The animated 16x9 - enhanced main menu screen is appropriate in appearance and design, but unfortunately it and
the bonus features menu (which has a still frame background) are accompanied by a portion of the annoying film score.
The Bonus Features menu offers a distant baseball environment.
Disc Two's
Bonus Features menu is divided into two sections.
The bonus features menu gives us a simpler version of the same, while the remaining selection screens simply play Matter score on static imagery.
The Bonus Features menu (and Disc 2's only menu) showcases the ballroom dance sequence between Haru and the Baron.
Finally, «Chair 92» (1:36), an Easter egg discovered on
the bonus features menu, has Adam Green telling the story of a real death that occurred on the shooting location, which he hopes lends a creepy angle to the film.
The bonus features menu follows the movie's CGI map motif without any additional character shots.
The Bonus Features menu is animated with flames; the rest are merely static but accompanied by a single portion of Michael Giacchino's score.
But if it is selected from
the Bonus Features menu, there is an optional audio commentary available with John Lasseter.
Disc 1's
bonus features menu contains the introduction (again) and «The Art of Spirited Away» (15:12), a short Disney - produced featurette hosted by Jason Marsden (the English voice of Haku).
There is also an Easter egg on
the bonus features menu, entitled «Meet Hayao Miyazaki», a short piece of an interview with Miyazaki and Lasseter.
The Bonus Features menu takes the same active environment and all menus (the rest are non-animated) feature excerpts from the George Fenton score.
The Bonus Features menu is also animated.
The bonus features menu give an animated view of the ballerina music box that has a special role in the movie.
Finally, available from both the Main and
Bonus Features menus is a page of Previews, which supplies theatrical or DVD trailers for six recent Sony Pictures Classics releases.
Submenus are static and, with the exception of
bonus features menus, silent.
For instance, the music is lost from all but the Main and
Bonus Features menus, a few cursors have been updated, and the «DTS 5.1» option in «Tweak It» has been moved to «Audio Options» and replaced by the ubiquitous «Register Your DVD» listing.
Two Easter Eggs are fairly easy to spot from the Main and
Bonus Features menus.
Not exact matches
Hoping to give fans a little extra bang for their double - dipped buck, the Blu - ray release of «Shrek the Third»
features exclusive
bonus material like a pop - up trivia track, picture - in - picture storyboards («The Animator's Corner»), in - screen character biographies («The World of Shrek»), and even customizable character
menus.
Aside from that we get a trailer for the
feature,
bonus trailers for a few other Kino Lorber properties,
menus and chapter selection.
As always, Criterion authors the Blu - ray to both support bookmarks and resume playback, a perfectly fair trade - off for the slight delay it takes to play chosen
bonus features and return to the
menu afterwards.
The disc supports the use of bookmarks and, not using BD - J, is also able to resume playback of the
menu, movie, and
bonus features.
The static, silent
menus hold two subtitle options and no
bonus features or previews of any kind.
There are no
bonus features, no real previews, and not much of a
menu.
Bonus feature and
menu caps from the DVD.
The static lone
menu attaches a looped minute of 8 - bit-esque score to the cover art, while simply giving you the choice to watch either the movie or the
bonus feature.
Separate
menu screens are provided for both the
bonus features and special
features, a design more akin to DVD than Blu - ray.
The following year (2002), Buena Vista Home Entertainment finally got around to putting the Muppets» fourth and fifth films (which were made at Walt Disney Pictures in the 1990s) on DVD and they did so with some impressive
bonus features and clever
menus, but inconceivable fullscreen - only presentations.
A BD - Live section proved inaccessible, but the
menu still supplied access to
bonus feature samples from Beastly, Battle: Los Angeles, Jumanji, and Zathura.
The disc's BD - Live section would not load for me, nor would the
menu window that ordinarily links to Sony Blu - ray
bonus feature excerpts.
Excellently, the disc supports bookmarks and also resuming playback of the film,
menu, and
bonus features.
The
Bonus Features main page keeps the same idea; these are the only two
menu screens which offer animation.
The first
bonus feature isn't available from the
menu, instead simply playing after the film's end credits.
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Menus
Bonus features are divided into four listings, the first of which is most significant and is further broken down in a
menu of its own.
The
Bonus Features screen (which is also Disc 2's only
menu, as with the other waves) is the second
menu with cycled animation,
featuring the «Sugiura» Raccoons in one of their many celebrations, accompanied of course by its respective score from the film.
Interestingly, the first
menu screen to appear on the DVD isn't for the film, but a prompt to select which language to view the movie and
bonus features in.
ALADDIN: PLATINUM EDITION Preview of
bonus features and
menus from October's Special Edition DVD.
Page 1: Show Discussion, Discs 1 - 3 Page 2: Discs 4 - 6, Video / Audio,
Bonus Features,
Menus & Packaging, and Closing Thoughts
Running time for the
bonus features is listed on the
menu.
Page 1: Platinum Edition - Movie, Video and Audio,
Bonus Features,
Menus, Closing Thoughts Page 2: Collector's Gift Set in Detail
In what's become a norm with Disney's newly uniform «EasyFind»
menus, Disc 1's
bonus features are split into 4 categories: Deleted Scenes, Music & More, Games & Activities, and our beloved Backstage Disney.
Review / Preview / deleted song «I'm Odd»
bonus feature /
Menus / Order from Amazon.com
Note that everything in this
menu of
bonus features is presented in standard definition.
The last
bonus feature on the
menu is a Cast Commentary, but don't be deceived, this isn't a full - length audio commentary.
Barely updated from a relatively early Warner Blu - ray, the main disc here begins playback of the film right away and doesn't so much
feature a traditional
menu as a screen - sized list of
bonus features (placed in front of a static Pacino shot) that pops up after the film is completed.
There are only four
menus across the three discs, which in the absence of set - up options and
bonus features, is just fine.
The nicely - animated main
menu provides access to the
feature and both
bonus features from one screen.
Par for the studio, the
menus use pages to describe
bonus features, the glaring exception being the Shafrazi one.
Bonus features include an active - screen main
menu, an often unintentionally amusing audio commentary track with Polish - born director Rafal Zielinski, and a pair of interview featurettes — a 10 - minute chat with producer Maurice Smith, who comes across as less skeevy than some of his other credits (Flesh Gordon) might suggest, and a five - minute talk with production manager Ken Gord.