Region 4 Winners and Losers

    This movie was released on DVD in Region 1 earlier this year. The R1 release has all the extras that we get on this disc, plus an additional short called Pikachu's Pikaboo (or Pikachu's Hide-and-Seek) — that's the missing short (it's 20 minutes long). The transfer on the R1 is reportedly as good as the one we get on the R4, except that it is a pan-and-scan release.

    Apparently this movie was screened in US cinemas without the short, so the R4 disc is accurate to what was screened there. But the R1 disc has the short.

    What a dilemma! The R1 has the missing short. The R4 is in the correct aspect ratio. I'm going to call it a draw (two discs, both flawed) — looks like the only way to get the whole thing is to get both discs, which is really annoying.