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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (30th Anniversary Edition)
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Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
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Directed By: Robert Stevenson, Les Perkins
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Picture Format: Letterbox
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Theatrical Release: December 13, 1971
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, Roddy McDowall, Sam Jaffe, John Ericson
An Academy Award(R) winner for Best Visual Effects (1971), BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS is a magical blend of live action and animation that makes it one of Disney's most enduring classics. This magical 30th anniversary edition version of the film is now yours to enjoy in digital splendor on this remastered, fully restored DVD! BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS is the enchanting story of an amateur witch who, along with three precocious orphans, flies into one fantastic adventure after another aboard a bewitched bed. The legendary Angela Lansbury is charming as the witch, and the inimitable David Tomlinson (MARY POPPINS) delights as the amusing professor whose help Lansbury and the children enlist in order to find an ancient incantation that will save the country from hostile invaders! This special edition BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS DVD includes many bonus features and is sure to be a film the entire family will want to watch again and again!
User Submitted Bedknobs and Broomsticks (30th Anniversary Edition) Reviews
July 1, 2008
Childhood favorite
I remember watching this movie everytime it came on TV (no DVD's/videos back then)! It's nice to share old school Disney with my kids. You even get a little history with the make believe. I STILL love this movie.
June 29, 2008
Old memories
I remember when I was a little kid moving from Germany to the States. I loved this movie very much. I grew up watching this movie all the time. I just recently started searching for all the old movies that I grew up on and this is the first one I looked up. I want my kids to be able to see all the movies that I got to watch when I grew up. Even at 30 years old and having been in the army for 10 and a half years I still am kid at heart. Thank you amazon.com for having all these great movies.
May 6, 2008
bedknobs and broomsticks
a great family movie. one u could watch over and over again it has great music for the film. it had nice extras on the dvd to watch.a timeless classic movie for the whole family.
May 4, 2008
Great
I love this movie, ever since I was a kid. And it's just as good now as it was then. A must have for every home.
April 20, 2008
feeling nolstalgic...sigh
I have'nt seen this movie in 15 years or so and I wanted to get it to share with my 3 year old little boy. The price was fantastic, the movie came in excelent condition and shipping was very quick. I would buy from this vendor again. This movie is for the young and old!
April 17, 2008
Some Pure entertainment
Great product for children. Good old fashioned animation and wholesome storyline. My child is two years old and prefers this to the newfangled cartoons of today.
March 22, 2008
"A magnificently charming and creative film, wonderfully entertaining" ~JC Angelcraft
To begin with, you can think of Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Mary Poppins meets Harry Potter meets Nemo meets Narnia who via the Lion King who will remind you of Tigger because tiggers really are wonderful things. Although this movie seems to borrow from all the aforementioned, it was actually made in 1971 and has since become a Disney classic acceptable for all ages. It is Directed by Robert Stevenson and stars Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, and Roddy McDowall who plays a catholic priest. The interaction between Lansbury and Roddy is fascinating in that subtly explores the complex relationship between religious and humanistic philosophies.
This wonderful musical will keep your children engaged especially the creative special effects and scenes featuring the animals from the Island of Naboo. I really enjoyed how the ghost army, no doubt borrowed from Tolkien's lord of the rings, overcomes the Nazis without shedding one single drop of blood.
The movie begins innocently enough with a woman played by Lansbury who is secretly studying for her correspondence degree in magic. However, her plans are complicated when by royal edict she is forced to house three children who have been left homeless by the war. When her final magic lesson is suddenly canceled, Lansbury-with children in tow- sets out on a journey with the aid of a magical bed to solve the riddle plaguing her life and keeping her from accomplishing her self-assigned top secret mission.
The movie is responsible for bring notoriety to the phrase TREGUNA MEKOIDES TRECORUM SATIS DEE making it since one of the most famous spells in the world. Parents can rest assured that Disney was careful not to include real magical spells in the movie especially those kinds that raise the dead. The gibberish spells used in the film are harmless and Parents need not worry about the children using them to transform people into bunny rabbits or conjure grandpa up from the local cemetery. However, to take the mystery out this whole ordeal, I have prepared a translation.
The first word TREGUNA is actually two words, TRE and GUNA. TRE is a prefix, which can combine with the letter S to create the number 3. The suffix GUNA translates (you) GO! The "you" is implied. The prefix "ME" in MEKOIDES--translated as an accusative as opposed to an ablative--can be understood in a context such as "the old black magic has ME in its spell." As an ablative "ME" would translate - "me / you'll do fine with ME, baby." The suffix KOIDES can translate "you will see" or "you will be seeing." The third word TRECORUM returns us back to the prefix "TRE" which as we spoke can combine with "S" to mean three, which for the purposes of our translation here would make sense since the numbers three and thirteen have a long magical history. We come now to the suffix in the word CORUM ,which when spelled correctly gives us
"QUORUM" :In the neutral-plural-genitive, the word QUORUM neatly translates into the phrase "the army, half OF WHICH there were not a few" meaning a significant force. SATIS translates "enough," " sufficient / sufficiently." DEE is somewhat problematic. In Latin DE is a preposition meaning "down from," "from," "concerning," "about." As a preposition, it connects a noun to another element in a sentence. However, DE may also be understood as an ablative-the Latin case of adverbial relation, which implies the notion "away from," the source or place of an action.
Now if we combine these meanings creatively we have a gibberish spell that makes sense for the movie. TREGUNA: "Three armies arise! You go!" MEKOIDES: "And be at rest for you will do fine with ME for that old black magic has ME it is spell. And once again you will see! Yes you will be seeing with mortal eyes once more." TRECORUM: "Oh Three great armies, half of which where no so few" SATIS: " yet sufficient enough, I summon you". DE: "concerning war."
The phrase is innocent enough and without the magic of adventure, our lives would be boring dull propositions and our imaginations null of the creative forces that gave us the legends we still embrace to this day. However, a warning to cat-lovers. This movie adds a huge exclamation point to the stereotypical black cat. I have never in my life seen a mangier domesticated cat than I did in this film. I asked my cat Fanny, what she thought, she said, "Cats are clean animals ...even magical black cats."
March 22, 2008
A blast from my childhood
I loved this movie as a child, and didn't really expect my kids to like it (a lot of talk with just a little animation thrown in) but my 3-year old asks to watch it all the time. Old school Disney when animation was done by artisans, not computers, and adventures that inspired my imagination back then, and my kids imaginations now.
March 12, 2008
Recommended for all
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is great for all. It has a wonderful cast, terrific animation and wonderful music. For us older folks it brings
back a lot of memories of when our children were little and is now
perfect for grandchildren and children of all ages.
February 25, 2008
Blast from the Past
This was a blast from the past. A little longer than I remember, and there was some awful dubbed voices throughout (sometime English, sometime Scottish, sometime Indian accent!) but it is well worth it. A particularly English theme Americanised by Walt Disney, fun for all the family.
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