Product: Dirty Dancing (1987)
Rating: 2.0
Down on Dirty Dancing DVD
I'm assuming that if you are looking to buy this title on DVD, you have seen it before or at least been told a lot about the movie... So, I'm not going to write about the story or anything like that. This is geared more towards a movie collector.The description on Amazon.com and the box itself indicates that this is just a great DVD for collectors. It has tons of extra features (which I know we all go for) Some of the features listed are featurettes, music videos, commentaries and the like. It, of course has all these, and more.However, Artisan apparently wanted to boost sales by printing a new DVD collector's title but didn't want to put the money into it. ALL of the special features are of VERY poor video quality (most looking like they were encoded from a VHS tape) and the audio quality on these extras isn't much better. Very disappointing to say the least!To top it off, the movie itself is of less than good quality. Especially seeing that this film was "remastered" and rereleased a year or so ago! The video quality is better than VHS, but no better than SVHS and it seemed to me that the contrast of the transfer was way to high. Things are blurry when they shouldn't be and the transfer, at times looks digitized (LOW bit rate to save space! )The only decent things about this disc are the movie itself (I suppose I would still rather own this DVD copy than a VHS copy) and the AUDIO for the film sounds pretty good - not great, but pretty good.Basically, what I am saying is that if you really like this movie and are a DVD person like myself, buy it - but don't expect to be awed by the presentation!