Many movies udergo a title change before, during, and after production. Some do it to keep the film a secret that it is even being made (Scream 3’s working title was Ghostface..hmm that's highly original isn't it :)

During the development of Final Destination, it was known as Flight 180. Unlike Scream this wasn’t designed to hide the "real" movie being made, Flight 180 was simply the original title of the movie.

Like Scream, which was intitally set to be called Scary Movie, Final Destination is also riddled throughout the film with references toits original movie title.

Having what can only be described as a psychic moment, Alex, Devon Sawa (from the very cool Idle Hands) gets on a plane, with a bunch of his school mates, bound for Paris, and just prior to take off dreams the plane catches fire and explodes in mid air. Upon waking, a series of events lead Alex to believe that it wasn’t just a dream. He gets into a fight with the school bully Carter (Kerr Smith, jack from Dawson’s Creek), and the two, along with a few bystanders, get kicked off the plane. Clear (Ali Larter from 2000’s version of House of Haunted Hill) though not kicked off the plane, decides to get off just the same.

With Alex and Carter still fighting (mostly with words) in the airport terminal, Flight 180 does in fact blow up in mid air, killing all its passengers. This leaves, Alex, Carter, Clear, Carter’s Girlfriend Kerry, (Amanda Deter), the school geek Billy (Sean William Scott) , Alex’s best friend Tod (Chad E. Donella) and the school teacher Ms Lewton(the scriptwriter’ s real life wife) as the only survivors. Problem is they were all suppose to die. It was part of Death’s Plan.

Before you can say, This is a horror films and there’s sure to plenty of gruesomely fun deaths, that’s precisely what be happening here J

So it’s all up to Alex to figure out how to cheat death before they all get it.

TRIVIA NOTE. Several of the film’s character’s last names are those of some of Horror Films greatest, Hitchcock, Chaney to name a couple

AUDIO
While the Dolby Digital 5.1 encoded audio track simply kicks some serious arse, it is let down by the odd bit of  un-intellagable dialogue that makes you reach for the remote to hear what the heck is being said.

Though not always a problem, it’s none the less a disappointment when you take into consideration the sound FXs, music score and overall mix are excellent. There’s some seriously Low LFE on hand here, and a highly active surround presence. (god bless English Subtitles for the hearing impaired is all I can say)

Also included is a Dolby Digital 2.0 audio track, which in its own right is very good, but can’t compare to the incredibily active and aggressive 5.1 mix.

EXTRAS
I was somewhat disappointed to find that our region 4 version is missing an isolated music score, with Composer Shirley Wallker’s commentary, but we’ve still been treated to a fare amount of extra bits and pieces.

As groovy as the animated menus are with backgrounds that change when returning to the previous menu, and the filmic moments between said menus, I simply hated the way things were selected. There are "++" and ">>" everywhere and text selections that are simply way to close together to make this a menu that is easy to navigate around. Sure it looks cool, but at the end of the day simplicity of use is what a DVD menu should cater for. ..Okay my bitch is over, onto the good parts of the DVD extras

Commentary track with write Glenn morgan and Director James Wong. Other than being recorded WAY to loud, it’s a pretty good comm track as the boys tell a few tales and whatnot. (I bet they stole the idea for using a midget for a background person from Casablanca!! J

Deleted Scenes.. 3 scenes, cut from the film, one is the Film’s original ending (glad they dumped it… this film is suppose be all good gruesome fun after all) 16x9 with 2.0 sound

Theatrical Trailer. Aaaah, don’t you just love it when you get a trailer on a DVD with 5.1 sound mix. 16x9 piccy to boot

Interviews with the Executives. This is an excellent featurette on the test screening of the movie and how the film was changed/altered to give what was thought to be a better moofy experience… they were right! 16x9 with 2.0 sound

Premonitions. a 20 minute featurette, [with some oomba-joomba value] about a lady who is psyhic and works with the police to help solve crimes 16x9 with 2.0 sound

Cast and Crew Bios. Plenty of info on the cast and crew, but what a pain to navigate. It would be nice if the selection for each person’s filmography was obvious., in addition to the fact there are 2 separate pages of cast and crew bios (you need to click on the ">>" to go page 2 with the cast and crew bios

Games. Now obviously my psychic ability is total crap as I didn’t guess one of those damn cards right in "your psychic Eye" then again maybe the fact I’m going to Die in a few years left me feeling a bit low after playing "Death Clock"

All in all I LOVED Final Destination. There’s a great sequence that every person who has watched this film [in my presence] has crapped themselves during. [I crack up every time I see it, with and without an audience].. folks who have seen F.D. will know which sequence I’m referring to.

For some good [harmless] gruesome fun, you definitely want to check this baby out. Oh and the DVD is pretty sweet also.