An American Tail Blu-Ray - Is It worth it?

Hi there people,

As you might know, the Blu-Ray of the classical An Americam Tail finally hit stores a week ago.
Nice it is to find the movie with all the advantages of the Blu-Ray technology: Alot of data storage, High-definition quality, menu setting in one menu... etc.

But... 2 years after the 25th anniversary of the movie, is that Blu-Ray version worth it? Only you can judge. I don't own the Blu-Ray myself yet because I wait for review on Internet and there's no one yet. But I can definitely say I've a bad feeling about it.

Let's start with the cover itself. I know the cover doesn't matter, the movie it does.. but still it's the same boring cover since VHS re-release in 1998, as for the DVD in 2004.

What about the film itself? I saw in a torrent page showing previews (I didn't download it because I've a respect for Bluth's works) and I could say the quality is here. ^^ The Blu-Ray shows the movie itself at it's theatrical version for the first time. The original ratio of the movie? All the documents, pictures I read and saw about the movie production, it says the movie was produced in 4:3 ratio, not in 16:9.
I could say easily it's a cropped version of the movie for adapt it to our widescren. According to screenshots I found in torrent site, I compared it to the exact frame on DVD...







For the audio, it's obviously the same audio edit we had on the DVD version: Additional voices in the background, "cartoon" sound effects, same Orphans "new" voices from DVD release. This is sad... We would wish a "original" audio track...

What about the features? According to a review at Amazon, it says "There is some minor issues; there only 2 special feature added "somewhere out there" sing-along and theatrical trailer and it took the latest box cover from VHS and DVD a let-down on this"
You read it right... no "making of", commentary, deleted scenes, artworks or anything about the movie production... Just a lazy move for making a Blu-Ray release.

So... Is it worth it to buy that Blu-Ray version? If you want to just enjoy the movie in 1080p with awesome image quality, you'll be happy. But... if you're a core fan... you'll be disappointed by the lack of features, the same audio edit we had on DVD 10 years ago... for a tag price of $20.