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10 Things I Hate About You [Region 2] | ![10 Things I Hate About You [Region 2]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51DZ79AD56L._SL500_.jpg)
| Director: Gil Junger
Actors: Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz
Category: DVD
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Rating:  452 reviews
Sales Rank: 295271
Format: Anamorphic, Full Screen, NTSC
Languages: English (Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired), French (Unknown), English (Unknown), Italian (Unknown), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Italian (Subtitled), Hungarian (Subtitled), Dutch (Subtitled)
Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 2
Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Running Time: 97 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 3459379406116
ASIN: B00005AMRB
Theatrical Release Date: March 31, 1999
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It's, like, Shakespeare, man! This good-natured and likeable update of The Taming of the Shrew takes the basics of Shakespeare's farce about a surly wench and the man who tries to win her and transfers it to modern-day Padua High School. Kat Stratford (Julia Stiles) is a sullen, forbidding riot grrrl who has a blistering word for everyone; her sunny younger sister Bianca (Larisa Oleynik) is poised for high school stardom. The problem: overprotective and paranoid Papa Stratford (a dryly funny Larry Miller) won't let Bianca date until boy-hating Kat does, which is to say never. When Bianca's pining suitor Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) gets wind of this, he hires the mysterious, brooding Patrick Verona (Heath Ledger) to loosen Kat up. Of course, what starts out as a paying gig turns to true love as Patrick discovers that underneath her brittle exterior, Kat is a regular babe. The script, by Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith, is sitcom-funny with peppy one-liners and lots of smart teenspeak; however, its cleverness and imagination doesn't really extend beyond its characters' Renaissance names and occasional snippets of real Shakespearean dialogue. What makes the movie energetic and winning is the formula that helped make She's All That such a big hit: two high-wattage stars who look great and can really act. Ledger is a hunk of promise with a quick grin and charming Aussie accent, and Stiles mines Kat's bitterness and anger to depths usually unknown in teen films; her recitation of her English class sonnet (from which the film takes its title) is funny, heartbreaking, and hopelessly romantic. The imperious Allison Janney (Primary Colors) nearly steals the film as a no-nonsense guidance counselor secretly writing a trashy romance novel. --Mark Englehart
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 Destin To Be A Classic February 6, 2010
Jon Williams
Heath Ledger's first film and it's superb! This is bay far one of the best chick flick comedies I've ever seen. I owned the DVD before I bought the blu-ray. There's really not much more for extras but does look great in 1080P. (:
 Great teen film, they don't make em like this anymore January 20, 2010
Alexander M. Walker (Chicago, IL USA)
Imagine if you could take a course on teenage films, that recently critically derided genre that seems to have become little more than a contest of who can make the cleverest double entendre or the grossest sight gag. Instead of starting way back in the beach musical era, we'll use a closer albeit equally forgotten tradition the likes of which John Hughes was a master. Sixteen Candles, Better of Dead, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, and so many more based their plots around common high school issues like prom, popularity and truancy. If you want to know where the turning point was, 10 Things I Hate About You might be the best place to start.
Hitting theaters four months before the film that started the franchise-that-won't-die (American Pie), 10 Things was the perfect mix of the two. It had a very classic story borrowed from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew as well as the comedy that came from that story originally, however it also brought something new to the table: that theme of rampant sexuality which had recently been allowed to blossom into a publicly recognized part of youth culture (before it was acknowledged but mentioned in oddly hushed filmic tones). It has all the common themes of a teen movie and the necessary laughs to put in the top echelons of teen films.
New kid in school Cameron (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) has all the problems you'd associate with a teenager in his position. He doesn't really know anyone besides his school-assigned guide Michael (David Krumholtz) and the most beautiful girl in school, the virginal Bianca (Larisa Oleynik), seems taken with the self-absorbed teen model Joey (Andrew Keegan). But that's not really the obstacle standing between Cameron and Biancal, that would be too "underdog wins the day" easy. Instead, Bianca's father (a rather hilarious turn by Larry Miller) has forbidden her to date until her older sister Kat (Julia Stiles) does. At first it may seem nothing serious, but Kat has a bit of a reputation for being a hot-tempered shrew (what up, Shakespeare?). Cameron devises a plan to get the meanest, edgiest guy in school, Patrick (Heath Ledger), to change his ways and make Kat fall in love with him so Bianca will be free for romancing.
