DVD
REVIEW: 10 Things I Hate About You 10TH
ANNIVERSARY
01/01/10
OVERVIEW: A
high-spirited, high school contest of wit and will
marks a milestone when 10 Things I Hate About You 10th
Anniversary Special Edition comes to Blu-ray™ Hi-Def and
DVD on January 5, 2010 from Touchstone Pictures Home
Entertainment. An inspired update of William Shakespeare’s
classic comedy “The Taming of the Shrew,” the film’s
entertaining tale of rocky romance between a pair of
unconventional teens is an enduring favorite as fresh and
funny today as it was a decade ago. Both the Two-Disc Blu-ray
Hi-Def and DVD editions of 10 Things I Hate About You 10th
Anniversary Special Edition includes never-before-seen
screen test footage of Heath Ledger, cast
interviews, and more.
SYNOPSIS: Padua
High sophomore Bianca Stratford (Larisa Oleynik) has two
invitations to the prom and one big problem: her father (Larry
Miller) won’t let her go unless her older sister Kat (Julia
Stiles) agrees to attend as well. It looks like both girls are
staying home, since independent and unconventional Kat has no
interest in going—until she meets the school’s mysterious
new bad boy Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger). What she doesn’t
know is that her sister’s suitors (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and
Andrew Keegan) have ponied up $300 to convince Patrick to woo
her. Just as Patrick realizes he has unexpectedly fallen for his
“assignment,” Kat finds out about the scheme and Patrick has
to launch an all out campaign to win her back. Inspired by
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew," 10 Things I
Hate About You takes a witty and contemporary look at the
eternal battle between the sexes, high-school style.
DVD: The film is
presented in widescreen with a 1.85:1 aspect ration preserving its theatrical
format. It seems to be the same cut use from the previous released
DVD, clean images without any types of color saturation.
Buena Vista Home
Entertainment has done it again with this transfer. Not only the picture looks
excellent in this release, also the sound it is good. A
Dolby Digital English 5.1 Surround, French 5.1 Surround and
Spanish 5.1 Surround providing a nice complement to the
picture it also includes English, French and Spanish
subtitles.
In terms of Special Features,
the 10th Anniversary Edition includes an interesting
documentary called 10 Things I Love About 10 Things I Hate About You 10 Years Later
which talks about why this romantic comedy became a cult
classics. Another interesting featurette are the screen tests,
in this one we get to see how Heath Ledger earn his role in the
film. It also includes deleted scenes as well as a digital copy
of the film.
Overall 10 Things I Hate About
You can be consider a cult classic for many and a
total waist of time for others. However no one can denied
that in this film we were able to see the rise of a star. This is a
DVD for hardcore fans to own. For this reason if I was a fan I would
rather get Blu-ray version of the film. A nice addition in
this release is the digital copy.
VIDEO:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) Enhance for 16x9 TVs
AUDIO:
Dolby
Digital 5.1 Surround - English Spanish French,
Subtitles - English, Spanish,
French
BONUS FEATURES:
10 Things I Love About 10 Things I Hate About You 10 Years Later – How do you
turn a high school teenage romance film into a cult hit? Start with a new approach to
literary classic; find some talented young actors and pepper in the right amount of punk
rock! Ten years after the film’s initial debut, we’ll sit with the director Gil Junger, and
writers Kirsten Smith and Karen Lutz to reflect and hear the story about how this classic
teen comedy came to be. Through these interviews and never-before-seen behind the
scenes footage, original cast interviews, deleted scenes, original screen test and
personal photos from the writers’ scrap books we will tell the remarkable story of this
smash hit and why everyone loves 10 Things I Hate About You.
I Want You To Want Me: The 10 Things I Hate About You Screen Tests — Viewers
are invited into the casting office for an insiders look at the screen tests that won actors
Heath Ledger, Julia Styles, Larisa Oleynik and Susan May Pratt their classic roles. This
featurette includes an introduction by director Gil Junger and writers Kirsten Smith and
Karen Lutz
Audio Commentary with co-writers Karen Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and stars Andrew
Keegan, David Krumholtz, Larisa Oleynik and Susan May Pratt
Deleted Scenes
Digital Copy
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