Customer Reviews
Some Pure entertainment 
2008-04-17
Great product for children. Good old fashioned animation and wholesome storyline. My child is two years old and prefers this to the newfangled cartoons of today.
"A magnificently charming and creative film, wonderfully entertaining" ~JC Angelcraft 2008-03-22
To begin with, you can think of Bedknobs and Broomsticks as Mary Poppins meets Harry Potter meets Nemo meets Narnia who via the Lion King who will remind you of Tigger because tiggers really are wonderful things. Although this movie seems to borrow from all the aforementioned, it was actually made in 1971 and has since become a Disney classic acceptable for all ages. It is Directed by Robert Stevenson and stars Angela Lansbury, David Tomlinson, and Roddy McDowall who plays a catholic priest. The interaction between Lansbury and Roddy is fascinating in that subtly explores the complex relationship between religious and humanistic philosophies.
This wonderful musical will keep your children engaged especially the creative special effects and scenes featuring the animals from the Island of Naboo. I really enjoyed how the ghost army, no doubt borrowed from Tolkien's lord of the rings, overcomes the Nazis without shedding one single drop of blood.
The movie begins innocently enough with a woman played by Lansbury who is secretly studying for her correspondence degree in magic. However, her plans are complicated when by royal edict she is forced to house three children who have been left homeless by the war. When her final magic lesson is suddenly canceled, Lansbury-with children in tow- sets out on a journey with the aid of a magical bed to solve the riddle plaguing her life and keeping her from accomplishing her self-assigned top secret mission.
The movie is responsible for bring notoriety to the phrase TREGUNA MEKOIDES TRECORUM SATIS DEE making it since one of the most famous spells in the world. Parents can rest assured that Disney was careful not to include real magical spells in the movie especially those kinds that raise the dead. The gibberish spells used in the film are harmless and Parents need not worry about the children using them to transform people into bunny rabbits or conjure grandpa up from the local cemetery. However, to take the mystery out this whole ordeal, I have prepared a translation.
The first word TREGUNA is actually two words, TRE and GUNA. TRE is a prefix, which can combine with the letter S to create the number 3. The suffix GUNA translates (you) GO! The "you" is implied. The prefix "ME" in MEKOIDES--translated as an accusative as opposed to an ablative--can be understood in a context such as "the old black magic has ME in its spell." As an ablative "ME" would translate - "me / you'll do fine with ME, baby." The suffix KOIDES can translate "you will see" or "you will be seeing." The third word TRECORUM returns us back to the prefix "TRE" which as we spoke can combine with "S" to mean three, which for the purposes of our translation here would make sense since the numbers three and thirteen have a long magical history. We come now to the suffix in the word CORUM ,which when spelled correctly gives us
"QUORUM" :In the neutral-plural-genitive, the word QUORUM neatly translates into the phrase "the army, half OF WHICH there were not a few" meaning a significant force. SATIS translates "enough," " sufficient / sufficiently." DEE is somewhat problematic. In Latin DE is a preposition meaning "down from," "from," "concerning," "about." As a preposition, it connects a noun to another element in a sentence. However, DE may also be understood as an ablative-the Latin case of adverbial relation, which implies the notion "away from," the source or place of an action.
Now if we combine these meanings creatively we have a gibberish spell that makes sense for the movie. TREGUNA: "Three armies arise! You go!" MEKOIDES: "And be at rest for you will do fine with ME for that old black magic has ME it is spell. And once again you will see! Yes you will be seeing with mortal eyes once more." TRECORUM: "Oh Three great armies, half of which where no so few" SATIS: " yet sufficient enough, I summon you". DE: "concerning war."
The phrase is innocent enough and without the magic of adventure, our lives would be boring dull propositions and our imaginations null of the creative forces that gave us the legends we still embrace to this day. However, a warning to cat-lovers. This movie adds a huge exclamation point to the stereotypical black cat. I have never in my life seen a mangier domesticated cat than I did in this film. I asked my cat Fanny, what she thought, she said, "Cats are clean animals ...even magical black cats."
A blast from my childhood 2008-03-22
I loved this movie as a child, and didn't really expect my kids to like it (a lot of talk with just a little animation thrown in) but my 3-year old asks to watch it all the time. Old school Disney when animation was done by artisans, not computers, and adventures that inspired my imagination back then, and my kids imaginations now.
Recommended for all 2008-03-12
Bedknobs and Broomsticks is great for all. It has a wonderful cast, terrific animation and wonderful music. For us older folks it brings
back a lot of memories of when our children were little and is now
perfect for grandchildren and children of all ages.
Blast from the Past 
2008-02-25
This was a blast from the past. A little longer than I remember, and there was some awful dubbed voices throughout (sometime English, sometime Scottish, sometime Indian accent!) but it is well worth it. A particularly English theme Americanised by Walt Disney, fun for all the family.
Childhood favorite 
2008-07-01
I remember watching this movie everytime it came on TV (no DVD's/videos back then)! It's nice to share old school Disney with my kids. You even get a little history with the make believe. I STILL love this movie.
Old memories 2008-06-29
I remember when I was a little kid moving from Germany to the States. I loved this movie very much. I grew up watching this movie all the time. I just recently started searching for all the old movies that I grew up on and this is the first one I looked up. I want my kids to be able to see all the movies that I got to watch when I grew up. Even at 30 years old and having been in the army for 10 and a half years I still am kid at heart. Thank you amazon.com for having all these great movies.
bedknobs and broomsticks 2008-05-06
a great family movie. one u could watch over and over again it has great music for the film. it had nice extras on the dvd to watch.a timeless classic movie for the whole family.
Great 2008-05-04
I love this movie, ever since I was a kid. And it's just as good now as it was then. A must have for every home.
feeling nolstalgic...sigh 2008-04-20
I have'nt seen this movie in 15 years or so and I wanted to get it to share with my 3 year old little boy. The price was fantastic, the movie came in excelent condition and shipping was very quick. I would buy from this vendor again. This movie is for the young and old!
