Rugby World Cup - Official Review 2003

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Editorial reviews

Video Description
The moment England finally became world champions. All the drama, all the action.

This is the exclusive Official Review of the Rugby World Cup 2003, the greatest rugby show on Earth. Six weeks of stunning action, moments of genius, incredible skill and awesome power. The tournament had lived up to all its expectations and there were countless heroes along the way. The greatest names in rugby: Gregan, Wilkinson, Galthie and O’Driscoll shared top billing with a new generation of rugby superstars – All Black Joe Rokocoko, Fiji’s Caucau, Springbok Joe Van Niekerk, Shane Williams of Wales and France’s Freddie Michalak. On Saturday 22nd Novemer 2003 history was made. At the end of a spectacular tournament, England were crowned World Champions, the first northern hemisphere country to lift the William Webb Ellis Cup.

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Synopsis
The official review of the 2003 Rugby World Cup.

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Customer reviews

review by: Liam date: 2005-04-12 rating:
A great video, well worth buying
I bought this one for my 9 year old son and he's watched it so often he knows the commentry off by heart. The commentry is great with wonderful Australian accents mixed with great scenes. I wish other rugby videos with good play but rather boring commentry or discussion had the zest of this one. I'd definately buy more videos from the same producer.

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review by: date: 2004-07-19 rating:
Rugby world Cup Official Review- The Review
When watching this DVD, you have to remember that this was made very quickly after England won the thing. Knowing that, it is actually not that bad. Maybe going through every single game was a bit ambitious, especially if it was between countries you have never heard of, but despite that, it still plants a firm memory in your head of Martin Johnson holding the cup above his head.
Even if you are not a rugby fan, you should own this purely for being English, and seeing Johny Wilkinson drop kick the the ball past the two poles will make a shiver run down your spine time and time again.
The DVD itself basically runs through each match showing the best bits building up to the final between England and Australia. I think that is all thats needed to be written and I think it is a essential that this should be amongst your DVD collection at home.

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review by: marcusmuck date: 2004-06-28 rating:
A good attempt but nothing more.
This is more a souvenir than anything else. It's the 'right-on' version with glitzy music and clips sharply edited.

The problem lies with trying to pack so much in it. Only the extended highlights of the games deemed 'exciting' are featured. The rest are assigned a few seconds for tries and conversions.

Even so, you forget how good some of the games were.

At the end of the day though it's a reasonable attempt and quite watcheable.

You'll need to get the final separately.

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review by: date: 2004-03-09 rating:
Disappointing
Just about worth having as a long-term souvenir, but only just. Too much hype, not enough rugby. This is a shallow account - you never see any of the build-up to the key moments, only the touchdown or kick itself. This can't be due to lack of space - the running time is little more than an hour. And why isn't it in widescreen like the ITV broadcasts were? It makes a big difference in rugby.


review by: date: 2004-03-08 rating:
Not for England supporters
If you are an England rugby supporter, don't waste your money on this. It does show all the clips of the matches from start to finish, but 90% of the England clips are of Johnny taking kicks. As if that is all it takes to win a world cup!

If you are an Oz supporter you'll love it; lots of Wallaby action and stadium shots of the fans, and not too much footage of the eventual victors.

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