Childrens

• Mickey's House Of Villains | DVD | (06/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Mickey's House of Mouse Villains seeks to do for Halloween what Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed In at the House of Mouse (2001) did for Yuletide. It's an anthology set on Halloween in the titular house, a nightclub where characters--including Donald Duck, Goofy, Jafar, Cruella de Vil, and Captain Hook--gather to watch Disney cartoons. There's a perfunctory framing plot with the villains taking over the House, but the 65 minutes is almost entirely filled by eight short cartoons. Five are very recent, with clinically clean computer animation, and three are vintage gems glowing with the warm detailed look of Golden Age Disney. These are Trick or Treat (1952), Donald Duck and the Gorilla (1944), and Lonesome Ghosts (1937), in which Mickey, Donald and Goofy star in what was surely the inspiration for Ghostbusters. The best of the new adventures is Mickey's Mechanical House, in which the mouse moves into a futuristic house which goes disastrously wrong. It's made all the more entertaining by a poetic rhyming narration delivered by John Cleese. Young children will love it all, while older fans may prefer a compilation of vintage Disney shorts. On the DVD: Mickey's House of Mouse Villains DVD contains a well-designed animated quiz game, "Wheel of Misfortune", that should entertain young fans for a while. Otherwise, the extras consist of three trailers and a "Fright Reel": a three-minute compilation of Disney clips with two Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtracks. The choice amounts to the same sound effects with or without music. The sound is good, except for the three vintage animations, which are in mono. The picture is 4:3 and is generally very sharp, though varies a little with the source material. --Gary S Dalkin

• How To Train Your Dragon - Double Play (Blu-ray + DVD) | Blu Ray | (15/11/2010) from £12.84   |  Saving you £15.15 (117.99%)   |  RRP £27.99

  From the studio that brought you "Shrek," "Madagascar" and "Kung Fu Panda" comes "How to Train Your Dragon" - a comedy adventure set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons!

• Waybuloo - Volume 9 | DVD | (05/03/2012) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-0.08 (-1.00%)   |  RRP £7.99

  7 episodes with bonus Yogo moves workout and instructional poster.

• LEGO Hero Factory: Savage Planet | DVD | (22/10/2012) from £7.95   |  Saving you £5.03 (101.41%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Hero Factory is a place where the most advanced and skilled heroes of the universe are built with one purpose - to save the world from evil. When rookie Rocka responds to a distress signal sent from Aldous Witch, who has crash-landed on a far-away planet, he suddenly goes missing. Stormer, Furno, Nex, Bulk and Stringer are sent to find him, only to discover that Aldous Witch has transformed into the evil Witch Doctor, and that he has transformed a once beautiful planet into a deadly wasteland set on destroying everything on it... including the Heroes.

• Alpha And Omega 3 - The Great Wolf Games | DVD | (14/04/2014) from £2.29   |  Saving you £7.70 (77.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Children's animated adventure sequel. When the alpha wolves who are due to compete in the upcoming Great Wolf Games are put out of action following an accident, siblings Stinky (voice of Kate Higgins), Claudette (Lindsay Torrance) and Runt (Dee Dee Greene) decide to form their own team with their forest friends. Coached by Humphrey (Ben Diskin), the young animals prepare for the games but do they have what it takes to win?

• Scooby Doo Mystery Machine | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £47.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Titles Comprise: Chill Out Scooby-Doo! Scooby-Doo & The Cyber Chase Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters Scooby-Doo: The Movie Scooby Doo Pirates Ahoy Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed Scooby Doo Meets Batman Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword

• Tooth Fairy 2 | DVD | (12/03/2012) from £6.25   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When dreamer Larry Guthrie (The Voice of Mater from Cars 2) loses his first love to the town hot shot, he decides to win her back by volunteering to help the local children at her after school program. But when Larry accidentally tells the kids that the tooth fairy is make believe, he is soon transformed into a tutu clad fairy with a sentence of collecting teeth.

• Anastasia/ Bartok the Magnificent / Ferngully / Ferngully 2 | DVD | (30/01/2012) from £12.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.89%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Titles Comprise:Anastasia: The lost Russian Princess Anastasia and her incredible quest to find her true identity. When the shadow of revolution falls across Russia, Anastasia, the royal family's youngest daughter, barely escapes with her life. Years later, joined by a band of heroic companions, Anastasia must battle the evil Rasputin, his sidekick Bartok the bat and a host of ghostly minions in a headlong race to reach Paris, reclaim her rightful destiny... and solve the greatest mystery of the 20th century!Bartok The Magnificent: Propelled on a hero's journey, Bartok (Hank Azaria) must rescue the young heir to the Russian throne, Prince Ivan (Phillip Van Dyke). However, he must first deal with the shady Ludmilla (Catherine O'Hara), who wants the throne for herself, and face a series of tasks and adventures set for him by the wacky - and possibly evil - witch of the Iron Forest, Baba Yaga (Andrea Martin). Bartok's odyssey is marked by imaginative scenery, catchy songs, comedic characters (including sidekick Zozi the bear, as voiced by Kelsey Grammer), and, most of all, the bat's own funny and neurotic commentary!Ferngully: The Last Rainforest: Come join in a spectacular rainforest adventure - where the radar-impaired Batty and his magical friends Crysta, Pips and the Beetle Boys try to save their special world from mankind's carelessness and the evil Hexxus.Ferngully 2: The Magical Rescue Life in FernGully, a 1,000-year-old rainforest, is idyllic for the woodland animals and two fairies named Crysta and Pips. Still, Pips longs to see the world beyond the forest. When two human poachers steal three baby animals under Crysta's care, Pips is quick to declare his intention to travel to town and rescue the stolen animals. A bat (appropriately named Batty) offers much doom-and-gloom advice against the trip, but eventually Pips and his band of Beetle Boys head to town with Batty in the lead...

