Blu-ray Review: Universal 100th Anniversary Collection - Page 2

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Dracula (1931)
Dracula (the Spanish-language version, also from 1931)
Buck Privates (1941)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Spartacus (1960)
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
The Birds (1963)
American Graffiti (1973)
The Sting (1973)
Jaws (1975)
National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Scarface (1983)
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Back to the Future (1985)
Out of Africa (1985)
Field of Dreams (1989)
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Jurassic Park (1993)
Apollo 13 (1995)
The Fast and the Furious (2001)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
Mamma Mia! The Movie (2008)
Despicable Me (2010)

Yeah, that's quite a lot, isn't it? Interestingly enough, a Standard-Def DVD version of this collection is also available. Even more curiously, it does not include the Spanish Dracula, but does feature a copy of Schindler's List — a title that has not been released to Blu-ray. As an additional note of interest, both versions of Dracula from 1931 are only available in the excellent Universal Classic Monsters: The Essential Collection box set.

As stated earlier in this article, all discs include the exact same transfers and supplemental materials that were included in whatever edition(s) you've most likely seen (and perhaps bought) on Blu-ray over the last four years. The collection is housed in a book-style case, each of the two pages devoted to their respective film boasting much (if not all) of the same information included on the inside of the slipcovers of the aforementioned previous releases.

As far as limited supplemental materials go, Universal 100th Anniversary Collection includes 72-page booklet that covers the many films in this set, along with the history of the studio that gave birth to them. The real highpoint here is to be found in an exclusive bonus disc, which includes a number of vintage cartoons and classic short subjects from the Universal vaults. Eight of the "100 Years of Universal" featurettes you've most likely already seen before are also on this disc, which is a bit odd — since I think all of those filler featurettes are available on some of the discs included in this set.

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