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• Splash | DVD | (14/10/2002) from £8.25   |  Saving you £7.74 (93.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Splash was big news in 1984. It was the sole reason for a renewed Disney Studios forming its Touchstone Pictures subsidiary. This was so they could get away with displaying Daryl Hannah's nude bottom! It was also big news for launching the film career of Tom Hanks, who immediately became a massive box-office comedy draw in the 80s. For Ron Howard, it was the breakaway success that guaranteed he'd be able to pursue as diverse a directorial career path as he wanted to. It's a simple romance tale, spiced up by making the female lead a mermaid. The stroke of brilliance in the script was in making the comedy happen around the two leads, while letting them believably convey they are hopelessly lost in love. The comedy comes from the ever-reliable John Candy as a larger-than-life womanising older brother, and Eugene Levy as a scatty scientist. Although New York looks a little different today, the movie has hardly aged at all. Which is just as well since it boldly begins "This morning." On the DVD: Splash offers a transfer that has some defects, but colours and dark areas seem just about right. We're spoiled for extras, with a warmly nostalgic Howard joining a key production crew commentary in reminiscing on how much fun they had making the movie. There's a half-hour documentary ("Making a Splash") interviewing everyone involved, including some archival footage of the late Candy. Best of all are the original Audition Tapes for Hanks and Hannah, which reveal the consummate professionals these once-hungry stars really are. --Paul Tonks

• Welcome To The Jungle | DVD | (14/04/2008) from £5.78   |  Saving you £8.47 (187.39%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In 1961 Michael Rockefeller - a member of the wealthy family and son to the future Vice-President - travelled to New Guinea on his second visit to study the remote Asmat tribe. After the boat he was travelling in capsized Rockefeller swam for shore and was never seen again. Some say that he was cannibalized by the natives others that he chose to live in seclusion amongst them. Almost 50 years later two young couples head into the wilderness in an attempt to find Rockefeller and solve the mystery once and for all. But if Michael met a grizzly end does the same fate await them? Written and directed by Jonathan Hensleigh the prolific writer behind smash hit movies such as Jumanji Die Hard With A Vengeance and Armageddon Welcome to the Jungle is a taut and thought provoking journey into the heart of darkness.

• Welcome To The Jungle | Blu Ray | (14/04/2008) from £12.00   |  Saving you £7.99 (66.58%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1961 Michael Rockefeller - son of one of the most powerful men in the world - was lost during an expedition just off the shore of New Guinea. At first presumed drowned or eaten by cannibals reports of a lone white man living among the natives have led to the speculation that Rockefeller survived. Hearing of one such recent sighting - and intent on recording a million-dollar interview - two adventurous young couples set off into the remote jungle to find this man. What they meet instead is sheer absolute horror. Captured in grisly self-shot video footage their nightmare journey into the heart of evil will shock and forever haunt you.

• Splash | DVD | (26/03/1999) from £17.49   |  Saving you £-1.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tom Hanks was a relatively unknown TV actor with a sitcom as his biggest credit when relatively unknown director Ron Howard (best known for his own sitcom acting) cast him in this surprise hit. It made stars of Hanks, Daryl Hannah and John Candy and an A-list director out of Howard. Hannah is a mermaid who comes to Manhattan in search of Hanks, the guy she has twice saved from drowning. Hanks runs a business with his loveable, blowhard brother (Candy), whose goal in life is to have a letter published in Penthouse. When this perfect woman shows up, Hanks can't believe his luck and plunges into a dizzyingly romantic relationship, unaware of her sea-water secret. But the mermaid needs to soak and unfurl her tail from time to time, which leads to complications, including her capture by the government for scientific study (what else?). Hanks is winningly charming and Hannah is a perfect match in this enjoyably high-spirited comedy, though the biggest laughs belong to Candy. --Marshall Fine