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Summary: The Misadventure of Merlin Jones
Review: The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is a good movie, I first saw it when it had been shown on TV several years ago and as I had never seen it before I decided to watch it and I'm glad I did because it was a cute movie and became one of my favorite Disney movies and I'm glad it's on DVD and the only thing I'm wondering about is the aspect ratio? Was this move filmed in widescreen or fullscreen? The DVD is fullscreen and I'm wondering if that is the right aspect ratio or is if it's just another pan & scan edit of a widescreen movie!
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Summary: What's the Original Aspect Ratio for This Movie??
Review: The Misadventures of Merlin Jones is definitely an entertaining live-action Disney movie. I liked it when I first saw it on TV when I was a kid and I liked it when I watched it again as an adult and I was looking forward to it coming on DVD. I'm not sure what this movie's original aspect ratio is but since it was released to theaters in 1964 I would have to assume that it was filmed in widescreen and not fullscreen so I'm disappointed with this DVD not including a widescreen version. I mean couldn't they have included both widescreen and fullscreen on the same DVD? I have DVDs that have widescreen on one side and fullscreen on the other and I also have DVDs that have widescreen and fullscreen versions both on the same side so clearly it can be done!
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Summary: Merlin Jones
Review: The movie is about the zainy antics of the campus egg head Merlin Jones. Merlin takes an old football helmet and uses a series of electrical ciruits to increase his memory. The fun really begins when on of the football players uses Merlin's Memory Helmet in his college studies. This is a can't miss early Walt Disney Film!
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Summary: Great Disney Family Film Finally Available FOr Purchase On D
Review: This is a great movie. That has given the proper respect that it deserves.Merlin Jones(Tommy Kirk) is a campus know it all who's girlfriend Jennifer (Annette Funicello) has a big crush on him. Well Merlin is always experimenting with things and one day when Merlin is taking Jennifer to the library. He gets pulled over for supossedly making a major disturbance. The Traffic Judge is the Judge Homesby (Leon Ames) Well Judge Homesby throws the book at Merlin and takes away his licsence. Well Merlin gets really mad about it. The next day Merlin has major brain shock and he is able to read minds. well the next day when he is working at his job at the Medfield DIner he hears Judge Homesby's thoughts. And undoughtedly Judge Homesby is thinking about crimes and what to do for his next crime. After Merlin hears this shocking news. He calls Jennifer and tells her. Well this movie goes on and they find out that He is actually the Crime Book Author Lex Fortis. Well after this Merlin gets into Psychology. And finds a chimp and frees it from the school lab. Great Disney Classic Movie.
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Summary: cute Disney comedy
Review: Tommy Kirk (SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON) and Annette Funicello (BEACH PARTY) star as the sweethearts of Midvale College in this wacky, laugh-filled campus romp, THE MISADVENTURES OF MERLIN JONES. Kirk is Merlin Jones, gifted but slightly oddball student who, accompanied by his ever-faithful girlfriend Jennifer (Funicello), sets out on a series of comic misadventures. From trying to solve what appears to be a horrendous burglary and murder plot, to having a chimp-nabbing pinned on him, no one is exempt from Merlin's zany sense of oddball adventure! With Leon Ames, Connie Gilchrist, Stuart Erwin, Alan Hewitt, Dal McKennon and Norman Grabowski.
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Summary: Pan-and-scan again?! Disney must hate Annette Funicello!
Review: Why is it that MGM treated Annette Funicello so very well with her classic Beach movie series in widescreen, yet Disney - Annette's original employer - acts like she's a $2 tramp? First Annette's Babes In Toyland got the shaft and now this. Absolutely outrageous! This would never have happened on Walt's watch - or Roy's, either, for that matter. It all goes to prove what a total JERK Mike Eisner, the current head of Disney, is. Hopefully they'll finally vote him COMPLETELY out, and he won't be allowed on the lot. What an idiot! Another reviewer has correctly noted that Disney titles including Babes In Toyland, The Moon-Spinners, and Blackbeard's Ghost have also been thrown into the horrible pan-and-scan scrap heap. What's the matter - they weren't good enough for the "Vault Disney" treatment? WHY NOT? Disney even choked on the DVD for The Absent-Minded Professor... that is, until an enraged public boycotted them! Then Disney saw the light and rushed out another version in its proper widescreen format. But why must we fans - with all our big buying dollars - be put through all of this hassle on a case by case basis in the first place? Hey, Disney - just give us ALL your movies in cleaned up widescreen and decent stereo and shut up. And let's look at another very stupid move by Disney's pathetic DVD hacks - like the Apple Dumpling Gang duo, both of which star Don Knotts and Tim Conway. They release the original Apple in widescreen, yet for some strange reason Rides Again gets only pan-and-scan? HUH?! Anyway, one can only hope that some year we'll be able to enjoy Merlin Jones (and Babes In Toyland) - featuring the awe-inspiring beauty of Annette Funicello - in the original widescreen that their directors intended. But it probably won't be THIS year! Boycott all Disney DVDs after 1955 that are not in widescreen!
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