Comedy featuring five feisty kids from Dartmoor Academy. Nicknamed the 'Stinkers', the gang skip opera appreciation classes to cause chaos. Having smuggled Slappy the sea lion onto the school bus and into principal Brinway's hot tub, the Stinkers find themselves on a rescue mission to save Slappy before he is sold to the circus.

The legend of King Arthur is provided with a further instalment in this musical animated adventure. When Arthur's (voiced by Pierce Brosnan) fabled sword, Excalibur, is stolen by Lord Ruber (Gary Oldman), plucky young Kayley sets out to retrieve it. She is aided in her quest by handsome blind servant Garrett (Cary Elwes) and a two-headed, Elvis-singing dragon, Devon (Eric Idle) and Cornwall (Don Rickles). Together they battle to save Camelot from the evil Ruber.

Joel is a high school student of seemingly sober conduct. However, when his parents go away he trashes the house, loses the Porsche in the lake and, through his association with a local prostitute, turns his parents' home into a house of ill repute.

A collection of all three 'Beverly Hills Cop' films. In the first film Eddie Murphy plays fast-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley, whose regular assignments include tracking down cigarette thieves. When a friend is killed, he begins an unofficial investigation which leads him to Beverly Hills, where he runs into trouble with the straight-laced police force who disapprove of his anarchic methods. However, with the help of fellow cops Rosewood (Judge Reinhold) and Taggart (John Ashton), he tracks down the killers. In the second film Foley (Murphy) is called off a credit card case when his Beverly Hills buddies are foiled on a trail more suited to his unique skills - that of an illegal arms dealer (Jurgen Prochnow). With Brigitte Nielsen as a James Bond-style hitwoman. Finally in the third film Axel's boss is gunned down in a bungled raid in Detroit, and Axel (Murphy) swears to catch the killers. The trail leads him, once again, to Beverly Hills and a huge theme park, which is run by the head of a private security firm. After many capers, it transpires that the theme park is printing counterfeit cash.

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