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Dom Robinson reviews
Pinnacle Records
- Cat.no: IX 0579 RXUKD
- Cert: E
- Running time: 65 minutes
- Year: 2000
- Pressing: 2001
- Region(s): 2, PAL
- Chapters: 20
- Sound: Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1
- Languages: English
- Subtitles: 10 languages available
- Fullscreen: 4:3
- 16:9-enhanced: No
- Macrovision: No
- Disc Format: DVD 9
- Price: £19.99
- Extras: Four music videos
Director :
- Lawrence Jordan
My Reflection,isn’t just a look at the career and dreams of Christina Aguilera,but a reflection of the whole “holiday spirit”. I’m not sure if the Americansstill actually think of Christmas as a time for families and for loving andgiving, but for her it’s enough of an idea to stretch this TV special toover an hour.
The show contains songs such as Genie in a Bottle, Come On Over Baby andWhat a Girl Wants for the pop starlet performing on her own,collaborations Merry Christmas, Baby with Dr. John, HaveYourself a Merry Little Christmas with Brian McKnight andSo Emotional with a little rapping runt that goes by the stupid nameof Lil Bow Wow; and not to mention dreadful cover versions of ClimbEvery Mountain and Free’s Alright Now.
If you haven’t reached for the sick bag yet, then there are various behind-the-scenespieces shoehorned in, along with The Making of “Come On Over Baby” music videoand Mom & Friends in which we learn that La Aguilera loves her mommy.Aw, shucks(!)
The full list of tracks included are :
1. Introduction
2. Reflection
3. Genie in a Bottle
4. Come On Over Baby
5. Mom & Friends/Trust
6. What a Girl Wants
7. So Emotional (w/Lil Bow Wow)
8. The Making of “Come On Over Baby” music video
9. I Turn To You
10. At Last11. Behind the Scenes on tour
12. Contigo en la Distancia
13. Climb Every Mountain
14. Choreography7
15. Falsas Esperanzas
16. Alright Now
17. Merry Christmas, Baby (with Dr. John)
18. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (with Brian McKnight)
19. Christmas Time
20. End Credits
There’s no artifacts on show, but sharpness is lost and there’s some blurrymotion with what isn’t the best NTSC-to-PAL conversion I’ve ever seen.Perhaps they should’ve left it the way it was. Presented in fullscreen, theaverage bitrate is a high and erratic 9.41Mb/s.
The sound has no complaints with a dual Dolby Digital 5.1 and DTS 5.1soundtrack present, the latter sounding a bit more bassy.
The only extras on the DVD are four pop videos, but three of them are rathera waste of time because they’re all recorded in Spanish! There’s the No.1single, Genie in a Bottle, I Turn To You and Come On Over Baby,plus, in English, Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song, which is onefor completists only since it’s dripping in American schmaltz. And as I writethis, summer’s just about here and Christmas doesn’t begin in the shops untilJuly (!)
Any dialogue between songs- and in a few brief words from the man as an opener – comes in 10 subtitledlanguages, but none of them are English, just: French, German, Italian,Swedish, Norwegian, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch and Finnish.What’s wrong with providing lyrics in any language as well as English??
The menus have some subtle animation, with some music on the main one,but aren’t particularly impressive and are on a very short loop.
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Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.