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Angus
»rank: 2519
0ur opinion:Description:High school freshman Angus is the class fat-boy, an object of scorn and derision. Despite his portly demeanor, Angus is on the football team and has a secret crush on cheerleader Melissa, who unfortunately belongs to the school's ace quarterback and resident blonde-Adonis Rick, the one who is the cruelest of all to poor Angus. This familiar, yet genuinely heart-tugging youth drama chronicles Angus' triumph over Rick when a mean-spirited practical joke goes ...
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The Magic School Bus - The Busasaurus
»rank: 2041
0ur opinion: :A visit to a dinosaur dig turns exciting when the Magic School Bus becomes a time machine that takes Ms. Frizzle's class back 67 million years, to the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. There, they must put aside their prejudices and preconceptions about dinosaurs, as they investigate which are dangerous carnivores, and which are herbivores. By noting their observations in their science journals, the class classifies dinosaurs according to their diets. An ...
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The Magic School Bus: Blows Its Top
»rank: 2894
0ur opinion: :A visit to a dinosaur dig turns exciting when the Magic School Bus becomes a time machine that takes Ms. Frizzle's class back 67 million years, to the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. There, they must put aside their prejudices and preconceptions about dinosaurs, as they investigate which are dangerous carnivores, and which are herbivores. By noting their observations in their science journals, the class classifies dinosaurs according to their diets. An ...
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West Side Story
»rank: 2338
0ur opinion: essential video:The winner of 1O Academy Awards, this 1961 musical by choreographer Jerome Robbins and director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) remains irresistible. Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 195Os era of juvenile delinquency, the film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighborhoods--and ethnicities. The film's real selling points, however, are the highly charged and inventive song-and-dance numbers, ...
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The Magic School Bus - Gets Ants in its Pants
»rank: 5059
0ur opinion: essential video:The winner of 1O Academy Awards, this 1961 musical by choreographer Jerome Robbins and director Robert Wise (The Sound of Music) remains irresistible. Based on a smash Broadway play updating Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet to the 195Os era of juvenile delinquency, the film stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as the star-crossed lovers from different neighborhoods--and ethnicities. The film's real selling points, however, are the highly charged and inventive song-and-dance numbers, ...
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The Magic School Bus - In the Rainforest
»rank: 67
0ur opinion: :The irresistible pull of chocolate is the catch for this lesson from the dandy kids series The Magic School Bus. The kids give a cocoa tree to their intrepid teacher Ms. Frizzle (voiced by Lily Tomlin) for an Earth Day present. When the tree yields only one bean, it's off to the rain forest to discover why. The life of a cocoa plant, including how pods, mud puddles, and bugs play a part ...
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The Magic School Bus - Butterflies!
»rank: 6144
0ur opinion: :This episode of the popular science series for kids explores the many remarkable traits of butterflies. Mrs. Frizzle's (Lily Tomlin) class needs a new mascot--fast! There's a soccer game on this afternoon, and they rack their brains for an appropriate name--something that's 'exciting and different.' When Phoebe suggests they call their team the 'Butterflies,' everybody thinks it's a silly idea. So Ms. Frizzle takes them to the swamp in search of the mysterious ...
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Singin' in the Rain
»rank: 678
0ur opinion: essential video:No one even bothers to argue about it any more--by any standard and international consensus, this is the best movie musical of them all. lts arcane, unlikely milieu is Hollywood during the transition in the late 192Os from silent to sound motion pictures. lts reason for being was producer Arthur Freed's desire to use the catalog of songs he had written with Nacio Herb Brown in the '2Os and '3Os for ...
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The Magic School Bus Gets Lost in Space
»rank: 4034
0ur opinion: :When the planetarium is closed for a field trip, it's no problem for Ms. Frizzle--star of Scholastic's award-winning Magic Schoolbus series. She simply takes the class to outer space on the Magic-School-Bus-turned-spaceship. As she puts it, outer space is 'the only planetarium open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.' The kids explore each of the first four planets with Ms. Frizzle, until they hit an asteroid and are separated from their ...
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Magic School Bus - Goes to Seed
»rank: 141
0ur opinion: :When the planetarium is closed for a field trip, it's no problem for Ms. Frizzle--star of Scholastic's award-winning Magic Schoolbus series. She simply takes the class to outer space on the Magic-School-Bus-turned-spaceship. As she puts it, outer space is 'the only planetarium open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.' The kids explore each of the first four planets with Ms. Frizzle, until they hit an asteroid and are separated from their ...
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