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Francis Ford Coppola and Paramount Home Entertainment held a press conference and street fair in Brooklyn, and yours truly was there! The exciting news, of course, was announcing the release of THE GODFATHER DVD COLLECTION on October 9, 2001! If the preview of the set is any indication, then I must say this will be the crown jewel in any DVD collection!

The three films will only be released together in this set. The Godfather and The Godfather Part III will each be on one disc, and The Godfather Part II will take two discs. The first of the good news? Francis Coppola has recorded full-lenth audio commentaries for all three films!

But wait, there’s a fifth disc that will blow your socks off! Check this out — the bonus disc contains 3+ hours worth of special features, including: > “The Godfather Family: A Look Inside” documentary > “Francis Coppola’s Notebook”, an inside look at taking the book to screen! > “On Location” with production designer Dean Tavoularis! > “The Godfather Behind The Scenes” 1971 featurette! > “The Cinematography of The Godfather”! > “The Music of The Godfather” — two featurettes! > “Coppola and Puzo on Screenwriting”! > Storyboards from GF2 and GF3! > “The Corleone Family Tree” character and cast bios! > Academy Award® acceptance speeches! > Photo galleries with captions! > Theatrical trailers! > Filmmaker bios! > Corleone Family timeline, with real-life events mixed in! > Never-seen alternate opening of GF3! > And “all” of the extra footage found in the televised Godfather Saga!

The picture quality looked fantastic — Coppola’s American Zoetrope did a wonderful job restoring the films! From what I could tell, the sound quality was perfect, and the on-screen menus looked great. And the DVD packaging looks very nice.

All three films are in widescreen format with English 5.1 surround sound, French mono, and English subtitles.

Perhaps the only “bad” news I heard was that there were no plans at this point to release the chronological version on DVD. Francis said that the films were meant to be seen with the flashbacks, and I tend to agree. The biggest plus of having The Godfather Trilogy or Epic on tape, or watching The Godfather Saga on TV, was all the extra footage included. Well, the bonus disc in The Godfather DVD Collection contains “all” of the extra footage, and even something we’ve never seen anywhere before: an alternate opening for The Godfather Part III. Francis didn’t give a firm “no” though; he cited technical reasons for not being able to include all the extra footage on DVD: the different scenes are in various levels of production (”they weren’t mixed and scored”), making it difficult to add them seemlessly with today’s technology. Maybe, but they seemed to be okay in the boxed sets and on TV to me.

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This is gonna be great!! I can’t wait! Amazon doesn’t tell you what you’re getting, so here is the scoop as I know it …

The Godfather Trilogy is ONLY going to be released as a box set! (though I suspect that down the road you will be able to buy them individually)

The trilogy will run across four discs, with GODFATHER II on two discs, and all are in anamorphic widescreen with running audio commentary from Francis Ford Coppola.

The fifth disc will feature 3+ hours worth of bonus material, including Coppola’s notebook on adapting the Mario Puzo novel for the screen

* A Documentary on the Making of the Films (73 minutes)
* Additional Scenes
* Cast Rehearsals
* Filming Locations Featurette
* Storyboards
* Cinematography of The Godfather
* The Music of The Godfather
* The Corleone Family Tree
* The Godfather Historical Time Line

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Of all the Sesame Street DVDs that we have, this one is definitely my daughter’s favorite. Though she is only 15 months old, she now sings bits and pieces and hums the tune to several of the songs on here. When my husband and I try to watch a DVD, she will run over and grab this one and shove at us to put it in so she can watch it.

Unlike some other Sesame Street DVDs, this one actually has somewhat of a plot. Everyone on Sesame Street thinks that Elmo is going to do a top ten countdown of his favorite songs on the radio, so they all spend the entire time trying to convince him to use their favorite song on the countdown - turns out all Elmo wants is some quiet time so that he can practice his top ten countdown (all he is going to do on the radio is count backwards from 10 to 1.) The songs on here are some favorite kids’ songs - I’ve Been Working on the Railroad, Baa Baa Black Sheep, The Alphabet Song, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, Row Row Row Your Boat, She’ll Be Comin’ Round the Mountain, John Jacob Jingle-Heimer Schmidt, etc. If you only purchase one Sesame Street DVD, this should be it!

