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Open Season, a review by addicted2dvd

Open Season: Widescreen Special Edition (2006/United States) Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Director: Roger Allers, Jill Culton Writing: Steve Bencich (Screenwriter), Ron J. Friedman (Screenwriter), Nat Mauldin (Screenwriter), Jill Culton (Story By), Anthony Stacchi (Story By), Steve Moore (Original Material By), John Carls (Original Material By) Length: 86 min. Rating: Rated PG : Some Rude Humor, Mild Action and Brief Language Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Commentary: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Martin Lawrence as Boog (Voice)
Ashton Kutcher as Elliot (Voice)
Gary Sinise as Shaw (Voice)
Debra Messing as Beth (Voice)
Billy Connolly as McSquizzy (Voice)
Georgia Engel as Bobbie (Voice)

Plot:
Boog (Martin Lawrence), a domesticated grizly bear with no survival skills, has his perfect world turned upside down when he meets Elliot (Ashton Kutcher), a scrawny, fast-talking mule deer. They join forces to unite the woodland creatures and take the forest into nature's control! It's a film for the whole family that Shawn Edwards (Fox-TV) calls, "a fun story loaded with lovable characters!"

Extras:

• Scene Access
• Audio Commentary
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Gallery
• Music Videos
• DVD-ROM Content
• Closed Captioned
• Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run Short

Not really a bad film... but not a great one either. I don't see myself watching this one too often. But sure I will watch it again at some point. There is a few good scenes... but for the most part found it a little too silly. As well as a gross joke or two thrown in. I did like when Boog and Elliott broke into the store and ate all that candy. Probably the best scene in the movie. I thought the cast did well though. Worth seeing... but don't have high hopes for this one.




(From June Marathon: Cast Chain on June 8th, 2012)

Ace ventura - Pet Detective, a review by Rich

Ace ventura - Pet Detective



Ace Ventura - Pet Detective is the best there is. In fact he's the only one there is. He finds himself on the case of a lifetime when he is asked to find a kidnapped dolphin, the mascot of the Miami Dolphins Football Team.

Jim Carrey - not funny.
He is amusing for about 20 seconds, a bit like someone doing a loud fart. But in the same way, if they keep farting, it becomes tiresome and unpleasant, similar to Jim Carrey.
So Courteney Cox is going to go to bed with a plonker like him in front of a barnyard of animals - yeah right!
Ridiculous story and unless you were an 8 year old boy I am not sure how you could enjoy this?? (star trek impersonations were good though)
 


(From Riches Random Reviews on March 13th, 2009)

The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon, a review by DJ Doena

What's the show about?
Son Goku is the strongest fighter on Earth and pretty much anywhere. Still there are new enemies on a regular basis that threaten to destroy entire planets and Son Goku and his friends fight to prevent this. At first it's the Saiyans, then the Cyborgs, then Cell and in the end the demon Buu. Son Goku has also the help of the Dragon Balls - when all seven are put together, the eternal dragon Shenron will appear and grant wishes that can even resurrect the dead.

What happened before?
Son Goku has been fighting all his life, even in his childhood. He's competed three times in the Great Tournament and has won the last one. He's also defeated the Red Ribbon Army and the evil Piccolo Daimao.

"The New Threat"
A space capsule has landed on Earth and from it emerges the warrior Raditz and he's looking for his long-lost brother, Kakarrot. Humans have no chance when they stand in his way and even Piccolo fears him when they meet each other. Who is he and who is this "Kakarrot"?

My Opinion
I love the mangas this series is based upon. I've got all 42 volumes on my shelf and I read them from time to time. Back when I was in college we started to watch the original Dragon Ball series on a regular basis whenever possible. It was a group event. When I bought the books it happened that we sat in the back row of a boring lecture and we would read them in a row - five people with ascending volume numbers and when finished the books would shift.
It also happened to be the first manga series in Germany where the original reading order was kept and when you read it on the train people would give you strange looks because you read a book from back to front...
But I always liked the earlier stories better. The volumes 1-16 are represented by the Dragon Ball series and the volumes 17-42 by Dragon Ball Z and the latter one became too repetitive. For example: A normal Human had a power level of 5. Piccolo had 322. When Son Goku fought against Frieza the latter one had a power level of 4 million! After that the power levels were dropped again because it became ridiculous. After all, Son Goku still had to beat the Cyborgs, Cell and Buu.
The earlier stories were more humorous and had more fantasy elements in it. And I definitively prefer the manga over the anime because in the series they dragged out the fights to eternity.



(From The One Where It All Began: The Pilot Marathon on September 24th, 2009)