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Austin Powers the Spy Who
Shagged Me is also available in VHS and VHS widescreen.
VHS
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
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Edition Details:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Widescreen, Closed-captioned, Dolby
• Commentary by creator Mike Myers, director Jay Roach & co-writer Michael
McCullers
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Almost 20 minutes of deleted scenes
• Behind-the-scenes featurette, plus The Dr. Evil Story and Comedy
Central's spy-o-graphy, a spoof of A&E's popular Biography series
• Music Videos: Beautiful Stranger by Madonna, American Woman
by Lenny Kravitz and Word Up by Mel B (aka Scary Spice)
• DVD-ROM Features: Austin Powers and Dr. Evil Web Browsers and a playable demo of a
trivia game by Berkeley Systems, "Austin Powers Operation"
• Widescreen anamorphic format
Release Information:
Studio: New Line Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
DVD Release Date: November 16, 1999
Run Time: 115 minutes
Production Company: New Line Home Video
Package Type: Snap Case
Aspect Ratio(s):
Widescreen Anamorphic - 2.35:1
Discographic Information:
DVD Encoding: Region 1
Layers: Single
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Available subtitles: English
Collector's Edition
Widescreen Review:
Picture Quality: 5 (5 is the
highest rating)
Once again, Austin Powers brings exceptional color fidelity to home theatre. Hues are
eye-popping and vibrant, with rich and warm colors, accurate fleshtones and deep blacks.
Images are sharp and finely detailed, with exceptional definition. The anamorphically
enhanced DVD viewed in component video exhibits superb clarity and almost a
three-dimensional image, with detail deep into backgrounds. Contrast and shadow
delineation are superb, with an excellent gradation between the darkest scenes and the
deepest blacks. There is no compression pixelization or artifacts for a picture that is by
far one the best reviewed at our facility. Editor Gary was blown away by the resolution
exhibited on our Sony G-90 and Runco DTV-991 Projection systems. "The image quality
virtually matched the picture on the high definition telecine transfer and laydown I
experienced during the recent telecine session with New Line at Laser Pacific."
Sound Quality: 5
(5 is the highest rating)
The Dolby(r) Digital 5.1-channel soundtrack is the first to use the Dolby Digital Surround
EX(tm) enhancement which adds a new dimension to the surround soundfield. Overall, the
sound is excellent, projecting energy and excitement within the listening space that
serves as a critical element of the experience of the film. If you were ever questioning
the effectiveness of Dolby Digital Surround EX when experienced in a cinema, the home
theatre experience will be much different and sure to please as we were with the Lexicon
MC-1 Digital Controller equipped with THX(r) Surround EX, and the SMART Circle Surround
EX(tm) adapter. The use of the back surround channel is basically used to impart a greater
sense of ambient depth, as well as to really give you the sense of things happening over
your head and behind you. You'll find a really good example of screen to back surround
panning in Chapter 11. Many other instances of steered sound effects to the back surround
channel occur throughout the soundtrack. The dialogue sounds natural, having fairly good
integration with the on-screen environments. Bass extension is deep and effective,
sounding well defined, and the .1 LFE is utilized fairly aggressively. The music is very
well recorded, and has a dynamic, expansive presence. Sound effects are always
multidimensional, and span the entire soundfield. The fidelity of the audio is on par with
some of the best sounding films. One important note: the soundtrack has already been
re-equalized for playback in a home environment, so you will want to turn off your
surround processor's Re-EQ feature. This is a fabulous soundtrack is that is not only a
necessary component of experiencing the movie, but is also wonderfully entertaining.
Edition Details:
• Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
• Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, HiFi Sound
• Commentary by actor Mike Myers and director M. Jay Roach
• Production notes
• Theatrical trailer(s)
• Spy genre retrospective
• Cameo menu
• Seven deleted scenes including two alternative endings (Letterbox 1.85 : 1, Dolby
Digital 2.0 Surround)
• An original animated sequence "Music to Shag to"
• Star highlights with scenes (all Letterbox 1.85, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) from
Dangerous Ground (1997), Monkey Trouble (1994), Rapture, The (1991) (qv), and Wide
Sargasso Sea (1993)
• Full-screen and widescreen anamorphic formats
• ASIN: 6304696221
Release Information:
Studio: New Line Studios
Theatrical Release Date: 1997
DVD Release Date: October 21, 1997
Run Time: 100 minutes
Production Company: New Line Home Video
Package Type: Snap Case
Aspect Ratio(s):
Widescreen Anamorphic - 1.90:1
Full Screen (Standard) - 1.33:1
Discographic Information:
DVD Encoding: Region 1
Layers: Single
Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Available subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Widescreen Review:
Picture Quality: 5 (5 is the
highest rating)
The picture quality is superb with images that are sharp and detailed. Color fidelity is
excellent with vibrant colors, natural fleshtones and deep, solid blacks. There is
absolutely no noise or artifacts no doubt due to the pristine high definition transfer.
When viewed in the component anamorphic mode, the picture exhibits incredible color
resolution and sharp image quality. A scene approximately 8 minutes into the film jumps to
the original 2.35:1 theatrical aspect ratio then back to the re-composed 1.90:1 letterbox
and anamorphic aspect ratio.
Sound Quality: 5
(5 is the highest rating)
The Dolby® Digital 5.1 discrete soundtrack is wonderfully thematic "James Bond"
fun and well produced spatially with an aggressive surround.
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