DVD: Once

Glen Hansard plays A Guy in the movie Once. It opens with the Guy out in a busy street playing his guitar and singing songs. A young man comes walking and just pacing around him as he sings. From here, we as a audience don't know what going to happen. After telling the young man to F**k off the young man grabs his guitar case with all of the money in it. Here we see a chase which is quite hilarious. Later during a song (that he wrote) the Guy sings at night he meets a Girl played by Marketa Irglova right off the bat they hit it off and when the Girl bring her Hover to the Guy, because he is a hover Fixer Guy, they go to a music shop and she plays piano for him. From here both of them play and sing another song the Guy wrote and a couple of days later both of them get to know one another and the Guy decides that the two of them and another group of musicians should go and rent out a sound studio and record a group of there songs before the Guy goes back to London. The movie has a very fitting end that makes anyone feel good.

From the very first scene this movie had hooked me in. They movie has a great look and feel to it and it doesn't need to be really over the top like some of the early musicals. Once is something that I'll always recommend. The song of One is so good and can't describe them, I honestly went out after I watched One and bought the Soundtrack, something I haven't done for any movie for a long time. They are just great to listen to. The story wasn't that big it didn't need anything fancy, it just let the great two character just do there thing and really lightened up the screen. Once is a great movie I can stress that anymore, it has anything you could ever want in a movie: comedy, great music, lovable characters, and a great look to it. I Strongly Recommend Once.

DVD

The DVD of Once is presented in 1.85:1 widescreen and is in Dobly Stereo, while it has English, Spanish and French subtitles. The extras on the DVD are:

• Music & Film commentary by Writer/Director John Carbey and Actors/Musicians Glen Hansard & Marketa Irglova.
• Making of a Modern Day Musical Featurette.
• More Guy, More Girl Featurette.
• Broken Hearted Hoover Fizer Sucker Guy Webisode (Animated).

The Commentary on the DVD was good I thought the three of them did an OK job, but if I had to choose the best I would have to pick the times when the three where talking about the track being more interesting. I also liked the Making Of/Behind-the Scenes was a good addition, and the other More Guy, More Girl was too a good extra. Another feature is that you can download the song " Falling Slowly" from a DVD-ROM (don't see these anymore that much) was a good addition too. Everything for me worked great on this DVD and I'll be defiantly watching this movie more and more in the future. Much like the movie I Strongly Recommend this DVD.