Spirited Away DVD

[slycat]

Just finished watching the fantastic Spirited Away DVD which I received today. I had seen the subtitled film before courtesy of Glis about a year ago but it was nice to see the film in crisp DVD vision. Was also interesting to watch dubbed in the English language as you catch a lot more of what's going on. (Interesting factoid: The girl who voiced Lilo in Lilo and Stitch does the voice of Chihiro in this! :P )

I was a little upset about how the DVD itself has been "Disnified". The DVD starts with trailers for the other two Studio Ghibli films recently released on Disney DVD and just before the film itself, you get a nice patronising introduction by a guy who works for Disney explaining how we are in for a treat with the film, ignoring the fact that people who buy the film probably will know what they're getting themselves into...

Comments

[andyfox.livejournal.com]

I downloaded it all on the basis i needed to see it 1st before buying it (most things from Hayao Miyazaki are great).

Alas teh sound was missing or my DivX codec is missing somthing or .. gah I dont know. Looks good from a brief look tho.

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Get the K-lite codec pack. It has all the codecs you'll ever need and is much better than that Nimo compliation.

But yes, buy the DVD if you're ok with R1 NTSC. It's a great movie :)