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List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Salesrank: 12415
Released: August 14, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: HD DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Robin Williams and Annabella Sciorra star in this visually stunning metaphysical tale of life after death. Neurologist Chris and artist Annie had the perfect life until they lost their children in an auto accident; they're just starting to recover when Chris meets an untimely death himself. He's met by a messenger named Albert (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and taken to his own personal afterlife--a freshly drawn world reminiscent of Annie's own artwork, still dripping and wet with paint. Meanwhile a depressed Annie takes her own life, compelling Chris to traverse heaven and hell to save Annie from an eternity of despair.
The multitextured visuals seem to have been created from a lost fairy tale. Heaven recalls the landscape paintings of Thomas Cole and Renaissance architecture complete with floating cherubs, while hell is a massive shipwreck, an upside-down cathedral overgrown with thorns and a sea of groaning faces popping out of the ground (one of those faces is German director Werner Herzog). Williams is the perfect actor to play against the imaginative computer-generated imagery--he himself is a human special effect. But the lack of chemistry between Williams and Sciorra is painfully apparent, and the flashback plot structure flattens the story's impact despite its deeply felt examinations of the heart and the spirit. Still, there's no denying Eugenio Zanetti's triumphant production design and the Oscar-winning special effects, which create a fully formed universe that is at once beautiful, eerie, and a unique example of movie magic. --Shannon Gee
What Dreams May Come [HD DVD] Reviews:
Incredible movie! 
2009-12-01 - This one has it all! The story was fantastic, and very moving in many ways. So hold on tight...it will take you through an array of emotions. Also, the visuals were stunning! This movie is definately a keeper!
superb 
2009-11-24 - again, fast easy reliable. I would recommend this seller to anyone. I haven't watched the movie yet, but look forward to something new.
Wonderful film! 
2009-11-09 - I have always loved this movie and am happy to own it now. Beautifully filmed.
great 
2009-11-04 - its great to find this dvd i have been looking a long time for it it got here in a few days opened it and put it on it was great for all of us to watch going to watch it again this weekend
Wow! 
2009-11-02 - I remembered seeing the previews for this movie before it come out in the theaters. I was thinking about how colorful and magical it seemed.
I didn't see it in the theater but finally saw it on DVD when it came out. Yes, this movie is so vividly colorful and amazing.
But on the flip side, it is profoundly sad and gut-wrenching too. I ended up having to stop watching it half-way through and come back to finish
watching it a few hours later.
One thing that bothered me though was the discontinuous story-line. It was often hard to follow as the story seemed to jump around chronologically
and some of the situations were confusing and unclear.
But all in all, I did like the movie and found it amazing to watch. I would recommend it. I think its a good example of "love conquers all" even through
heaven and hell and the afterlife.