The Movie: Tron represents incredible breakthroughs in computer animation and special effects, with great sound and beautiful settings. The visual design of this movie is spectacular, in both the computer world and "real world" settings. Repetitive geometric shapes and grids are a major visual theme here, and it also carries over to the live action shots of the "real world", with geometric patters built into the sets, in the architecture of the buildings, the "scientific" apparatus, and also in one quite impressive interior office shot with an incredibly vast cubicle farm... man I hope I never work in a place like that!

However, despite all of it's visual glory, Tron it's a pretty damned cheesy movie. The plot is weak at best, and the dialog can get quite hokey at times.

Over the last 20 years, Tron has become a true cult classic, growing in popularity enough for Disney to see fit to put together a 2-disc set, and a mighty fine one it is.

The DVD: Tron is presented in an 2.20:1 anamorphic widescreen format, and the video transfer is quite spectacular, clean and nearly grainless -- a fine restoration, no doubt aided by the fact that the film was originally shot on 65mm film, every bit of which is preserved here beautifully.

The audio on this disc is also superb, with a wonderfully rich surround mix and clean, THX certified sound. My only complaint about it is that they went a little overboard with the surround positioning, as even dialog would sometimes be directed toward the rear channel speakers when the camera angle changes. This was most noticeable (and annoying) during the first briefing speech in the computer world, where every time the camera was on the bad guy, his speech would emanate from the center speaker, and every time the camera cut to Jeff Bridges (which happened quite often), the ongoing speech would switch to one of the surround channels... even though no one else is talking. It was rather distracting. But other than that, the surround mix was absolutely superb.

And the special features! Sweet Jesus, there's so much content on the second disc that I don't think I can even attempt to tell you about all of them. But some notable inclusions are the deleted "love scenes", several theatrical trailers (including one "in-progress" version), early test footage, and a veritable multitude of information on the various effects processes used in the making of this film. Snazzy menu design top off this fine package that is a great example of what a special edition DVD should be!