Les Mayfield directs Brendan Fraser in the fish-out-of-water comedy Encino Man. The film comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. The English soundtrack is rendered in Dolby Digital Surround and a French soundtrack has been recorded in Dolby Digital Stereo. There are no subtitles, but the English soundtrack is closed-captioned. Supplemental materials include the theatrical trailer and a making-of featurette. This is a fine, if unremarkable release from Disney/Buena Vista.
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This is actually a surprisingly decent movie from Pauly Shore, whose character shows a good heart and good intentions throughout, even in spite of Pauly Shore's usual goofy spaced out demeanor. Shore and a friend find the frozen body of a caveman in their swimming pool. The caveman thaws out and the hilarity ensues. Shore's friend wants to use the caveman as a ticket to popularity, while Shore begins to feel there is something not quite right about exploiting a real - and lost - human that way. Brendan Frasier gives a charming performance as the caveman, one the one hand hamming it up for laughs, and on the other provoking tenderness and empathy. Many reasons to enjoy this movie!
Put your favorite tunes at your fingertips when you get behind the wheel with this FM transmitter that allows you to play music from your iPod or iPhone through your car stereo system.
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My husband and I both have one of these. I have found it to be not as user friendly as I might have hoped. Maybe it is the way my car stereo is set up - I don't have as many controls as many autos do - because my husband, in his Honda, doesn't have any trouble with his. I find that it is difficult to find a blank frequency and that there is often interference on the frequency that I do use to listen to my music. Also the volume is lower than it is with the regular stereo. However, it does indeed give me the chance to listen to my ipod in the car and mostly works fine. There aren't too many other options out there right now for this type of thing.
What's great about it: Definitely can listen to your Ipod in the car
What's not so great: Not as user friendly as I would like