From Aardman, the acclaimed creators of Wallace and Gromit, Shaun the Sheep™ Spring Cleaning follows Shaun and pals as they get into more mischief than ever before around the farmyard. Featuring ten short episodes, viewers are welcomed to Mossy Bottom Farm to follow Shaun, the leader of the flock, Bitzer and the rest of the gang as they embark on madcap adventures. In the comical episodes, the flock run into skateboarding trouble, take on a vicious pet rabbit and try out window cleaning on the farm. As well as a range of exciting behind-the-scenes features, the DVD also includes one…
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My son turned 4 yesterday and received a whole heap of Thomas toys amongst other things. He’s always loved the adventures of Thomas and his friends which is why he was very excited when a copy of the new ‘Thomas & Friends: Spills & Thrills’ DVD landed on our doormat. Peep! Peep! Join your favourite engines on the Island of Sodor as Thomas & Friends find themselves in an array of messy mishaps. Available from 31 March, Thomas & Friends: Spills & Thrills includes 6 exciting never-before-seen episodes from series 17 and introduces brave new steam engine, Porter. It’s full…
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Flint Lockwood and the Swallow Falls gang are back to dish-up a hippotatomus-sized adventure in Sony Pictures Animation’s Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 which is out on Blu-ray & DVD on the 17th February. Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his most infamous invention — a machine that turned water into food, causing cheeseburger rain and spaghetti tornadoes. However, he soon learns that his invention survived and is now creating food-animals, or “foodimals!” Now, Flint and his friends must embark on a dangerously delicious mission to battle hungry tacodiles, shrimpanzees, hippotatomuses, cheespiders and…
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Join Justin on a quest to follow his heart… Produced by Antonio Banderas and featuring the voice talent of an all-star cast Justin and the Knights of Valour is a charming, animated adventure full of fun characters that will be loved by families. Young Justin lives in a kingdom without knights! He dreams of following in his Grandfather’s footsteps and becoming one of the famed Knights of Valour but his father wants him to settle down to a life without adventure. Inspired by his Grandmother, Justin decides to follow his heart and embarks upon a daring quest to become a knight by himself. Along the way he meets…
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Recently my children have been watching some exciting new episodes of “Olly The Little White Van”, in case you haven’t seen it before, it’s a series currently shown on Channel 5’s Milkshake. The programme is perfect for boys and girls aged 2-6 years and my children are quite happy to watch it (it makes a lovely change from endless episodes of Peppa and Thomas!). Olly the Little White Van (voiced by Justin Fletcher) helps his friends as much as he can. He isn’t a racing car or fire engine, but he and his driver Stan are very good at helping everyone…
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Walt Disney Animation Studios, the studio behind “Tangled” and “Wreck-It Ralph,” presents “Frozen,” a stunning big-screen comedy adventure. Fearless optimist Anna (voice of Kristen Bell) sets off on an epic journey—teaming up with rugged mountain man Kristoff (voice of Jonathan Groff) and his loyal reindeer Sven—to find her sister Elsa (voice of Idina Menzel), whose icy powers have trapped the kingdom of Arendelle in eternal winter. Encountering Everest-like conditions, mystical trolls and a hilarious snowman named Olaf (voice of Josh Gad), Anna and Kristoff battle the elements in a race to save the kingdom. For more information, check out Disney.com/Frozen. The “Frozen” soundtrack, set for…
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I’m so glad we went out this morning as it’s been raining on and off all afternoon. Fortunately we were sent an updated version of Scooby-Doo and the crew to watch. I have very fond memories of watching the cartoon adventures of Scooby-Doo with my sister so I was intrigued to hear of an original film with a brand new puppet format. Zoinks! Scooby-Doo! Adventures The Mystery Map DVD sees new-look Scooby and the gang embark on a mad, pizza-fuelled dash to find pirate Gnarlybeard’s hidden treasure. Confronting more than a few chilling obstacles along the way, watch as the…
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With an all-star cast led by Robert De Niro, Katherine Heigl, Diane Keaton, Amanda Seyfried, Topher Grace, Susan Sarandon and Robin Williams, The Big Wedding is an uproarious romantic comedy about a charmingly modern family trying to survive a weekend wedding celebration that has the potential to become a full blown family fiasco! To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin (De Niro and Keaton) are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son Alejandro’s wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly…
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Today we were invited to Drayton Manor Theme Park’s special screening of King of the Railway, the new Thomas & Friends film in the 4D Cinema at Drayton Manor. We had never been to Thomas Land at Drayton Manor before but it was top of the toddler’s to-do list! We managed to keep it all a surprise until we arrived and he was so happy, it was definitely worth keeping the secret. We had a couple of hours to enjoy Thomas Land and we all loved it. It was very quiet so we were able to walk on to all the…