Royal Wedding

Rating:
Summary: Beware this "bootleg" DVD
Review: ROYAL WEDDING isn't on DVD yet. That's because the OWNER of the film, Warner Bros. hasn't released it yet.

But several other companies have, under the "guise" of public domain. The original copyright on the film was not renewed properly with the Library of Congress, so the film is perceived to be public domain, although the music is very much copyrighted and every distributor of this movie is participating in copyright infringement by selling these "bootlegs".

The companies make the money, because they're selling OTHER people's property.

The people who ultimately suffer are YOU, THE CONSUMER, unknowingly buying products of inferior (worse than professional VHS) quality, thinking you're getting the real thing, because it's a DVD.

Save your money. Wait until Warner Bros. gives us the real thing
thing...

And by the way, the movie gets 4 stars, it's the cheapo bootleg DVD that gets 1 star!


Rating:
Summary: Comparison of two releases
Review: The 2001 digitally remastered GoodTimes DVD if far superior in both picture and sound than this 2002 Alpha Video DVD. -- Roy

Rating:
Summary: definitely worth buying
Review: This is a delightful movie with some wonderful dancing and music. I really didn't find the quality of the picture to be that bad. It is not prime DVD quality, but it is certainly good enough. In fact after reading some of the reviews before ordering it I thought the quality was much better than I expected. Besides, I'd far rather listen to great music on records than mediocre music on CD's. The same applies here. Fred Astaire's masterful dancing far outweighs the picture quality which again isn't really that bad. I think for the price this DVD is a real bargain. Don't pass it up.

Rating:
Summary: Nice dancing and music, but very dull
Review: This movie would have been a complete failure if Fred Astaire hadn't starred in it. I found it to be exceptionally dull. Except for "I Lost My Hat in Haiti" and "You Are", and footage from the actual wedding of a member of the British monarchy, this film is pretty terrible.