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Britney Spears - The Videos
BMG Music // Unrated // November 20, 2001
List Price: $19.99 [Buy now and save at Amazon]
The Movie:
I've done this before on reviews for DVDs of Britney Spears and I'll quickly go through my little history once again. In December of a few years ago, my review of Spears' "Time Out With Britney Spears" DVD was posted and, to my suprise, the review was the most-often read review on the site for two months. Several other reviews of Spears titles followed afterwards and the results were generally the same. I've even reviewed the unofficial and unauthorized Spears biography DVD, "Star Baby Scrapbook", which was so awful that it often became unintentionally hilarious.
Although I used to not be a fan of the singer's music, with this much exposure to her efforts, I've actually started to enjoy some of the uptempo tracks across the albums. I still dislike some of Spears' sappier ballads, but her music generally has started to grow on me. I'm sure I'll be reviewing the eventual DVD release of Spears' latest concert performance (recently aired on HBO). While the portions that I've seen were nothing in comparison to Madonna's "Drowned World Tour" show, they were occasionally somewhat entertaining in Spears' PG (and PG-13 more often lately - although no complaints there) way.
As for this program, it actually seemed to offer the least material. Although I'm sure that Spears' fans will enjoy seeing the three videos from her latest album, performances of "Overprotected" (complete with outtake clips from the upcoming movie) and "I'm a Slave 4 You", behind-the-scenes featurettes about Britney and her upcoming movie "Crossroads" as well as 2 ads, this DVD doesn't offer anything as substancial as the other two. One of those ("Time Out") offered a documentary-of-sorts and videos and the other ("Live and More") offered an entire performance, videos and other materials, such as Spears' performance on "Saturday Night Live".
The DVD
VIDEO: All of the videos are presented in full-frame and generally look acceptable. "Not A Girl, Not Yet A Woman" looked especially sharp and well-defined, with strong colors and no problems. "Slave 4 U" looked a little less pleasing, with a rather "digital" appearance and some minor pixelation, but not anything too distracting. "Don't Let Me Be The Last To Know" also showed a few very slight instances of pixelation, but otherwise looked sharp and clean.
SOUND: As with all of the other Spears DVD editions (well, the official ones, anyways), the audio is presented in Dolby Digital 5.1. Although some have thought the surround use on "Time Out" was rather gimmicky, I thought it was fun and nicely expanded the music out into the listening space. "Live and More" strongly offered enjoyable surround use for the concert presentation and more professional, more dynamic audio for the videos included there, especially "Stronger", which really provided strong low bass.
Which brings us to this edition. All of the videos are nicely repurposed for surround, with lively surround backing and remarkably full audio quality, in comparison to many of the other remixed music videos that I've seen on other DVDs. The two ballads ("Don't Let Me Be The Last..." and "Not A Girl...") were nicely presented, as the 5.1 presentation did a fine job filling the room with the tunes. "I'm a Slave 4 U" was the strongest of the three though, because the beats really made the room come alive and the song also delivered a fairly powerful helping of low-bass. While these videos are not the most exceptional examples of music in surround (for a remarkable example, see Madonna's new "Drowned World Tour" DVD...), they're certainly above-average in comparison to most music video packages which offer remixed 5.1 audio.
As for the other segments, they have also been presented in 5.1 - highlights are Spears' performance of "I'm A Slave 4 U" on the MTV Music Awards; although it doesn't seem to quite boast the dynamic audio quality that the audio on the video elsewhere on the DVD boasted, this performance footage has also been nicely remixed in 5.1, with the surrounds providing enjoyable reinforcement of the music. All of the rest of the material has actually been remixed into 5.1 audio as well, even Spears' Pepsi Ad and the two behind-the-scenes segments.
MENUS: As with the other two Britney releases, the menus are nice presentations, complete with subtle animation and clips of the options on all the menus.
EXTRAS: Well, aside from the videos and two performance segements, there's two behind-the-scenes featurettes, one which simply offers Spears doing different poses for the camera, while the other offers discussion and behind-the-scenes clips from the set of the singer's upcoming movie, "Crossroads", which is out sometime next year. "Ads" offers Britney's Pepsi Ad as well as the ad for the HBO concert.
Final Thoughts: Although this DVD offers the least of the three main Spears DVDs, fans will likely be pleased at the opportunity to see the three new videos, a couple of performance segments and more about her new movie.
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