The Movie: I hadn't seen this movie in a long, long time. Many years. So many in fact that I forgot most of the details of the movie. But yeah. It's a funny parody of Star Wars with Bill Pullman starring as a mostly Han Solo with some Luke Skywalker mixed in character. I'm sure that when I watched this movie as a child I didn't get or even notice the Metamorphosis/Kafka line.

The DVD: Welp I didn't expect much for $9.95, and the cover didn't say "anamorphic" or "enhanced for widescreen TV's" anywhere. The disc is similar to other MGM discs in that it is a dual-sided disc with a 1.85:1 letterboxed widescreen version on one side, and a 4:3 pan and scan version on the other side. Also similar to other MGM DVD's that I own (such as The Princess Bride), the "liner notes" actually have information on them beyond just the chapter list (which is pretty useless anyway). The audio is 5.1 surround, but I watched it on Kenny's TV with no surround sound so I cannot attest to the quality of it, but I'm sure there's nothing wrong with it.

One cool thing about this DVD though is that it has a snazzy menu design that looks like a control panel from the movie... "Mr. DVD" it's called, and the way it's structured, all of the individual menus (the main, languages, special features, etc.) are all part of one very large panel, of which you can only see one part at a time. The panels have humorous labels and animations that are right in line with the style of humor from the movie. I give the menu design an A. Special features include audio commentary by Mel Brooks, a "behind the scenes" featurette (which I have not watched) and the obligatory theatrical trailer.