Product: Magic [VHS] (1978)
Rating: 5.0
WELL IT'S ABOUT TIME !!! 6.5 stars
I could not have done this DVD better myself. Being one of the skeptics of this release, being one who has treasured the film, way back from an edited for tv broadcast to the full length Embassy Video on Beta (!) to a laserdisc to a really sorry but beautiful looking vhs of the edited for tv version. I have been probably this films biggest champion. My friend told me this DVD was coming out and passed for fear that this was just another rehashing of the "Clean" Edited version. Well I saw what great extra features were on it and I thought Ok. Give it a shot. I was worried because who has ever heard of Dark Sky films? I thought surely 20th Century Fox would have put the proper version.But from the main menu to the Fats and Friends Documentary to the fact that this is the full length 107 uncensored version, I have been in a surreal state of Bliss. Finally having a definitive version of this movie. Even all the posters and lobby cards I collected are here in the photo gallery! The conversation with the Ventriloquist supervisor for the film was excellent. Fats himself even makes a personal appearance in the discussion! Funny stuff guys. Ok go buy it, and yes I do feel that leaving the film's soundtrack in 2.0 was a good decision. If IT ain't broke don't fix it.Thank you Dark Sky films