For a short while Hogarth feels like the luckiest kid in America, able to play with the greatest toy in the history of the world. Of course, there is no way that the boy can keep a fifty-foot tall robot with an appetite for scrap metal a secret. Eventually, a paranoid government agent shows up to investigate sightings of the robot, which leads to an inevitable showdown with the military. The two sided DVD offers both full screen and wide screen presentations, however too much of the movie is cropped to make the full screen version viable viewing option for anyone but a child. The transfer itself is practically perfect, offering a clear and very well defined image.
Colors are wonderfully vibrant and are reproduced without chroma noise or distortion.
Digital compression artifacts are virtually undetectable. The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack has a truly first rate mix that fully takes advantage of the discrete nature of the format. There is good channel separation across the forward soundstage, and when combined with the aggressive use of split surround effects, the onscreen imagery is truly enhanced by this highly active soundtrack. Bass reproduction is very full and deep, which adds a great deal of weight to the footsteps of the fifty-foot tall robot. Additionally, the voices of the actors are well recorded and sound very natural in the mix.