Alright, so I recently found out that Manga released a dub of this in the UK -- does anyone know if Dreamworks has any plans to negotiate something similar for the US? Or should I just go ahead and get the UK version?

Also, according to the Wiki page, if the DVD says "V4" on the spine, then the subtitling is corrected (I.E. it's no longer the closed captioned version). Hirsch, you should do this. Then, you'd at least get the non-intrusive subtitles, for free, no less.

I have to say: I love Babelfish -- "Ghost in the Shell" gets translated back from the Kanji as "The Vision Right of Shellfish". (And, apparently, the original Kanji for what I thought was "Ghost in the Shell" was "Mobile Armoured Riot Police"...good thing I didn't get that tattoo, neh?)

i got my DVD replaced about a year ago, expect the replacement to take a while.

So is at least the subtitling fixed on that one?

yeah, the subtitles are fine on the replacement. the CC version definitely got old quick

Yep. Roughly 5-10 minutes into the movie

Yep. Roughly 5-10 minutes into the movie

Tosser. I'm ordering the dub.