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Walt Disney’s LADY AND THE TRAMP, filled with memorable music and purebred fun, now shines like never before with an all-new digital restoration! Embark on a thrilling adventure with the most unforgettable characters: Lady, a lovingly pampered cocker spaniel; Tramp, a mutt from across the tracks with a heart of gold; Jock and Trusty, Lady’s best friends; and Si and Am, two of the most devious cats to prowl across the screen. The happiest of endings takes place on a lovely b… More >>
#1 by Timothy Hulsey on March 22, 2010 - 7:38 am
Even though it’s considered a Disney classic, and contains some lovely character animation, “Lady and the Tramp” is one of the studio’s least satisfying efforts. The simple boy-meets-girl plot takes over half an hour to get rolling, not a good sign in a seventy-five minute movie. Its stultifyingly rigid depiction of gender roles makes one long for Betty Friedan, and the infantilized Lady actually represents a step backward from earlier Disney heroines like Snow White and Cinderella. Worst of all, this film wallows in racial and ethnic stereotypes, many of them deeply offensive to contemporary sensibilities.
Although “Lady and the Tramp” was shot in Cinemascope and Academy ratios, this DVD edition presents only the widescreen version, albeit in letterbox and pan-and-scan formats. Image and sound are excellent. Extras are plentiful, though not up to the wealth of archival material in other Platinum Edition DVDs.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Mark E. Herriott on March 22, 2010 - 8:05 am
I bought the special edition DVD set and after sitting through 5 minutes of previews for films which must be making Walt turn over in his grave, I was greeted with….nothing. I could get as far as the government warnings about copy right infringement and then nothing…no picure, no sound, no main feature. I could hear the disc running, but no movie. After several attempts with that disc and one exchange later, I am currently without Lady and the Tramp. I have no problems with any other disc, except the newly released Howl’s Moving Castle…also a Disney two disc special. I’ve encountered the same problem with that set. I am unable to actually access the movie itself, but the previews work fine. Is there something I’m not aware of????
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by Anonymous on March 22, 2010 - 9:40 am
Well, all I know is that after my 3 year old son watched this movie he ran around on all fours barking and then he started howling and THEN HE BIT ME!
Rating: 3 / 5
#4 by Dale L. Diorio on March 22, 2010 - 11:43 am
HELLO THERE ITD IS ADREONA ON HERE WEKK I AM HERE TO TELL YOU ABOUT THIS MICUE U EWAS SOO HAPPY WHEN I SAW THIS MY MOM SAW IT AND GOT IT ON THE ITIRNET I THINK IT IS THE VERRY BEST VIDEO I HAVER EVER SALW IN MY WHOLE LIFE HOW ABIY YOU OUT THERE LISSINING TO ME OK THEN GO ON WWWW.DUSNEY MOVIES,COM UTS A GRAUT SITEB WHERE YOU CAN ODER THAT KADAY AND THE TRAMP 2 WAS HAROBLE DONT GET THAT SONE FOR EYOUR CHULD INLESS HE OR SHE RELLY WANTS IT I TALKED TOE AN AUNTS FRIEND CHRISTIANS AND MY FRIEND NAMED MARNA I ASKED HER ALL THE MOVIES SHE SAID YESS AND THEN I ASKED HER ABOUT THE STORIES I KNOW SEE YOU SOON
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by frederic on March 22, 2010 - 12:31 pm
When I was a child I was fascinated by this movie as still I am now. I won’t give my opinion about the movie because it would be to repeat what has already been written by nearly everyone.
But I always kept in my memory another movie in which Walt Disney explains in a very charming and interesting way the process of making Lady and the Tramp (the storyboards, discussions with the team, technical methods, etc. and the fascinating process of the drawers creating this delightful work). It was shown on tv and I can say that, in a way, without exaggerating, the watching of these people, their style, their personalities has influenced me for the rest of my life.
When I saw that the special edition of Lady and the Tramp included many extras I didn’t hesitate to buy it.
I have it now. The delivery by Amazon has been perfect, right on schedule, as nearly always. Amazon is a serious company.
But I want to express some critical opinions about this issue:
As I went directly to the extras to meet my beloved Walt Disney and sat down to listen to him, I was faced with a repulsive range of strange and ugly people who have nothing to do with the ones who made the original movie. Not only by their disgusting aspects, but also by the things they say, the way they expose their comments, the mentality, minds and the sense of aesthetics and responsibility that you can automatically feel at first watch.
These ill-minded people may own the rights to make business with what they legally own. But these people don’t have dignity. They mix up the concepts of owning something with being something. They should be reminded that they are not charming, they are not interesting, they are not important and that they are unable to do a thing like the one they bought the rights to make business with.
It is an insult to the culture and to the same Walt Disney that they appear on screen behaving like the legitimate successors of Disney (I mean successors of his genius, as they pretend). It is obvious that Disney wouldn’t have had such people on his team.
Without any trace of shame they talk about the movie in a way as if they had done it, taking, among other examples, possession of abandoned storyboards and dubbing them with their voices. Don’t they realise that the masterpiece has already been done? That the parts that Disney did not include were the result of a meticulous process of selection?
They mix the comments of Disney with theirs creating an unpresentable contrast and a feeling of frustration when seeing Walt Disney’s expositions always interrupted.
But they need to be the protagonists of it. Their inferiority complex resulting of their lack of culture mixed up with the arrogance of the economically powerful and their little love for the country allow them to show themselves runing into the prestige of other people desecrating what is a reference to the prominence and culture, not only of America but also of the western world.
I could extend my opinion longer but I leave it here, hoping that I am understood.
I really think that it is just a small example of how things are changing, of how the elites have changed. It is our responsibility to be aware of it and work to make possible a world in which new Walt Disneys could crop out again. If we let these people take over the world in all fields, then we can say: poor Disney, poor children, poor America and poor west.
The original movie, anyway, remains incomparable.
Disney made it for us, not they. He could, they would never be able to.
Rating: 1 / 5