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Cat.no: 200642 9

Cert: E

Running time: 67 mins

Year: 1995

Pressing: 1998

Region(s): 2, PAL

Chapters: 15 plus extras

Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1 and Stereo

Languages: English or native language

Lyrics: English and French

Presented in Fullscreen

16:9-enhanced: No

Macrovision: No

Disc Format: DVD 5

Price: £19.99

Extras : Scene index, Album Discography

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Director:

Tony Greco

Featuring:

Celine Dion

Plus special appearances from:

Peabo Bryson & Clive Griffin

Celine is joined for a song apiece by Peabo Bryson - for Beauty And The Beast - and British singer Clive Griffin, who duets on the Nat King Cole classic ballad, When I Fall In Love.

The picture quality is rather disappointing on this disc, despite having a high bitrate of 8.51Mb/s. The reasons being that in addition to artifacts being noticeable in the background which mostly consists of purple and blue, the video itself is a poor NTSC-to-PAL standards conversion, making everything very blurry and looking like a VHS tape on a bad day. Given that the performance is displayed in 4:3, the disc is obviously not anamorphic - a process used for prints with a ratio of 16:9 or wider which allows extra resolution on widescreen televisions.

The sound, both in vanilla Stereo and neopolitan Dolby Digital 5.1 formats, is fine but won't give your speakers much of a workout since the majority of Celine's work are ballads such as her first UK No.1, Think Twice, plus Top 10 hits Only One Road and a cover of the 1985 Jennifer Rush classic The Power Of Love, although things get a bit more up-tempo with Misled which made No.40 when first released in April 1994, but on re-issue climbed to No.15 in December 1995.

Extras :

Chapters :

There are 15 chapters here, one for each song as well as the programme start and the track listing is as follows :

1. Programme Start
2. Everybody's Talkin' My Baby Down
3. Love Can Move Mountains
4. If You Asked Me To
5. Only One Road
6. Ce N'Etait Qu'un Reve
7. Misled
8. Think Twice
9. Where Does My Heart Beat Now
10. When I Fall In Love
11. Refuse To Dance
12. The Power Of Love
13. Beauty And The Beast
14. I Can't Help Falling In Love
15. The Colour Of My Love

Languages/Subtitles :

All songs are in English, apart from track 6 - obviously - and lyrics are available in English and French for each of the songs apart from tracks 6 and 13. The back cover states this but there's no reason why they shouldn't be there.

Other extras :

Celine's discography in album-only format which only goes as far as her 1996 album, "Falling Into You", thus missing out her "Let's Talk About Love" release as well as her contribution to the film about the sinking ship.

Menu :

A static menu with the usual options and a picture of Ms. Dion.

Overall, this really is a hard DVD to recommend to even the biggest Celine Dion fans. Yes, they'll appreciate the chance to get all fourteen songs in a live setting on the new digital format, but you'd be best off buying the CDs since paying full price for an hour's entertainment with a near-absymal picture quality and an amount of extras which wouldn't sink a matchbox, never mind the Titanic, will make anyone "Think Twice".

FILM	 		: ***
PICTURE QUALITY		: **
SOUND QUALITY		: ****
EXTRAS			: ½
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OVERALL			: **½

Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 1999.