Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre -The Complete Collection Gift Set
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Actor: Charlie Dell, David McCharen, John Achorn, Patrick DeSantis, Shelley DuvallDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 717 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-02-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starmaker II
Movie Reviews of Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre -The Complete Collection Gift Set
Movie Review: worth every penny!
Summary: 5 Stars
I grew up watching this show when I was a little girl; I am now 24 years old and the show still never fails to amaze me. I own the entire collection on the old CBS/FOX videos, complete with the collector's boxes intact, and I had been watching them for awhile, so imagine my surprise when I find out that a company has put the collection on dvd. I just purchased it and it is defintely worth a try. The quality of the picture is clean, and the sound is clean as well. The episodes are serious and funny, and they were made for children and adults to enjoy. Some episodes are definitely for the kids, while a few might be too serious, therefore, teens and adults would understand them better. So its for all ages, plus, the sets are cool because they try to recreate a storybook feel to it. And the humor has wit, which makes it all the better. Two episodes: "Rapunzel" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" have new scenes to it that weren't on any of the videos that I know of, and they help the episodes out a lot."The Tale of the Frog Prince" has the original intro added to it that was not on the videos as well. Also, a scene from "Pied Piper of Hamelin" was cut, (the scene where a rat that survives the terrible day tells his side) and I found that refreshing since it didn't make since for that scene to even be in the tale. Up until that point, that episode was the most serious out of all of the faerie tales, and all of the rats that were used were real, and they did not speak to each other; it was dealt with in a serious manner; so why are they going to put in a rat talking and acting like a human, telling his side of the story? Doesn't make since, huh? So its obvious the producers decided it wasn't right and they cut that one little scene out, and it makes the episode so much better. Okay, enough of that little tirade. Anyways, I think it is worth it to get this set, especially since it has come down in price and this is defintely something that parents with kids today should get because of a lot of the junk that has been coming out since the 90's. ( I am a child of the 80's and you know something is defintely wrong when there are lots of toys that you grew up with in your time, are all of a sudden coming back out with new revisions to it.) Obviously they are running out of ideas now. And especially since Hollywood isn't making too many good films or shows for kids, this is something that I think would be fun and interesting for kids today, and even educational in some ways, to get kids interested in fairy tales. It might encourage them to start reading some of the tales. I had always said that when I have kids that this would be something I would show to them to show that's what I grew up watching when I was their age. That's just my opinion, though, and I would defintely recommend this to kids, parents, and even the occasional movie buff who wants to see some of the best entertainers in stage, film, music,and television do some quality acting on these episodes. Or even a child of the 80's, like me, who just wants to relive their own memories.
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