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Question one, why 16:9? If I remember right, this thing is only available from the view VHS copies that are floating around, so all you have to work with is an already pan and scanned film, unless the video is open matte, which I seriously doubt. So you'd be impinging upon an already cropped image, and shrinking down the crappy resolution to an even smaller resolution.
Question two, how're you going to get 5.1 audio out of this thing? Is it even stereo? Hell, I think it might be mono. Without the original, separate audio elements, you're going to have a hell of a time doing any sort of remixing of the audio. Every time there's dialogue and sound effects occurring simultaneously, you won't be able to touch the audio.
I'd strongly suggest leaving the video frame as is (1.33:1) and leaving the audio as it is (if you want, do some hiss reduction or something like that, if necessary). Focus on cleaning up the video, and the re-editing.
The clean-up isn't a very in-depth job, you could probably have the whole thing wrapped up in a night, but considering the crappiness of the source (I've seen two versions--one terrible looking, and one simply okay), you won't be able to put too much shine on this turd.
Hence the brevity of that aspect of the project.The editing is where this baby needs a lot of love. But at the end of the day, perhaps it just needs to be burned...
