Like the rental DVD for
What Lies Beneath,
Fox have sourced a well-rendered anamorphic widescreen transfer. Shot in 2.35:1
Panavision, every scene would suck badly in pan-and-scan. However, the only
downer is that the the filming process used has a weird effect of making
people's heads look stretched in certain scenes and it's rather off-putting at
times.
The sound is in Dolby Digital 5.1 and has its brief moments, but isn't
in anything exceptional.
Previously arriving on an extras-free rental DVD, the extras consist of a
Making-of Featurette 'hosted' by La Hurley herself, but it runs for
just 13 minutes, features the usual chat from the cast and crew and non-anamorphic
16:9 clips. Yep, no surprises here. Then follows just over two minutes of
when the music score was recorded over a fantasy scene, which is nothing to
write home about.
Two Deleted Scenes are included: one "Basketball Game" which is just the
two commentators chatting away pointlessly and "Rock Star Fantasy", running
for just over ten minutes and turns Fraser into an Alice Cooper-a-like
swearing at his roadies, but all the "fuck" and "cunt" swearwords are bleeped
out so what's the 15-certificate in aid off when it's attributed to this scene??
It's because of these 15-cert deleted scenes that the front cover says "Now
even hotter! With deleted scenes too sizzling for the cinema". All people
do is swear and the back cover attributes the latter scene as the sole cause
of the 15-cert when it's down to both of them.
Fox, cut the crap, this is complete bollocks and you know it. Stop trying
to confuse the public like this! By the way, these scenes are in non-anamorphic
2.35:1.
There's also a 5-minute Costume Design Featurette, Stills Gallery,
a Trailer, 3 TV spots and Two Audio Commentaries, one with
Harold Ramis and the other with Liz Hurley and producer Trevor
Albert.
When you first run the disc you can choose from four options: Rich, Famous,
Intelligent and Sensitive, which displays a different main menu,
with the same sub-menus underneath, but sadly all of these are static and
silent.
DVDs reviewed by the editor are watched on a Panasonic TXW32R4 32" widescreen TV
connected to either a Creative Dxr2 DVD-ROM player or Microsoft Xbox and
played through a Sony STR-DB930 amplifier.
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