Our DVD review of The Nightmare Before Christmas (2-Disc Collector’s Edition) is up on MousePlanet today:
Once the actual feature begins, the care with which Disney’s artists and technicians did their work in creating this restored and remastered version is plainly evident. The picture is clear, with no pops, scratches, or compression artifacts. In fact, it’s crisp enough that you can clearly see minute details like Sally’s fluttering eyelashes and the textures on Jack’s books about Christmas, and you can easily see characters and objects in dark scenes, such as inside Dr. Finklestein’s laboratory. The graininess mentioned in the 2001 review is completely absent. As compared to the earlier DVD release, this remastered transfer is true anamorphic widescreen, meaning that the picture expands to fill the entire screen on widescreen televisions.
The surround sound presentation is equally clear and bright, with good channel separation. Song lyrics—this is, after all, a musical picture—are easy to understand even for me, and I usually have to turn on subtitles when watching musicals.
I want to take a minute to thank MousePlanet’s chief copy editor Lani Teshima, who accepted this article at 11:30 pm last night for publish today and got it done.
