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My opinion...yet another DVD that aptly demonstrates why editors exist. I've never seen the non-restored version so I don't know which all bits were added back and which were in the original release. But the extended version of Portobello Road felt entirely superfluous and interminably long. And I was unaware going in that there had been any restoring of anything. So I was hardly surprised to learn afterwards that it was a patch-job.
Having never seen the film before that, and not knowing that the song wasn't part of the original, I felt that the movie suffered because of it.
Glad to know the original editors agreed with me.
That said, I am unaware of what else was restored and nothing else stuck out as much out of place as that number, so it may very well be that the bulk of the restoration work was an improvement. But I would have enjoyed the movie a good bit more without the 8 minute interlude of boredom.
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