The premise of this tape is that Elmo has been asked to do a “Top Ten Countdown” on the radio, so all of the sesame street characters want to be sure that their favorite song is included in the “Top Ten.” As Elmo travels around Sesame Street, each of them sings their favorite song to (or with) him.

Our two year old is mildly interested in Sesame Street but she seems to really enjoy this tape. The music is lively and there’s enough going on to hold a toddler’s attention. The tape contains several classic children’s songs such as “Row, Row, Row Your Boat”, and “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad.” Throughout the tape, the concept of counting down (from 10 to 1) is repeated either by Elmo or a couple of short cartoons. Overall, I highly recommend this tape.

The only negative comment that I have is that the first several minutes of the tape contains ads for other Sesame Street tapes. I find this to be annoying because you have to fast-forward through them each time you want to play the tape. If they have to include them, I wish that they’d put them at the end of the tape.
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This DVD set, though not up to the standards of many new documentaries, is well made and includes commentary from actors playing battle participants. The use of sweeping scenes from several Russian Napoleonic films showed the epic scale of these events. Its presentation of the complete destruction of 650,000 men in Russia and what might have been at Waterloo were the real highlights. This was money well spent.

There’s no copyright year anywhere on the DVD case or box, but the end of the documentaries I think label it as being from 1993 or so, and yet the video quality looks horrifying by today’s standards, and by the standards of 1993, it would be considered bad itself. It looks something like the early to mid-70s on a VHS recorded off a TV.

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So hold no bias against poorly aged footage not anywhere near digitally enhanced or fixed.

The documentary features are very very engrossing, even featuring some computer-generated map sequences that look surprisingly 2000-ish despite being apparently made in 1993 (or if you judge like I had when first seeing it, 1971), which allow you to keep track of what’s occurring across the battlefield, and see army columns moving about where they do and around the field.

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The narration is always perfect and precise, even if the script tacks on some stupid cliche’s, and there are some acting sequences where some actors dress up (and in one humorously awkward case, stand before a very poorly done background scenery piece) and act out a historical person talking about the battle. The English captain Mercer in Waterloo is kind of awkward in his dull droning, but somehow manages to rapture us with his charisma. Then there’s also a gritty-ass French general who looks kind of like Donnie Wahlberg and sounds like a brick grinding against a block of wood, and a Prussian captain with highly fluent, understandable German and a nice sort of ambivalent smugness to him that seems to reflect Prussia’s whole “we don’t give a s***” attitude to the affairs before Austerlitz when they hadn’t joined Napoleon Bonaparte or the Alliance against him.

Then there are the battles, re-enacted on a massive scale with (1970s) style movie filming and directing, and it is very very entertaining.
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Other than a penchant for inspired madness and mad scientists, there is no overt relation between Disney’s “Phineas & Ferb” cartoon series and The Rocky Horror Picture Show. But you’ll see a backstage connection if you read the credits at the end of the five two-cartoon episodes on the this new DVD, “The Daze of Summer,” the second in the DVD series.

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Comprised of shows selected from both seasons, almost every cartoon in the collection features a very impressive cast of voice actors and others known for their on-camera work. But series creators Jeff “Swampy” Marsh and Dan Povenmire (who also voices the neurotic, insecure Doofensmirtz) must be big-time Rocky Horror fans because the voice of P & F’s clueless dad is none other than Richard O’Brien, one of the “Rocky Horror” creators as well as “Riff Raff” in “Rocky Horror” (and the Childcatcher in the London stage version of “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”). Performing other voices in various shows are Rocky Horror alums Tim Curry and Barry Bostwick.

