Product: Dirty Dancing (1987)
Rating: 4.0
Average Movie, GREAT DVD Showcase
This isn't a review of the movie - the coming of age story about Baby, an uppity girl on vacation in the Catskills who learns about love, life, and how to dance while visiting a resort - but rather a review on this DVD's ability to transform any non-DVD-believer to the new format.This DVD's featurettes were recorded in 1987 - long ago enough that they realized the marketing potential to have many Making Of and Extra Bonus Feature abilities, and by including these original 1987 films on the DVD you can *easily* compare the quality differences. This alone makes you realize why you opted to buy the DVD over another VHS.It's fun to see the directors and actors, in their full 1980's VHS quality, commenting on the movie. They intercut the dance scenes as well as the dialouge without digital conversion, and when you watch it, you notice just how much of an improvement DVD is. Listen to the sound in the cutscenes and then replay the same scene in the DVD, and anyone who hasn't switched to DVD certainly will.The DVD contains all the music videos from the movie - again, in relatively low-res VHS/MTV quality, as well as some animated backgrounds. A great DVD for the simple fact that it's so easy to switch between what you've seen on VHS for years (and even on at the theatres) and what is available on DVD, quality-wise, today.