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• Dinner With Friends | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £5.84   |  Saving you £8.15 (139.55%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Four Friends. Two Marriages. One Divorce. From the director of Moonstruck comes a movie about food fun and infidelity. Gabe and Karen Beth and Tom. Four close friends two close couples. Married for 12 years they planned on eating drinking and parenting their way into old age together. But when Gabe and Karen host a dinner to try out some new recipes on their best friends only one arrives bearing news that will test their friendship and even test their marriage. When a close

• All Dogs Christmas Carol | DVD | (17/11/2003) from £4.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (37.50%)   |  RRP £7.99

  An All Dogs Christmas Carol is another straight-to-video sequel of a so-so animated film. The original 1989 All Dogs Go to Heaven was hardly inspired but contained expert Don Bluth animation and the amusing voices of Burt Reynolds and his gang. Now Steven Weber voices the animated mutt Charlie who is still palling around with the same gang through three movies and an animated series. Here the arch villain, Carface (Ernest Borgnine), gets the traditional Dickens treatment of being visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. The opening number, "When I Hear a Christmas Carol", is a good start, but soon TV-ish animation and the low humour becomes wearing. Kids who like the earlier Dog efforts won't be disappointed, but the entire series can hardly be defined as great entertainment. The saving grace is the foolproof Christmas Carol visitations. --Doug Thomas