There are also many young actors from various Disney Channel TV series doing voices, most prominently “High School Musical’s” Ashley Tisdale as the Dr. Bellows/Mrs. Kravitz-like Candice, the tattletale sister who is never believed my mom (Caroline Rhea). She even gets a solo song, “Queen of Mars,” in a two-part episode. Other Disney Channel faves include Mitchel Musso, Alyson Stoner, Brenda Song and Brian Stepanek, as well as top Hollywood voice actors Corey Burton (narrating a film about platypuses) and Tom Kenny (best known as the voice of Spongebob).

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Every episode of “Phineas & Ferb fulfills” the wishes of many pre-pubescent boys: it’s always summer vacation, the two brothers can create practically anything, visit almost anywhere and always outwit their sister. There is always a parallel story in which their pet platypus, Perry, saves the world from destruction. Both plots usually somehow tie together. I know it doesn’t make sense, but you have to see it to get it. The show’s creative team really pulls off a rich, gag-filled maze of story in every show, which makes them fun to re-watch.

The episodes are as follows:

JERK DE SOLEIL

Candice’s allergic reaction to parsnips gives her an “Audrey II” voice.

TOY TO THE WORLD

The boys create a new toy. There are references to Willy Wonka and searing, sad-but-true jabs at corporate “yessing.”

A HARD DAY’S KNIGHT

The family takes a London vacation.

I, BROBOT

Phineas and Ferb create an army of Phinadroids and Ferbots.

IT’S A MUD, MUD, MUD, MUD, MUD WORLD

The brothers try to cheer up their sister with a monster truck show.

THE BALLAD OF BADBEARD

On a camping trip, the boys sail for adventure while Candice hallucinates after touching moss and becomes part of a Perry mission. (Parents note: Candice has the grooviest 60’s-style psychedelic experience since Jackie Gleason in Skidoo.)

GREECE LIGHTNING

Candice is again compared to a hideous beast and Doofensmirtz unleashes an urbane robot monster named Norm.

LEAVE THE BUSTING TO US

Candice enlists a TV reality show crew to expose her brothers’ latest creation: a theme park in the backyard.

UNFAIR SCIENCE FAIR / SCIENCE FAIR REDUX

Two carttoons edited together, with Candice eventutally being crowned Queen of Mars. A fitting finale.

The DVD also includes a series of interactive games themed to a science fair.

If you are wondering what episodes are included in Phineas and Ferb: The Daze of Summer, Wonder no more. I own the dvd, and here are the episodes:

1. Jerk De Soleil

2. Toy To The World

3. A Hard Day’s Knight

4. I,Brobot

5. It’s A Mud,Mud,Mud,Mud World

6. The Ballad Of Badbeard

7. Greece Lightning

8. Leave The Busting To Us

9. Unfair Science Fair

10.Unfair Science Fair Redux

The last two listed episodes( Unfair Science Fair, and Unfair Science Fair Redux) are two episodes which I had never seen before. The episodes are about Phineas and Ferb helping Baljeet build a Portal to Mars, meanwhile Perry is fighting Dr. Doofensmirtz as usual, but it is interesting, because they show Dr. Doofensmirtz first (inator) invention!

Also Candace is trying to get a job with Jeremy.

Also included as a bonus feature on this dvd is THE GOOGOLPLEX MALL SCIENCE FAIR GAME/ACTIVITY. If you are a fan of Phineas and Ferb as I am, I highly suggest that you purchase this AWESOME dvd!!!
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This film on the life of one of the Church’s greatest Saints was never given the proper credit it deserved. Bradford Dillman shines as the merchant turned Saint. You can feel his spiritual upheaval as he leaves all things to follow Christ.Dolores Hart as Clare,shortly after playing this role ,left Hollywood to become a cloistered nun.Watching her undergo Clare’s conversion ,one can sense the actresses own struggle to follow in the footsteps of Francis. The story this film tells demands

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the widescreen process.Lots of spiritual awakening in this great film.

This film changed my life. I will go on record to say that it is because of this movie that I am a Catholic Christian today. While not 100% historically accurate, it is still a much better film than Brother Sun, Sister Moon. You see all aspects of the saint here - his love for nature, his peacemaking, his desire for martyrdom, the betrayal of some of his Friars Minor, but most of all - we see the love for God and Jesus Christ that moved a man to change his world and continue to bring people to Christ today.

