Product Details

• Actors: Maria Sharapova, Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Andy Roddick
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Standing Room Only
• DVD Release Date: September 21, 2004
• Run Time: 52 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0002HOD9K
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #82,552 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

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Editorial Reviews

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Wimbledon: The 2004 Official Film features the championship runs of Roger Federerer and Maria Sharapova. While beating Andy Roddick was just another day at the office for the top-ranked Federerer, Russian teen Sharapova turned heads by offering a fresh new face on the women's tour, and it didn't hurt a bit that the face looked like that of a model--"Anna Kournikova with a title," she was quickly dubbed. Other moments of the fortnight captured here include Goran Ivanesevic's farewell, the scoring controversy that might have cost Venus Williams a match, and--because this is a British production--Tim Henman's latest attempt to keep the Wimbledon crown at home. At only 52 minutes, however, there's not a whole lot of time to devote to actual game footage, and the camera has a dizzying habit of cutting to a close-up of a player in the middle of a point, making it hard to follow the action. The short running time makes Wimbledon: The 2004 Official Film feel somewhat like a relic from the VHS days, but it certainly looks good in anamorphic widescreen. --David Horiuchi

Product Description

Studio: Kultur Release Date: 09/21/2004

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Save your money, September 12, 2007

By	K. Swanson (Austin, TX United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Total ripoff. Less than an hour including extras, more shots of crowd members than players, and the boring voice-over frequently reminding us that this is the only tennis tournament that really matters doesn't help a whit. A truly pointless dvd with very little tennis. Summing up hundreds of matches in about 30 minutes of footage? You do the math.
Might be worth buying only if you were there and hope to see yourself in the many audience shots. Otherwise, with barely any tennis on the disc, what's the point? Pure fluff.
Go instead to the infinitely better Classic Matches at Wimbledon series; the Borg/Mac 1980 dvd has more quality in five minutes than this does in 55, and costs half as much.
Passola.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too much irrelevant staff, January 7, 2005

By	Programmer "There is so Much Learning Outside... (USA, CT) - See all my reviews

Not bad, but too much cheesy humor and a lot of talking. Very ltitle actual game.

11 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Long live Maria!, July 4, 2004

By A Customer

Maria Sharapova is the best thing to hit tennis in years. In the early rounds of Wimbledon 2004, she was being compared to Anna Kournikova because of her physical beauty, but she's now gone where Anna never went by winning the big one, Wimbledon, at a mere 17 years old. (We all know Anna never won a tournament, but give her a bit of credit--she was ranked #6 in the world at one point.) Maria's powerful game, her passion for playing, and her refreshingly genuine personality make her a worthy champion and someone we look forward to watching climb the world rankings in the months and years to come.