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Summary: Gilligan's Island without Tina Louise.....
Review: .....is not worth watching.
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Summary: Rescue from Gilligans Island - Love it or hate it
Review: After first watching this movie on TV in the 1980's this was the first time I had a chance to see it again because it's impossible to buy a copy now. While I can't remember all the scenes from the original movie, the DVD version is pretty good. There are some scenes that were obviously cut and the picture quality is ok. However for the hard core deprived Gilligans Island fan who wants to get a copy it's definately worth the 5 bucks.
It was great to see the old gang finally get off the island. The theme, jokes and acting stuck with the original format which was great to see. Too many movies try and create a new image for the characters or try and modernise them and spoil the movie. But not this one. The only exception was Ginger, who was not played by Tina Louise. I can't remember the actresses name, but, she over did the dumb blonde routine (I know Ginger was not blonde but you know what I mean).
If any one knows where I can buy the second and third movies, "the Cateaways of Gilligans Island" and "The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligans Island" please let me know. I don't mind if it is a DVD or VHS, but would love to watch these again as I can't even remember the story. Please note that I live in New Zealand, so would need someone able to ship to there.
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Summary: Movie- GREAT .... DVD- AWFUL!
Review: As many other reviewers have stated, I love Gilligan's Island and the reunion movies but the DVD created for this movie is one of the worst I have ever seen. It is badly edited to begin with and was clearly created from a videotape from a televison broadcast. There are scenes that are played out of order (!), entered late, chopped short, and just plain missing.
The sound quality is poor (what you might expect from avhs transfer).
The video quality is substandard. The DVD is often grainy, and at least two occasions there was an actual rolling of the screen.
The makers of this DVD seem to have missed the whole point of creating a DVD. Where is the digital quality? Or at the very least a decent presentation of the subject matter. This DVD is very unprofessional and looks like something someone might have slapped together on their home computer.
So, what are the good points? As stated at the beginning of my review, the movie itself is still wonderful. The price cannot be beat (4.99 for a brand new DVD?). The inclusion of a "Little Rascals" short was an unexpected bonus. I would like to see more bonus features like that (old short films or classic cartoons), particularly when there is a lack of deleted scenes or featurettes that directly relate to the movie itself.
Now that the Gilligan's Island season sets have started to be released, maybe we can look forward to a studio produced version of this film (and maybe the other reunion movies, Castaways on Gilligan's Island and Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island)
I enjoyed seeing this movie again and don't regret having bought the disc despite its shortcomings. I've just come to expect more from a DVD than what this effort was able to deliver.
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Summary: As [aweful] as it was, I still laughed.
Review: Forget the movie and bring out all the episodes on DVD. I did laugh a lot during the movie, but it was really the characters and the memories that made me laugh, not the script or the plot...
This DVD is cheap. So is the standard and quality of the movie. The only reason you should be buying this is because you want to see the characters again until the episodes come out.
(I showed this to a Thai friend who had never heard of Gilligan's Island before. He couldn't believe my laughter at something so stupid!!!).
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Summary: Absolutely Horrible...
Review: I have been a fan of Gilligan's Island for the last 30 years and when I finally received this DVD, I thought it was the next best thing to sliced bread. I was wrong though... As is stated by other customers here, the editing was absolutely horrible. A lot of the scenes were cut and it just ruined the whole movie. I gave it two stars because it is always good to see the cast of Gilligan's Island perform and this specific DVD did them no justice whatsoever. Shame on you to dishonor those actors and actresses that made Gilligan's Island as famous as it is today...
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Summary: Nice
Review: I ordered this video from a video store last year. It is a very nice movie. As a huge Gilligan's Island Fan, I was anxious to see it.There are only a few problems, I'm not gonna say the story line because I don't wanna give anything away but these are just a few problems with the tape: #1. The color isn't very good. It is very light sometimes. But, I mean, what can you expect it was converted onto VHS from a rv movie from 1978. and #2. There was one scene completely missing. When I saw this on TV the Skipper was talking about a Xmas Reunion. Then later they show t he boat decorated with Christmas lights and them talking. They decide to go on a boat ride the next day. But on the vhs, skipper did talk about the reunion but it never happened. It just cut right to the scene where they're going for the boat ride. I'm mean these are no biggies, because it is better than nothing, and I enjoy the tape very much. I love it. Even though I hear the DVD is really bad, I think I might buy it to see if it has this deleted scene on it. You should buy this, just be aware of these few things. :)
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Summary: great movie bad bad dvd
Review: i rate the movie four stars and the dvd 1 star. my opinion is you get what you paid for. this dvd is a cheap price because the movie is very poor quality. there is one scene where a icecream cone just appears in gilligan's hands out of nowhere. even people who never seen this movie can tell where the scenes are CUT OUT.
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Summary: Fun reunion movie
Review: I saw this reunion TV-movie when it was first broadcast on NBC in 1978. I recently bought the first-season "Gilligan" DVD set, and my young son has long been curious about how the castaways finally got off the island. So when I came across this entry for five bucks, I couldn't resist. The Amazon.com customers' complaints that are already posted here are quite valid. The movie's DVD version is indeed poorly edited, and the generic DVD "extras" are nothing to write home about. On the plus side, if you're a bonafide "Gilligan" fan, there's enough first-class silliness to justify watching this, even for a second time. The characters are still true to their one-note origins, and even though spoilsport Tina Louise is replaced by the lesser Judith Baldwin, she looks darned good wet. Who are you kidding? Fork over the five bucks and indulge your inner child!
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Summary: Fun reunion movie
Review: I saw this reunion TV-movie when it was first broadcast on NBC in 1978. I recently bought the first-season "Gilligan" DVD set, and my young son has long been curious about how the castaways finally got off the island. So when I came across this entry for five bucks, I couldn't resist. The Amazon.com customers' complaints that are already posted here are quite valid. The movie's DVD version is indeed poorly edited, and the generic DVD "extras" are nothing to write home about. On the plus side, if you're a bonafide "Gilligan" fan, there's enough first-class silliness to justify watching this, even for a second time. The characters are still true to their one-note origins, and even though spoilsport Tina Louise is replaced by the lesser Judith Baldwin, she looks darned good wet. Who are you kidding? Fork over the five bucks and indulge your inner child!
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Summary: Good ol' Gilligan's Island -- Rotten DVD
Review: The Gilligan's Island episode is the same made for TV movie we have all seen umpteen times, complete with screen blackouts for commericial breaks. The only beef I had with the movie is that the original Ginger, Tina Louise, is missing. As for the rest of the movie it's typical Sherwood Schwartz Gilligan's Island fare: you either like it or hate it. I happen to like it. The DVD itself is another story. It's junk. The colors are horrid. They are washed out and there is a green tint to everything. There are a few bad spots where the picture flips and rolls. I wasn't expecting much for a made for TV movie soundtrack, but this one is epecially bad. You have to turn it up high to hear and then there is a lot of garbling and background noise. As for the "extra features", they are pretty poor. The "interactive trivia game" consists of a grand total of 10 questions which have nothing to do with Gilligan's Island and which few people on earth would ever know the answers to. Not much fun. Do it once and you never need to do it again. So in summary: good flick, rotten dvd.
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