I'm actually watching it all the way through since I didn't see any use in spending 80 minutes watching something in pan & scan... maybe because the Miramax version is so horrible, but it's quite watchable. If you edit out the song sequences (except maybe for beem boom since it's sort of catchy), I'd go as far to say it deserves a "3/5" compared to the Miramax's "1/5" Calvert at least seemed to understand that the Thief and Tack were co-stars in their own plot threads. If he left alone the voices and actually tried to work with Tack's muteness, I'd consider it to be more like what happened to Superman II... yeah, the original vision was compromised, but it still managed to be a really good movie. Major problems aside, the One-Eyes lose their impact without being a surprise later in the film. Continuity problems really become annoying... it doesn't make any sense for the Nurse to smile at Tack fixing her glasses, then immediately being a jerk. Other than the extra animation being quite awful, the re-editing of the Thief's attempts to get the golden statue is amusing since it echoes how it took so many attempts to get the balls.
I'm actually watching it all the way through since I didn't see any use in spending 80 minutes watching something in pan & scan... maybe because the Miramax version is so horrible, but it's quite watchable. If you edit out the song sequences (except maybe for beem boom since it's sort of catchy), I'd go as far to say it deserves a "3/5" compared to the Miramax's "1/5" Calvert at least seemed to understand that the Thief and Tack were co-stars in their own plot threads. If he left alone the voices and actually tried to work with Tack's muteness, I'd consider it to be more like what happened to Superman II... yeah, the original vision was compromised, but it still managed to be a really good movie. Major problems aside, the One-Eyes lose their impact without being a surprise later in the film. Continuity problems really become annoying... it doesn't make any sense for the Nurse to smile at Tack fixing her glasses, then immediately being a jerk. Other than the extra animation being quite awful, the re-editing of the Thief's attempts to get the golden statue is amusing since it echoes how it took so many attempts to get the balls.