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Summary: FYI
Review: DO NOT buy this DVD, "Hound of the Baskervilles" from Amazon.com, it is not a Region 1 -- I don't appreciate paying for a DVD then finding out that it is not Region 1 and therefore will not play on a North American DVD player. If a website wishes to sell Region 2 DVD's it should be honest and state the truth.
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Summary: Enjoyable and worthy adaptaion
Review: This is a handsome production with a good cast. Richard Roxburgh somehow looks like the sort of Holmes I've always pictured, handsome and dashing, yet capable of being physically threatening.The CGI/animatronic hound allows for a film production to have some of the unreal, almost mythical fear imagined by readers for over a hundred years. This isn't "Right, it's a dog, shoot it," it's the oversized, fearsome hound from the nightmares of people who've read the book for over a hundred years now. I fail to understand the complaints about how it isn't completely faithful to the book - if the same feelings of fear and mystery are translated into a different presentation, I think that's faithful, regardless of what minor details are changed. Film is a different medium, and viewers should expect translation, not straight adaptation. It can and should make itself interesting and different by offering a few new twists. In addition to that, this certainly isn't the first film adaptation, so the need to be distinctive is even stronger here. Overall, this is a "Hound" that stands on its own four legs.
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