The Time Monster strarts out decent enough, with the return of the Master working on TOMTIT, sort of a temporal matter transmission machine, while the Doctor hunts him down with clues he had in a dream. there are some interesting ideas, and our friends from UNIT have some humor included. But, like all Pertwe six-parters, The Time Monsters comes to a complete and sudden stop when they reach the mythological Atlantis. A few good lines can't help the last 2 episodes. The scenes betwen the Doctor's and the Master's TARDIS are amusing, but this can hardly salvage one of the worst of Season 9.



5. This episode would be great if it was made today, but it was just a story before its time. The very premise of the story was interesting, but then you were shocked back to reality when the fearsome Kronos was portrayed as a man covered in a sheet flying around. Or how about the Minotaur, which was also suppose to be a fearsome creature? Yet the way the production team portrayed the Minotaur was rather silly. You could have ran circles it. Granted Doctor Who is know for its cheesy special effects, but in this episode, for whatever reason ruined the atmosphere in my opinion.
   
   What also lead to the downfall of this episode was the storyline. Approaching the 4-6 part of the story, the story became somewhat confusing, as if certain parts were just time fillers & really served no purpose.
   
   However, one thing I really liked about this story was the acting. The Master was at his peak performance, & appeared to be the legendary foe he was supposed to be. The other characters also did a pretty good job in this episode filling their roles.
   
   Overall, this episode is worth watching. Perhaps the special effects won't ruin the story for you, as they did for me. But in reality, it neither really bad or neither really great. If anything, its worth seeing the Master in one of this peak performances.

5 comments about Dragonheart.

1. While not as good as the Mummy, this movie is really great because of the violent action. Kicks the quinn out of the kiddie kid kid sequel.



2. I rented this, and once downloaded it stated that my client license was up. Tech support couldnt help me, and instead just refunded my money. It was nothing but a waste of time.



3. I know it's an older movie that no one has really heard about but I like this movie. The condition it came in was good but I could tell it was not brand new.



4. Not the greatest movie ever, but still a good movie for the fantasy genre. Great for a lazy afternoon.



5. After watching this movie once, I developed a dislike for it. For one thing, it is mostly a tragic and fatalism movie that deal with the last dragon, a species much perscuted by humans that eventually dies along with the human it gave its heart to. I cried too many time seeing that movie - too much like All Dogs Go to Heaven in which an animal scarficate itself to help a human. Beside I just have to list one movie I hate.