Dolores Hart, who played Saint Claire, eventually became a Franciscan Nun after making this film.
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PWGI is a solid suspense drama that takes the age-old sibling rivalry tale to refreshing new heights. It also has a great story that patiently builds tension into a climax you’ll never see coming. J. August Richards, Sharif Atkins and vet Ron Canada lead a talented cast of fresh faces.

Rick’s brother, Travis, commits suicide and Rick is shedding no tears. He and his brother weren’t close, they were far from it, in fact, and Rick (Sharif Atkins) did not front by pretending he was all broken up about Travis’ (J. August Richards) death. What he did do was try to find out a few things for himself to prove his brother didn’t deserve all of the praise his father gave him. Truths come to light and a hurtful secret is revealed.

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I heard about this movie and it sounded interesting, however, I bought it for one reason - Sharif Atkins stars in it. I used to watch him years ago on ER and I’m always glad to come across a television show or movie he takes part in.

Now about this dvd - The story is good - I really did like it - but the film quality is lacking. Sometimes the picture is clear and sometimes it’s fuzzy. Now, I get what the filmmakers were trying to do with the flashback scenes, but still the picture could have been better. And there are times when change in camera focus is a bit much. For instance, making the person who isn’t talking in a shot look blurred while the person who is talking is focused; that was a bit overdone. This is why I gave only 2 stars; otherwise, I would have given it 4.
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Rather than ramble on about Marilyn Monroe’s tragic rise and fall, a story that many know very well, I’ll keep my comments to the documentary presentation itself. This “official studio biography” of Marilyn, distributed by 20th Century Fox, deserves credit for presenting a much more forthright biography of this carefully crafted show business creation than one might expect from a studio that held her contract for so many years. Fox was fairly balanced in presenting Marilyn in many different lights: glamorous, vulnerable, ambitious, beloved, exploited and sadly insecure. There are many interviews with Marilyn’s friends, fellow actors, columnists, and other celebrities of the time. Narrator Peter Graves does an excellent job. Given the numerous television tributes available, this documentary still had a number of things that I either wasn’t aware of, or had never seen before.

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Here’s are the elements of the biography which I found most noteworthy:

- Interviews with Marilyn’s first husband James Dougherty

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- A video snippet of Marilyn’s first movie appearance

- The story behind the 1949 nude photo that made it into the first issue of Playboy

- Much of the song “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” from “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes”

- Newsreel-type video from her performances before American soldiers in Korea

- Film footage from Marilyn’s divorce press conference

- Interviews with Evelyn Moriarty, Marilyn’s stand-in

- Film footage of the “Happy Birthday” song for JFK, an event to which Marilyn was so late that it took numerous introductions by actor Peter Lawford (JFK’s brother-in-law) before she finally shuffled onto the stage

- A sequence of outtakes that showed Marilyn repeatedly flubbing her lines in scenes with Dean Martin in “Something’s Got to Give”

Total run time is 91 minutes (I was hoping for more). Also, there’s a bonus feature of 20 theatrical trailers; watching them all takes 55 minutes, but they’re great. I’d recommend this DVD to anyone.

Best and well made of many documentries. I bought 4 others recently, they just look like garage edited 3rd rate copies of most stuff already available in many other works. This REAL FOX release is just great. It only lacks “slant” on the possible homocide of Marilyn.
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Gotham, the future. Dark Knight Terry McGinnis and his mentor Bruce Wayne fight to rid the city of the criminal element which infests it. Armed with a high-tech Batsuit, a hover-converted Batmobile and the vast training and guidance of the original Batman, McGinnis transcends the Batman legacy as a new hero for a new era.

