Blu-ray Review That’s Entertainment! 50th Anniversary Remastered Edition Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

And yet the star commentaries were all filmed and shown in Academy ratio. It's all very curious.

 

[Neil S. Bulk]

And yet the star commentaries were all filmed and shown in Academy ratio. It's all very curious.

Probably to give the musical moments greater impact.

 

[Richard M S]

rewatched the DVD last night to decide if it was worth upgrading, and was surprised to find that the film itself hadn't held up as well as I'd remembered it. Yes, the nostalgia factor is a major selling point of the film, but unlike those who watched this in the 1970s, I have most of the films from which the clips are drawn, and can watch them in full at will. bit

The film is as much an artifact of 1974 as it is a nostalgic trip to Hollywood of the 1920's to the early 1960's.

Elizabeth Taylor practically seems embalmed, yet she was only 42 - the same age as former child stars Anne Hathaway and Kirsten Dunst are today.

James Stewart and Clark Gable both perform quite well in their vintage clips, yet they are ridiculed.

I could go on, but the key thing is that WarnerArchive did a spectacular restoration job, and That's Entertainment remains a hugely entertaining (somewhat dated) film.

 

[mikerob]

In this day and age, it seems irresponsible for Warners to not have included a new special feature with all of the altered wide screen versions presented in OAR. That should have been an easy -- and obvious -- addition.