Post a commentGary Thompson: Special features spice 'Up' newly released Pixar fave
PIXAR'S "UP" arrives this week in many configurations, and I'll give one guess as to which direction the price goes as you add more discs to the package.
That's right: Up.
Disney's charging $29 for the single-disc DVD, which includes the "Partly Cloudy" short film that played alongside "Up" in theaters, and a new animated short called "Dug's Special Mission."
If you want more special features, you can go with the two-disc special edition, $39, which includes all of the above plus directors' commentary, making of, deleted scenes, documentaries.
The four-disc Blu-ray extravaganza, $45, includes even more behind-the-scenes information - tutorials on how the animation was done, documentaries on how the Pixar animators traveled to South America to study the foliage, promotional material, theatrical trailers, etc.
Hard to say how much kids will be interested in any of that, but Pixar's talent (on display in "Up,") has always been a parallel appeal to adults, who will eat it up, especially animation geeks.
