Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6871 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-08-25
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Portuguese, Swedish, Danish, Hungarian, Polish, Icelandic, Finnish, Czech
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 100 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Get mindless for awhile with this 1997 disaster flick, starring the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles as a funky place for lava to spew, plus Tommy Lee Jones and Anne Heche as the brave souls who know how to shut off the spout. Director Mick Jackson (The Bodyguard) wastes no time getting to the good stuff--it's happening in Volcano even before opening credits are over--and neither should anyone in the mood for technical efficiency without the burden of art. --Tom Keogh

Special Features
1.85 Wide Screen
16:9 Wide Screen
DVD 9
English
Region 2
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital 5.1
Interactive Menus
Scene Access
Original Theatrical Trailer
Czech\Danish\English\Finnish\Hebrew\Hungarian\Icelandic\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Swedish

Synopsis
When an earthquake triggers a giant burst of lava from the La Brea Tar Pits, sending great spews of lava all over various Los Angeles neighborhoods and causing all manner of flaming magma mayhem, dedicated Emergency Management director Mike Roark rushes to the rescue, with help from a plucky seismologist. A no-holds-barred cataclysmic extravaganza, replete with lava bombs bursting in air, a toned-down flirtatiousness between the city's saviors, and the straight-faced how-will-we-stop-it

Customer Reviews

Does catastrophe neessarily entail male saviors?
A catastrophe film has a simple formula. A perfectly beautiful situation. Los Angeles. With a hint of a problem. Earthquakes. Then some small elements that could lead to something else and a few geologists to prove it with theories that prove nothing but create anxiety. The geologists are women and that adds a touch of male-chauvinism when all the men (and they are only men, firemen, policemen, all kind of city workers and underground operators and security people, men, men and men again, and if you can find women they are geologists, doctors, nurses, news journalists, but not security personnel, though there might be one or two on the fringes but not in the middle of the action) of the security services don't believe her. Add to that a few simple but strongly emotional personal situations like a "single" father and his 13 year old daughter caught in the mess, and a couple more elements like that, even a couple of dogs, and you have what you need to create an emotional and fascinating catastrophe film. The rest is just special effects and there no one is better than catastrophe film makers to get these special effects right. So the catastrophe that has one chance in a million years to happen can be imagined in Los Angeles, but not too hard though like the volcanic eruptions that created Japan or those that submerged northern India with an immense basaltic plateau a couple of miles thick. Just a small little thing but right in the middle of LA with the underground as one of the main in-going avenues, along with Wilshire boulevard or whatever, for the lava to seize the city from underground. Spectacular. The heroes are set in extremely dangerous situations and miraculously saved by fate. The film you need in order to imagine the end of the world on a largo pianissimo level of intensity. We keep the vivace prestissimo for when it will really happen.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines

volcano
One question...why have many people rated this only 2 stars? I was quite surprised by the amount of low ratings on this because its such a good film! So ok, if you have seen Dantes peak, you will notice that the acting seems more slow moving/serious than in this.. however, once Volcano gets started properly its quite good! I saw this on television a while back but didnt actually realize it was volcano as i get confused with these volcano movies and what i've actually seen. My friend lent me this and it was definitely worth spending the time to watch. The movie begins quite eery but then stars building upto the main crisis in the film, which appeared quite quickly, which i like. The erupt of the volcano was very realistic, made the set look very real so there was definitely no faults there, and the acting was pretty good too.
If you enjoyed movies such as dantes peak you would most likely enjoy this!

not bad
iv seen it before a few times and have just seen it now on channel 4. when i look back at this film all i see is a film to watch either on a friday or saturday night if your bored. Theres nothing special about it but its good entertaining fun i guess and the beggining is excellent, it really builds up the tension, but as we get nearer towards the end it really then plumets (if you know what i mean) thats why iv given it 3 stars. it worth watching on tv not worth buying.
to sum up its good family fun (not little kids though they would get quite scared) the begining is good but the ending is a bit of a drag.