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Watch this with your kids: Lady and the Tramp Diamond Edition Blu-Ray

March 8, 2012 By

I was so thrilled to get an opportunity to review the Disney Classic Lady and the Tramp Diamond Edition, now available on Blu-ray! The Combo Pack also includes a DVD and a digital download. I couldn’t wait to pop it in the Blu-ray player and watch it with Kaitlyn!

Synopsis: A classic love story unfolds in the best Disney tradition as a lovely young pedigreed cocker spaniel named Lady, who lives a pampered life, finds herself falling romantically for Tramp, an amorous street-smart pooch without prospects. Although they have fun together on several dates, including a sentimental spaghetti dinner by moonlight at Tony’s restaurant, their relationship is strained not only by Lady’s loyalty to her human family and their newborn baby, but by Tramp’s devil-may-care attitude that eventually gets Lady in trouble and tossed into the dog pound. However, good-hearted Tramp redeems himself by saving the baby from potential harm and thus wins Lady’s love and the affection of her human family.

As I predicted, Kaitlyn LOVED the movie.  The story is set in the early 1900s and therefore has some aspects that seem old-fashioned by today’s standards, like the fact that Jim and Darling don’t know the sex of their unborn baby, and the Siamese cats which are complete stereotypes. But those are issues that adults would notice, kids just know it’s a movie with dogs and cats and lots of fun songs!

Bonus features on the Blu-ray include:

  • Disney Second Screen: Inside Walt’s Story Meetings with Audio commentary
  • Diane Disney Miller: Remembering Dad
  • Three Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
  • Never Recorded Song: “I’m Free as the Breeze”
  • From the original DVD release: Lady’s Pedigree: The Making of Lady and the Tramp, Finding Lady: The Art of the Storyboard, Original 1943 Storyboard Version of the Film, PuppyPedia: Going to the Dogs, “The Siamese Cat Song,” Finding a Voice for the Cats, “Bella Notte” Music Video, Trailers, and Excerpts from “Disneyland” TV Shows.

The DVD Bonus features are:

  • Diane Disney Miller: Remembering Dad
  • PuppyPedia: Going to the Dogs
  • Digital Bonus: Diane Disney Miller: Remembering Dad
  • Three Never-Before-Seen Deleted Scenes
  • PuppyPedia: Going to the Dogs

Here’s the video for “Bella Notte”, the song that the Italian waiter sings to Lady and Tramp when they have their date at the italian restaurant and do the famous sharing a single strand of spaghetti scene:

I highly recommend the Lady and the Tramp (Diamond Edition Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo in Blu-ray Packaging) for collectors of Disney movies, and for parents looking for wholesome movies to watch as a family. It’s available on Amazon.com for the incredibly low price of just $14.99!

BUY IT NOW:

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Another Sick Day and Alice in Wonderland on Blu-Ray

February 1, 2011 By

It started with Kaitlyn and a runny nose last Friday. By Sunday, Ryan had a heavy cough and I had a completely stuffed up nose. I kept Ryan home from school yesterday, and then again today when I heard him still coughing.

I hate being sick. I hate having to constantly blow my nose. I can’t find any hand sanitizer and I don’t have the car to go get some, so I wash my hands about 20 times a day which is making my hands dry.

Waaaahhh, poor me.

I’m up to 36 comments on my 44th birthday post! If you haven’t left a comment there yet, won’t you please do so?  I’d really love to see 44 comments :)

So, there’s the blizzard coming. The news said to expect 40 mile an hour winds and 10 to 18 inches of snow. I had planned to go to the grocery store today to stock up in case we’re snowed in tomorrow, and then Chris’ coworker who drives carpool called in sick, so Chris had to take the car.

I checked the pantry – there’s a couple of big cans of soup, some diced tomatoes, and corn muffin mix. I’m sure I can do *something* with that.  Chris is going to try to get to the store after work, I’m nervous about him driving in the first place but he can’t exactly call in sick because there might be a lot of snow AFTER work, you know?  I’ll just be biting my nails until he pulls in the driveway.

Ryan and I are bundled under blankets, me with my box of tissues (and a steadily growing pile of crumpled up used ones, I should really get a wastebasket) and him trying to be a tough guy but really feeling pretty miserable, while Kaitlyn bops around the house.  I can hear her in her room playing, making up some story for her My Little Ponies or something, she puts a smile on my face.

We’re watching the original Alice In Wonderland, it’s come out on Blu-Ray in a 60th anniversary edition. Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment sent it to me for review, and do I recommend you buy it? HECK YES.  The  transfer looks amazing, every color is bright and vivid.  There are two versions you can buy, one is the Blu-Ray + DVD combo pack that I got, it’s $19.99 on Amazon. The other adds a third Digital Copy disc and bumps the price up to $27.99.  I was surprised by how much Ryan enjoyed it!

