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Summary: Oh, disheartening Disney, are you listening???
Review: I'm shopping for potential birthday gifts for my son. I've noticed that inept restoration of movies by Disney seems to be the most popular battle cry in most reviews. I did not purchase this dvd version from amazon (Though I really would like to),on the specific advice given in previous reviews. We are so lucky to live in a generation that is able to share our childhood movie memories with our own children. It's too bad that the "powers that be" at Disney clearly have no knowledge of that genre or children. Now is the time for Disney to bring back the past with some respect so that Disney can once again be respected.
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Summary: The Gnome Mobile
Review: A wonderful story starring the same Children who appeared in Disney's Mary Popins film. The Gnome Mobile song in a delight as is the action chase sequences. My favorite scene comes near the end where the teen gnome bachelor is made up like a grease pig and all the availible maidens try to catch him. The one he falls for reminds me of Anntte Fouchello (mis-spelling of name) but don't think it was her. As the kids grandpa was responsible for many gnomes to disappear and now he try to help a pair of male gnomes for more of their kind.
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Summary: Why does Disney do this to us??????
Review: Alas another wonderful 5 star Disney classic live action movie hacked to bits by pan & scan. Funny how many TV shows and now most commercials are in widescreen format. Maybe now that Eisner has been taken down a notch, perhaps the consumer will possibly benefit. George Mitchell, are you listening? Hail to Roy Disney and friends for keeping Walt's vision alive.Oh, sorry but I'm still in boycott mode until Disney studios gives ALL classic live-action movies the "Vault Disney" treatment. I encourage all fans to keep the pressure on Disney with this forum kindly provided by Amazon.com.
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Summary: Why does Disney do this to us??????
Review: Alas another wonderful 5 star Disney classic live action movie hacked to bits by pan & scan. Funny how many TV shows and now most commercials are in widescreen format. Maybe now that Eisner has been taken down a notch, perhaps the consumer will possibly benefit. George Mitchell, are you listening? Hail to Roy Disney and friends for keeping Walt's vision alive. Oh, sorry but I'm still in boycott mode until Disney studios gives ALL classic live-action movies the "Vault Disney" treatment. I encourage all fans to keep the pressure on Disney with this forum kindly provided by Amazon.com.
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Summary: No widescreen = no sale!
Review: Another rotten, stinking pan-and-scan ripoff. Disney studios is truly a Jekyll and Hyde - one moment giving us great Vault Disney deluxe treatments, the next moment trashing their product into standard frame abominations. And it's always done strictly at random, with no rhyme or reason to it.
In this case, it looks like they took the title too literally - they compacted the Gnome Mobile movie down into gnome size! The Disney decision makers must be nuts - they seem to have little clue of the goldmine they're sitting on, and the possible lifetime customers they're ticking off every time they pull this lame standard frame stunt.
Do NOT waste your dough on this dismal dud.
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Summary: The Gnomemobile
Review: At last...I have waited for many years for this one...An excellent movie for all ages...Walter Brennan was great as the Grampa and the head of the Fairies... Now if we could only get Song of the South on video and DVD...
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Summary: about Gnome Mobile ..
Review: First of all, I only view movies that have english subtitles and/or are closed captioned. This movie IS closed captioned! Why is Disney releasing all these classics in a standard format? I'd love to see them in their original form. I first became interested in this movie, when I saw the real car in a small car museum somewhere in west Michigan several years ago, and have been looking forward to see this movie since then. It was not what I expected, as I thought it would be more action packed, but I am glad I got to view it. I felt it was not a waste of my time. It's a movie that children can enjoy. I am an adult, and have enjoyed it myself. The only things that bothered me, was that it was a little slow, especially in the beginning, and it didn't have a lot of action. The story plot could have been a little better too. However, I suspect that it was the standard mode that impacted the movie's ability to deliver itself as it should've. It is only one of the three films that Matthew Garber (who passed away in 1977) was on. This also contributed for my interest in this movie. Gnome Mobile is not an "A" movie. It is not a Mary Poppins or the Love Bug. It is just a good nature movie to watch with your family or by yourself. If you don't have high expectations and just want to enjoy an old fashioned children movie, this might be a good choice for you. You may want to rent it first though. But if you are a Disney fanatic, then you'll probably want it in your movie library.
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Summary: Michael Eisner must go
Review: Here we go again: another great Disney classic that deserves special edition/Vault classic designation released in a terrible fullscreen hackjob presentation by a company run by corporate bean counters who care nothing about preserving the artistic integrity of their films. "The Gnome Mobile" is an incredibly entertaining film with two first-rate performances by the legendary Walter Brennan and excellent special effects (for the mid-'60's). But it's all for naught with this shabby presentation. I've already been ripped-off by the awful pan-and-scan copy of "Follow Me, Boys" I bought against my better judgment. Never again. I'm boycotting all Disney DVD's not presented in widescreen, no matter how much I love the film. I encourage everyone else to do so also. Please, Michael Eisner. You've ruined the greatest entertainment company in history. Your theme parks are going bust, your live-action films (excluding the "Freaky Friday" remake and "Pirates of the Caribbean") are awful and just about every post-Katzenburg animated film has been an absolute bust. And now you've lost Pixar, the only cash cow Disney had left. To paraphrase Robin Williams, soon you'll only have a theme park and Kermit the Frog. And if you keep up with the cut-rate DVD's you're now mass-producing, soon your video department will go bust as well. Heck, even Roy Disney hates your guts. So, how about it, Mike? Please resign. Until then, no widescreen, no dice. BOYCOTT!
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Summary: ONE OF THE BEST FAMILY MOVIES!
Review: I accidentally recorded this film on VHS video tape about seventeen years ago from TV and I have taken special care of it ever since. The fact that it is finally being released on DVD is like a dream come true. It's one of those rare movies that capture the innocence of a bygone era, a time when excellent, feel good, family movies were made. It is with such movies that Disney defined the term family entertainment and that made a whole lot of difference to those of us that grew up with these films. Call it nostalgia if you will but movies are about entertainment and to me entertainment means that you can let yourself go for 90 minutes or so and travel to the faraway places in your imagination where the burdens of everyday life are nonexistent. Any movie that can achieve this is- to me- well worth a place in my collection. The Gnome Mobile is definitely one of those films and I would be a happy man if my son would grow up watching films like TGM rather than all the violent stuff that is so popular among youngsters nowadays.
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Summary: FINALLY (^_^)
Review: I am like a few of you. I LOVED this movie as a child, noone seemed to have ever heard of it...yes, it seems even disney had not either!! I am so VERY happy to see it here!!!!! I will watch it over and over..AGAIN!!!!!
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