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Rated: PG-13; Genres: Action/Adventure, Disaster; With: Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton
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By Marc Bernardin
Marc Bernardin
Marc Bernardin

Hardcore DVD heads know that there are certain discs you put on to show off particular facets of your home theater, and if you're looking to give your sound system a workout, ''Twister'' is like aural steroids. From the title sequence on, the aggressive 5.1 Dolby Digital mix fills the room with whistling winds and chest thumping thunder. You may, however, want to consider turning your center channel speaker down so that you can miss some of the horrendous dialogue that director Jan De Bont made his stars (Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton) spout with straight faces. But De Bont makes up for his lack of character building finesse with his ability to add a genuine sense of frenzy to scenes both great (when the granddaddy of all tornadoes flips a house in our heroes' path) and not so great (let's get into our vans REALLY quickly!).


SPECIAL FEATURES This disc's passel of supplements is a bit on the ho hum side (two making of documentaries, commentary by De Bont and visual effects supervisor Stefen Fangmeier, theatrical trailers, an anamorphic widescreen transfer, and -- the pièce de résistance -- a Van Halen music video!), but no matter: ''Twister'' is all about the sound and the fury.


Posted Jan 30, 2001
 

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