So that’s what’s going on around here. I don’t feel like getting up and doing anything, so I’m just going to keep writing blog posts.  And if somebody could just send me a new nose to replace this leaking one, that would be great.

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Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue Review

September 16, 2010 By

Following up on the successes of 2008′s “Tinker Bell” and 2009′s “Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure”, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment will release Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue (Two-Disc Blu-ray/ DVD Combo)
on September 21, 2010. Kaitlyn loved the first two movies, so when the PR firm I work with asked if we wanted to review Great Fairy Rescue, I replied back YES PLEASE!

What it’s about: Before she met Wendy and the Lost Boys in “Peter Pan”, Tinker Bell met another human! It seems that in the summer, the fairies gather for a sort of summer camp in the English countryside. While searching for something to “tinker with”, Tink happens upon an automobile, and ends up trapped in a Fairy House created by Lizzy, a 9 year old girl living with her Father, who is very busy and unfortunately tends to brush off Lizzy’s attempts at a relationship.. Lizzy very much believes in fairies, but her Father only believes in what he can see with his eyes.

Another fairy, Vidia, sees Tink get captured and rallies the other fairies to launch a daring rescue into human territory to help their friend. Meanwhile, Tink and Lizzy figure out a way to communicate and Lizzy learns more than she ever dreamed about fairies and their world! Here’s the trailer:

Why Blu-ray?: This is the kind of movie that it seems Blu-ray was invented for. From the moment the movie starts, you find yourself in an eye-popping, dazzling world of colors and textures. The amount of detail in every frame is just amazing. The greens are so green, the golds are so gold, everything just feels like you could reach through the screen and touch it. Kaitlyn and I have watched three times now, and I see something new every time!

Start making your holiday shopping list now, because the “Previews” section of the bonus features shows clips from all of these upcoming movies from Disney! I know these are going to be on a lot of kids’ wish lists!

  • “Beauty & The Beast” Diamond Edition Blu-ray
  • “Tangled”
  • “The Search For Santa Paws”
  • “Beverly Hills Chihuahua II” on Blu-ray/DVD
  • Disney Nature: “Oceans” and “The Crimson Wing”
  • “Toy Story 3″ on Blu-ray/DVD
  • “Lion King” Diamond Edition
  • “Tinker Bell & The Mysterious Woods”

BONUS FEATURES

1. “Tangled”: Exclusive Sneak Peak – This movie is more than just the story of Rapunzel, it’s also about a daring young man (who is also a thief) and the challenges (and humorous situations) he faces while trying to rescue her. I think the directors were smart in playing up the character of Flynn Rider so that this movie will appeal to boys as well as girls.

2. Deleted Scenes with commentary by the director and the producer -

     A. “A Real Fairy”  Originally the opening of the movie, this scene showed Lizzy’s Father as a child, meeting a fairy. After he confides in a friend who yells the news to everyone else, disaster ensues. I’m glad this was left out, it would have made such a dark opening for the movie.

     B.”Lizzy’s Bedtime Story” –  shown in both storyboard and grayscale versions, this scene is between Lizzy and her Father.  Originally meant to be shown before Tink meets Lizzy, the director decided it was better for the audience to meet Lizzy at the same time Tink does.

     C. “Tea Party” – A scene with Tink and Lizzy having a tea party. The director brought in a group of 9 year old girls and asked them what they would want to do if they met a fairy, and the majority said have a tea party. It was cut because it didn’t move the story forward.

     D.”Cat Attack” – This scene stars Tink and Lizzy’s cat Mr. Twitches, and shows Tink escaping the cat’s clutches. The director and producer ultimately decided to cut it but liked it so much, they finished part of the frames in full color.

3. Music & More - Bridgit Mendler’s music video for “How To Believe”, with Bridgit having fun with friends plus a few clips from the movie.

4. Games & Activities – Fairy Field Guide Builder – Use the Blu-ray remote to answer questions about Fairies and learn all about them.  Illustrations that look hand-colored with crayons are part of the charm of this bonus feature.

5.  Backstage Disney - ”Design a Fairy House”  – In the movie, Lizzy builds a little fairy house for fairies to use in case they come by and need a rest. At the Epcot Flower and Garden Festival, kids had the chance to use craft supplies to design their ideal fairy house.  The companion website PixieHollow.com held a contest to design a fairy house, and the winner was flown to Walt Disney World Resort in Florida, where she got to help turn her design into a real fairy house! 

6. Learn how to take your favorite movies on the go with the included Disney Digital Copy.

SO.  Convinced yet??! Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue is just a great movie and well worth spending $21.99 on. Please note that if you do click one of the links in this post and purchase the movie during that visit to Amazon.com, I will earn a teeny tiny commission on the sale. Which helps support my coffee habit, so thank you in advance :) What are you waiting for? Go buy it!

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