Editorial Product Review: :Not the egregious foul it seemed to be in theaters, Hercules stands up as an entertaining spritzer of an animated feature. The continual peppering of in-jokes and cultural references becomes less irksome on video. That there's no majesty or awe invested in the beloved Greek legends also seems less of an error. Also on the plus side is the bounciest Alan Menken music since Little Shop of Horrors. With Zeus's blood in his veins, young Hercules's amazing strength makes him an outcast (sorry, that ...
Editorial Product Review: :Here's the film of a novel nobody liked in high school (but probably succumbed to when they read it in later life, as they should). Based on the book by Edith Wharton, it's one of those repressed romances of longing and regret carried out in real time and real life. Liam Neeson plays the humble Ethan, manipulated into marrying a plain and sickly woman (Joan Allen, every bit as good as she is in The Contender), who still manages to dominate him. When she ...
Editorial Product Review:Amazom.com:SpaceCamp shares a striking similarity to Ron Howard's Apollo 13--it's about NASA trying to bring some people down from outer space, except in this case 13 represents the median age of those in danger. Kate Capshaw plays Andie, who throws off the curve by being on the high end of that age scale. She's always a bridesmaid, but never a bride in the shuttle program, an astronaut doomed to play wet nurse to a gaggle of kids enrolled in NASA's summer program. Of course, ...
Editorial Product Review: :This 70-minute feature is made up of three TV segments from Disney's popular Hercules series. The video, like the show, follows the daffy adventures of Hercules as a teenager, when his strength is amazing but his control is not. For kids who have not seen the cable TV series, this will be a worthwhile video. Like most of Disney's spinoffs, the animation is solid, the music is hip, and many key members of the original vocal pool (including Tate Donavan as the hero) return. ...
Editorial Product Review: :The discovery of a dead female staffer in a White House restroom galvanizes a D.C. homicide cop (Wesley Snipes), but the results aren't hard to predict: the crime implicates the Oval Office, the presidential bureaucracy impedes the investigation, and so on. What isn't so predictable is that the whole thing leads to an improbable climax involving secret tunnels created by Abraham Lincoln. (Snipes's character, by the way, is a Civil War buff.) The creaky mystery feels a little anachronistic from the get-go, with some ...
Editorial Product Review: :Valentine's Day puts the Chipmunks in the 'mood for love.' Under Cupid's spell, they start acting a little goofier than usual in this hilarious volume filled with romance, mischief and fun songs like 'Love Potion #9.' It's one video kids are sure to love, any day of the year! Includes - THEODORE AND JULIET: Theodore finds the road to romance a little rockier than he bargained for when he dreams of being a real Romeo to a little girl named Juliet! DEAR DIARY: ...
Editorial Product Review: :Valentine's Day puts the Chipmunks in the 'mood for love.' Under Cupid's spell, they start acting a little goofier than usual in this hilarious volume filled with romance, mischief and fun songs like 'Love Potion #9.' It's one video kids are sure to love, any day of the year! Includes - THEODORE AND JULIET: Theodore finds the road to romance a little rockier than he bargained for when he dreams of being a real Romeo to a little girl named Juliet! DEAR DIARY: ...
Editorial Product Review: :Valentine's Day puts the Chipmunks in the 'mood for love.' Under Cupid's spell, they start acting a little goofier than usual in this hilarious volume filled with romance, mischief and fun songs like 'Love Potion #9.' It's one video kids are sure to love, any day of the year! Includes - THEODORE AND JULIET: Theodore finds the road to romance a little rockier than he bargained for when he dreams of being a real Romeo to a little girl named Juliet! DEAR DIARY: ...
Editorial Product Review: :The premise of Love Potion #9--that a magic potion makes the user irresistible to the opposite sex--could be the setup for the crassest sex farce imaginable. Instead, this film is a surprisingly subtle romantic comedy. Nebbishy scientist Paul (Tate Donovan) goes to a Gypsy fortuneteller (Anne Bancroft), who tells him she sees no women in his entire life. To make up for this depressing news, she gives him a few drops of a love potion--number 8. Paul, a biochemist, scoffs; but when his pet ...
Usually we're fans of Logitech's gaming mice, but its highest-end G9 Laser Mouse is expensive, overly complex, and lacks the ergonomic thought we've come to expect. If you like to brag about dot-per-inch limits, perhaps the G9's 3,200dpi laser will be enough to sell you, but for the price, we expect the design to match.
