This mammoth boxset is a dream come true for fans of the celebrated late '80s sitcom. Spreading its sympathetic 4:3 transfers of all 115 episodes of the show across 26 platters, it also finds room for some 23 hours of bonus bits (including interviews, home movies and outtakes). However, what makes this UK DVD boxset particularly wonderful is that it is the first release anywhere to include all of the iconic music from the original broadcasts.
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When the Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray boxset was released in 2011 concerns were raised about the use of digital filtering on several of the transfers. Thankfully, there are no such problems with the Blu-ray debut of the latest instalment in the galactic franchise.
Warner Bros. makes amends for its previous desultory treatment of Brad Bird's animated masterpiece with a hi-def package that offers beautifully restored 2.40:1-framed 1080p visuals, dynamic DTS-HD MA 5.1 sonics and a wealth of extra features (not least the refreshingly frank documentary The Giant's Dream). It may have taken 17 years, but The Iron Giant has finally been given the lavish release that it always deserved.
The last 12 months have seen Mr Abrams' stock rise ever higher, as the writer/director/producer has successfully rebooted one film franchise (Star Wars), kept another ticking over (Star Trek), returned to an old fave (10 Cloverfield Lane) and brought more goodies to the smallscreen (Westworld). It's his work with Lucasfilm that stands out of course, with ...The Force Awakens effectively erasing our bad memories of Jar-Jar Binks. Under his guidance, the series looks set to go from strength to strength.
Tap dancing is all Mumble wants to do yet that is impossible because all the other penguins are great singers. In addition to this, there is currently a fish famine which many of the Emperor Penguins blame on Mumble. Sadly, this gets our furry friend kicked out of Emperor Land and into the the far reaches of the North Pole. Realizing that he must find out the reason for the lack of fish, Mumble sets off on a journey to help his people. Along the way, Mumble makes friends like the Adelie Amigos and the lovely Lovelace, and it is through many trials and tribulations that he realizes he is going to have to dance, not sing, his way into a romantic interlude with the woman he loves (apparently, these animals sing to one another in order to bring about a relationship). This movie is filled with many singing numbers, a lot of comic voice stylings by Robin Williams and a plethora of amazing animated shots.
There are two of these in this section. They are "Mumble Meets a Blue Whale" and "A Happy Feet " These are both very well done and could have easily found their way into the movie. They keep the same zany, slapstick vibe of the film going, and I think my only complaint is that they are too short. I would think that a DVD of this nature would be packed with deleted scenes (even if it was just still drawings set to a voiceover track). The color and look of these two sequences is quite pristine and I got the impression that these were created just for this release.
Savion Glover who choreographed this movie and also danced as Mumble, takes us through this story, while showing how he did certain scenes. We see his body in the motion capture suit and then we see him go to work, dancing around, and then these scenes are juxtaposed with their animated counterparts. He talks about the themes of the film, how Mumble had to sing with his feet and he also takes us through the whole process of using tap dancing to develop this character on screen.
Widescreen Version - 1080p resolution. A lot of times in my standard DVD reviews I write things like, "I can only imagine how this movie will play in one of the next generation formats." Well, getting to see this film on HD-DVD (and in its standard format) was illuminating in a lot of ways. I know that average people probably aren't going to do side by side comparisons of all this stuff. Most people don't have the time. However, this HD-DVD release looks immaculate. In fact, I feel that once people get hipped to how good this next generation release looks, they will have a hard time watching Standard DVDs (which still look pretty darn good by the way). The picture is so clean here it is scary. There isn't a hint of fuzziness in any of the ways that the picture has been rendered. I can only imagine what people are going to say once the prices of all this next generation equipment comes down.
Dolby Digital TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus 5.1. If you read my Standard review of this DVD, I think you will get the hint that I really don't care for musicals all that much. The fact that the singing can now be heard even better than before sadly does nothing for me. Putting just my technical hat on for a moment, I am not gonna slag the audio because of my personal preferences. If you want to hear this movie in all its glory, this is certainly one of the better ways to go. The musical numbers sound sharp and when you factor in the picture this is one of those releases that you could use to show off your system's capabilties.
In theory, I should have loved Happy Feet. I should have loved the ideas and themes that were behind the very heart of this story. I should've fallen in love with all of these characters. While I loved Mumble, I just found every other animal sorely lacking anything that I could attach myself too. I didn't enjoy the singing, I didn't enjoy Robin William's antics (he should have only done one voice), I didn't enjoy the way this story was told. This was quite a surprise to me because when I sat down to watch this movie I expected to fall in love with it. I expected to be blown away by how well put together it was. Sadly, I never was.
Anybody who has followed any of my reviews knows that I don't like musicals. They take me out of the story and constantly remind me that I am watching a movie. The fact that I didn't like these songs at all (too modern for my tastes) makes me think A) I just didn't get this film or B) I was simply the wrong person to review this movie. I will say that the animation was great and that on DVD this thing looked pristine. It is truly amazing what can be done with computers nowadays.
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