Mutiny on the Bounty (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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Actor: Marlon BrandoBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.55:1
Running Time: 185 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Warner Home Video
Movie Reviews of Mutiny on the Bounty (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Movie Review: A Fiasco
Summary: 1 Stars
To call this re-telling of the 1935 cinematic classic a failure would be overly generous. It is a fiasco. In fact, it may be the worst big-budget movie ever made.
The antics that of Marlon Brando, who played Fletcher Christian, during filming have become legendary. He was often too drunk and spaced out on drugs to even read his lines from cards held up in front of him; he gained so much weight that he had to be filmed from different angles; etc. However, this movie would have a disaster even if Brando had been completely sober and maintained the same weight.
For reasons that are incompressible to me, the part of the plot leading up to the mutiny is made to hinge on the contrast that is created by depicting Fletcher Christian as an aristocratic fop and Captain Bligh as a self-made man who has risen through the ranks. To create the former persona, Brando seems to have imitated the intonations and mannerisms of Jackie Gleason's comic character Reginald van Gleason III. After the mutiny, the overlong plot meanders formlessly to an ending that is so bathetic that it is nearly comic. Conversely, the few deliberate attempts at humor are embarrassingly unsuccessful and blatantly inappropriate.
Not one character is at all interesting; and the enactment of their interactions is as amateurish as a high school play.
The photography also is inept, especially when combining close-ups with background in the same frame.
Summary of Mutiny on the Bounty (Two-Disc Special Edition)
The conflict between tyrannical captain bligh & the conscientious fletcher christian eventually forces christian to mutiny in this high seas adventure. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 11/07/2006 Starring: Marlon Brando Richard Harris Run time: 185 minutesJust sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful trip.... Based on the classic novel by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall, this magnificently-photographed three-hour tour charts the tortuous and tragic course of the Bounty, which, in 1787, sailed from England to Tahiti on a "grocer's errand" to transplant breadfruit plants in Jamaica. As the voyage progresses, tensions mount between the heartless disciplinarian Captain Bligh (a commanding Trevor Howard) and his chief officer, Fletcher Christian (Marlon Brando), who does not subscribe to Bligh's philosophy that cruelty with cause is not cruelty. Richard Harris costars as John Mills, an abused crewmember who plants the seeds of treason against Bligh. Mutiny on the Bounty is a see-worthy saga that boasts a provocative Brando performance (his Christian is initially so foppish he makes Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow look like Errol Flynn in The Sea Hawk) and great action set pieces (a raging storm as the Bounty attempts to navigate Cape Horn). And in how many did this film inspire dreams of sailing away to Tahiti? Brando was among them. He married his ravishing costar Tarita, and later bought himself a French Polynesian island. This "Special Edition" replicates the film's original prestigious road show presentation, complete with Overture, Intermission, Entr'acte, and Exit music. --Donald Liebenson
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