One of the best presentations of a Tim Burton film on DVD, Edward Scissorhands features a widescreen, anamorphic transfer, Dolby Digital 4.0 and Surround Audio, and an array of supplements that complement Burton's bittersweet tale of a gentle misfit with blades where his hands should be. The disc includes commentaries by Burton and composer Danny Elfman, a brief "making of" featurette, concept sketches, the original theatrical trailer, and TV commercials, all of which lend different perspectives on the film's creative processes. As with his Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Sleepy Hollow commentaries, Burton's engaging track focuses mainly on the film's thematic and artistic concepts instead of technical information. Though he's not nearly as talkative as Burton, Elfman's track reaffirms just how intertwined his composing is with Burton's filmmaking process. Burton's spindly, evocative concept sketches of Edward and the inventor who created him both hint at the final versions of the characters and show how much Edward Scissorhands' production and design contributed to the film. Likewise, the featurette includes an interview with screenwriter Caroline Thompson, who wrote the screenplay around those same drawings. All in all, the DVD of Edward Scissorhands gives the film the treatment it deserves, as well as the ideas and the people behind it.

Howard Deutch's comedy The Great Outdoors comes to DVD with a widescreen transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Surround. Spanish subtitles are accessible and the English soundtrack is closed-captioned. Supplemental materials include production notes, talent bios, and a theatrical trailer. Genre enthusiasts and fans of John Candy will want to give this disc a look, but there may not be enough here to interest the average DVD collector.