To be honest, it's not a bad little mystery, the lads are investigating a few related mysteries. A shipping company that really does not want them to travel with them, and a courier service delivering boxes to residences where the original owner is not in but a gang member is.
There are a few differences from the original to the remake. Chet has a hobby where he's making lures for fishing and there is a section where they test them out.
In preparation for their often aborted trip on the freighter the boys get smallpox shots and have some crummy passport photos done., while obviously outdated the photo bit is obviously relatable nowadays, especially from the booths you see in malls and bigger supermarkets.
Finally the ending is changed from Joe Hardy squeezing through a duct to enter the radio room of a ship to them simply tricking the captain in the original. I know which one I prefer.
Anyway original is here and the remake is here. Enjoy.
VHS MESS
Finally have a few new bits of VHS Mess for you. On a video with the cryptic label of BFG, Snow White and Cartoons we had no hope of finding anything strange.
BFG is of course the well loved cartoon version of Roald Dahl's book. It''s got David Jason in it as the titular giant. It's not bad. Snow White is the Cannon Video version with Diana Rigg as the evil queen and Nicola Stapleton as a young Snow White, I guess fresh from starring in Simon and The Witch.
No it's the third one, that nebulously named cartoons that got my attention. I kinda guessed that the Snow White might have been the Disney one (it's not,) but I guess the cartoon bit was some old Warner Brothers Merrrie Melodies stuff or Tom and Jerry.
What it actually is, is Fables of The Green Forest.
A sort of 70's anime version of Animals of Farthing Wood where no one really dies but the dubbing is fucking awful. No seriously there are whole episodes on Youtube in the original Japanese and what sounds like Spanish and its charming if a bit old.
The English dub is shouty and horrible with some awful music to boot as well. The episode I have is a small lemming critter trying to evade a pair of foxes one is, for some reason, an old granny in a shawl.
He tunnels, they pounce and shout out. He tunnels some more and hides out in a barbed wire covered log and the fox fucks up his paw. Granny covers herself in snow to become a makeshift snowdrift. Lemming dude sees through this obvious disguise, evades her and gets picked off by an owl.
Then the tape ends.
It has it's charms when not saddled with a horrible dub (there's a reason we went for subs back then) and there's a whole playlist up on youtube for you to look at. One of those 70's oddities to play along with Rascal Raccoon and Anne Of Green Gables.
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