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I would give the DVD 5 star rating too. The program is awesome. Take That is in it's best form, and concert is wonderfully conceived.

I trained myself to perceive buying something I like on a Blu-ray, after I already have it on a DVD, as an upgrade and not double-dipping. As such, I expect it to actually BE an upgrade...

Unfortunately... it was lit for the in-house audience and not for cameras (at least not for cameras used to shoot this concert). Insufficient light leads to grain and grain is abundant here, there is a lot of blocking and it is obvious that there is something gravely wrong with the colors and contrast. It's blooming, posterized and painful to watch. I wasn't expecting much of an improvement over the DVD, judging by the difference between their previous DVD and Blu-ray, but this exceeded all my grim expectations... DVD itself looked ok, but when I inspect it now, after seeing the Blu-ray, I see that the grain is inherent in the source material, it was only far less visible (almost invisible) in the inferior resolution of the DVD. On the Blu-ray, I can only see grain and color banding...

Needless to say, this is the worse Blu-ray disc I have, an awfull presentation of a wonderful content. To add insult to injury, DTS HD Master Audio track that is advertised on the package is nowhere to be found on the disc, giving more of an amateurish feel to all the proceedings... They wrote: "Music Never Looked Or Sounded So Good" on the cover. I beg to differ! I am sorely dissapointed, even if I didn't expect too much of an improvement over the DVD. Both Take That and their fans deserve better.

I think most people have seen the film and already know whether they like it or not when considering buying this DVD. So I'll talk specifically about this DVD.

The film has been restored beyond its original brilliance. If you pay close attention, particularly at a still-frame, you will realize that what Disney means by this is that they didn;t really restore it but just went ahead and rapaint every single frame digitally. SO certainly the feel has nothing of the warmth and life of the hand-coloured original. Luckily, the studio seems to have taken quite great care with this and so the recolouring is not too obtrusive, only becoming helplessly intrusive in certain scenes. For the most part, the brightness manages to enhance the sparkle of this classics. The soundtrack has been excellently remastered and "Cinderella" is one of the select elites in the pantheon to have received a Disney Home Theatre Mix enhancement of the original mono soundtrack, which would play like the most recent soundtrack recorded on the most sophistictaed sound sytem. That both the remastered mono and this enhnaced mix are offered gives the choice of whether you want the film to bring nostalgia or just sparkle.

The extras do feel somewhat lacking for a special edition of such a revered masterpiece, but do comprise a good range of materials to cater for the whole family - just as a piece of Disney entertainment should do. It is truly a mixed bag in that the qualities are also disparate, but that nothing is merely a set of onscreen slides merits the studio praise for actually make proper DVD features and not the ever-so-painful to peruse e-book. From a dress design studio to audio extracts from radio programmes about the original release and sporting hero documentaries to storyboard art, this is a package of solid and researched pertinent materials with the lightest of fluffs tagging along.

Be aware, this is the 4:3, not the Widescreen version!

Easy to buy it by mistake as 99.9% of DVDs are widescreen!

I was always ambivalent about the new X-Files movie. Being a child of the 80/90s and a proper X-files fan, I figured it was always going to be difficult to bring back the paranormal, the tensions and the conspiracies that abounded in all the 9 series.

Yes, I agree that this stand-alone movie harks back to the early series, where Mulder and Scully were kept busy by relatively banal mysteries, before the paranormal aspect kicked off. However, this doesn't really gel - the crime may be strictly season 1, but the relationship between the two is season 9!

In short, nothing really works, and the X-Files, cult classic as it was, should really have stayed in the archives, rather than being brought back to some kind of life with such a poor showing as this. Mulder's search for his sister was getting tiresome even towards the end of the series, and to have it regurgitated in some way here, was a pretty desparate move to regain some credibility. The search for the sister isn't relevant - in fact, it's not even an X-Files matter - Mulder is asked by by the FBI to help them look for a missing agent, although quite how his insight is relevant is difficult to see. Scully kind of gets roped into this as well, while balancing a relatively normal life as a doctor for a Catholic charity. Throw a psychic (or is he?) paedophile priest (Billy Connolly) into the mix as well, and you end up with a mish mash of issues (predominantly Faith vs Science), none of which are particularly inspiring or interesting.

Basically, it's a serial killer-type plot that bears no relevance to Mulder and Scully's skills or background. They shouldn't even be there, and if the actors and caharcter's names were changed, you wouldn't even realise it was based on the X-Files.

I hate to say it, but it's poor in many ways. Even the most committed X-Filer would find it difficult to get some positives - do yourself a favour and watch the series from season 1 instead and remind yourself how good it was way back when!

I'm not going to say too much to anyone new to this series. I'll just say that this is just some of the most exciting and best written / acted TV that I've ever seen. Just brilliant.

I personally love the shrek films and was excited to hear there was a third one coming out. Although when i first watched it i got bored quickly and lost interest but after watching it again i seem to like it more and more. It has plenty of humour and you may not like a character but sometimes you have to look past that. For those who are dragging it through the mud...give it a second chance

I think this is an excellent prequel to Scorpion King. The young heroine is awesome. I really enjoyed the movie and have watched it over and over.

... I bought it for my girlfriend's son, who was delighted. The 'Fame' and 'Dirty Dancing' of its day, it would appear.

I watched The Incredibles with my 4 year old son this afternoon. This was the second attmept at watching it after we had to switch it off some months before because the film became too intense for him. He wanted to watch it again ("All the way through this time!") and so we settled down, turned down the lights and amped up the 5.1 surround sound.
The first ten minutes had me laughing at Mr Incredible's attempts to do his duty as a superhero whilst aiming to attend what is obviously a very important function on time.
This sequence is hectic, exciting and fun. The film then slows down somewhat, and I thought my son might begin to fidget and become bored, but he didn't and the film soon livened up again.
Some later sequences are genuinely suspenseful and filled with a sense of real danger. The music score (very James Bond in places) adds to the atmosphere and the animation is superb. I was especially impressed with the scenes in the tropical jungle, the rendering was, uh, incredible.
The 5.1 is punchy and effective, the story entertaining, and you grow to care about the characters and their ultimate fates.
Great entertainment for 4 year olds and 43 year olds alike!