I
Love Lucy: The Christmas Special Colorized (CBS DVD)
Picture:
B- Sound: C Extras: C Episodes: C+
Ho
ho ho, it's Christmas with Lucy. Along with the once lost Christmas
Special, enjoy three episodes of Lucy as she travels to Italy,
and Scotland with either colorized or the original black and white
versions.
Lucille
Ball as Lucy Ricardo has always been an iconic figure of her time,
along with her husband Ricky Ricardo and their neighbors/Ricky's
manager Frederick and Ethel. In the Christmas show, Lucy and her
friends remember their past and how they became a family as they set
up for Christmas. In Lucy's Italian Movie, Lucy is
eager to tryout in a movie and goes to a grape farm with comical
results. In Lucy Goes to Scotland, Lucy dreams of
visiting Scotland and faces a two headed dragon.
I
Love Lucy is old school comedy, it takes a young American couple
with mixed heritages and as they live day to day in America with
their hopes and dreams. Lucy has a kind heart and she is a bit
naive, but that what makes her so lovable and funny. Often there
would be singing and dancing, and show would make fun of couple
antics, stereotypes and cultures. Both the colorized image (hmmm)
and original black and white image are here in 1.33 X 1 presentations
and the sound is lossy Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono as it was on all the
DVD box sets. There are no extras, save the extra episodes, which
we'll count in this case. Be on the lookout for the show on Blu-ray
soon!
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Ricky Chiang