The script has a lot going for it and director Gil Junger did it justice - but he had help. Taking into account the modern reputations of both Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the late Heath Ledger, and Julia Stiles (whom, for my money, was pretty good in the Bourne series) and it's not too hard to understand how such a young cast was able to rise to the occasion. Add in the talented and hilarious adult cast of Miller, Daryl Mitchell as the funny English teacher, and Allison Janney as the student counselor and aspiring sex novelist and the film seems to have a solid laugh in every scene.
Compared to the teen films which followed it, the sexual references of 10 Things I Hate About You seem diabolically subtle in comparison. Sex jokes seem to pass under the radar with little more than a cocked head from a character to indicate that anything was wrong at all with the words just spoken. The direction, writing and acting are all top-notch for the genre and it's one of the few you can legitimately share with whole family and not squirm because of ostentatious displays of vulgarity.
Something I've always enjoyed about this film is how some of the scenes are staged. Gil Junger made an effort to keep some of the staging as it would appear in a stageplay and it serves the film quite well.
Blu-ray Bonus Features
It's the film's tenth anniversary and accordingly there's a 10-year after retrospective with new footage featuring director Gil Junger and co-writers Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz. Ledger, Stiles, Krumholtz and Gordon-Levitt also appear in the piece but in clips recorded when the film was first made. For fans of the film, the 35 minutes might feel too short, but for casual viewers it keeps a brisk pace and never really seems to drag on. It's definitely worth a look. With that said, it's really the only extra on the disc besides a commentary (which has lots of overlap with what Junger says in the retrospective).
1 Thing I Hate ... about the 10th Anniversary release! January 14, 2010
reaganfan (California)
OK, first of all I want to start with this: This movie is one of my all time favorite movies. PERIOD. So five stars is what it gets even with the complaint I am about to mention. Julia, Heath, heck everyone is perfectly cast, and writing and directing are perfection. Music = Genius. All that said I already had this DVD since day one of the original release. But I prayed for a Criterion release, unrealistic though that was, or OK, so maybe just a "Special Edition" with deleted scenes and a making of feature. Along comes this new 10th Anniversary release announcement and I am beyond excited. Jump to now... sigh.... "Making of" featurette: CHECK. Deleted scenes: huh? Where? No? arrgghhhh!!!!! I searched everywhere. Every menu. Not even an "easter egg" to be found. So I come here and see a recent review pointing out that the "deleted scenes" were actually part of the "making of" featurette!!! So actual full on deleted scenes, maybe even with director's commentary?: NEGATIVE!!! To paraphrase Yoda: feeling ripped off beyond belief I am. So great movie and a load of horse hockey for extras as listed. Again... sigh...
5-star Movie, 3-star DVD January 8, 2010
P. Nguyen (Philadelphia, PA United States)
One would think, for the 10th anniversary of this movie, the DVD would be a little bit more special, but all you're getting is a digital copy, a newly recorded audio commentary with some of the actors & writers, and a 10-yr retrospective with the director and the two writers (a measly half-hour). Any shot with the actors in the retrospective all are from when the movie was being made, nothing more current with any of the actors.
Ridiculously stingy DVD extras aside, though, this is still something worth buying if you don't already own the movie. It's definitely something that will go down amongst Clueless et al. as a great teen movie. It's a fun, frothy (given credibility by that "based on Will Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew" line but frothy nonetheless) teen movie that doesn't condescend. The script is just so well written! The teenagers are written like, well, people I went to school with (which is saying something since I was in high school when this movie came out). And the subtle jokes that appeared in this movie, well, it says something about the writers that they bothered with subtlety for a teen movie. It's this earnest writing, rife with references to Shakespeare, that allows this movie to transcend beyond just another teen movie.
The cast is wonderful, and it's amazing to think how many names I can easy recognize - Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Allison Janney, Gabrielle Union, etc. Oh sure, it may have been the first big movie for many of these names, but they all showed why it was that they went on to have real careers after.
All in all, it's worth buying if you don't own the movie but is not worth buying if you've got a copy hanging around. The movie itself is what you'll be buying this movie for - the audio commentary with the actors sharing a few Heath Ledger stories is cute and sentimental but not especially special.
Blu-ray: Those who loved the film will love the reunion of some of the cast for the commentary and special features! January 7, 2010
Dennis A. Amith (kndy) (California)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
In 1999, the film "10 Things I Hate About You" which was is based on William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew" was adapted to a teen comedy film by screenwriters Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith (both who wrote "Legally Blonde", "The Ugly Truth", "The House Bunny" and "Ella Enchanted") and featured first time film director Gil Junger (known for directing TV shows "Ellen", "According to Jim" and "Hope and Faith").
