The Simpsons 20th Season Blu-ray is one of the Worst Blu-rays Evah! Michelle’s Review

Blu-Ray

The Simpsons Season 20 is now on Blu-ray, this special; landmark season gets the Blu-ray release it deserves. It’s packed to the gills with extras including a nice coffee table book that commemorates this milestone, has a 1-hour retrospective, a look at creator Matt Groening, a special look at the China Sweatshop where the animation is actually created and more. Why the 10 hours of extras is worth the price of admission alone! We love you Fox Home Video for giving the fans what they want! If I lived in a dream world, this opening paragraph would have been true. Unfortunately reality sucks and so does The Simpson’s Season 20 featureless Blu-ray set. Not only does it not include any worthwhile features; unless you count a 3 minute Sneak Peak at Morgan Spurlock‘s 20th Anniversary Special, but they didn’t even standardize the picture. Half the episodes are Full Screen 1.33:1 and the other half are in Widscreen 1.76:1.

It just looks freaking DUMB and frankly the full screen version’s video quality is crappy which you notice all the more when you get to the gorgeous high def versions. I would maybe understand this if a) Fox wasn’t broadcasting in HD, or b) If the full screen episodes were shot 20 years ago but neither is the case. So why they decided to do this is beyond me.

Comments

The only thing worth noting on this release are two things – I love that all 21 episodes are on only 2 discs and the menu navigation is really nice. I don’t understand why most TV on Blu-ray still requires 5 or 8 discs. This Blu-ray release has to go down as one of the most pointless, half-baked releases I’ve ever seen. Don’t waste your time or money on it; you would be better off renting the DVD. Avoid this Blu-ray release at all costs.

Disc Info

  • Video – 9 Episodes Full Screen 1.33:1, 12 Episodes Widescreen 1.78:1
  • Audio – English, 5.1 DTS-HD, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, Portuguese 5.1 Dolby Digital, French
  • Subtitles – English, Spanish, Portuguese
  • Size – 50 GB, Dual Layer
  • Number of Discs – 2

Grades

  • Show – B
  • Video – F
  • Audio – A
  • Extras – F
  • Presentation – B

Final Overall Grade – F

EM Review by
Michelle Alexandria
Originally posted 02.11.2010

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