This review is not for the movie itself but for the price of this Blu-ray. Over 41 dollars!? Are they insane? No movie should cost more than $20; and with so many DVD's these days being bargain priced at $10, this film is way overpriced. As if the company is ashamed to ask for so much $$$, they've even included a label that reads "a $74 dollar value"? Really? How is that possible when all I want is the movie? I could care less for the 3D glasses or the extra special features or the on-line bonus material or the digicopy disc. Does anybody really care about all that stuff? Doesn't 90% of the population just want the movie and maybe a decent documentary to go with it? Does Pixar really think so little of its fans that it thinks it can pull the wool over our heads like this?
I had planned on completing my Pixar collection on Blu-Ray since the transfers look fantastic but now I have to reconsider. We are currently in a recession and I don't have the extra money for this. Of course, this begs the question, why? Why does Pixar have to charge so much extra for their movies? Surely, a popular title like Up will be mass produced to sell a bazillion copies, therefore allowing for more economic pricing. Could it be that the greed that sank the Disney Corp. after "The Lion King" topped the box office has now affected Pixar? Has Pixar succumb to its own success? I prayed the day wouldn't come. I was a HUGE Disney fan, to the point of near religious devotion, before the company sold their heart and soul (Cinderella 2, anyone?) for a cheap buck. Please, John Lasseter, give us reasonable pricing and try to remember what made your company special in the first place---caring more about the art and less about the money. Does money have to corrupt everything? Don't make the same mistake as Disney.
The DVD was put as VERT GOOD condition where it can be listed, also, as Good or Fair. I do NOT expect the DVD to have damaged places that do not play when it was listed as Very Good. So disappointing!!!
I bought the Blu-Ray, 4 disc set as a Christmas gift including the premium for overnight shipping to assure it would arrive before Christmas Day. We all sit down with much anticipation to watch the Blu-Ray version of the movie and although everything else on the disc plays the movie will not play! After several attempts we figure it might be firmware so we port the movie to our other BD Player (different brand) and the Blu-Ray version of the movie will not play! In addition, as a test we tried to play the Blu-Ray "Special Features" disc and it will not play. I'm not wasting any more time on this defective product to determine if the digital copy will play on the computer. Enough troubleshooting and problem resolution for what should be a simple plug and play function!! Of course the Standard Definition disc plays just fine......DUH!!
As many other Amazon Customers have written in their reviews this is a great movie, but very poorly executed BR discs. I too as others have stated will make this my last Disney and Pixar product purchase. Their executive management team can take their bottom line and, well you know the rest. If Disney likes kids as much as they profess they wouldn't be putting out defective products that disappoint these same kids they purport to serve so well. Disney, quit worrying about DRM, mission statements, peeling your onions back, drilling down, getting traction and all the other corporate hogwash because from the view at 30K feet your poorly executed products are costing you customers.