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MGM jumped on the DVD bandwagon rather unhurried in the game, and the studio has been struggling to preserve up ever since. Traditionally, MGM has released bare-bones, movie-only DVDs with unpleasant transfers and plain sound – but, thankfully, tradition seems to be losing out to what consumers want. Excited Max: Special Edition is the latest offering from MGM’s film vaults to execute its contrivance onto DVD in a restored, high-performance disc, and it’s about time, too.
Mad Max will probably go down in history as the film that made Mel Gibson a star, but that would gloss over the film’s many other virtues. A post-apocalyptic record of reliable vs. detestable, Excited Max features the title character, Max Rockatansky, in his job as an “Interceptor,” a kind of cop struggling to occupy order in a world where the government has all but collapsed and ruthless biker thugs and warlords have made normal life impossible. When Max kills a member of the gang, their leader, the Toecutter, turns around and butcher’s Max’s family. As a result, Max gets very wrathful and goes straight to kick-ass mode. The anecdote is slick and well-told, with enough snappy cars, gun battles, and improper chases to support you tied to your chair. It’s basically a Western plot in a decaying Australia, and it’s a welcome change of hurry for action fans, too.
MGM presented us with a two-sided, dual-layer DVD that has two versions of the film: a handsome 2.35:1 Anamorphic Widescreen transfer, and a full-screen copy on the same side for those who don’t like to spy the whole movie. For the first time, American audiences fetch to glance the film with the recent Australian dialogue (it was dubbed with American actors for the US and never released with the unusual accents before now), either in the old-school mono mix or a completely redone, deep and dynamic DD 5.1 remix. On the other side you obtain two mini-documentaries, one about the Enraged Max series and how the crews made the films (informative), and one about Mel Gibson’s rise to stardom (blah) . Round that out with a pop-up video style “trivia track” (really objective a subtitle option), and you’ve got a mountainous disc.
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The pop-up video track is one of the best and most innovative modern features in a long time; I hope other DVD companies remove stamp, because it’s fun, informative, and you can sight it again and again, unlike most commentary tracks and other “extras.” Overall, Excited Max is an agreeable disc, and at its unique heed, it’s worth adding to your shelves. If you’re an action fan or a post-apocalyptic-film fan, then this disc is a must.
As I say, don’t beget the mistake of buying this overpriced dvd. I unfortunately did purchase it, and what I found was abysmal.
Instead of the current Australian actor’s voices, there are nowpoorly dubbed American voices. I also noticed this version has been chop in sure scenes. I remember one scene in particular, reach the biginning. The couple who are later attacked by the biker gang are having sex in a field – one of the profitable guys appears watching them from a distance and shouts over to them. This scene appeared before the first trail scene, and is missing from this version.
The transfer appears to be a transplant from a bad quality laserdisc version, and the sound is in mono.
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What appalled me was the American dubbing – this seems typically arrogant and ignorant to me. In any other country in the world you would not gather this, and its unfair and condescending to the section of Americans who wanted to glance the “unbutchered” Australian version. I have seen this dubbing in the States with English programmes as well (leaving the nasty characters with the English accents of course) and its frankly offensive to study.
DON’T Purchase THIS DVD – WAIT FOR SOMETHING BETTER TO BE RELEASED!
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