Shadow obtained the DVD a few
days before the official release date. Here's Shadow's
review.
| Audio |
First off,
the bonus episodes Lucky Strike and Boxing
Daria (neither of which are on the VHS) had
all of the background music erased. For the most
part, this isn't a big change. And it was
expected, since that's how it was on the IIFY
DVD. However, it does seem awkward when there's
an obvious pause during an exterior shot of the
Morgendorffer home, or Lawndale High, or where
there should have been a commercial bumper. In the actual movie, however, there
are more noticeable changes. The background music
was again deleted, and replaced with stock music.
I didn't really notice it until later in the
movie, though.
Besides the annoying music
crap that MTV stuck us with here, the audio is
pretty good. I couldn't see, or hear, rather, any
flaws in the audio.
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| Video |
Ah, the video.
I saw absolutely nothing wrong with the video. I
could've sworn I was watching it being broadcast
on MTV. Clear, crisp, perfect. No complaints here. |
| Menus |
The menus
were simple and easy to use, and at first, it
even replays a little bit of Splendora's College
Try (Gives Me Blisters) (IICY's
main theme). This is stupid, but when you select
a feature (like the extras), little graduation
hats fly up from the bottom of the screen. I
thought that was cool. Just wanted to point it
out. However, the
scene selection sucks. There are only five
chapter markers in the entire movie. Five. Five.
And none in the bonus eps, so that's suckage-y if
you missed something and want to go back and see
it, without reliving ten minutes of the movie.
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| Extras |
Not many
extras on this one. Unlike IIFY which
had the Mystik Spiral music video, and the end-of-film
"outtakes", this DVD only had character
profiles and the two extra episodes (which are
pretty spiffy, I'll admit). If it does have the
advertised "character sketches", I have
yet to find them. Again,
each episode contains the complete main sequence
(whee!), and if there is any background
music that was replaced, I didn't notice it being
there at all. The alter egos are still intact
with the credits at the end of the eps, but
instead of no music (as in the IIFY DVD),
you get to listen to the main theme again.
The movie's end credits
also have the alter egos, but there's some new
background tune put in there. Not Incubus's Drive
or Supergrass's Time to Go. Also, Look
Back In Annoyance isn't on here. Which is
really disappointing. Hopefully if MTV does
release the series on DVD, they'll include that
somewhere, or on a separate DVD with that "behind
the scenes" special.
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| Packaging |
Comes in a
keep case. What's there to say about it? Uh, the
image on the front cover (with Jane looking at
Daria at graduation) is screwed up (which is
really noticable in Jane's eyes). That's my only
complaint here. |
| Final Rating |
For $19.50, you get quite a package in this
little DVD. Though I'll admit, the expected music
changes were disappointing, they weren't exactly
noticeable, and what it lacks in extras and scene
selection options, it makes up for with the
movie's general content. And the bonus eps (which
I guess I haven't exactly been considering "extras")
are great too. Hell, I'd dish out twenty bucks
just to watch the segment in Lucky Strike
about "Ken", to see that substitute
call Kevin "QB", and to see the
flashback sequences in Boxing Daria (the
one featuring little Quinn being especially cute.). Overall, a great DVD. Underpriced,
in my biased opinion. So go buy a copy now. NOW.
Help get the series released on DVD, yadda,
yadda, yadda. :P
Shadow.
25th August, 2002.
© Shadow and The Irony Maiden,
2002.
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