The film would be appreciated as a teen romantic comedy and since the film's debut is considered among the top 10 teen romantic comedy films out there and the film is known to be the launching point for the director, the screenwriters and the film that would launch the careers of Julia Stiles and Heath Ledger.
The popularity of the film now reaching it's tenth year anniversary has recently generated a television series on ABC Family and now a 10th Anniversary Blu-ray release.
VIDEO & AUDIO:
"10 Things I Hate About You: 10th Anniversary Edition" receives its first entry to Blu-ray. Presented in 1080p High Definition (1:85:1), the film looks great! At first, I was a little worried when the stock footage of Seattle was grainy but once you see the film, you can't help but be happy about the detail. You can see the skin pores of the people, details on the walls and surroundings. Some scenes are vibrant and colorful, there is a fine layer of grain on the film, blacks are nice and deep and picture quality that is much better than its DVD counterpart.
As for audio quality, the film is presented in English 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio and in French, Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital. The film is front and center channel driven. Dialogue and music are clear but for the most part, the lossless soundtrack works for the film. I was hoping that with the crowd scenes, those sounds would be heard on the surround channels but I really didn't hear too much surround channel usage or even anything from the subwoofer.
Subtitles are in English SDH, French and Spanish.
SPECIAL FEATURES:
"10 Things I Hate About You: 10th Anniversary Edition" comes with the following special features featured in 1080p or 480i, English 2.0 Dolby Digital with English SDH, French or Spanish subtitles. Included are:
* 10 Things I Love About 10 Things I Hate About You 10 Years Later - (35:05) Ten years after the film's initial debut, director Gil Junger, and writers Kirsten Smith and Karen Lutz reflect and hear the story about how this classic teen comedy came to be. Featuring never-before-seen behind the scenes footage, original cast interviews, deleted scenes, original screen test and personal photos from the writers' scrap books.
* Audio Commentary with co-writers Karen Lutz and Kirsten Smith, and stars Andrew Keegan, David Krumholtz, Larisa Oleynik and Susan May Pratt - An entertaining commentary with the writers and cast reflecting their past working on the film and working with members of cast and crew. Also, jokes and hilarious things that happened behind-the-scenes. Also, everyone talks about their memories of Heath Ledger on the set and auditions. For fans of the film, listening to this audio commentary makes this release so much worth it!
It's important to note that "deleted scenes" are mentioned on back of the package are found on the "10 Things I Love About 10 Things I Hate About You 10 Years Later" featurette.
JUDGMENT CALL:
I can easily remember when the original DVD was released and how badly I wanted it. "10 Things I Hate About You" was in my mind, the best non rated-R teen romantic film. Although "American Pie" was the more popular teen film of that year (the year also featured my other favorite PG-13 teen romance film "She's All That"), "10 Things I Hate About You" was a film I enjoyed because of its sincerity, everyone seemed to click well with each other and the screenplay never had to go the route of being perverted. Also, that poem by Kat at the end of the film is absolutely classic!
But here we are ten years later and "10 Things I Hate About You" is a pretty enjoyable film that still holds up today. But I know the big question for many people is if its worth upgrading from the DVD to the Blu-ray version? My answer is "YES!". The picture quality is much better than its original DVD counterpart but for those who loved the film, the two special features are just worth watching.
The audio commentary is just absolutely hilarious and for the most part, it's like reuniting with old friends again and hearing stories that happened behind-the-scenes of filming to the hotel parties that the cast would have and just the shenanigans that took place and how respectful they were in remember Heath Ledger. The audio commentary was fantastic!
I would have loved more special features to be included but considering that the original DVD had no special features at all, I'm glad that at least we get two special features for this 10th anniversary edition and the two are very entertaining.
Overall, "10 Things I Hate About You: 10th Anniversary Edition" is a fantastic release for fans of the film. The DVD may not have a lot of bells and whistles as I would have hoped but for the most part, this Blu-ray release is definitely an improved upgrade over the 1999 DVD and the audio commentary, again...hilarious and all-out-fun.
If you are a hardcore fan, a person who enjoyed this film or someone that is curious about this release, "10 Things I Hate About You: 10th Anniversary Edition" is definitely recommended!
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