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It may have been created [by the producers of “Batman: The Animated Series” at the request of Warner Bros.] to attract a new generation of viewers by injecting the dark detective with new, younger blood, but the futuristic “Batman Beyond” (like Batman: TAS) was a show for Batfans of all ages. Ironically, much of Batman Beyond’s charm can be attributed to the generation gap between Terry and Bruce as displayed in “Dead Man’s Hand” where they clash over their pursuit of the Royal Flush Gang. One of whom (Melanie/Ten) Terry has romantic feelings for and later reluctantly places into police custody. “This sort of thing ever happen to you?,” Terry asks. Bruce warmly smiles with “Let me tell you about a woman named Selina Kyle.” Great stuff. Batman Beyond was a cool series that featured the phenomenal voice talents of Will Friedle (Boy Meets World), Kevin Conroy (Batman: TAS), Lauren Tom (Superman: TAS), Teri Garr (Mr. Mom), and Sherman Howard (Superboy); first-rate scripts; frenetic action; and one of TV’s coolest opening main titles; Not to mention sensational main title and score music by Kristopher Carter.

Previously released as single disc individual episode releases, Warner Home Video finally delivers Batman Beyond - The Complete First Season DVD on March 21st! The 2-disc set features all 13 episodes from the first season; Full Frame (1.33:1) video; English Dolby Digital Stereo audio; Spanish, French subtitles; (Note: If you own all of the original BB single disc releases, then you already have Batman Beyond - Season One minus the previously unreleased episode “Ascension”, and should consider it plus the exclusive EXTRAS on this set before deciding.) Here are the contents of this schway set:

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Disc 1:

Rebirth Part 1

Rebirth Part 2

Black Out

Golem

Meltdown

Heroes

Shriek

Dead Man’s Hand

Disc 2:

The Winning Edge

Spellbound

Disappearing Inque

A Touch of Curare

Ascension

Special Features:

Commentary: “Rebirth Part 1″ by Bruce Timm (Producer), Alan Burnett (Producer), Paul Dini (Producer), Glen Murakami (Producer), and Curt Geda (Director)

Commentary: “Shriek” by Bruce Timm (Producer), Alan Burnett (Producer), Glen Murakami (Producer), Stan Berkowitz (Writer), and Curt Geda (Director)

Featurette: “Inside Batman Beyond”: Roundtable discussion with the creators of the series plus a few surprises

Bonus: “Music of The Knight”: Viewer-selectable dramatic music from five key scenes of Batman Beyond introduced by Bruce Timm

Highly Recommended!

A long time coming, I’m so glad Warner Bros has finally decided to give us box sets of this show. We get all 13 season 1 episodes here, which introduce us to the new Batman Terry McGinnis, and also most of his major foes: Shriek, Spellbinder, Curare, Inque, a new Royal Flush Gang, and also Derek Powers/Blight, the show’s Lex Luthor equivalent. Also notable are revelations to past Batman villains, namely Mr. Freeze and Bane.

If you liked the recent animated Batman volume sets, Batman Beyond is worth checking out. True it’s a new take on Batman, but it’s also one that adds to the continuity of the classic shows and portrays the same mature sensabilities, sharp dialogue, and fun action we got before. Old Bruce Wayne is a cranky extension of his younger self, and his relationship with Terry is a new dynamic not seen with the previous Robins or Batgirl. Considering that this series originated as KidsWB wanting to sell more toys and appeal to “younger demographics,” it says something that not only does this show not destroy the Batman legacy, but in fact enriches it and gives the Timm/Dini/Burnett collaboration something they can proudly call their own.

This set will include commentaries, interviews, and even a music-only track. I should note that this set only includes 1 episode that has not been released to dvd in some form so far. If you bought the previous releases, you technically own most of the content already. However, having a box set is such a nice way to own this series that I’d recommend you sell those discs off in preparation for this one and prepare for Batman…Beyond.
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I gave this film 5 stars because it is one of those rare movies that made me laugh out loud! This is a very dark comedy about 2 idiots who find their boss dead and convince hundreds of gullible people that he is actually alive. They walk him around a resort, go boating with his remains, have parties. They even convince the hitman who killed Bernie that he’s still alive! So, you guessed it, the hitman tries and tries again to “kill” Bernie. The physical humor is absolutely the best. It’s a unique concept. I guarantee that you will laugh until you hurt. It’s totally 80’s with a great theme song sung by Jermaine Stewart. Highly recommended.

