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Originally Posted by James Luckard
Yep, same thing happened with the early James Bond movies when they were redone. These remixes they do today often sound NOTHING like the originals. They try to make them "sexy" and "hip" for young audiences, and add effects that were never there and worst of all they often bury the music, because the modern taste is for score to be almost unnoticeable.
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An American Tail hasn't had the original theatrical stereo sound mix since the era of VHS and laserdisc, so we've been stuck with the
ghastly 5.1 remix since the initial DVD release in
2004. Not only rife with added "cartoony" sound effects, but also additional background "walla" has been added in pretty much any quiet scene without dialogue, and even some of the voice tracks have been totally redubbed!
It's rendered the movie pretty much unwatchable for anyone remembering what it's "supposed" to sound like. I was hoping the Blu release would have offered the original audio as an option, but no, and I doubt this is the kind of catalogue title Universal's gonna put out on UHD anytime soon.
Here's the opening credits ripped from the original VHS:
Now, imagine that push-in to the house that accompanies the "directed by Don Bluth" credit overlaid with extraneous human voices chattering away, completely obscuring James Horner's lovely music.
