"Actor: Phillip Van Dyke"

• Bartok The Magnificent | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £3.29   |  Saving you £9.70 (74.70%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's no secret that the popular animated feature release Anastasia played fast and loose with Russian Imperialist history. Never mind that the movie's debut coincided with DNA proof--provided by Britain's Prince Phillip, no less--that Anna Andersen was not Tsar Nicholas II's daughter Anastasia and that Russian-discovered bones were indeed that of the Tsar and his brutally murdered family. Anastasia's made-for-video sequel, Bartok the Magnificent, doesn't let historical fact get in its way either. Still, the animated adventure, which features Bartok the excitable albino bat (voiced again by Hank Azaria), is cute and funny, thanks to clever writing and great voice work. Bartok and his sidekick bear friend (an excellent Kelsey Grammer, who voiced Vlad in the original) have become street performers and become embroiled in the evil Ludmilla's plot to get rid of the next heir, a prince. While it's not a particularly fresh tale, Bartok the Magnificent is kept alive through Azaria and Grammer's well-timed and well-executed voiceovers. --N.F. Mendoza

• 1-2-3 DVD : Bartok The Magnificent | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £5.38   |  Saving you £2.61 (32.70%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Bartok the lovable albino bat from Don Bluth and Gary Goldman's 'Anastasia' returns in 'Bartok The Magnificent' his own animated musical adventure. Propelled on a hero's journey Bartok (Hank Azaria) must rescue the young heir to the Russian throne Prince Ivan (Phillip Van Dyke). However he must first deal with the shady Ludmilla (Catherine O'Hara) who wants the throne for herself and face a series of tasks and adventures set for him by the wacky - and possibly evil - witch of the Iron Forest Baba Yaga (Andrea Martin). Bartok's odyssey is marked by imaginative scenery catchy songs comedic characters (including sidekick Zozi the bear as voiced by Kelsey Grammer) and most of all the bat's own funny and neurotic commentary!