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The Beano Videostars
The Beano Videostars is a direct-to-video animated film based on The Beano, originally released on VHS on 17 October 1994 and also broadcast as a television special on ITV. The video is a sequel to The Beano Video, and features an expanded cast of characters, including Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, the Bash Street Kids, Billy Whizz, the Three Bears, and Ivy the Terrible. It was produced and directed by Terry Ward at Flicks Films Ltd, with voices provided by Susan Sheridan, Kate Robbins, Enn Reitel, Gary Martin and Jonathan Kydd, along with newcomers Alex Patterson, Mark Pickard, Jill Shilling and Nicola Stapleton.
Both videos drew high enough ratings and video sales to kick off the 1996-98 TV series Dennis and Gnasher. The video won an award for Best Special in 1995 and a British Animation Award for Children's Choice Special in 1996, and was re-released on DVD 10 years later in 2004.
The video begins with a glimpse of the planet Earth. Two signs saying, "Beanoversal Presents" (a parody of Universal Studios), appear circling around the planet. Two aliens notice something happening on their ship's monitor and head towards Earth. The camera zooms on the Earth as spotlights appear. The spotlights come from the theatre, where a presenter from the Beanotown Broadcasting Company announces that it is presenting the world premiere of the new Beano movie, and introduces the characters to the audience. The first to arrive are Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, riding the Menace Mobile. Dennis shoots tomatoes at the presenter. The presenter then welcomes the Bash Street Kids and the Three Bears, who all run over him. They are followed by Minnie the Minx, who parachutes towards the theatre and lands on top of the presenter; and Ivy the Terrible, who appears riding her space hopper and bounces on him; and Billy Whizz, who runs a marathon outside the theatre and strips the presenter to his undergarments by running past him. Just as the presenter is about to say goodbye from the Beanotown Broadcasting Company, the aliens appear, much to his frustration. He starts complaining about his inability to do his job if he is standing in his undergarments with the uninvited aliens, while they teleport to the theatre.
In The Snowman Army, Dennis and Gnasher march with an army of snowmen and play pranks on others, such as freezing the path solid and causing a colonel's soldiers to slip and fall, catapulting the snowmen at Walter the Softy and a park keeper, and covering the soldiers in snow from a roof. This leads to a snowball fight between the menaces and the soldiers, with the soldiers firing their snowballs from their tank.
Next, in Jelly Babies, Minnie recites a poem about jelly babies before using some minxing to get herself some green ones. She replaces a park keeper's hat with a red jelly baby, which attracts some bees. Wearing the hat and seeing a box of jelly babies in Mrs Blenkinsop's bag, she tells Blenkinsop that she has entered a "green-free zone", and that everything that is green wil have to be handed over to her. Blenkinsop dumps her cabbages all over Minnie. Fatty Fudge leaves a hair salon, eating jelly babies. Minnie hears Fatty's mentioning of eating jelly babies, and tells him that eating the green ones will make him go bald, much to his horror. He hands the jelly babies to her and runs off. Minnie celebrates with a dance, but Fatty becomes suspicious of her, asking why she is eating green jelly babies and has not gone bald, followed by Blenkinsop telling her that "green-free zones" do not even exist. Minnie begins running away, and Blenkinsop tells Fatty to jump onto some red quick-setting jelly, which he does. Minnie stops to giggle about how she has gotten away, only to be encased in the quick-setting jelly, to which she says that she does not like red jelly babies. Blenkinsop and Fatty laugh at her as she bounces home.
In The New School, a school inspector visits Bash Street School and is unimpressed with its habits, so the kids are given an improved makeover and sent to the new Bash Street Academy. Plug's plastic surgery wears off, and he is expelled after seeing his classmates' makeover, particularly Danny and Smiffy. When he, Teacher, Headmaster, Olive, Janitor and Winston see the inspector put a nuclear physics disc inside the academy's robot teacher, this gives Plug an idea. They all record a music CD at his uncle Mike's studio. At Bash Street Academy, the robot reprimands Danny for putting his hand up to ask a question and nearly vaporises him with his laser. Plug replaces the robot's maths disc with his CD, rescuing his classmates, who dance and sing "We're the Kids From Bash Street School", all while changing back to their old selves. The robot dances along, and after getting too carried away, he begins malfunctioning. The kids escape before the robot explodes, taking the academy with him and leaving the inspector a homeless street busker.
During the interlude, Billy thinks that his drink is warm, so he asks Fatty to hold it while he leaves the theatre to get some ice. He whizzes to the South Pole and returns with the ice for his drink.
In It's a Dad's Life, Minnie's Dad (here named "George") comes home from work, and Minnie plans to rebegin her unhappy dad's life. She dresses him as a baby, a school pupil, a clown, and the "King of Beanotown", with George calling a plumber his "good man" and a police officer a guard and a peasant. Minnie then meets George's boss, telling him that he has been working to hard and is very ill. Feeling that it is his fault, George's boss asks what he should do, to which Minnie suggests that he give her and George free tickets to the fairground. While riding the roller coaster, Minnie tells her dad to admit that his old life is not so bad, to which George replies that he supposes that it is not.
