Review of Doll Squad, The

Introduction

The Doll Squad are "beautiful and dangerous", a team of agents in the mould of Charlie`s Angels - three "retro" babes who face a race against time to save the world in the face of mass destruction.

Video

The video comes in full-frame, full-grain and varies from being equivalent to poor VHS quality to really poor VHS quality. The words "digitally remastered" were obviously not in the vocabulary of the team responsible for unleashing this sub-standard picture – the picture is extremely grainy, with a great deal of noise, including lots of specks, and full length lines across the screen. Some scenes are also very unstable, both in terms of picture shake and of contrast.

Extremely unsatisfactory.

Audio

The sound comes in Dolby Digital Stereo and is of a similar low standard to the picture. Some scenes have so much background noise (intentional at times I think) that you can`t pick out what the characters are saying. Other scenes appear to suffer from a microphone not being near one of the two characters, so dialogue from one side of the discussion is clear, dialogue from the other is not.

Features

Extras consist of the trailer, a filmography and an interview with the director.

The disc is packaged in a clear Amaray case, which contains a single sheet insert listing the 12 chapter breaks.

Conclusion

One of the problems with DVD is that the seemingly insatiable demand for discs provides an excuse for distributors/studios to release all manner of rubbish on the unsuspecting buyer. Like other titles that I have experienced in the MIA range, this is a low quality film, which is poorly presented on this below par DVD.

The back of the box proclaims that this is Ted Mikel`s best film – I dread to think what his worst is like.