I too enjoyed the review. While I seemed to have enjoyed the flick more than you did, I do beleive the movie is more of a thing for fans of the show. Non-fans will merely find it to be a mediocre flick, at best.
Two points where I really agreed to where the fullscreen aspect making the movie feel like an extended version of the show. The movie does indeed lose its 'cinematic feel', and I think that that really hurts it to, into turning it into a 'mediocre flick, at best'. It has more of a made for tape movie, and people usually regard those as not being good enough for the big screen, and go in with that feeling, and usually judge the movie more harshly for it. Secondly, the lack of any whoomph to the sound really hurt my viewing of this on my home system. They really missed some great oportunities to utilize surround sound, and my sub was not working hard at all during my watching of this DVD. I wanted the techno music (one of my favorite aspects of the show) to shake my walls, and even action sequences that could have really used it, the tag game, for instance, would have benifited greatly by the use of better sound.
Now my question: Is it normal for children-aimed DVDs to have a shittier sound to them? I really enjoy the job done of Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Uncut, and I think it's actually one of the better sound mixes that I've heard on my system. Chicken Run features a DTS sound, and the televion episodes of Powerpuff Girls on DVD are actually pretty decent. But then there's the PPG DVD, and I was very underwhelmed by the Beauty and the Beast DVD. So how does the average children's DVD fare?
