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Features: DVD
Something unspeakably chilling is heating up The City of Angels. Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano pushes to the surface, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city. Experience the pulse-pounding thrills as the dream capital of the world erupts into the stuff nightmares are made of.
"This is the volcano movie to see!" Pat Collins, WWOR-TV
"...happily malicious..." Janet Maslin
"...a disaster picture that's tastier than usual." Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times
"You'll have a hell-lava time." Time Magazine
"Truly spectacular!" Thelma Adams, New York Post
Editor's Note
When an earthquake triggers a giant burst of lava from the La Brea Tar Pits, sending great spews of lava all over various Los Angeles neighborhoods and causing all manner of flaming magma mayhem, dedicated Emergency Management director Mike Roark rushes to the rescue, with help from a plucky seismologist. A no-holds-barred cataclysmic extravaganza, replete with "lava bombs" bursting in air, a toned-down flirtatiousness between the city's saviors, and the straight-faced "how-will-we-stop-it?" suspense factor of the classic Hollywood disaster epics.
Plot Summary
When an earthquake triggers a giant burst of lava from the La Brea Tar Pits, sending giant spews of lava all over various Los Angeles neighborhoods and causing all manner of flaming magma mayhem, dedicated Emergency Management director Mike Roark rushes to the rescue, with help from a plucky seismologist . A no-holds-barred cataclysmic extravaganza, replete with "lava bombs" bursting in air.
| Features | Widescreen Version | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Access | | Theatrical Trailer | | Cast List With Mini-Bios | | Audio: English 5.1 Surround, Dolby Surround; French Dolby Surround |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 5/9/2006 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1997 | | Catalog ID: 4110402 | | UPC: 00086162104022 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Widescreen 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...VOLCANO is sharply edited for maximum mayhem, played at top volume, and filled with every imaginable volcano-related effect this side of the lava lamp. The effects are grand and stupefying..." 04/25/1997 p.C1Entertainment Weekly
"...The poker-faced preposterousness of VOLCANO is exactly what's fun about it..." 05/02/1997 p.40-1 Los Angeles Times
"...VOLCANO glows with heat....A disaster picture that's tastier than usual..." 04/25/1997 p.F1 ReelViews 8 of 10
"Volcano" has opened the "summer" movie season at an astoundingly early late-April date. But there's no mistaking this as anything but a blockbuster trying to get a running jump on competition like "The Fifth Element" and "The Lost World". This isn't the kind of film where it's worth waiting for the video tape -- it's too big and brash, and demands the speakers and atmosphere of a state-of-the-art theater. - James Berardinelli
Chicago Sun-Times 5 of 10
The lava keeps flowing for much of the movie, never looking convincing. I loved it when the firemen aimed their hoses way offscreen into the middle of the lava flow, instead of maybe aiming them at the leading edge of the lava--which they couldn't do, because the lava was a visual effect, and not really there. I also chortled at the way the scientist warns that the first eruption ``is not the last,'' and yet after the second eruption (when it is time for the movie to end), the sun comes out, everyone smiles, and she offers Jones and his daughter a lift home...The movie has one perfect line: ``This city is finally paying for its arrogance!'' Yes, and ``Volcano'' is part of the price. - Roger Ebert
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