The cast is perfect and the sets, music, and all that went into this movie seem to meld to make a very funny movie. Andrew McCarthy as Larry Wilson and Jonathan Silverman as Richard Parker are a good match for co-workers at an insurance company. Larry the brown nosing party man and Richard the hard working nerd. When Richard discovers a two million dollar mistake in claims their boss Bernie invites them over for the weekend to discuss it. What happens after that is sick, demented, and funny. Any fan of “8 Heads in a Duffel Bag” and “The Whole Nine Yards” should enjoy it. This is one of those rare movies were seeing a dead person being lugged around, beat up, dropped, bareface ski, washed around in the tide, shot, strangled, and more is just plain outrageously funny.
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Palin seems to have been infected by the mountain air - he absolutely bounds with giddy dleight through this series!

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Recently, Palin’s most recent travel documentaries have been watched and received with great anticipation, but there is an air of ‘tiredness’ hanging over them - emphasised more by the fact Palin’s first efforts, “Around the world in 80 days” and “Pole to Pole” are being regularly shown now on cable channels, reminding us of his infectious enthusiasm, delight in mixing with the local people and response to seeing new things. By the time he completed “Full Circle,” it was clear the travel was beginning to burn him out - and “Full Circle” was a monumental volume of work!

But with Himalaya, I am pleased to say he is back in fine form, he seems to absolutely delight in meeting and chatting with the people of the Himalaya’s. He joins in their celebrations, their lives. The editing is superb - the majestic and breathtaking beauty of the landscape a constant reminder to pack one’s bags and go! Its also great to see him and his guide hooked up with wireless microphones so now there are shots of them strolling through market places and you get to see more of the people going about their daily business around them as opposed to earlier days when shots of Palin with his guide would have had to been close ups to accomodate the (hidden) microphone overhead. It all adds up to one slick and very entertaining program!

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The music is also magical - why isn’t it out on CD?!

This maybe the last travel documentary by Palin, but he went out on a magnificent high point - literally I guess! This is defintely the best thing he has been in since “Around the world in 80 days” and I can’t imagine anyone not wanting to pack their bags and go and see these sights for themselves after this show! I truly envy Palin and the opportunity he has been given with these shows, but he makes up for that the best travel documentaries ever made - I applaud him and everyone in the making of Himalaya - fantastic!

Beginning at the Khyber Pass, and taking in the Chitra Valley of NW Pakistan, Srinagar and Amritsar, a visit with the Dali Lhama in Dharmsala, where the Dali Lhama said that he’s seen Palin’s previous journeys and wishes that he could join him, Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan, Lugu Lake in Yunnan Province and Bangladesh, Palin puts together another geographic journey of discovering different cultures and their landscapes. It doesn’t seem to be as much about the journey as say, Pole to Pole or Full Circle, as more often than not the group leaves once place and suddenly appears at the next, with only a mention of a track between. If more of the actual travel was included, there would not have been much time for the destinations. More time is given to each place but it lacks the flow of the earlier journeys with the actual travel shortened to a few highlights. What some viewers of “Full Circle” saw as a “burnt out Palin,” I saw as the true rigors of the road. To me the road is as much of the journey as where you check-in for a few days and I miss the old approach, a bit.

There are 3 DVDs. The only extras are deleted or expanded scenes and a couple of short interviews, which are well worth it. You get to places like the gardens of Shalimar on the extras that are skipped in the main cut. There are no subtitles, which I would have liked as in some places the ambient noise and English with heavy foreign accents makes comprehension difficult. Even so, back up on the DVD and a volume increase make this easy to overcome.

I’m about ready to bid on the Palin Region 2 DVDs from Europe that are not getting released here. So, whoever is holding the release of previous journeys back, your time is getting short as I run out of patience. At least I have this one.
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