About Schmidt

[Royal Tenenbaum]

Well, I bought it. The film is great obviously, and the transfer and soundtracks (DTS) are excellent. Unfortunately, Payne doesn't include a commentary, despite the fact he has done them in the past, an excellent one for Election at least. The included Delete Scenes are really good; they look and sound fine, despite a warning about them being rough, and all of them could have easily been left in the film. This is probably the best collection of deleted scenes I've seen. The scenes also include text introductions by Payne, which are really good, and makes me even sadder about the lack of commentary. Everything he writes is information and interesting. The include Woodman sequences are useless after one viewing, and the trailer is included and is a great one. Good DVD, but it could have been better; the film is so good though, that I have to forgive them.