The Movie: MASH is of course the film that spawned the long-running TV series, though at times, this film seems worlds away from the TV show, what with the show's laugh track and all. Though it's set in the Korean war, director Robert Altman opted to remove virtually all identifying features of the war with the hopes that people would confuse it with the ongoing Vietnam war when taking in the anti-war sentiments of the film.

MASH is an irreverent, dark comedy centered around an American mobile military medical facility near the front lines of the war. As a result, we get a juxtaposition of the horrors of war with humor, perhaps the only way the characters in this story can keep themselves sane while being in the situation they are in.

Though I was certainly able to appreciate the humor and the message of this film, I didn't find myself enjoying it all that much, perhaps because at times it seemed like a jumble of random, unrelated scenes. Yes, many of those scenes were funny, but there just seemed to be a lack of a story progression going on, and at times, I even began to lose interest. Maybe I am just lacking the age or the context or something, I don't know.

The DVD: The contents of this disc are the result of a beautiful restoration, and the video transfer looks fantastic for a film of this age. 1970's films just didn't have the same kind of resolution as newer ones may have, and as a result, the video at times seemed somewhat soft, though I much prefer that to adding edge enhancement to try to give the illusion of sharpness.

Audio was also extremely clean, showing none of the films age, whatsoever. And features? Well, this is a two disc set, which means there is a whole heck of a lot of extra stuff here. If you're a fan of this film, you will not be disappointed!