![]() but the soundtrack was also remastered and re-released on CD too! ![]() Not only was it released by Columbia TriStar home video on VHS and DVD with directors commentary. the fantastic news was that, in July 2001, this all changed!!!! The Last Dragon is alive and well. ![]() Columbia TriStar pictures, who made the movie in a rare partnership with Motown Records, know this and that's why it is no longer available to buy, on any format, anywhere on planet earth. We used to say that " In the fashionable world of hip 90's films, a movie like The Last Dragon just wouldn't sell to the intended, late teen market. I'm talking about a real heart that sneaks up on so you're smiling a lot more when its over than before it started. And I'm not talking about the kind of contrived, putrid marketing "heart" that is all too present in movies made in the last decade. Oh and another thing: This film has heart. ![]() But it's in it's 'oddness' that the movie excels! This is pure, unadulterated entertainment -in the truest sense of the word. But it's just so much fun! Made entirely in the manner of a movie comic book, the film creates a rich and wacky environment for its entirely 2 dimensional and endlessly quotable 'cardboard' characters. We even have Michael "Car Wash" Schultz directing. Sure, it's like disco in the wrong year, with Motown soundtrack and lots of lingo. The Last Dragon is a true 80's kitsch masterpiece! ![]()
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