Reboot V 4.0 features (Computer Animation)
Picture: C+ Sound: B- Extras: C- Features: C+
The Reboot franchise is pushed as if it
were ahead of Toy Story, but it
comes across more like an attempt to do a more commercially viable Tron (1982), but it never manages to be
as interesting as either. Even with
reference jokes to everything from Austin
Powers to other pop culture, the two feature-length programs here are the
fourth and final wrap-up season of the TV series.
This was
produced at a time when several television production entities gambled that an
all computer-generated TV series could be an artistic and commercial
success. Much of the tech talk is double
talk and never adds up to anything worth trying to put together, the kind of
humor that is not as smart as it thinks it is backs that problem.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image on both feature-length works, Daemon Rising & My Two Bobs, are the same. The color is limited but consistent for
digital color, but they both are on the soft side. They have also not aged well, and these are
the final shows. Like the all CG Johnny Quest, the use of CG as a
novelty tires quickly. The original
Dolby Pro Logic surround is available as Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo with said
surrounds or in a slightly better 5.1 AC-3 remix. The only extra on each side of the DVD (one
per feature) is a character gallery with over a dozen characters each,
including overlap. I have seen worse,
but this is very unmemorable and only for those who might somehow be CG
curious.
- Nicholas Sheffo