• Samantha Who? Season 1 | DVD | (03/05/2010) from £9.89   |  Saving you £4.10 (41.46%)   |  RRP £13.99

  An ingenious and funny sitcom, Samantha Who? stars Christina Applegate as a selfish and crass businesswoman who gets amnesia during a car accident. Getting acquainted with her old life, Samantha receives a second chance at being a decent and thoughtful friend and daughter, but often stumbles in her strained efforts to be a force for good. Applegate's Samantha is initially shocked at her pre-amnesia reputation for cruelty, random displays of power, meanspiritedness to co-workers, a lack of compassion for her boyfriend Todd (Barry Watson), and brutality toward a childhood friend, Dena (Melissa McCarthy). More than any of that, however, Samantha is pained by her apparent, longtime estrangement from her mother (Jean Smart) and father (Kevin Dunn), wondering how on Earth she could have done without them in her life. The first 10 or so episodes of Samantha Who? find the new-and-improved heroine trying hard to capitalize on a different personality and perspective on things. She apologizes for old slights and unintentional, new mistakes, and leaves a lot of goodwill and some confusion in her wake. But with time and flashes of remembrance of her old life, Samantha slowly becomes a hybrid of her new sweetness and vintage schemer. Both devil and angel, she becomes a more balanced survivor and pretty funny character. The show's creators and writers give the superb cast great material and lines on the theme of rampant dissatisfaction in relationships and hope for the future. The scenes between Applegate and Smart, especially, are the stuff of an instant classic. The second half of Samantha Who: The Complete First Season loses a bit of steam, generating a little less laughter, though story ideas are still fresh and original. But on the whole, this is a series to embrace. --Tom Keogh

• 3 Favourite Princesses - Cinderella / Snow White / Sleeping Beauty | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £5.11   |  Saving you £7.88 (154.21%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Three classic princess stories involving the characters Cinderella Sleeping Beauty and Snow White.

• Super Furry Animals | DVD | (27/03/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The lovably simple residents of peaceful Kikoriki Island are thrown kicking and screaming into big adventure, when their resident scientist invents an amazing device - a helmet called The Improverizor, which takes personality traits from one person and swaps them with traits of someone else. But when spineless young Wally tries to use the untested device to cure his cowardice, he ends up even more spineless - by getting accidentally body-switched with a squirmy little caterpillar. Now he has even more to fear than he could have ever imagined, and so do his fellow villagers, as they're dragged into a madcap adventure packed with plane crashes, mistaken identities, erupting volcanoes and angry primitives on the warpath.

• Steady Eddie - Vol. 1 | DVD | (05/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The world of Eddie Stobart is brought to life in this animated series. Features 'Stuck In The Mud' 'Special Delivery' and footage of Eddie Stobart lorries in action.

• Space Chimps | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £8.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (128.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A trio of budding astronaut chimps with the Wrong Stuff find themselves on the far side of the galaxy and having to help a planet in need.

• Little Red Riding Hood | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Little Red Riding Hood

• Kermit's Swamp Years | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £5.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (5.27%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kermit's Swamp Years is the full-length version of a one-off American cable television feature that sets out to show us the formative years of the future host of The Muppet Show. Its focus is a childhood adventure involving Kermit and his two best friends: a somewhat delinquent frog called Croaker, and a tremulous toad named Goggles. Though the film was, obviously, made some years after the death of Kermit's creator, Jim Henson, the wit, spirit and joy that informed Sesame Street and The Muppet Show are all discernible here. Henson's resounding genius was to understand that children can tell when they are being treated like idiots, and that they don't much care for it, which is why The Muppet Show is still enjoyed by adults who grew up with the programme, and why none of those adults will object to sitting through Kermit's Swamp Years with their children. On the DVD: Kermit's Swamp Years is presented anamorphically in 1.78:1 widescreen. Extras include behind-the-scenes footage, which reinforces the fact that the human magic necessary to animate the muppet characters is far more interesting and impressive than any amount of the computer wizardry now favoured by most similar films. There are also some quite well-done muppet pastiches of the common DVD special features, interviews with, and commentary from, the stars, and a collection of bloopers and out-takes. --Andrew Mueller

• Penguins Of Madagascar: Operation Antarctica | DVD | (19/11/2012) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-12.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  An enormous icebrrrg adventure! Batten down the hatches and set sail for a thrilling all-new holiday adventure to... dramatic pause... ANTARCTICA! Watch as the wacky Penguins discover it takes a lot more than cute and cuddly to pull off their coolest caper yet!

• Fireman Sam - the Big Freeze | DVD | (13/11/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Further fun adventures with Fireman Sam and his friends!

• Big Barn Farm | DVD | (17/11/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Petal the piglet the embodiment of girl piglet-power; Gobo the goat enthusiastic inventive and greedy; Dash the donkey thoughtful kind (and easily the tallest of the gang) and Digger the Labrador pup not the brightest dog in the litter - but very very cute. Featuring real working animals on a real working farm Big Barn Farm follows the day-to-day adventures of these and all the other farmyard animals using a combination of live action and animation that lends the series its distinctive character and humour and taps into a kid's love of animals in a truly unique way.

• The Famous Five - Five On A Treasure Island | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a storm forces the Five to take shelter in Kirrin castle they discover the whereabouts of a shipwreck. Later a hidden map becomes sought after by the children and two local villains...

• Goosebumps: The Complete Collection | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  All four seasons of the child-friendly horror based on the books by R.L. Stine. Each episode finds a normal kid faced with a scary, paranormal situation.