Angelina Ballerina-Rose Fairy Princess/The Gift (2002)

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General		Extras
Category	Childrens	Main Menu Audio
Rating
Year Of Production	2002
Running Time	110:42
RSDL / Flipper	Dual Layered	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Ads Then Menu
Region Coding	1,2,3,4,5,6	Directed By	Roger McIntosh Kitty Taylor
Studio Distributor	Roadshow Home Entertainment	Starring	Finty Williams Judi Dench Colin Towns
Case	Amaray-Transparent-Secure Clip
RPI	$19.95	Music	Colin Towns

    Angelina Ballerina is an animated TV series designed with little girls of 3-8 in mind. It features the titular character and her friends who live in the village of Chipping Cheddar, somewhere in England. It is a very cute and gentle series made up of 12 minute episodes. Angelina and her friends get into mild adventures usually centering around their love of ballet class. The main characters are:

• Angelina - A young female mouseling who loves to dance.
• Alice - Angelina's best friend
• Miss Lilly (voiced by Judi Dench) - Their ballet teacher
• Henry - Angelina's younger cousin, who quite often gets in her way
• The Pinkpaws Twins, Penelope and Priscilla - Angelina's main rivals for dancing roles and Miss Lilly's affections

    This DVD is a compilation of two previously released VHS tapes, which featured episodes from the first series of Angelina Ballerina, made in 2002. The episodes included here are:

• Rose Fairy Princess - Angelina gets the lead role in a ballet production but is very nervous about her performance.
• Two Mice in a Boat - Angelina wants badly to win the boat carnival but is teamed up with Sammy instead of her friend, Alice.
• The Ballet Tickets - Angelina wants tickets to a visiting ballet performance very badly but the Pinkpaws twins get the last two tickets.
• Angelina at the Fair - Angelina gets to attend the fair but must take Henry along with her which does not go well.
• The Gift - It's Christmas time and Angelina has made a special gift for Miss Lilly but questions herself when teased by the Pinkpaws twins.
• Angelina in the Wings - Angelina gets the chance to audition for a role in a major ballet production, but Henry comes along to the audition and they think he is very cute and want him for the role.
• Arthur the Butterfly - Angelina finds an injured butterfly and takes him home to nurse back to health. She has trouble letting him go when he is better.
• The Costume Ball - Angelina wants to attend the town costume ball, but it is for grown-ups only.
• Miss Lilly is Leaving - Alice overhears that Miss Lilly is leaving town to teach at a different ballet school and the girls are very upset.

    My four year old niece is a huge fan of this series and I am sure it would appeal to other girls in the right age group.

Video

    The video quality is excellent.

    The feature is presented in a 1.56:1 aspect ratio non 16x9 enhanced which is the original aspect ratio.

    The picture was clear and sharp throughout, with no evidence of low level noise.

    The colour was excellent, well saturated with no colour artefacts.

    The only noticeable flaw in the video presentation was some slight shimmering on pans but your kids will certainly not notice.

    There are no subtitles and no layer change.

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Audio

    The audio quality is very good and does everything required for a show of this type.

    This DVD contains one audio option, an English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo soundtrack encoded at 224 Kb/s.

    Dialogue was clear and easy to understand and there was no problem with audio sync.

    The music by Colin Towns is suitable pretty and gentle, well suited to the nature of the show.

    The surround speakers and subwoofer were not used.

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    None.

Menu

    The menu is very simple, giving you the ability to choose each episode individually or play all of each original tape.

    The Rose Fairy Princess is available on its own on DVD in Region 1 and Region 2. The Region 4 release also includes another five episodes so is obviously the best choice.

    The video quality is excellent.

    The audio quality is very good.

    The disc has no extras.

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