DVD
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Once More With Feeling

Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
RRP: £15.99
24772DVD
Certificate: 12
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During a visit to the graveyard, Buffy suddenly feels the urge to sing. A supernatural power plays a trick upon her and her friends, as suddenly they all begin to sing and dance. Soon the whole of Sunnydale is struck by musical fever...

This is the first time since series one that a single episode of Buffy has been released to buy. It is a great episode, but is it worth going out and buying?

For those Buffy fans that watch the show but don't want to spend their hard earned cash on a full season, but really liked this episode, then yes it's worth it. However, if you are a hard-core fan and want to buy everything Buffy related, this doesn't really give you anything extra.

The show is excellent - one of my all time favourites - but it would have been even better if they had remastered it with a 5:1 surround soundtrack. You do at least get anamorphic widescreen, but problem was - on my TV at least it - it seems a little out of shape with words and heads being cut off screen - did they get it a little wrong perhaps?

In addition to the actual episode, the disc offers some extras, but unfortunately I was left expecting more. There's a short 10-15 minute piece entitled Buffy - Inside the Music, but there's no making of the musical that would be better placed on this disc rather than on the series six box set. The other extras seem more like advertising than extras; a season one overview of Angel, an interview of Dark Angel star Jessica Alba and a bunch of Buffy and Angel trailers.

Overall, this disc is OK. If you're going to go out and buy season six don't waste your cash on this, however if you really liked this one show then it might be worth checking out.

Keri Allan

 

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