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3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Great Vienna DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! May 08, 2006
By Renee B. Newman
"World Traveler"
I have had a life long love for the city of Vienna and the country of Austria! I got this product thinking it would be a good way for me to remember all the trips i have taken there and all the sites in Vienna. When i got the DVD i was not at all disappointed. The narator of the Program Ian Wright is very funny so he adds some real fun to your tour of the city. The program also takes you to a WWII concentration camp outside of vienna so you get more then just the city. I would highly recomend this DVD to any who already knows and loves vienna or to someone just starting to discover this magical city!!
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Globe Trekker - Vienna Feb 07, 2007
By J. Sheaffer
While it gives good information about Vienna, it was goofier than what I was looking for.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Terrific video Aug 22, 2006
By Brenda Hangilias
"BrendaH"
I purchased this item before our trip to Vienna and found it very useful in identifying potential sights to visit. Some of the sights covered in the video were not listed in the travel guide books I've read. For instance, a day trip to the Mauthausen Memorial (a death camp from Hitler's regime) is something included in the video yet not mentioned in the travel guide books. I would recommend the video as a brief introduction to Vienna and surrounding districts.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Not as dignified as the photo on front would imply. Apr 07, 2008
By S. Walker
Have traveled to Vienna, fond memories but with this DVD the classic City of Music was reduced to "hippies" sitting around playing on carved vegetables. The places visited were important but the narration was difficult to understand and the flippant attitude of the narrator was very undignified. A video that to me reflects the social culture of lack of civility. Possibly respect for Mozart's piano would be in order not the narrators attempt at humor or silliness. Respect for the graves of the famous in the cemetery, not an Elvis impression. Very disappointed. The whole video is more about the narrator than about Vienna. Sorry I cannot recommend it.
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Vienna from a concentration camp Aug 25, 2006
By LF
"Keep your feedback to yourself, these are my opinions, not yours"
I don't know if you will appreciate this when you see the video, but this is one heck of a wild travel video. You think everything is "normal" because you are watching a Globe Trekker episode, but this is far from that. This is NOT a tour guide to Vienna. The promoters of Vienna couldn't possibly have this in mind. I applaud the Globe Trekker people, and Ian in particular, for showing us this side of Vienna.
What am I referring to? A lot of time on this video is dedicated to mass murder and racial hatred. I doubt that the Viennese want to be known for that.
They want to be known for their crappy classical music, which drives me up the wall for the most part and is incredibly overrated. Those waltz tunes are horrible. This music is pure trash. And the big boys of classical music, Beethoven and his ilk, are also unbelievably overrated. This stuff isn't as great as it's cracked up to be. The only "right" answer is that it is the best music of all time, but I have ears too, and I have taste too, and most of this stuff isn't very good. Pachelbel's Canon is great. But most of classical music is mediocre or worse. It's annoyingly derivative and grating, not to mention pompous. Most of classical music is lousy music for rich snobs and wannabes. Dvorak's 9th is an exception, a great bit of music, particularly the second movement, awesome. There are some gems in classical music, but the genre is pretty bad. I like some of Mozart's chamber music. I HATE Austrian waltzes. Rich morons preening and prancing around to garbage.
I love how Ian spent so much time explaining how Austria enthusiastically welcomed Hitler and smashed Jewish gravestones. Someone I used to know visited Austria and said if somebody started banging a drum down the center of a main street, the Austrian people would come marching out of their bars and start killing Jews again. Ian mentions how the current Austrian regime is racist and right wing, the enemy of the influx of immigrants to Austria. After all, the Austrian people are superior to the rest of the pigs in this world, notwithstanding their enthusiasm for mass murder of the innocent.
It's not me bringing up this topic. It is Globe Trekker. They take us inside a concentration camp for a closeup view. And this, on a travel video about Vienna. I love it. They take us to a Jewish cemetery and show us the bullet holes in the gravestones, the places where Austrians took axes to the stones.
Then Ian shows us the horrible, disgusting food these people eat. They eat sausages infused with cheese. Oh my god.
Actually, I think Austrian food is better than that. Weiner shnitzel is really good, sort of a veal parmigiana without the parmigiana. They are good with dumplings. Austrian cuisine isn't half bad. I just can't take the bratwurst, the fatty greasy heart attacks on hot dog buns. I think the American hot dog is about the right size, and we can do without that piggish and drippy bratwurst.
But the Viennese people, the Austrian people, really had better watch a tendency to think they are better than the rest of us. Their recent history doesn't point in that direction, and neither does their medieval history. There's nothing to be proud of, guys. Hatred and snobbery aren't cool.
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