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Garfield Gets Real, a review by Tom

Title: Garfield Gets Real
Year: 2007
Director:Rating: U
Length: 75 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital 5.1, Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles: English, German, Italian, Spanish

Stars:
Frank Welker
Gregg Berger
Wally Wingert
Audrey Wasilewski
Jason Marsden

Plot:
Garfield is back! Follow our tubby tabby as he takes the plunge and flees his comfortable cartoon world for the 'real world'. Escaping the boredom of cartoon life, Garfield soon realises that real life felines don't enjoy nearly as much fun as cartoon cats do... as blood thirsty Chihuahuas and body building canines challenge him at every turn.
But with the help of some new pals and some trusted old friends, Garfield's wacky adventures teach him where him home really is.

Extras:
Featurettes
Interactive Game
Scene Access

This movie is also part of the cheap Garfield movie boxset. When the movie started, I thought "Oh, is this bad". But once you get used to the animation style, it is not that bad. It has quite a few nice ideas. I especially liked how they are producing the comic strips, and how the "real" world is separated from the "comic" world through the comic strips in the newspapers and how the character can watch the "real" world through these comic strips.

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on August 15th, 2009)

Tromeo & Juliet, a review by addicted2dvd

Tromeo & Juliet
All the body-piercing, kinky sex, and car crashes that Shakespeare wanted but never had! Join Tromeo (Will Keenan) Juliet (Jane Jensen), and Lemmy of Motorhead as they travel through Manhattan's underground in search of climatic love, violence, and the American Way. Tromeo & Juliet is thrust forward with hyperkinetic performances and a cutting-edge soundtrack. This DVD Director's Cut of Tromeo & Juliet has been lovingly digitally mastered by director LIoyd Kaufman and the Troma Team and contains extra footage you can't see anywhere else.

My Thoughts:
OK... as requested by our good friend Jimmy... I pulled out my copy of Troma's Tromeo & Juliet

(From Weekend Movie Marathon: 5/15 - 5/17 on May 17th, 2009)

Tom's TV Pilots marathon, a review by Tom

Suzuka: The Complete Series (2005/Japan) IMDb | Wikipedia FUNimation Entertainment (United States) Length: 610 min. Video: Full Frame 1.33:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, Japanese: Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Subtitles: English

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Plot:
Love is not a spectator sport.

High school is a hectic time of change for most... But for happy-go-lucky Yamato, it's gonna be a complete revolution! He's the new kid in class, having transferred to the big city to attend Aoba High, where he finds himself smitten with the local rising star of track and field. Yet two people could not be more different! And as Suzuka remains completely uninspired by Yamato's cheerfully irresponsible nature, things progress from bad to worse with record-breaking speed! So when the young man decides to step up his efforts and join the track team, his best might not measure up...

It's mixed signals and high school hormones with everyone running in circles! Throw in the antics of a handful of high school stereotypes, and Yamato's completely out of his league! When love is not a spectator sport, the only question is who will go the distance?


Suzuka
1.01 Anticipation
Writer: Koji Seo (Original Material By), Hiroko Tokita (Screenwriter)
Director: Hiroshi Fukutomi
Cast: English Cast), Leah Clark (Suzuka (voice)), Todd Haberkorn (Yamato (voice)), Kate Bristol (Miho (voice)), Gwendolyn Lau (Ayano (voice)), Colleen Clinkenbeard (Yuka (voice)), Carrie Savage (Megumi (voice)), Rob McCollum (Yasunobu (voice)), Meaghan Albach (Extra (voice)), Trina Nishamura (Extra (voice)), Sonny Strait (Extra (voice)), Japanese Cast), Kanako Mitsuhashi (Suzuka Asahina (voice)), Daisuke Nakamura (Yamato Akitsuki (voice)), Satomi Akesaka (Miho Fujikawa (voice)), Yuki Kaida (Ayano Fujikawa (voice)), Masami Suzuki (Yuka Saotome (voice)), Hatsumi Miura (Emi Matsumoto (voice)), Mika Ishibashi (Student (voice)), Mariko Nagahama (Student (voice)), Shinobu Matsumoto (Teacher (voice)), Iori Hayashi (Teacher (voice)), Kenji Iwama (Teacher (voice))

I have enjoyed watching this series. So much so, that I also read the manga. At least as far it was released in the English translation. They stopped releasing them shortly before the series was finished

Rating:

(From Tom's TV Pilots marathon on July 28th, 2012)