Pocahontas [DVD]

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A mostly pastel palette, contrasted with bolder and deeper colors at moments of heightened drama, Pocahontas boasts a pretty unique look that works well. The artwork feels right for the period epic tone the film strives for, and this is all the more true with this substantially improved DVD transfer. This brewing war between two cultures that cannot appreciate one another's way of life becomes an extreme and unavoidable backdrop to the sweet, unlikely, and tragic relationship between the mischeivous chief's daughter and the respected English soldier. Disney's Art Project" presents creative children (or children at heart) with an opportunity to make two crafts from common household objects.

Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition DVD Review - DVDizzy Pocahontas: 10th Anniversary Edition DVD Review - DVDizzy

Pocahontas is the first Disney movie to be bases on a real life person even if the movie did interpret the events correctly. Creating Grandmother Willow" (2:08) focuses on the character's hybrid makeup of 2-D animation and CGI. Or the fact that Native American women have noses which disappear when not in profile, the result of efforts to accurately portray non-Caucasian humans for one of the first times in a Disney film. Pocahontas, the 33rd Disney animated feature by the studio's count, finally has a worthy DVD release in this top-notch 10th Anniversary Edition.Then, on the other hand, there are moments when the film is being sincere where one can't help but laugh. Different music accompanies all the submenus, which are mostly stills except for brief, colorful transitions of pastel leaves blowing. C'est un plaisir partagé entre la "grande soeur" et la petite dernière de s'enfermer dans la chambre de l'aînée, pour découvrir "tes livres préférés de quand tu étais petite".

Pocahontas (Disney Gold Classic Collection) [DVD] Pocahontas (Disney Gold Classic Collection) [DVD]

This short but neat featurette documents a premiere impressive by any standard; nine months went into preparing it and over 100,000 people attended. Carried over from the Gold Collection DVD is the pop music video of "Colors of the Wind" (4:10) performed by Vanessa Williams.Along with most of Disney's animated classics, Pocahontas was released to DVD as part of the Gold Collection in 2000. Next, a multi-language clip reel (3:33) presents "Colors of the Wind" in over a dozen different tongues. Duncan Majoribanks repeats his lines from the making-of featurette almost verbatim in "Creating Ratcliffe" (0:40). The Gold Collection DVD's audio was not disappointing like its video, so even though the Dolby Digital 5.

Inside, instead of a nice booklet, we must settle for a simple two-sided insert which lists the 28 scene selections and provides a navigational overview for the general contents of both discs. Rounding out this section is "The Making of 'If I Never Knew You'" (4:33), which is one of the only features newly created for this DVD (or rather DVD at large, since it has been available for some time outside of the US). Interview clips from cast and crew make up a significant portion of the featurette, and clips from the film help everything to flow fluidly.The sequence itself was more or less completely animated, and was provided as a deleted scene on the deluxe laserdisc release.