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The Beano Videostars
The Beano Videostars is a direct-to-video animated film based on The Beano, originally released on VHS on 17 October 1994 and also broadcast as a television special on ITV. The video is a sequel to The Beano Video, and features an expanded cast of characters, including Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, Minnie the Minx, the Bash Street Kids, Billy Whizz, the Three Bears, and Ivy the Terrible. It was produced and directed by Terry Ward at Flicks Films Ltd, with voices provided by Susan Sheridan, Kate Robbins, Enn Reitel, Gary Martin and Jonathan Kydd, along with newcomers Alex Patterson, Mark Pickard, Jill Shilling and Nicola Stapleton.
Both videos drew high enough ratings and video sales to kick off the 1996-98 TV series Dennis and Gnasher. The video won an award for Best Special in 1995 and a British Animation Award for Children's Choice Special in 1996, and was re-released on DVD 10 years later in 2004.
The video begins with a glimpse of the planet Earth. Two signs saying, "Beanoversal Presents" (a parody of Universal Studios), appear circling around the planet. Two aliens notice something happening on their ship's monitor and head towards Earth. The camera zooms on the Earth as spotlights appear. The spotlights come from the theatre, where a presenter from the Beanotown Broadcasting Company announces that it is presenting the world premiere of the new Beano movie, and introduces the characters to the audience. The first to arrive are Dennis the Menace and Gnasher, riding the Menace Mobile. Dennis shoots tomatoes at the presenter. The presenter then welcomes the Bash Street Kids and the Three Bears, who all run over him. They are followed by Minnie the Minx, who parachutes towards the theatre and lands on top of the presenter; and Ivy the Terrible, who appears riding her space hopper and bounces on him; and Billy Whizz, who runs a marathon outside the theatre and strips the presenter to his undergarments by running past him. Just as the presenter is about to say goodbye from the Beanotown Broadcasting Company, the aliens appear, much to his frustration. He starts complaining about his inability to do his job if he is standing in his undergarments with the uninvited aliens, while they teleport to the theatre.
In The Snowman Army, Dennis and Gnasher march with an army of snowmen and play pranks on others, such as freezing the path solid and causing a colonel's soldiers to slip and fall, catapulting the snowmen at Walter the Softy and a park keeper, and covering the soldiers in snow from a roof. This leads to a snowball fight between the menaces and the soldiers, with the soldiers firing their snowballs from their tank.
Next, in Jelly Babies, Minnie recites a poem about jelly babies before using some minxing to get herself some green ones. She replaces a park keeper's hat with a red jelly baby, which attracts some bees. Wearing the hat and seeing a box of jelly babies in Mrs Blenkinsop's bag, she tells Blenkinsop that she has entered a "green-free zone", and that everything that is green wil have to be handed over to her. Blenkinsop dumps her cabbages all over Minnie. Fatty Fudge leaves a hair salon, eating jelly babies. Minnie hears Fatty's mentioning of eating jelly babies, and tells him that eating the green ones will make him go bald, much to his horror. He hands the jelly babies to her and runs off. Minnie celebrates with a dance, but Fatty becomes suspicious of her, asking why she is eating green jelly babies and has not gone bald, followed by Blenkinsop telling her that "green-free zones" do not even exist. Minnie begins running away, and Blenkinsop tells Fatty to jump onto some red quick-setting jelly, which he does. Minnie stops to giggle about how she has gotten away, only to be encased in the quick-setting jelly, to which she says that she does not like red jelly babies. Blenkinsop and Fatty laugh at her as she bounces home.
In The New School, a school inspector visits Bash Street School and is unimpressed with its habits, so the kids are given an improved makeover and sent to the new Bash Street Academy. Plug's plastic surgery wears off, and he is expelled after seeing his classmates' makeover, particularly Danny and Smiffy. When he, Teacher, Headmaster, Olive, Janitor and Winston see the inspector put a nuclear physics disc inside the academy's robot teacher, this gives Plug an idea. They all record a music CD at his uncle Mike's studio. At Bash Street Academy, the robot reprimands Danny for putting his hand up to ask a question and nearly vaporises him with his laser. Plug replaces the robot's maths disc with his CD, rescuing his classmates, who dance and sing "We're the Kids From Bash Street School", all while changing back to their old selves. The robot dances along, and after getting too carried away, he begins malfunctioning. The kids escape before the robot explodes, taking the academy with him and leaving the inspector a homeless street busker.
During the interlude, Billy thinks that his drink is warm, so he asks Fatty to hold it while he leaves the theatre to get some ice. He whizzes to the South Pole and returns with the ice for his drink.
In It's a Dad's Life, Minnie's Dad (here named "George") comes home from work, and Minnie plans to rebegin her unhappy dad's life. She dresses him as a baby, a school pupil, a clown, and the "King of Beanotown", with George calling a plumber his "good man" and a police officer a guard and a peasant. Minnie then meets George's boss, telling him that he has been working to hard and is very ill. Feeling that it is his fault, George's boss asks what he should do, to which Minnie suggests that he give her and George free tickets to the fairground. While riding the roller coaster, Minnie tells her dad to admit that his old life is not so bad, to which George replies that he supposes that it is not.