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• The Flintstones | DVD | (13/12/1999) from £8.48   |  Saving you £1.51 (17.81%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This pleasant, lightweight live-action version of the popular cartoon is about as good as you might expect. The kids should love the broad humour and the Henson Studios creatures but like The Addams Family movies, the look and the cast are the best things going for it. Considering that the nature of the material is so sparse, the thinly plotted story works better than other TV-to-movie fare. Our fabulous Stone Age man is promoted per a calculated move by a scheming exec (Kyle MacLachlan, whose casting ensured at least one cute guy). As a comedy, the humour is one-note and flat for anyone older than 12. The special-effects creatures look wondrous, though not as seamless as in other movies, such as in Roger Rabbit. The most joyous moments come during the full-scale re-creations of the famous credits. The Flintstones provided a major launching pad for Halle Berry as a vamping secretary. --Doug Thomas

• The Flintstones/the Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Flintstones: After an aptitude test mix-up Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) trades his job as Slate & Company Bronto-crane operator for a vice presidency. But there's trouble brewing in Bedrock: An evil executive (Kyle MacLachlan) and his sinister secretary (Halle Berry) are now plotting to use Fred as the fall guy in an embezzlement scheme! (Dir. Brian Levant 1994) The Flintstones Viva Rock Vegas: Best pals Fred (Mark Addy) and Barney (Stephen Baldwin) down tools at Bedrock Mining Company to woo Wilma (Kristen Johnston) and Betty (Jane Krakowski) during a long vacation in Rock Vegas. All goes well until Fred's gambling addiction gets the better of him and he is framed for stealing Wilma's prized pearl necklace by love rival Chip Rockerfeller (Thomas Gibson) who oozes malice out of every prehistoric pore. Meanwhile Wilma's high fallutin mother Pearl (Joan Collins taking over from Elizabeth Taylor) thinks that Fred is too downmarket for her daughter and does everything within her power to push Wilma and Chip together... (Dir. Brian Levant 2000)

• Die Walkure - Wagner | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £25.23   |  Saving you £9.76 (27.90%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Die Walkure is the second part of Richard Wagner's gargantuan tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen concerning the irreconcilable struggle between Power and Love. The originality of this production from Het Musiktheater Amsterdam more than meets the perennial challenge of staging The Ring. Pierre Audi's stage direction in which the orchestra is placed on the spectacular ring-shaped stage succeeds in forging a profound unity between the lyrical mythical and philosophical qualities of

• Wagner: Die Walkure | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £-1.19 (-7.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The second part of Richard Wagner's gargantuan tetralogy 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' is performed here by Het Muzietheater Amsterdam in a highly original production, accompanied by the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Hartmut Haenchen.

• Mozart: Don Giovanni | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £15.25   |  Saving you £-0.26 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Lluis Pasqual's powerful production of Mozart's Don Giovanni for Madrid's Teatro Royal sets this timeless story of sleaze and seduction into the dark world of 1940s Spain. Carlos Alvarez takes the title role; Victor Pablo Perez conducts the Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real Madrid.