WWF Royal Rumble 2001

WWF Royal Rumble 2001

Distributed by
Silver Vision

• Cert:
• Cat.no: WWF 1010
• Running time: 209 minutes
• Year: 2001
• Pressing: 2001
• Region(s): 2, NTSC
• Chapters: 23
• Sound: Dolby Surround (Dolby Digital 2.0)
• Languages: English
• Subtitles: None
• Fullscreen: 4:3
• 16:9-Enhanced: No
• Macrovision: Yes
• Disc Format: DVD 9
• Price: £19.99
• Extras: Background info on the stars, Exclusive interviews, History of the RoyalRumble

WWF Royal Rumble 2001is another lengthy DVD containing actors throwing each other about a lot andappear to cause a great deal of pain with their fists, feet or any householdimplement they can get their hands on.

The main feature lasts a shade under three hours and consists of five mainfights: the WWF Tag Team Championship Match with the champions Edge andChristian up against Dudley Boyz; the WWF IntercontinentalChampionship Ladder Match with champion Chris Benoit fightingChris Jericho; the female touch from the WWF Women’s ChampionshipMatch where reining champ Ivory takes on Chyna; and theWWF Championship Match of Kury Angle (champion) with Trish Stratusvs. Triple H and Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley.

Finally, as you’d expect, comes the 30-man Royal Rumble Match to determinethe No.1 contender for the WWF Championship crown at Wrestlemania, beginningwith two contestants in the ring with others entering every two minutesuntil the total is complete.

Presented in a 4:3 ratio, the print is free of artifacts but the picturequality is variable depending on the technique used. Sometimes it lookslike a dodgy NTSC-to-PAL conversion, although it’s in the original NTSC,while stop-motion and black-and-white techniques are used at other times.You should know what to expect here though.I was unable to determine the average bitrate.

The sonic content, presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 (Dolby Surround), fills the roomwith sound. Most of the noise tends to come from the audience cheering while thosein the ring shout a lot.

In the extras dept., shouting comes in droves from the likes of Lo’ Down, Kurt Angle, TrishStratus, with some fan predictions and a cameo from US TV show starDrew Carey. There’s a look at the History behind the RoyalRumble and each of the contestants involved in the main matches.

The Rumble Wrap-up consists of seven exclusive interviews with the likesof Dudley Boyz, Chris Benoit, Ivory, Kurt Angle, Gangmaster Sexay,William Regal and Honky Tonk Man.

23 chapters are used throughout the whole disc including the extras, but there’sjust a mere FIVE over the main 3-hr event. Dialogue is in English only withno subtitles and most of the menus feature animation in the form of clips fromthe show, all with music.

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