Dom Robinson reviews
WWF Royal Rumble 2001
Distributed by
Silver Vision
- Cert:
- Cat.no: WWF 1010
- Running time: 209 minutes
- Year: 2001
- Pressing: 2001
- Region(s): 2, NTSC
- Chapters: 23
- Sound: Dolby Surround (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: None
- Fullscreen: 4:3
- 16:9-Enhanced: No
- Macrovision: Yes
- Disc Format: DVD 9
- Price: £19.99
- Extras: Background info on the stars, Exclusive interviews, History of the Royal
Rumble
WWF Royal Rumble 2001
is another lengthy DVD containing actors throwing each other about a lot and
appear to cause a great deal of pain with their fists, feet or any household
implement they can get their hands on.
The main feature lasts a shade under three hours and consists of five main
fights: the WWF Tag Team Championship Match with the champions Edge and
Christian up against Dudley Boyz; the WWF Intercontinental
Championship Ladder Match with champion Chris Benoit fighting
Chris Jericho; the female touch from the WWF Women's Championship
Match where reining champ Ivory takes on Chyna; and the
WWF Championship Match of Kury Angle (champion) with Trish Stratus
vs. Triple H and Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley.
Finally, as you'd expect, comes the 30-man Royal Rumble Match to determine
the No.1 contender for the WWF Championship crown at Wrestlemania, beginning
with two contestants in the ring with others entering every two minutes
until the total is complete.
Presented in a 4:3 ratio, the print is free of artifacts but the picture
quality is variable depending on the technique used. Sometimes it looks
like a dodgy NTSC-to-PAL conversion, although it's in the original NTSC,
while stop-motion and black-and-white techniques are used at other times.
You should know what to expect here though.
I was unable to determine the average bitrate.
The sonic content, presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dolby Surround), fills the room
with sound. Most of the noise tends to come from the audience cheering while those
in the ring shout a lot.
In the extras dept., shouting comes in droves from the likes of Lo' Down, Kurt Angle, Trish
Stratus, with some fan predictions and a cameo from US TV show star
Drew Carey. There's a look at the History behind the Royal
Rumble and each of the contestants involved in the main matches.
The Rumble Wrap-up consists of seven exclusive interviews with the likes
of Dudley Boyz, Chris Benoit, Ivory, Kurt Angle, Gangmaster Sexay,
William Regal and Honky Tonk Man.
23 chapters are used throughout the whole disc including the extras, but there's
just a mere FIVE over the main 3-hr event. Dialogue is in English only with
no subtitles and most of the menus feature animation in the form of clips from
the show, all with music.
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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.
