Luke wrote:Wait a minute, "FLuff filled"? There are two commentaries, a pop-up trivia track, deleted scenes and songs, what purports to be an extensive making-of documentary, art review, trailers for all <i>Aladdin</i> films, music videos, galleries, and a featurette on Alan Menken.
That doesn't sound fluff-filled to me. Sure, the games/activities and new music videos won't offer hard-hitting insight into the making of <i>Aladdin</i>, but I do think they are giving us a fair amount, and hopefully it will be more significant and better arranged than The Lion King.
Yeah. I'm not sure why we need making of's for the new music videos though. It's promotion for a promotion! Hey Disney, here's an idea! Why not do a making of the "sneak peek" on the next Platinum DVD?
Isn't anybody interested in the fact that the Audio Descriptive version is almost 10 minutes longer than the "normal" versions?
Aladdin [Widescreen, Audio descriptive] Classified 29 July, 2004: 95m 52s
Aladdin [Widescreen, Filmmaker's DVD audio commentary, Special edition] Classified 22 July, 2004: Run Time 86m 38s
Aladdin [Widescreen, DVD Animator's audio commentary, Special edition] Classified 27 July, 2004: Run Time 86m 38s
Aladdin [Closed Captioned, Widescreen] Classified 27 July, 2004: Run Time 86m 38s
Now lots of other UK Disney DVDs have had Audio Descriptive soundtracks - such as The Santa Clause 2
The Santa Clause 2 [Audio Descriptive] Classified 29 October, 2003: Run Time 100m 3s
The Santa Clause 2 [Widescreen] Classified 22 September, 2003: Run Time 100m 3s
The Santa Clause 2 [Widescreen, DVD audio commentary] Classified 08 August, 2003: Run Time 100m 3s
None of them have different run times, while the Aladdin one has almost 10 minutes extra. It's possible Disney could have added a prologue and/or epilogue I suppose, but being as the audio descriptive track is simply another soundtrack, they will have been unable to manipulate the length of the film when it is actually running.
Could, just could this mean their could be an option of viewing the film with and without the new song when the movie is played? (Although nothing on the UK menus would indicate this). There's almost ten minutes of added footage if this is the case, indicating new animation would perhaps set up a flashback or dream sequence to make the new song play in context.
The BBFC timings for Pocahontas indicated the "If I Never Knew You" song was reinserted into the film, and apparently this has been confirmed by the animator since.
Update: Thinking about it, it is possible Disnsey are simply playing the music videos after the main feature (Fast Play "style") when Audio Descriptive is selected. It would enable a blind person to listen to the videos without having to navigate the menus. (Although
Animated News seem to be just as confused as I potentially am!)
Thats to long for me to wait. I think it will come out a week before the sequal is reasled that is if its still going to be in theaters. Sort of like the Princess Diaries. Well thats my theory.
So does that means they will probably do the same with the "Wedding Scene" ( 
