Rating: 
Summary: A sad thing to do to a sweet show
Review: The original Card Captor Sakura (available full and uncut on DVD) is a wonderfully sweet bit of mahou shoujo (magical girl) anime. The "monster of the day" premise serves as a backdrop to the real drama of the character interactions among Sakura, her family, and friends.Unfortunately Cardcaptors doesn't preserve the beauty of the original. There are two major classes of cut. First is the "potentially objectionable" material, such as the romantic tinges of the relationship between Sakura and Tomoyo, or a number of cross-generational relationships. None of this is truly "mature subject matter," but American standards for children's TV are a lot more stringent than Japanese. Despite the damage which these cuts do to the story, they're at least understandable. Far less desirable are the "keep it moving" snips. This class itself divides into two subclasses: on the one hand, Sakura is diminished and Li is emphasised in order to change Sakura from protagonist. On the other, many of the more moving character moments are compressed or eliminated to hurry on to the "action" sequences of capturing the cards. The end result is to change a cute character-focussed show into a mildly frightening or violent action show. Despite the damage, some of the genius of the original creation still shows through, so I can't entirely condemn this release for very young children. However, if your child is age six or so, I'd highly recommend the uncut subtitled version as an excellent show, a good reason to improve reading skills, and a chance to use the more controversial elements as a jumping-off point for discussion. Watch it with your child--you'll be drawn in yourself.
Rating:
Summary: A sad thing to do to a sweet show
Review: The original Card Captor Sakura (available full and uncut on DVD) is a wonderfully sweet bit of mahou shoujo (magical girl) anime. The "monster of the day" premise serves as a backdrop to the real drama of the character interactions among Sakura, her family, and friends. Unfortunately Cardcaptors doesn't preserve the beauty of the original. There are two major classes of cut. First is the "potentially objectionable" material, such as the romantic tinges of the relationship between Sakura and Tomoyo, or a number of cross-generational relationships. None of this is truly "mature subject matter," but American standards for children's TV are a lot more stringent than Japanese. Despite the damage which these cuts do to the story, they're at least understandable. Far less desirable are the "keep it moving" snips. This class itself divides into two subclasses: on the one hand, Sakura is diminished and Li is emphasised in order to change Sakura from protagonist. On the other, many of the more moving character moments are compressed or eliminated to hurry on to the "action" sequences of capturing the cards. The end result is to change a cute character-focussed show into a mildly frightening or violent action show. Despite the damage, some of the genius of the original creation still shows through, so I can't entirely condemn this release for very young children. However, if your child is age six or so, I'd highly recommend the uncut subtitled version as an excellent show, a good reason to improve reading skills, and a chance to use the more controversial elements as a jumping-off point for discussion. Watch it with your child--you'll be drawn in yourself.
Rating: 
Summary: Cardcaptors - New lessons
Review: This video is pretty cool. (I dont have it but I have seen the shows on Kids WB.) I mean if I got this I would probley be watching it all the time. Even if its in japanese or english.
What does dubbed mean?? Well all I can tell you is this. This contains three videos.
Dragon Slayer: When one of Sakura's friend's named Nikki who found a old book at the bookstore, Nikki writes a story and then...the characters come alive! Now Sakura has to do something to capture the Create Card! When Sakura finnaly figured what to do, she uses the Big Card to defeat a dragon. Then she used other cards to defeat the rest of the characters.
Then she captured the Create Card when Nikki was sleeping. The next morning Nikki couldn't find the book but oh well.
The Switch: When Sakura was at the park trying to capture the Change Card, both Li and Kero grabbed onto the Change Card at the same time. Sakura captured the Change Card but Li and Kero switched bodys! On this episode you have to find out if they will switch back.
Ice Breaker: When Sakura and the rest of Sakura's class went to a ice skating trip, the temp. started to go down to zero as the classmates started to freeze up! Sakura and Li face the Freeze Card. So Sakura trys to find a way to capture the Freeze! What will happen to Sakura and Li? Also, on this episode you have to figure it out to.
Well I am a big fan of Cardcaptor Sakura and Cardcaptors, thats for sure. Well enjoy!
Rating: 
Summary: I prefer the manga way more than this.
Review: Three stars tells you it's just an average movie. The manga series is better imo.
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