Kyon Ki

The DVD package is just as poor as the film. The print has a large number of scratches on it, including one moment where you'd swear it had been scrunched up by mistake. In some scenes, the colours look fine, but in far too many others, everything looks feeble and washed out.

Filling the rear speakers with an echo for scenes set in large empty rooms is fine. Filling the rear speakers with an echo for almost every other scene is not. Never again will I complain about the rear speakers being underused! Stick to the stereo mix if you value your sanity.

Subtitling is, of course, available. The translation appears to suffer from being too literal a lot of the time. There's also an odd over reliance on the word "drape," particularly in a couple of the songs.

The extras are unnecessary padding. The two deleted scenes are brief and unimportant. I don't understand how you could only choose to delete four minutes from a two-and-a-half hour unfocussed mess of a movie.

The cast and crew interviews are equally brief and equally unimportant. You know the drill: "It was great to work with the director and my co-star." Rinse and repeat.

Trailers are trailers. Song selection is selective scene selection!

Terrible terrible terrible DVD of a terrible terrible terrible film. Nice shiny silver slipcase, though. Maybe if I leave it hanging around, a magpie will steal it.